By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Phoenix, Arizona-based soil health company MyLand has raised $23 million in its latest fundraising, a Series-B Preferred round. Led by Proterra Investment Partners, the round supports MyLand’s sustainable mission with both new and existing growers amid a company expansion across the U.S. and international markets. The latest round comes […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media The private assets arm of French lender BNP Paribas has reached a critical milestone toward the ecological transition to a more circular economy. BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM), which oversees EUR 591 billion (US$614.8 billion) in AUM, has announced the final close of its BNP Paribas Solar Impulse […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Homestead Capital USA, a private equity firm specializing in farmland investments, has added Kudu Investment Management as a strategic partner. Kudu, which delivers permanent capital solutions to asset managers, made a passive, minority investment into Homestead, the terms of which the companies are holding close to the vest. As […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media As a fifth-generation rancher, Jen Livsey knows a thing or two about cattle ranching. Her family has been ranching in Colorado since 1907. Their operation, the Flying Diamond Ranch, runs beef cattle across 200,000 acres, 30,000 of which they own. Livsey and her brothers were raised on the ranch […]
photo credit- Thai Union By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Major seafood player Thai Union Group PCL has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Thailand’s V Foods to work together to expand their plant-based food businesses. The pair also intend to co-develop new products and expand their reach into both domestic and international markets. […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, GAI Media With the goal of providing safe, abundant, and affordable food, California-based startup Centaur Analytics seeks to end post-harvest crop losses, reclaiming the estimated $1 trillion of crop value wasted each year to improper storage and spoilage to “create” more food for the ever-increasing world population. According to co-founder, president, […]
A new breed of alternative investor is emerging in Japan with an eye on yield, an appetite for long horizons, and an expectation of a sound ESG strategy. Investments in agriculture epitomize opportunities featuring these attributes. In April of this year Nippon Life Insurance Company set precedent by committing AUD 119 million to Hancock Natural […]
Asia’s population, wealth, GDP, and food/protein consumption growth continue. While Intra-Asian/ASEAN agri-food-agtech deals are well understood, Asian investor allocations into the Americas & Europe are often under the radar. I expect this to change rapidly, and for many more Asian industry and financial investors to allocate significant sums outside of Asia via funds, M&A, and […]
Consumer-retail focused growth equity firm Alliance Consumer Growth (ACG) announced the close of its fourth fund (ACG IV) oversubscribed at its hard cap of $350 million. Fund IV’s investors are largely returning limited partners in ACG, subscribing to the same investment strategy of ACG’s prior three funds which identify early opportunities to back rapidly-growing, “rising […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall After more than a decade in executive positions at global investment banks – Goldman Sachs, Lehman, Nomura Securities, and Standard Chartered Bank – and successfully founding fintech and mobile technology startups, David Davies was working on creating cryptoledger communication protocol for financial data. Over the course of a weekend in April 2016 an idea was borne […]
