Submitted Content: Paraguay – The New Frontier in Global Institutional Forestry Investment
Submitted by Richard Lane, Executive Director, Birdwood Capital London-based sustainable real assets manager, Astarte Capital Partners, with the help of their corporate advisors at Birdwood, have again put Paraguay on the map with the runaway fundraising success of Astarte’s Paraguay-focused ‘SA Impact Forestry Fund.’ Also known as
Read moreApple Expands Restore Fund With New Fund and Additional $200M Investment
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Apple is doubling down on its commitment to nature-based carbon removal by significantly expanding its Restore Fund. Originally launched by Apple in 2021 with $200 million in capital backing, the Restore Fund was created to invest in timber producing commercial forestry projects wit
Read moreMidwest Growth Partners Closes Fund III at $170M
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Representing its largest fundraise to-date, Iowa-headquartered Midwest Growth Partners (MGP) announced the close of its third investment fund oversubscribed at $170 million. Established in 2013, and with an additional office in Nebraska, MGP’s investment mission is to provide oppo
Read moreS2G Ventures Launches $300M Climate Tech Fund
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Since its launch in 2014, S2G has backed pioneering entrepreneurs and cutting-edge technologies aimed at improving the health and sustainability of our food system, and has deployed capital across the food, agriculture, ocean, and clean energy supply chains in innovators looking to create be
Read moreBidra Closes on $200M to Back Innovative Agritech Startups Tackling Climate Change
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Moroccan university Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) and fertilizer giant and the largest producer of phosphate fertilizer in the world, OCP Group, have made a $200 million capital commitment to Bidra Innovation Ventures - a $250 million venture capital firm based in San Francisco,
Read moreAGRI3 Fund Secures $13.5M Investment From GEF
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The AGRI3 Fund had a bang of a launch at the beginning of 2020 when during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the Dutch Ministry of Affairs and Rabobank both announced their cornerstone investments of $40 million each. Created by the UN Environment Programme, together w
Read moreFood and Agritech Investor Future Food Fund II Has First Close at $20M
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Dutch environmental impact investor Future Food Fund (FFF) has announced the first close for its second fund - Future Food Fund II (FFF II) at $20 million - with expectations for a second and final close at $50 million within a matter of months. Sector transformation is critically neede
Read moreAGinvest Launches CAD300M Ag Investment Fund
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Ontario-based farmland investment fund AGinvest takes a unique “farm side approach” originating from its founder and president Ken Willmore’s extensive background working on his family farm since childhood. This grassroots strategy, born of boots-on-the-ground owning and opera
Read moreMilltrust Launches British Innovation Fund II and VC Platform Milltrust Ventures
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Launched in October 2016, Milltrust’s first British Innovation Fund (BIF) was established to direct much needed international and domestic institutional capital into the UK University-originated venture sector to commercialize world-leading IP, with a strong inclusion of agri-science
Read morecSmart Launches First-Ever VC Fund Exclusively Dedicated to Advancing Sorghum
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The Collaborative Sorghum Marketing Transformation Program (cSmart) announced the launch of the first-ever venture capital fund exclusively dedicated to attracting capital to projects, companies, and innovators that are creating opportunities for sorghum farmers and the industry. Th
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