Blue Stripes Attracts Return Investors in $20M Series B Round to Transform Cacao Supply Chain
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Blue Stripes, a U.S.-based cacao startup looking to transform the cocoa supply chain, has secured $20 million in a Series B round, attracting some high-profile backers to the deal that valued the company somewhere between $80 million-$120 million. The investor lineup included Berlin's Zintinus
Read moreAgtech Pair Aims to Take Regenerative Ag to Next Level in Cross-Border Tie Up
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Regenerative agriculture is growing like wildfire among green circles, spreading across borders. Middlefield, Ohio-based Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA), which helps growers to make data-based decisions, has reached a global partnership with Turkish precision-ag tech company Topraq to expand acces
Read moreM&A: PE Fund Butterfly Equity Acquires Duckhorn’s Wine Portfolio in Roughly $2B Deal
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media In a sign that private capital is beginning to move off the sidelines, Butterfly Equity, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm specializing in the food sector, is acquiring North American luxury winemaker Duckhorn Portfolio. The all-equity $1.95 billion transaction will see the publicly traded t
Read moreFarmland Partners Offloads $289M Farmland Portfolio to US Landowner Juggernaut
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Farmland Partners Inc. (FPI), a Denver, Colorado-based real estate investor, is offloading nearly $300 million in farmland assets to Farmland Reserve, an investment auxiliary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS). The massive portfolio of assets comprises nearly four-dozen farms
Read moreM&A: Lesaffre Completes Acquisition of dsm-firmenich’s Yeast Extract Business
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Lesaffre, a Northern France-based food and beverage manufacturer specializing in fermentation and microorganisms, has come full circle with its previously announced acquisition of dsm-firmenich’s yeast extract business. The deal is now complete, strengthening Lesaffre's commitment to innovation
Read moreGO.FARM Scoops Up Water-Rich Ag Projects in A$150M Buying Spree Backed by Qantas Super
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Australian ag investment manager GO.FARM has scooped up a pair of water-rich agricultural value-add projects, including the Dellapool Aggregation and Sandmount North in Narrandera, New South Wales and Katunga, Victoria, respectively. Worth a combined A$150 million (US$101.3 million), the investmen
Read moreGlengarry Farm Secures C$60M Investment to Bridge Canada’s Private Debt Financing Gap
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media In a show of strength for Canada's private sector financing, Glengarry Farm Finance, an alternative lender to the ag industry owned by merchant bank Stormont Partners, has struck a key partnership. Farm Credit Canada (FCC), which is 100 percent invested in Canadian ag and food, has committed C$60
Read moreDomain Timber Scores Natural Capital Mandate Amid ‘Elevated’ Demand
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Domain Timber Advisors, a subsidiary of Atlanta-based investment management firm Domain Capital Group, has scored a new mandate for forestland assets. London-based Fulcrum Asset Management has chosen Domain Timber to oversee sustainable natural capital investments on its behalf as part of its rece
Read moreBig Tech’s Meta Makes Long-Term Climate Bet With BTG Pactual Timberland Strategy
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media As Climate Week unfolds in New York, carbon credits are swirling. Big Tech play Meta Platforms, parent company of Facebook, has joined the fray, betting big on BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group for the delivery of 1.3 million nature-based carbon removal credits over the next decade-plus and
Read moreCanadian Pension Manager CDPQ Targets US Forestland With Strategic Investment
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Through its sustainable land management strategy, Canada's Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) is targeting forestland in the lower 48. The investment group, which manages funds for public pensions and insurance plans, has launched a new investment platform while concurrently taking a
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