By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media AGCO, a leading designer, manufacturer, and distributor of agricultural machinery and precision ag technology, announced an investment in the Innova Ag Innovation Fund VI as the first investment executed by AGCO Ventures – its recently launched corporate venture capital initiative. AGCO explained that this investment aligns with its mission […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Omnivore has been a pioneer of investment in agtech in India, having partnered with more than 40 startups making farming more profitable, resilient, sustainable, and climate-proof. And, over the past decade has been a key player in the remarkable tech-driven revolution taking hold in the country as advances in […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Moroccan university Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) and fertilizer giant and the largest producer of phosphate fertilizer in the world, OCP Group, have made a $200 million capital commitment to Bidra Innovation Ventures – a $250 million venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, and Ben Guerir, Morocco. […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 2018, Silverstrand Capital is a single family office based in Singapore with an impact mandate focused on addressing the biodiversity crisis through systemic investment solutions that advance regenerative food systems and accelerate wide scale restoration and conservation of natural ecosystems. The office initially invested in Aqua-Spark in […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Brinc, a venture accelerator with a global sustainability mandate, and DayDayCook, an Asian content-to-commerce culinary platform, are committing to invest $10 million through DayDayCook’s Good Food Accelerator – a collaborative project bolstered by Brinc’s investment of $500,000 in DayDayCook, cementing a long-term joint effort to support cutting-edge innovation. The […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Bonifiche Ferraresi (BF) has agreed to invest EUR 120 million (US$141 million) via one or more tranches in the Italian fund Agritech & Food, a closed-end alternative investment fund managed by Fondo Italiano d’Inoltre Sgr, controlled by the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti Group (which itself holds an 18.8 percent […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Germany-based Blue Horizon Ventures announced that it has closed its flagship fund at EUR183 million (US$222 million), nearly doubling its initial funding target of EUR100 million (US$122 million). Founded in 2018 by investors and entrepreneurs Roger Lienhard and Michael Kleindl, Blue Horizon is deploying capital to achieve more sustainable […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Bits x Bites, the first agrifood tech-focused VC focused on the Chinese market announced that it has completed its first $30 million close for its new $70 million fund – the leading and only fund of its kind investing in transformative technologies with the potential to create a more […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Global institutional investor Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) and S2G Ventures, a multi-stage investor specializing in food, agriculture, oceans, and seafood opportunities, have announced a co-investment partnership. Through this agreement the pair will invest up to $125 million over the next three years in ventures that are […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Global food tech company Bühler is the latest investor in Big Idea Ventures’ $50 million New Protein Fund, joining existing investors Tyson, Temasek, and others. With offices in New York and Singapore, and headed by managing general partner Andrew Ive, Big Idea Ventures is looking to invest in the […]
