Nuveen Global Timberland Strategy Acquires 47,751 Acres in Washington and Oregon
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In February 2022, Nuveen announced the formation of Nuveen Natural Capital as part of a wider reorganization to enhance its Real Assets platform by creating a more streamlined channel for investors looking for natural resources investments. Only a matter of months later came the launch o
Read moreNotCo Closes on $70M Series D-1 for New B2B Unit
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Now valued at $1.5 billion, NotCo stated that it is the fastest growing food tech company in Latin America. Driving this momentum, the startup announced it closed on a $70 million Series D-1 round of funding led by Princeville Capital that will support the launch of its new B2B unit. Not
Read moreMcCain Foods, Power Sustainable Lios Lead $150M Investment for Canada’s GoodLeaf Farms
Image credit: GoodLeaf Farms By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media GoodLeaf Farms, the first and largest commercial indoor vertical farming company in Canada, has closed on $150 million in funding from McCain Foods, and through a new partnership with Power Sustainable Lios - a specialized agrifood investor with a focus on fost
Read moreFarmland Partners Acquires 3,843-Acre Texas Farm for $12.1M
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Farmland Partners (FPI) has re-entered the state of Texas after divesting property there in 2020, announcing the acquisition of a 3,834-acre farm for $12.1 million. FPI is the largest publicly traded farmland REIT measured by U.S. acreage in the country. Operating as an internally manage
Read moreProject Fork: Oxley Capital Partners Managing Sale of One of the Largest Pork Producers in Eastern Australia
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Oxley Capital Partners has been retained by a consortium of pig farming families to manage the sale of Riverbend Pork Group - one of the largest pork producers in Eastern Australia - through an offering given the name Project Fork. Structured as a corporate advisory and investment firm,
Read morePropagate Closes on $10M Series A for Agroforestry-Focused Platform
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media We have admittedly done a poor job in modernizing how we look at the profit and loss associated with farming. Higher crop yields and more animals, partnered with low cost of inputs, have traditionally meant higher profit. For centuries, the unaccounted losses tied to traditional extractive fa
Read moreWarakirri Farmland Fund Acquires Two Vineyards With Combined Value of A$62.5M
photo of Coldridge vineyard courtesy of Warakirri Asset Management By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Under a new partnership with global wine company Australian Vintage Limited (AVG), Warakirri Asset Management (Warakirri), one of Australia’s leading ag investment managers and operators, announced the acquisition of two
Read moreWith $42M Series B, BeeHero is Now Largest Precision Pollination Provider in the World
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media BeeHero CEO Omer Davidi explained, “BeeHero’s mission is to deliver pollination accountability for commercial crop growers, by leveraging big data analytics and machine learning to help them mitigate pollination risk. Thus allowing them to focus on producing more food, securely, and susta
Read moreLewis & Clark, Levi Strauss Co-Lead $4.8M Series B2 to Scale Stony Creek’s Natural Indigo Dye
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media A little-known fact about today’s fashion industry is that the vast majority of the dye currently used to color the jeans we wear is not made from indigo, as I always assumed, but is synthetic, made through petroleum-based processes involving toxic chemicals. Since its inception in 2012,
Read moreSilverstrand Invests Another €15M in Aqua-Spark, Bringing Total to €25M
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 2018, Silverstrand Capital is a single family office based in Singapore with an impact mandate focused on addressing the biodiversity crisis through systemic investment solutions that advance regenerative food systems and accelerate wide scale restoration and conservation of natura
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