By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Swiss wealth and asset manager Lombard Odier refers to sustainability as the “next economic revolution” and “perhaps the single biggest investment opportunity in history”. Joining the revolution, Lombard Odier announced the launch of a Natural Capital strategy. Inspired by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, this global equity […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Arbor Investments, a specialized private equity firm focused solely on investment opportunities in the food and beverage verticals and their related industries, has closed its fifth fund – Arbor Investments V (Fund V) at $1.5 billion. Not only has this impressive funding surpassed Fund V’s goal of $1 billion […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Australia’s Gunn Agri Partners, an agricultural asset management company operated by co-founders Bill Gunn, Alan Hoppe, Daniel Hough and Bradley Wheaton, targets investment strategies that are supported by strong economic fundamentals, such as increasing demand for beef, grains, oilseeds, and almonds, that are attractive due to the potential to […]
By Lynda Kiernan The largest impact fund in New Zealand, the Purpose Capital Impact Fund (PCIF), announced it has had an initial close on $20 million and is preparing to begin making investments nationwide. Some key investors include K1W1, the Tindall Foundation, WEL Energy Trust, BayTrust, among other family trusts and private individuals. Although PCIF is […]
London-based private equity and advisory firm ADM Capital has had a final close at $332 million for its global agribusiness investment fund ADM Cibus Fund. The firm has also raised an additional $130 million that will be earmarked for co-investments, resulting in the cumulative raising for the fund topping out at $452 million. ADM Capital […]
Grupo Bimbo, the Mexico-based bakery goods giant, announced the formation of Bimbo Ventures – an in-house investment arm designed to source and drive highly potential ventures in the food and food tech space. Bimbo Ventures has also partnered with BlueBox Ventures, the largest network of incubators, accelerators, and corporate investment funds in Latin America, to […]
After an acquisitive 2016 fiscal year, Gunn Agri Partners’ Gunn Agri Cattle Fund has grown to a gross asset value of A$96.9 million upon seeing a 12 percent increase to its net asset value for the quarter ending June 30, 2016. The gain in value was driven, in large part, by weight gains and increases […]
Seventh Point, a Connecticut-based private equity firm focused on investing in legal medical marijuana cultivation and dispensary assets in the state of California, announced that its $750,000 friends and family round of fundraising has closed oversubscribed. In addition. the firm has received two separate $5.5 million financing Letters of Intent for the first round. The […]
California-based producer of artisanal, alternative dairy foods made from nut milk, Kite Hill, has closed on an $18 million round of fundraising led by General Mills’ venture arm, 301 Inc., and CAVU Venture Partners. Kite Hill uses its proprietary method of almond milk production using non-GMO almonds sourced from California’s San Joaquin Valley as the […]
