Alterra Completes A$1.72M Placement to Advance 300-He. Avocado Development
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Australian agricultural land and water asset investor, developer, and manager, Alterra Limited, announced that it has completed a A$1.72 million placement with Emanuel Exports and Sandon Capital Investments Ltd. The funds secured by Alterra will be used as working capital to complete feasibility
Read moreTrendlines Portfolio Food Tech Company Phytolon Raises $4.1M to Advance Plant-Based Food Color Platform
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Israel-based Phytolon, a food tech portfolio company of the Trendlines Group, has raised $4.1 million through a round led by Millennium Food-Tech - a new R&D partnership launched to invest in food tech companies. This marks the second investment for Millennium, which committed $1.8 milli
Read moreLewis & Clark Leads $27M in Growth Capital Funding for Brightseed
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Lewis & Clark AgriFood is in the news again, having led a $27 million round of growth capital funding for AI-driven biosciences company Brightseed. A 2020 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Brightseed is the developer of Forager™, the first and only AI technology for phytonutrient di
Read moreCropX Expands Global Footprint With Acquisition of New Zealand-Based Regen
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Israeli smart farming, soil-sensor, and cloud-based analytics company CropX has expanded its global reach in Oceania with the acquisition of New Zealand-based precision effluent and irrigation services company Regen. Founded in 2015 and with offices in both Tel Aviv and San Francisco, CropX in
Read moreBrief: Australia’s Biggest Wheat Growers Puts 12,500-He. Muttama Station on the Market
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Muttaba Station had been owned by business partners Ken Harris and Ron Greentree as part of their Greentree Farming partnership. However, plans developed in 2017 to dissolve the partnership and Muttama was listed for sale in November of that year as the pair worked to split the remaining assets.
Read moreIllinois SURS Makes First Farmland Commitment, Allocating $60M to Homestead Capital USA Farmland Fund III
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media GAI News has learned that Homestead Capital USA Farmland Fund III has secured a $60 million commitment from the $19.5 billion State Universities Retirement System of Illinois (SURS). This investment, which was approved during the SURS Investment Committee meeting held on September 10 following
Read moreLewis & Clark Leads $7.7M Series A for Digital Feed Sensor Tech Company BinSentry
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media St. Louis-based Lewis & Clark AgriFood Growth Fund has led a $7.7 million Series A for BinSentry, a Canadian sensor tech company. BDC Capital’s Industrial Innovation Venture Fund also participated in the round along with existing investors Garage Capital and Chilligo Investments. As p
Read moreGood Karma Raises “Significant Funding” From Valor Siren Ventures, 2x Consumer Growth Partners, Buys Back Majority Stake from Dean Foods
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Boulder, Colorado-based Good Karma, the first dairy alternative company to make a flax-based milk alternative, announced it has secured a “significant new investment” from Valor Siren Ventures (VSV) - a fund established to act as an early-stage innovation engine for food and retail technology s
Read moreClimax Foods Raises $7.5M to Use Data Science to Make Next-Gen Plant-Based Foods That “Outperform”
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Data science company Climax Foods has raised $7.5 million in Seed funding to use AI to raise the efficiency of plant-based food production. This oversubscribed round was backed by At One Ventures, which was founded by GoogleX co-founder Tom Chi, Manta Ray Ventures, S2G Ventures, Valor Siren Vent
Read moreSolar Foods Extends Series A by €15 million to Commercialize Protein Made From Thin Air
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Solar Foods has raised another €15 million (US$17.66 million), to close its Series A at a total €18.5 million (US$21.8 million). This round, which was led by Finnish food producer Fazer Group, and included Bridford Investments Limited, Agronomics Limited, Lifeline Ventures and CPT Capital,
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