By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 2014 by bioengineers Ryan Pandya and Perumal Gandhi, Perfect Day has a mission to reimagine food production for a more sustainable future by producing animal-free proteins through fermentation that are nutritionally identical to proteins derived from animals. Over the past 10 years, the company has completed numerous […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Backed by long-term institutional capital, New York-based asset manager AMERRA Capital Management has invested more than $5.7 billion since its inception in 2009, and currently has more than US$1.4 billion in AUM concentrated in upstream and midstream food and agri businesses in Europe and the Americas. It was in […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Sustainable aquaculture and related tech investor Aqua-Spark has made its first investment in a public company, investing €10 million (US$11.5 million) in exchange for a significant stake in Hofseth Biocare ASA (HBC), a Norwegian biotech company developing high-value ingredients and finished products for the consumer health market. HBC’s revolutionary […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Apeel Sciences has raised another $30 million in new funding from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Temasek, and Astanor Ventures. Together with the $250 in capital the company raised in May of this year, this round brings total funding for the company for just the past six-month period to […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media U.S. agbiotech startup and global crop nutrition company Boost Biomes has raised $5 million through a Series A round of funding, and has announced the establishment of a joint development agreement with lead investor Yara International. As lead investor, Yara committed $3 million to the round, which also included […]
SEEDS Capital, the investment unit of Enterprise Singapore, announced it will invest S$90M (US$66.5 million) in agrifood startups as co-investments with seven new partners. The plan, which will be carried out under Startup SG Equity, a scheme that facilitates private investment in startups through government co-investment, will focus on the Singapore market and was announced […]
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