Aqua-Spark Leads $9M Series B For India-Based Seaweed Tech Company Sea6 Energy
photo credit: Sea6 Energy By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media We keep peeling back the onion, as it were, on seaweed - discovering layer upon layer of uses and benefits across the food, feed, biofuel, plastics, and climate change mitigation verticals. Its potential is huge, but seaweed cultivation and processing are young. D
Read moreThe Scale of Cellular Meat on Display – Aleph Farms Closes $105M Series B
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Israel-based cellular meat company Aleph Farms - the company that unveiled the world’s first cellular ribeye steak in February of this year - has closed on a Series B that is almost nine times the size of its Series A raised in 2019. The Growth Fund of L Catterton, the largest consum
Read morePackhorse Pastoral Raises $62.5M, Acquires First Asset
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The Packhorse Pastoral Company has raised $62.5 million, and has acquired its inaugural property - Queensland’s Stuart's Creek - in a $30 million deal. Only recently launched in May of this year by Packhorse, Packhorse Pastoral Company Australia (PPCA) is the company’s first foray in
Read moreDole Files for IPO
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Global fruit and vegetable giant Dole has filed with the U.S. SEC for an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange as a closing move connected to its merger with Ireland’s Total Produce. Dole has been back and forth between being public and private in recent years. David Murdock, chairman and
Read moreCosta Group Launches $190M Entitlement, Announces $200M Buyout of 2PH Farms
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Costa Group (CGC) and citrus grower 2PH Farms have had a working relationship for years through which Costa marketed 2PH Farms’ fruit in Australia for more than a decade, and additionally to export markets this calendar year. This relationship has now shifted as Costa Group has entered i
Read morePrimewest Completes Sale and Leaseback Deal for Piscioneri Farms
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Australian listed property fund manager Primewest has recently completed a sale and leaseback deal for Piscioneri Farms - a citrus and table grape operation in Sunraysia, Victoria, confirms Smith Agri International, which managed the transaction. Consisting of approximately 93 total acre
Read moreSweden’s Mycorena Raises One of The Largest Rounds for a Nordic Vegan Startup For Its Mycoprotein
photo credit: Mycorena By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media It’s a myco-palooza lately. Swedish mycoprotein pioneer Mycorena has completed a Pre-Series A round for SEK 77 million (US$9 million), marking one of the largest funding rounds for a Nordic vegan food tech startup made to-date, and bringing total funding for the
Read moreOspraie Leads $8.3M Series A For Beeflow Pollination Tech Platform
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Bees are our critical partners, safeguarding human well-being and the success of our agricultural production systems. They are a key component to food security, with one out of every three bites of food we eat being dependent on the work they do as pollinators. They ensure biodiversity, healt
Read moreENOUGH Raises $51M for Mycoprotein
photo credit: ENOUGH By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media ENOUGH (formerly 3F BIO), a Glasgow-based alternative protein startup making ABUNDA mycoprotein - a sustainable vegan protein created by fermenting fungi fed by renewable feedstocks - announced it has closed on a $51 million Series B. “The market for delicious,
Read moreAPG to Double Forestry and Ag Investments to Between €3-€5B
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media APG, the largest pension provider in the Netherlands, with approximately €583 billion (US$695 billion) under management as of April 2021, is planning to expand its investment in forestry and agriculture from its current €1.8 billion (US$2.15 billion) to €3-€5 billion (US$3.58-$5.96 bi
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