By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media True Essence, a new foodtech company, announced it has raised $5.25 million in capital through an A2 Series funding round that included Elevate Ventures, among other unspecified private investors. The company also concurrently announced the finalization of its first industrial licensing agreement with Greenleaf Foods – an organic juice […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded by Flagship Pioneer in 2015, CIBO began as a “Zillow for farmland”, generating proprietary insights including land and lease valuation (including a price for every single parcel of farmland in the continental U.S.), productivity, stability, elevation, and environmental impact data on a per-parcel basis. Today, the science-based technology […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Tanja Havemann established Clarmondial in Zurich in 2010 with the goal of creating value by proactively designing and implementing investment solutions to support sustainable natural resource management. Clarmondial provides investment advice to leading investors, companies, foundations, conservation organizations, and governments on mobilizing concessionary and commercial resources. Recent work […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media reNature, a startup that develops and scales regenerative farming and agroforestry projects, announced it has secured backing through Avocet Holdings. The entirety of the equity capital being invested is provided by James Atkins – an active investor who gains control stakes and works side-by-side with management teams. Launched with […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media On behalf of the Australian government, the Clean Energy Finance Fund (CEFC) has committed a cornerstone investment of A$50 million, (US$37.6 million) alongside another A$50 million (US$37.6 million) investment made by the ag impact investor, Kempen SDG Farmland Fund, in the Transforming Farming Platform – a newly launched sustainable […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Missouri-based venture capital investor Fulcrum Global Capital (FGC) announced the first close of its second fund exceeding $44 million – already surpassing the size of its predecessor fund by 20 percent. With a mandate to improve and disrupt the global food production industry, Fulcrum is an early-stage investor in […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Paris-based Five Seasons Ventures has announced the final close of their second food tech fund at EUR 180 million (US$210 million). Representative of how food tech continues to mature as an investment channel, this fund more than doubles the size of Five Seasons’ first fund that closed at EUR […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media As the Australian ag sector continues to experience positive growing and market conditions, fund manager AAM has executed multiple deals totaling A$100 million, including the acquisition of the Mount Harden beef aggregation for A$24.8 million (US$18.6 million) and two timber businesses – N.F. McDonnell & Sons and Perma-Log Timber […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media S2G Ventures is a pioneering investor, putting capital to work to counter threatened natural resources, urbanization, and vulnerable supply chains, and to shift the way the world approaches food. The multi-stage VC investor has a reach across the food, agriculture, ocean, and seafood verticals, and has invested in more […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Recent activity by the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) reflects how the bank continues to break ground as an investor. Within the span of two weeks in September, DBJ began fostering a shift in Japan’s investment landscape through its commitment to the TIR Europe Forestry Fund II, and became […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media The British impact investor and development finance company CDC Group announced its investment of $100 million in African Development Partners III (ADP III), leading the fund to close at $900 million, making it one of the largest funds dedicated to investment on the continent. Advised by Development Partners International […]
By Tatyana Golembovskaia, EOS.com Industrial agriculture implies the cultivation of a small number of varieties in large volumes. However, this approach, as opposed to growing many different types of crops in small areas, threatens both global food security and the environment primarily due to the intensive use of chemicals. And even with the use of modern technology […]
