Wildtype Breaks Funding Record For Cultivated Seafood With $100M Series B
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media San Francisco-based Wildtype certainly has come far since it raised $3.5 million in Seed funding in 2018. Just approaching four years later, this pioneer of sushi-grade, cultivated salmon has broken funding records in its category, announcing the completion of a $100 million Series B led
Read moreFinland’s Pharmacy Pension Fund Invests €10M in Solar Foods
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in Helsinki in 2017 as a spin-off from a VTT and LUT research program, Solar Foods uses a unique bioprocess similar to that used to make beer or wine to create natural protein using only air and electricity as raw materials. Using renewable energy and air-captured carbon dioxide (C
Read moreCopenhagen-Based Agreena Raises €20M for Novel Carbon Farming Market
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Based in Copenhagen, Agreena is a carbon market startup that originates, verifies, and sells carbon credits generated by farmers through the integration and adoption of regenerative production practices. Today, 34 percent of the publicly traded companies in the world have already made co
Read moreBTG Pactual, BCI Launch Caddo Sustainable Timberland With 772K Acres in East Texas
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (TIG) has partnered with British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) to launch Caddo Sustainable Timberlands LP (CST) - a platform through which to build exposure to southeastern U.S. timberland with the goal of generating superior risk-adj
Read moreOntario Teachers’ Tamarack Acquires Ownership of 870K Ac. of U.S. Timberland; $625M in Financing Provided by MIM
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (OTPPB) has completed a redemption transaction through Tamarack Timberlands LLC, an investment vehicle owned by the pension fund, with mortgage holder Resource Management Service (RMS) assuming direct ownership and full governance of approximately 87
Read moreNext Gen Foods Raises Record-Breaking $100M Series A To Expand TiNDLE Plant-Based Meat Analogs
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Singapore-based Next Gen Foods has already garnered attention from some of the top food tech investors and growth drivers in Asia. The startup is one of a select group of international investments made by Bits x Bites, China's first agrifood tech-focused VC fund, and was the first partner
Read moreCooks Venture Raises $50M to Advance Regenerative Ag, Poultry Genetics Platform
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cooks Venture, a next generation poultry genetics and regenerative agriculture company, announced $50 million in funding from insurance technology financing pioneer, PIUS. Launched in early 2019 by Matthew Wadiak, founder and former COO of Blue Apron, after 10 years in development, Cook
Read moreElicit Plant Raises €16M to Address Water Stress in Crops
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cropping systems specialists with the University of California Cooperative Extension recently spoke with Valley Public Radio (KPVR) to discuss decades of work with water-efficient soils and regenerative agriculture, and how water is key to climate change resilience. This sentiment also
Read moreCULT Food Science Diversifies Cell-Based Portfolio With Chocolate Innovator California Cultured
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The cocoa industry has been long-beset with challenging issues - economic, environmental, and social - including smallholder producers earning barely the price of a candy bar per day, climate change, deforestation, and child labor issues. Offering a solution to all of these issues is Cal
Read moreZero Acre Farms has Raised $37M to Remove Vegetable Oil From Our Diets
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The realities are staggering. Today, due to our diets, 60 percent of American adults have one chronic illness, such as diabetes or heart disease, and 40 percent have more than one. Incredibly, at a time when scientific advances should mean longer lifespans, our healthy life expectancy has dec
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