Downforce Technologies Raises $4.2M to Revolutionize Soil Organic Carbon Measurement
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The UN postulates that global climate, biodiversity, and land degradation goals will remain unmet unless investments in nature-based solutions more than double by 2025, to $384 billion per year. Doing their part, Equator VC has led a $4.2 million funding round for Downforce Technolo
Read moreIFC Backs Sustainable Insect Protein Startup ProNuvo to Boost Circular Economy in Lat Am and the Caribbean
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media As a means to spark the circular economy in Latin America and the Caribbean, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has made an initial investment of $2 million in Costa Rica-based ProNuvo, a startup focused on the sustainable production of insect-based animal feed. With the gl
Read moreBTG Pactual Timberland Executes Largest Known Carbon Credit Transaction To-Date with Microsoft
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (TIG) has announced a groundbreaking carbon offset credit transaction through which it will provide up to 8 million nature-based carbon removal credits to Microsoft through 2043. Recognized as the largest known carbon dioxide removal credit de
Read moreEel Farming is Heating Up in Maine
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME) announced an award of $3.4 million from the Indigenous Animals Harvesting and Meat Processing (IAG) grant program - part of the USDA’s Rural Development program - for the Passamaquoddy Tribe to build a controlled aquaculture eel farm, as opposed to rely
Read moreMexico-Based FARM Capital Makes First Round of Acquisitions
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Latin America currently accounts for 16 percent of the world’s total food exports, a figure that the UN FAO expects to increase to 25 percent by 2028. And, as food security has grown to be recognized by international investors as a strategic asset class, Mexico is a high-potential market i
Read moreFood Cycle Science Secures Funding to Stop Methane Food Emissions Before They Begin
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Canada’s Food Cycle Science Corporation (FCS) has received institutional funding from Power Sustainable Lios (PSL), the sustainable agrifood investment group of Power Sustainable, for its award-winning electric food waste recycler that transforms food scraps into a dry, odor-free by-produc
Read moreSweden’s Nordluft Gains Backing for its Sustainable Forestry Drone Technology
Photo credit: EIT InnoEnergy By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Swedish startup Nordluft is securing new capital from Södra Ädla, Sweden’s largest forest-owners association and international first industry group, and EIT InnoEnergy, which has supported Nordluft since 2018, for its innovative drone technology offering a
Read moreeFishery Secures $30M Loan from HSBC Indonesia
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Indonesian aquaculture tech startup eFishery broke records in 2022 when it successfully closed on a $90 million Series C to become the world’s largest aquaculture tech startup in the world. Continuing the momentum, the company has now announced it has secured $30 million in operat
Read moreHerdDogg Closes on $6M Series A4 for its “Fitbit for Cows”
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Nebraska-based agtech startup HerdDogg has officially closed on its $6 million Series A4 fundraising round led by Serra Ventures and Wonder Fund North Dakota. Lever VC Fund II and other unspecified investors also contributed to the round. HerdDogg explained that intensive cattle sys
Read moreOrsero Partners with Cercchia Holding – Molari to Develop New Berry Supply Chain
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Italy’s Orsero SpA, a leading importer and distributor of fresh fruit and vegetables in Mediterranean Europe, has signed a strategic partnership with Cercchia Holding, represented by Matteo and Luca Molari, specialists in varietal selection and the propagation of berries, to form Frutti di
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