By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Claridge, a Montreal-based family office, is partnering with Investissement Québec and the Fonds de solidarité FTQ to launch a C$100 million (US$78.5 million) investment fund with the goal of transforming food processing companies in Québec with growth potential into North American leaders.  The food and beverage sector is a major […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media As part of a reorganization, Japan’s Marubeni announced it has agreed to sell the U.S. grain business of its subsidiary Gavilon to Viterra, the Dutch unit of global giant Glencore, through a deal that Marubeni expects to be worth as much as $2.6 billion to $3.5 billion (300 billion  […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Last year, a pretty significant deal in the agtech space happened that might have flown under the radar. Decisive Farming – a collaborative data-driven farm management platform which was founded and led by entrepreneur and angel investor Remi Schmaltz – was acquired by TELLUS , a transaction that was named the […]

By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners LLC Introduction In Part I of our case study [see GAI News December 14, 2021], we addressed some macro level topics pertaining to the sub-Saharan part of the African continent, and at the national level for Zimbabwe. They included the following items: ~Large amounts of uncultivated, arable land. ~Substantial water […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media It remains true that vertical farming is not yet at the point of replacing traditional agriculture. However, the technology continues to mature, the funding rounds continue to grow, and the facilities continue to scale, allowing vertical farming to forge relationships that give it meaningful inroads into commercial channels. This […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media London-based controlled environment agriculture (CEA) technology and research startup Vertical Future has raised what is being acknowledged as the largest round to be closed in the European CEA industry.  Pula Investments, environmentalist Gregory Nasmyth, Dyfan Investment, SFC Capital (the second-largest shareholder in the company), Nickleby Capital (representing certain UHNW […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Vintage Wine Estates (VWE), a rapidly-growing company with 12 estates in Napa, Sonoma, California’s central coast region, Oregon, and Washington, and a robust direct-to-customer platform, has expanded into the U.S. East through its acquisition of 120-year-old Ohio-based winery, brewery, and distillery, Meier’s Beverage Group. The deal is valued at […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 2017 by Scott Sungwoo Choi, Charlie Sanghoon Shin, and Luke Donghyun Ahn, South Korea’s Greenlabs is many things to many people as part of its goal to digitize agricultural value chains.  With the goal of facilitating connections between farmers and customers, Greenlabs’ services includes Sinsun Market – […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media By this point, the wellness trend and the correlating consumer demand for fresh produce seem to be here to stay. It’s the new normal, as they say.  Considering the nutritional value of fresh berries, and their diverse range of applications from the bakery to beverages, it’s not surprising that […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In recent years we’ve been hearing about biomaterials companies making leather alternatives from a variety of foods or agricultural side streams, but San Francisco-based biomaterials company MycoWorks has perfected the technology and is achieving scale in production.  To fuel its growth, the company announced it has just closed on […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media China’s Starfield Food Science & Technology (Starfield) has raised the largest plant-based protein funding round to-date, bringing in $100 million through a Series B led by Beijing-based Primavera Capital Group, and including Alibaba’s CSO Ming Zeng, and existing investors Joy Capital, Lightspeed China Partners, Sky9 Capital, and Matrix Partners […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Saskatchewan-based oil company Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL) has made multiple announcements touching upon its commitment to cut its greenhouse gases by 40 percent by 2030, and to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.  Bringing together transportation fuel and agriculture, FCL is investing $2 billion for the construction of an Integrated […]