Tyson Ventures Backs Livestock-Specific Carbon Credit Marketplace
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The latest investment by Tyson Ventures, the venture capital arm of Tyson Foods, is in Athian, the world’s first cloud-based carbon marketplace dedicated to the livestock industry. This Seed-stage capital commitment joins previous investments in the company from Elanco Animal Heal
Read moreMcCain Makes Largest Global Investment in Company History in Alberta
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media McCain Foods is investing CAD$600 million (US$436 million) - its largest global investment in the company’s 65+ year history - to double the size and output at its facility located in Coaldale, Alberta, Canada. Up until now, McCain has operated a processing facility in Coaldale si
Read moreBiotech Startup Tiamat Closes on $2M Seed-Extension for Animal-Free Recombinant Growth Factors
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Biotech startup Tiamat Sciences explained that it is reinventing recombinant proteins by using the power of plants to provide animal-free growth factors with a reduced carbon footprint at a fraction of the cost. Consequently, the startup announced that it has secured $2 million in seed-ex
Read morePaleo Closes on €12M to Use Fermentation to Boost Taste and Nutritional Profile of Plant-Based Foods
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Paleo is a Belgian B2B precision fermentation company that has been working to crack the code of meat. By exploring what gives meat and fish their distinctive characteristics - their specific taste, look, and smell etc. - the startup concluded that heme proteins were at the root of the human
Read moreHectare Closes on $20M Series A to Digitize Agribusiness Value Chains
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media For all the advances and penetration of tech in agriculture, the sector’s supply chains remain shockingly vulnerable. As Jeremy Stroud commented in his article, Covid-19, Agricultural Value Chains and Farmland Transactions, published by GAI News in July 2020, “The foundations of the mode
Read moreNuveen Divests 11,332 Ac. of Timberland Set to Become Oklahoma’s First State Forest
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Nuveen Natural Capital, the real asset-focused vehicle of the TIAA asset management arm, has divested 11,332 acres of forestland located in southeastern Oklahoma to national non-profit The Conservation Fund through its Working Forest Fund. Capital from The Conservation Fund's green
Read moreWith Latest Acquisition, CAF Becomes Biggest Large-Scale Glasshouse Owner in Australia
Photo credit: Centuria Capital By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Specialist investment manager Centuria Capital Group has acquired a 20-hectare (50-acre) tomato glasshouse operation in Guyra, New South Wales via its Centuria Agriculture Fund (CAF) from an undisclosed family-owned investment office. This is the third of
Read moreSource.ag Raises $23M Series A to Bring Next-Gen AI to Fruit and Veg Growers
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media By leveraging technology, Amsterdam-based Source.ag intends to democratize access to sufficient fruits and vegetables through AI-driven greenhouses, which the startup stated is a safer, more reliable, and climate-resilient method of production. Although there exists huge potential (greenh
Read moreDaisy Lab Closes Oversubscribed Seed Round For Dairy-Identical Proteins
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Approximately half of New Zealand’s total greenhouse gas emissions are attributed to animal agriculture. Of these emissions, three quarters are due to methane from the livestock sector, followed by nitrogen soil amendments, and then manure. One of the newest and most intriguing wa
Read moreDivert Gains $1B in Backing to Decarbonize North America’s Food Value Chain
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 2007, Divert is a Massachusetts-based impact tech company on a mission to Protect the Value of Food™. Through the creation of advanced technologies and sustainable infrastructure, Divert drives positive social and environmental change through its end-to-end solutio
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