Verdant Robotics Gains $46.5M Series A to Deliver Solutions Beyond Weeding
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Since its beginning, Verdant Robotic’s mission has been multi-pronged: to address one of the most serious looming threats to farmers - a shortage of labor - and to provide robotic solutions that enable more growers to access regenerative and precision practices that support soil health, w
Read morePSP Investments to Acquire 7,215 He. of Vineyards, Form Strategic Partnership with Australia’s Largest Family-Owned Winery
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Southern Premium Vineyards (SPV), the platform formed by PSP Investments to own Australian vineyards, has entered into a long-term strategic partnership with Australia’s Casella Family Brands (CFB) under which SPV will acquire 7,215 hectares (17,829 acres) of vineyards across 35 properties
Read moreCooperative Ventures Makes First Investment in Agtech
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in late 2021, Cooperative Ventures is a venture capital fund jointly launched by CHS and GROWMARK, two of the largest farmer-owned agricultural supply cooperatives in North America. The fund has dual objectives - to back innovative solutions and emerging technologies with the pote
Read moreFreight Farms Closes $17.5M Series B3 for Container Farming Systems
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Containerized vertical farming pioneer Freight Farms announced it closed on a $17.5 million Series B3 co-led by Aliaxis SA, a provider of inventive fluid management solutions that ensure access to water and energy, and Ospraie Ag Science, a leading investor in agtech companies providing smart
Read moreSunrise Strategic Partners Announces Merger, Creating Major U.S. Grass-Fed Beef Platform
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 2016 in partnership with private equity firm Trilantic North America, Boulder, Colorado-based Sunrise Strategic Partners (SSP) provides growth equity and expertise to emerging, authentic brands with $20-$50 million in revenue in the sustainable and healthy living space. Succes
Read moreVow Breaks Cultivated Meat Industry Record with AUD$49.2M Series A
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Australia’s Vow Food is tackling the challenges of hunger, food security, human health, and environmental degradation through ethically expanding the diversity of our options by using animal cells to grow meat in a laboratory. If you could try alpaca, or water buffalo, or even an entirel
Read moreDai-ichi Life Insurance Invests $50M in Nuveen Global Farmland Fund
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company has made its first investment in a farmland strategy fund, committing $50 million to the Nuveen Global Farmland Fund Lux SCSp managed by Nuveen Natural Capital. As a land-focused asset manager, Nuveen has more than 35 years of experience in the field,
Read moreFirst Spin-Out From Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Raises Oversubscribed $1.2M Pre-Seed Round
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Peptyde Bio, the first company spun out of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center by Danforth Technology Company (DTC), a wholly owned subsidiary formed by the Danforth Center in February of this year, announced it has closed on an oversubscribed $1.2 million Pre-Seed round backed by Danfor
Read moreEnriched Ag Launches With $9M in Seed Funding From Radical Ventures, Future Ventures
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Ranch land accounts for about 28 percent of the more than 600 million acres that make up the U.S. landmass. Unlike tropical forests that sequester most of their carbon in vegetation, grazing land ecosystems hold as much as 90 percent of its carbon in the soil, according to the paper Carbon Se
Read moreTrendlines Launches New Company Celleste Bio to Make Cell Cultured Cocoa Ingredients
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The human love affair with chocolate has roots going back at least 2,000 years when cultures in the Americas began growing cocoa to use the beans to make a spicy drink including hot peppers. Today, 70 percent of the world’s cocoa bean supply comes from West African countries - mostly Ivory
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