Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media With the amount of hard work that goes into agricultural production, I’m fairly certain that if farmers and managers were granted one wish it would be for the ability to clone themselves. Agtonomy is a software and services company working toward granting this wish by enabling agricultural and land maintenance […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Historically, Chicago has been a leading meatpacking center. Now, Clever Carnivore, the city’s first cultivated meat company, has closed on an oversubscribed $7 million Seed round to make a (cultivated) sausage, as it were. The round was led by global alternative protein investor Lever VC and included significant backing […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media India is a top global producer of many agricultural products, ranking second in fruit and vegetable production only to China, producing 102.48 metric tons of fruit and 200.45 metric tons of vegetables according to the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India. It also is a young, high-energy country […]
Photo credit: Chipotle Mexican Grill By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cultivate Next, the $50 million venture capital fund of Chipotle Mexican Grill, makes early-stage investments in strategically aligned startups with the potential to advance the company’s aggressive growth plans and further its mission to cultivate a better world. The two latest companies to join […]
Photo credit – Lithos Carbon By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded by Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify, Meta, McKinsey and the many businesses using Stripe Climate, Frontier Climate is an advanced market commitment to buy an upfront $1 billion-plus in permanent carbon removal between 2022-2030. Toward this goal, it has recently been announced that Frontier has […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media UAE-based sustainable, tech-driven agribusiness Pure Harvest Smart Farms (Pure Harvest) and climate smart tech developer RedSea have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for Pure Harvest to acquire RedSea’s existing six-hectare controlled environment agriculture (CEA) production facility in Saudi Arabia. As part of the transaction, Pure Harvest will also […]
photo credit: AgroSpheres By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 2016 by COO Payam Pourtaheri and CTO Ameer Shakeel, AgroSpheres’ mission is to dramatically improve the delivery of pesticides, making them more effective, cheaper, and more environmentally-friendly. Working to transform agriculture through reliable and affordable biological solutions, AgroSpheres’ biomanufacturing platform has unlocked cost-effective production […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Protein Industries Canada is one of five Global Innovation Clusters that since 2018 has invested or co-invested nearly CAD$500 million (US$368.50 million) in innovations relating to plant-based foods, feed, and ingredients. In February 2023, the initiative received an additional CAD$150 million (US$110.55 million) in funding and as its first […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Basing its name on tôm, the Vietnamese word for shrimp, Brooklyn, New York-based TômTex is working to simultaneously address the issues surrounding waste in both the food and textile industries with one sustainable, affordable solution. Founder Uyen Tran, a trained designer born and raised in Danang, Vietnam, one of […]
photo credit: Aquarech By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media By 2050 the population of the Sub-Saharan region is expected to double from 1 to 2 billion people. This explosive increase will lead to fish demand that dwarfs what we see today – with forecasts of demand increasing from 10 million metric tons per year today […]
