By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Nearly 70 percent of all farm machinery being used on Canada’s farms has been imported from other countries. And although the country is home to a range of innovators, the bulk of its agricultural products are shipped as raw materials. A major factor inhibiting advancement within the Canadian agtech […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The facts are startling. Acumen details how smallholder farmers supply a third of the world’s food. And in Africa, their ability to produce food is even more critical, providing 80 percent of the continent’s caloric intake. But it is these farmers, half of whom are living in poverty, that […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media “It’s a time of both peril and possibility,” said Jim Coulter, founding partner and executive chairman of TPG and managing partner of TPG Rise Climate. “Climate change is a societal risk but also a generational investment opportunity.” This opportunity has been seized by some of the world’s largest institutional […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Lewis & Clark AgriFood announced that its overall growth equity strategy has closed at $257 million – with its Lewis & Clark AgriFood Fund II closing oversubscribed at more than $169 million, and its Lewis & Clark RBIC Fund II at $88 million in December 2020. Based in St. […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Once overlooked as a viable alternative to the growing issue of providing food for an ever-populous world, Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) has gained much traction as of late, especially since COVID-19 has highlighted the vulnerability of existing ag supply chains. As investors and retailers seek out more sustainable ways […]
By Lynda Kiernan -Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Anterra Capital announced the successful first close at $175 million for its second food and agtech fund, Anterra F&A Ventures II. With a mission to invest and partner with innovators affecting real transformation on the world’s food ecosystem through biotech and digital technologies across crop science, human nutrition, […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media S2G Ventures, a multi-stage VC investor across the food, agriculture, ocean, and seafood verticals, announced that it has taken a deep dive, investing in five companies across four countries as part of its inaugural deployments in oceans and seafood through its Ocean and Seafood Fund. Of this total, S2G […]
photo credit: Good Startup By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Good Startup, a Singapore-based venture capital firm aiming to remove animals from food supply chains, announced it has raised $25 million and the first close of its Good Protein Fund I. By 2050, the dietary needs of more than 10 billion people will have to […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone Tenacious Ventures, the first and only specialist agrifood tech venture capital firm, announced it has closed its first fund oversubscribed at A$35 million (US$27 million). Tenacious Ventures Fund I announced its first close in March 2020 at just over A$20 million (US$15.5 million) with cornerstone A$8 million (US$6.2 million) investments from the […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Early stage food tech investor and accelerator Big Idea Ventures (BIV) has announced a final close of its $50 million New Protein Fund I with Japanese confectionery brand Meiji Holdings joining as its latest investor. Meiji joins existing investors – including some of the world’s top names in food […]
