Vintage Wine Estates Expands Eastward With $25M Ohio Acquisition
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Vintage Wine Estates (VWE), a rapidly-growing company with 12 estates in Napa, Sonoma, California’s central coast region, Oregon, and Washington, and a robust direct-to-customer platform, has expanded into the U.S. East through its acquisition of 120-year-old Ohio-based winery, brewery, and
Read moreSouth Korea’s Greenlabs Approaches Unicorn Status With $140M Series C
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 2017 by Scott Sungwoo Choi, Charlie Sanghoon Shin, and Luke Donghyun Ahn, South Korea’s Greenlabs is many things to many people as part of its goal to digitize agricultural value chains. With the goal of facilitating connections between farmers and customers, Greenlabs’ se
Read moreContinental Grain Invests in Vertically Integrated Berry Producer Agroberries
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media By this point, the wellness trend and the correlating consumer demand for fresh produce seem to be here to stay. It’s the new normal, as they say. Considering the nutritional value of fresh berries, and their diverse range of applications from the bakery to beverages, it’s not surpri
Read moreMycoWorks Raises $125M Series C to Launch First Fine Mycelium Mass-Production Plant
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In recent years we’ve been hearing about biomaterials companies making leather alternatives from a variety of foods or agricultural side streams, but San Francisco-based biomaterials company MycoWorks has perfected the technology and is achieving scale in production. To fuel its growth
Read moreChina’s Starfield Raises Largest Ever Plant-Based Protein Round With $100M Series B
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media China’s Starfield Food Science & Technology (Starfield) has raised the largest plant-based protein funding round to-date, bringing in $100 million through a Series B led by Beijing-based Primavera Capital Group, and including Alibaba’s CSO Ming Zeng, and existing investors Joy Capital
Read moreFCL Investing $2B to Construct Integrated Ag Complex; Partners with AGT Foods on $360M Canola Crush Facility
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Saskatchewan-based oil company Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL) has made multiple announcements touching upon its commitment to cut its greenhouse gases by 40 percent by 2030, and to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Bringing together transportation fuel and agriculture, FCL is inve
Read moreBowery Farming Secures $150M Credit Facility Led by Private KKR Accounts
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Bowery Farming announced it has secured $150 million through a credit facility led by private credit accounts managed by global investment firm KKR, bringing the company’s total funding to-date to $647 million. Based in New York City, Bowery Farming is the largest vertical farming comp
Read moreAqua-Spark, NORFUND Become Cornerstone Investors in African Tilapia Farmer Lake Harvest Group
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In September 2021, Dutch sustainable aquaculture and related tech investor Aqua-Spark released AquaInsights, An Introduction to Tilapia in Sub-Saharan Africa - an in-depth, 92-page report exploring the current geography and the potential for Tilapia farming in sub-Saharan Africa. By 2050
Read moreeFishery Sets New Funding Record With $90M Series C
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Indonesian aquaculture tech startup eFishery has broken records, successfully closing on a $90 million Series C and becoming the world’s largest aquaculture tech startup in the world. The round was co-led by Temasek, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and Sequoia Capital India, and included exist
Read moreAcreTrader Raises $40M Series B, Marking Second Funding Close in a Year
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media AcreTrader, a tech-driven platform that connects investors, land, and farmers, announced it has raised $40 million through a Series B that the company stated will fuel its strategic expansion. Founded by Carter Malloy in 2018, AcreTrader uses crowdfunding to remove the traditional barrie
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