15 Minutes With… Larry Feinberg, CEO of KnipBio
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, GAI Media Global demand for seafood has increased 3.2 percent per year since 1960, outpacing the 1 percent annual growth in global population. Additionally, per capita consumption has doubled over the same period. To satisfy this thirst for seafood, fish farming has increased – overtaking wild caught fish â
Read moreGAI Events Attract a New Breed of Alternative Investor
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 Natur
Read moreMellinger’s Minutes: Japanese Investors are Eager to Meet You
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
Read moreAlliance Consumer Growth Closes Fourth Fund at $350M
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 opportunitie
Read more$55M Series D Raised by BrightFarms
Greenhouse farming leader BrightFarms has raised a $55 million Series D led by Cox Enterprises, and including Catalysts Investors, WP Global Partners, and NGEN Partners. Based in New York, BrightFarms is tapping into the farm-to-table consumer movement - financing, building, and operating local state-of-the-art commercially scaleable green
Read more15 Minutes With… David Davies, CEO & Founder of AgUnity
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 da
Read moreJust-Released Report Sheds Light on Farmland Investments by NTIs
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, GAI News In a just-published report from HighQuest Consulting – The Role of Nontraditional Investors in the U.S. Farmland Market – author Ben Palen details the rise in interest in the farmland sector by the nontraditional investor (NTI). From merely a dabble 10 years ago, NTIs, which include pension fun
Read moreExpert Commentary: Emerging From Crisis, Reflections on Brazilian Markets
Brazil has proven to truly be a global agricultural powerhouse; emerging as one of the world’s leading agricultural producers and sought-after trading partners. However, recent years of political uncertainty and financial instability have negatively affected the country’s ag sector both domestically and in international markets. But as
Read more15 Minutes With… Deborah Perkins, Global Head of Food & Agribusiness at ING
ING, a global financial institution with more than 52,000 employees and banking services for customers in over 40 countries, today announced the appointment of Deborah Perkins as global head of its new Food & Agribusiness division. Perkins, who will be based in Amsterdam, has been charged with leading the growth and further development
Read moreContributed Content: Time for Global Ag Investing 2.0? #ISH
By David Gray,  Senior Advisor to Altima Partners History offers perspective. Looking back ten years, soybeans were trading over $10.39 per bushel, wheat was nearing $8 and corn was nearing $4. That particular bull run would end about seven months later, with soy having touched $16, wheat reaching $10.35, and corn at over $7.30. Drivers w
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