Astarte Capital Partners, SilviPar Close Impact Forestry Fund Highly Oversubscribed at $325M
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In early 2021, real asset-focused investment firm Astarte Capital Partners and Stockholm-based forestry development and management company SilviPar AB launched their inaugural Silvipar Astarte Impact Forestry Fund (“SAIFF”). Under the terms of the partnership, Astarte Capital had comm
Read moreAqua Capital Announced Oversubscribed Final Close of Fund III at $450M
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Surpassing its initial target of $400 million, Aqua Capital announced a final close for its Ag & Food PE Fund III (Fund III) with capital commitments totaling $450 million from a diverse group of both returning and new institutional investors, including asset managers, sovereign wealth f
Read moreHarvest Returns Launches $20M Private Credit Fund
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Understanding that ag investment has long been a compelling asset class that has traditionally been inaccessible to individual investors, Harvest Returns has quickly become a disruptor by providing growers a streamlined, flexible source of capital, and offering qualified financiers and agrib
Read moreMad Capital Launches $50M Perennial Fund II to Scale Regenerative Organic Ag in U.S.
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Mad Capital has launched its $50 million Perennial Fund II (PFII) with early capital commitments from Builders Vision, The Rockefeller Foundation, the Schmidt Family Foundation, Zellis Family Foundation, Zarpet Family Foundation, Matthew Zell Family Foundation, Lacebark Investments, and nine
Read moreCorteva Launches Investment and Partnership Platform Corteva Catalyst
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Corteva Inc. announced it has launched Corteva Catalyst, an investment and partnership platform created to identify and bring to market agricultural innovation with the potential to drive value creation and advance the company’s R&D priorities. The initial focus will be to access op
Read moreHeavyFinance Launches €50M Fund with Anchor Investment from EIF
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Based in Lithuania, HeavyFinance operates as a connecting investor with European farmers in need of external funding for the expansion of their operations and shift to regenerative production. With the goal of removing one gigaton of CO2 emissions through ag financing, to-date, the
Read moreBrief: BFG Partners Launches $125M Third Fund
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded by Tom Spier (co-founder of EVOL) in 2014 in Boulder, Colorado, BFG is a food and beverage-focused venture centered on backing disruptive, better-for-you, innovative, and socially-conscious food beverage and supplement brands. Following the success of their first Fund, which clo
Read moreChipotle Doubles Size of VC Fund Cultivate Next to $100M
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cultivate Next, the $50 million venture capital fund of Chipotle Mexican Grill, is now a $100 million venture fund after Chipotle announced it doubled its capital commitment to mark the fund’s two-year anniversary. Originally launched in 2022, Cultivate Next makes early-stage investme
Read moreCibus Capital Closes Cibus Fund II and Cibus Enterprise Fund II at a Combined $645M
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Specialist Investment advisory firm Cibus Capital announced the successful close of Cibus Fund II (CF II) - its second mid-market private equity fund - with over US$510 million in capital commitments, and Cibus Enterprise Fund II (CE II) - its second venture fund - with more than $135 millio
Read moreMEAG Sustainable Forestry Equity Fund Announces First Close at US$207M
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media MEAG, the asset manager of Munich Re Group with current AUM of approximately €340 billion (US$367 billion), announced a first close for its MEAG Sustainable Forestry Equity Fund at $207 million committed by German insurers and the pension scheme of an unspecified DAX-listed company group.&
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