By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Spun off from Cargill’s Black River Asset Management in 2016, Proterra Investment Partners has offices in Minneapolis, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Sao Paulo, and London with $3.6 billion in food and ag AUM. Working out of the Shanghai and Singapore office, Tai Lin, managing director of subsidiary Proterra Asia, directs […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The UK has a new specialist investment manager in Isara, which has just announced the launch of its maiden fund – a £300 million (US$354.7 million) investment vehicle geared to improve the efficiency, quality, and sustainability of food supply systems across the UK, Ireland, and Western Europe. Fully backed […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Vinci Partners Investments, a Brazil-based company in control of a leading alternative investment platform, announced a close at R$360 million (approximately US$71 million) for Vinci Crédito Agro Fiagro Imobiliário (VICA), the first fund launched under its agribusiness strategy. Established in 2009, Vinci Partners is a top alternative investor active […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Based in Boston, Massachusetts, and Montreal, Quebec, Spring Lane has done big things in a relatively short period of time. Focusing on providing hybrid project capital within the sustainable food, water, energy, waste, and transportation industries, its first private fund concluded fundraising in November 2019 with capital commitments totaling […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Los Angeles-based, food-focused private equity investor Butterfly announced the closing of its second fund with capital commitments of $1 billion. Nearly double the size of its predecessor, the closing of this fund brings Butterfly’s total AUM, including its first fund and co-investments, to almost $4 billion. In play since […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Leading sustainable food and agribusiness inventor Arable Capital Partners announced it has closed on $250 million in follow-on commitments for its fund Arable Capital LLC, bringing total combined AUM to more than $550 million. Aware that by its very nature, the food and agribusiness sectors require a long-term investment […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Transformation is typically not easy. If done responsibly, it can be demanding in both time and capital. But once accomplished, it can also be highly rewarding on a number of fronts – return on investment, socially, ecologically, and environmentally, for example. Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM), the asset management […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Strategic Chicago-based private equity firm Shore Capital Partners announced a close for its Food & Beverage Fund II (F&B Fund II) oversubscribed at more than $290 million. This closing of $291.75 million lifts total capital committed to $3 billion for Shore Capital, which also has offices in Nashville and […]
photo credit: Centuria Capital Group By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media ASX-listed, specialist investment manager Centuria Capital Group, announced the launch of Centuria Agriculture Fund (CAF), an open-ended, unlisted investment fund seeded with a $177 million state-of–the-art glasshouse in Warragul, Victoria. In conjunction with the launch, the group will be seeking approximately $103 million in support […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media 301 INC, the venture arm of General Mills, is committing a combined $15 million to two early-stage venture capital funds dedicated to supporting food enterprises led by women of color as part of General Mills’ dedication to promoting racial and gender equality through economic opportunity. These two vehicles will […]
