By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 1926, Tnuva is the largest food brand in Israel with the country’s largest distribution network for chilled and frozen products, a 15 percent share of the overall food market, and a 50 percent share of the dairy market in the country, generating revenue of over $2 billion. […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media On a global scale, the world has lost a third of its arable land over the past 40 years to the effects of pollution or erosion at a rate that far outpaces the natural rate of soil replacement, according to a team at the Grantham Center for Sustainable Futures […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media As one of the world’s largest agri-commodities merchants, Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) has stood the test of time throughout its nearly 170-year history. The global trader’s activities span the entire value chain across a range of platforms including Grain & Oilseeds, Coffee, Cotton, Juice, Rice, Sugar, Freight, Carbon Solutions, […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media It was only in January of this year that AcreTrader announced it had raised $40 million through a Series B to fuel its strategic expansion. Little more than two months later, the company is back in the news, having expanded its latest funding round to be oversubscribed at more […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Bioceres Crop Solutions and Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI) announced their definitive agreement to merge their companies through an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $236 million. In connection with the deal, Bioceres has agreed to terms for a capital commitment between $37.5 million – $45 million in the form of a […]
By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners Sustainability is a challenging and complex topic. It brings to mind something from my law school days that seems on point to the present day. A case was before a panel of administrative law judges on the Federal Communications Commission, and the factual record was extremely complex. In describing […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media ReGen Ventures, Trailhead Capital, and MassMutual Catalyst Fund have led a $6 million Series A for Clean Crop Technologies, a startup using electricity to boost yields, improve food safety, and reduce food waste in not just crops such as nuts, seeds, vegetables, and fruits, but for also meats and […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Equilibrium Capital, Temasek, and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), which is an existing shareholder, have come together to invest in Perfection Fresh, one of Australia’s largest privately owned fresh produce companies. Founded in 1978 by the Simonetta family, Perfection Fresh owns farms across the country that […]
Photo Credit: The Bee Corp. By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Today in this quick-hitting profile series that features the movers and shakers in the agtech sector, GAI News spoke with Ellie Symes of The Bee Corp., of Indianapolis. The company develops technology to help growers reduce cost and optimize pollination quality, and help […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Estonian startup GreenCrypto, in partnership with private investors and global family offices, has released a $600 million initial coin offering on four international exchanges with the goal of crowdfunding a more sustainable future through agriculture. AvocadoCoin is the first token of GreenCrypto’s GreenGold Project – a program designed to […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Daybreak Cropping, an investment fund backed by PSP Investments – Canada’s largest pension fund with $204 billion in AUM on behalf of the Canadian Public Service, Canadian Armed Forces, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the Reserve Force – and managed by Warakirri Asset Management, has acquired Yarrabee Park, […]
photo credit: Finless Foods By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Launched through the IndieBio accelerator in 2017, Finless Foods is the first cellular aquaculture company to create fish cakes ever served to be eaten in the U.S. (video). It went on to secure backing from Hatch – the first aquaculture-focused accelerator in the world – […]
