Agtech|Deal Tracking

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In recent years, concerns associated with animal protein production and consumption have increasingly come to the fore, including antibiotic resistance, sustainability, animal welfare, food-borne illnesses, and perhaps most pressingly, the environmental impact of such production systems. These factors, combined with greater health and wellness awareness and engagement on the […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media This is the second time in a matter of weeks that we hear news of investments being made to advance bacteriophage technologies. Santiago, Chile-based PhageLab announced it has closed on $11 million in funding from Nazca, Collaborative Fund, Water Lemon Ventures, and individual investor Kevin Efrusy, in support of […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Ingredion Ventures, the venture investment arm of specialty food and beverage ingredients leader Ingredion, is leading the Series A funding round for Better Juice to fast-track the penetration of its breakthrough sugar reduction solution in the U.S. market.  Joining Ingredion in this Series A are returning investors, including Connecticut-based […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Robotics and AI startup farm-ng announced it has closed on a $10 million Series A led by Acre Venture Partners and including Xplorer Capital, Hawk Tower, and ten other institutional and individual investors, to advance and scale affordable and adaptable robotic and AI solutions for small to medium-sized farms.  […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Bioplatform innovation company Flagship Pioneering and sustainable ag leader Indigo Ag have made multiple announcements – one of them an expansion to a very impressive funding round. But we’ll get to that in a minute.  First, Dean Banks, the former president and CEO of Tyson Foods and a former […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Farmers – especially those growing labor-intensive specialty crops such as grapes, berries, and nursery crops –  are facing ever greater challenges throughout their production cycles. It is these farmers in particular, who are widely un-mechanized and employ 88 percent of the crop workers in the U.S., that are on […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch investors are backing Icelandic company GeoSalmo with €13.4 million (US$14.65 million) to fund the company’s building of a state-of-the-art hybrid, flow-through salmon farm in Ölfus, near Þorlákshöfn, one of the largest fresh fish export hubs in Iceland.  A broad range of investors have come […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Before we can even begin to discuss the funding, I think it would be helpful to first answer the question, what are bacteriophages?  Coming from the root word “phagein” meaning “to eat”, bacteriophages are, in short, viruses that infect and replicate only in bacteria. Found nearly everywhere – in […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Biobest is on quite a run. Directly on the heels of closing on €120 million ($126.8 million) and announcing its acquisition of Brazilian biologicals leader Biotrop in September 2023, the pollination and integrated biologicals leader announced it has now gained another $75 million investment from M&G Investments to help […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Agricultural biotech leader NewLeaf Symbiotics (NewLeaf) has closed a fully funded $45 million Series D led by new investor Gullspång Re:food, with participation from Otter Capital Partners LP, S2G Ventures, Leaps by Bayer and other unnamed backers.  NewLeaf is a pioneer and global leader in pink-pigmented facultative methylotrophs (PPFMs). […]