Goodwell Invests in Rwandan Grower and Exporter SOUK Farms
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Through its $150 million uMunthu II fund, Goodwill Investment’s goal is to finance innovative, impact-driven and scalable early-stage small and medium-sized African businesses as it fosters inclusive growth in emerging markets. The fund’s latest partnership is through an investm
Read moreTaylor Farms Makes First Strategic Move in Europe Through Investment in Foodiverse
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Taylor Farms, a California-based, leading North American producer of salads and fresh foods, has made an undisclosed investment in Spain’s Foodiverse, gaining it a “significant share” in Foodiverse’s capital and marking its first foray into Europe. Headquartered in Salinas, family-
Read moreBeleaf Closes on $6.85M Series A for Farming as a Service Platform
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Alpha JWC Ventures (Alpha JWC) has led a $6.85 million Series A for Indonesia-based Beleaf, a comprehensive agtech startup with a core business centered on Farming-as-a-Service (FaaS). This investment saw participation from Openspace, alongside several strategic angels, and reflects
Read moreQIC Natural Capital Makes Second Acquisition – Packhorse Pastoral’s Stuart’s Creek
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) has agreed to acquire Stuart’s Creek, the last asset in the Packhorse Pastoral portfolio being sold following the tragic loss of Thomas Strachan, Packhorse’s co-founder and executive director, and his son Noah, and their pilot Garry Liehm, when the
Read moreGrainCorp, GrainInnovate Co-Lead $9M Investment in ZoomAgri
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Fraud has been all too rampant in the grain industry in recent years, as a string of multi-million dollar schemes have been featured in the news, going so far as to spark the USDA’s National Organic Program to release new rules early this year aimed at stopping organic food crime. "This
Read moreWilmar Divests Stake in Sugar Major Cosumar S.A. for $605M
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Wilmar International Corporation (Wilmar) announced it has divested its entire 30.05 percent stake in major sugar company Cosumar S.A. (Cosumar) for approximately $605 million through a deal struck with “several Moroccan investors”. Incorporated in Morocco and listed on the Casablanca
Read moreBeeHero Enters Australian Market Via Partnership with Monson’s Honey and Pollination
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media BeeHero’s groundbreaking hive monitoring technology is officially entering the Australian market through a newly announced partnership with Monson’s Honey and Pollination, a leader in the country’s beekeeping and pollination industry. BeeHero’s mission as explained by compan
Read moreOritain Raises $57M for Forensic Supply Chain Traceability Technology
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Many of us have seen documentaries in which scientists trace the ancient origins of individuals by analyzing the isotopes present in their teeth, determining the nearly exact location of where an individual was born and then lived. Now, a company called Oritain is bringing similar abilities
Read moreBLUU Seafood Closes EUR 16M Series A to Bring Cultivated Fish to Market
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Today, every four out of 10 pounds of animal protein consumed on a global scale are fish, leading to 90 percent of the world’s marine fish stock to be either exploited, over-exploited, or depleted, creating a situation primed for the emergence and successful market adoption of cell culture
Read moreBelgium’s Aphea.Bio Closes EUR70M Series C to Advance Biological Ag Solutions
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Located in Ghent, Belgium, Aphea.Bio is a fully integrated microbial product developer with a mission to build a sustainable, reliable, and profitable future for agriculture. With a mission centered on its novel high-throughput APEX R&D platform capitalizing upon the untapped microbi
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