Marubeni 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
Read moreADM Leads $10.5M in Funding for Harpe Bioherbicide Solutions
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Looking to support organic agriculture via new opportunities, North Carolina-based Harpe Bioherbicide Solutions is a tech company providing natural and sustainable herbicide solutions that expand farmers’ options by reducing, replacing, and synergizing with synthetic chemicals used in row
Read moreŸnsect Opens Series D with $177M; Renews Strategic Vision
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The ecological well being of the planet, and the agricultural sector tasked with feeding its growing population are under more strain than ever. But this intense pressure is regrettably pushing agriculture to be an ever greater driver of climate change. Agriculture is the leading dr
Read moreAqua-Spark Leads $2.25M to Digitize and Scale Shrimp Farming in Vietnam
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Vietnam is a bit of a dark horse when it comes to shrimp and shrimp farming. The country is the world’s second largest exporter of shrimp, with the crustacean accounting for nearly half of the country’s revenue from seafood. And as the industry continues to rapidly grow, expectations wer
Read moreAgDevCo Commits $8M to Kenyan Avocado Venture with Agris, Granot
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media AgDevCo, an African-focused ag investor specialist has committed $8 million in mezzanine funding to an avocado venture in Kenya in partnership with Agris, the agriculture and forestry division of investment company Maris, and Granot, a leading avocado producer from Israel. Together, the
Read moreCropX Closes $30M Series C to Fund Expansion, Acquisitions
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Over the past few years (and throughout the global pandemic) digital agronomic farm management leader CropX has been diligently pursuing growth through both innovation and acquisitions. Since January 2020, GAI News has shared the company’s acquisition of: Nebraska-based CropMetric
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