Fulcrum Capital Partners Acquires Stake in FE Ingredients
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Investing in human food ingredients companies offers the opportunity to tap into a diverse range of sub-sectors within the food industry. These companies may specialize in manufacturing natural flavors, food additives, or functional ingredients, among others. Such diversification can help mi
Read moreCULT Food Science, Peqish Form JV to Develop Cellular Ag Foods as Medicines
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The supermarket is no longer a one-size-fits-all establishment, and consumers are no longer passive players in the food supply chain. As health and wellness continue to emerge as leading consumer concerns, the connection between people and their food choices has taken on a deeper significanc
Read moreSwitzerland’s Ecorobotix Closes on $52M Series B with Eye Toward U.S. Market
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Swiss agtech company Ecorobotix has completed its largest capital raise to-date, closing on a $52 million (CHF 46 million) Series B co-led by AQTON Private Equity GmbH and Cibus Capital LLP. Joining AQTON Private Equity and Cibus Capital were Swisscanto Invest/Swisscanto Growth Fund I, Ya
Read moreSentera Closes $25M Series C for AI-Driven Food and Ag Insight
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Agricultural insight company Sentera offers integrative in-field data insights products that can easily be used with the digital ag platforms in use by more than 80 percent of the growers in the U.S. The company’s business centers on FieldAgent, a software platform designed specif
Read moreTLG Announces Secondary Sale of One of Uruguay’s Most Iconic Farmland Properties
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Co-founded in 2016 by Francisco Roque de Pinho and Joaquín Labella in Uruguay – a country with vast unexplored agricultural potential wedged between Argentina and Brazil – TLG Management Partners (TLG) works to implement improvements on, and then manage, underperforming farmland propert
Read moreMarubeni Invests in FoodTech Incubator KitchenTown
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Japanese trading giant Marubeni has invested in KitchenTown, a Silicon Valley-based food startup incubator - providing backing that will support KitchenTown’s consulting and incubation operations, along with Japanese startups working to enter the U.S. market, and U.S. startups expanding in
Read moreDSM Venturing, California Dairies Back Livestock Carbon Credit Marketplace Athian
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Athian’s key mission is to help the beef and dairy value chains capture and then claim carbon credits earned by aggregating, validating, and certifying greenhouse gas reductions – and then monetizing those reductions through the sale of the credits. These steps are accomplished
Read moreCreadev Leads $35M Series B for East Africa Tilapia Farmer Victory Farms
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media By 2050 the population of the sub-Saharan region is expected to double from 1 to 2 billion people. This explosive increase will lead to fish demand that dwarfs what we see today – with demand climbing from 10 million metric tons per year today to between 16-29 million metric tons per year
Read moreUK Tech Startup It’s Fresh! Raises £6.7M to Grow Food Waste Reduction Platform
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media To quote ReFED, “Our food system is radically inefficient”. Total food wasted in 2021 was 1.3 billion tons, or one-third of the food produced, with the UK generating more than 9.5 million tons of food waste that same year. One approach to mitigating this issue is to extend th
Read moreLawson Grain Adds Green Park Aggregation to Portfolio
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media After being owned and managed by the Macneil family for more than 90 years, Green Park aggregation has been acquired by Lawson Grain through a transaction managed by Paull & Scollard Nutrien Ag Solutions, in conjunction with Elders Rural Services, and a deal reported to be valued in exce
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