By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Farmland investor LandFund Partners announced the launch of the LFP Soil Enrichment Fund (SEF) – an open-end structured fund currently holding 20,100 cultivated acres of land valued at $128 million. Eventually, LFP aims to grow the SEF portfolio to more than $1 billion in assets. But how exactly does […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Perfect Day, a producer of animal-free, lab-created dairy proteins and the maker of the world’s first animal-free milk protein, announced that Temasek and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) have returned to co-lead a $350 million Series D for the company. Other participants giving strong support to the […]
By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners During the past 10-15 years, the amount of investment in agriculture by what are known as NTIs (non traditional investors) has grown from barely a blip on the radar screen to a figure that is undoubtedly well into the tens of billions of dollars. Large institutionally supported funds have […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Two pension funds – the UK Pension Protection Fund (PFF), and APG Asset Management (working on behalf of Dutch pension fund ABP) have agreed to acquire a 62 percent stake in Wenita Forest Products Ltd. – the largest timber producer in Otago, New Zealand – from Sinotrans New Zealand. […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Semios, a leading Canadian, data-driven, precision farming platform for permanent and row crops, has raised $100 million in capital to fund the global expansion of its agtech solutions to help the world’s growers reduce chemical inputs, strengthen water efficiency, organize farming data, and improve crop outcomes. This round was […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Two large-scale deals were announced in the flavors segment this month, with Thai Union Group and the Netherlands’ Royal DSM making moves to gain a share of this high-potential business. Thai Union Invests $90M in R&B Food Supply Thai Union Group announced it has made a strategic investment in […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Farming robotics startup Burro (formerly Augean Robotics) announced it has closed on a $10.9 million Series A led by Toyota Ventures and S2G Ventures, marking Toyota’s first investment in agriculture. Additional investors who took part in the round include F-Prime Capital and the Cibus Enterprise Fund, along with existing […]
photo credit: Elders By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media goFARM has appointed Elders to market Yarrabee Park – giving bidders a rare opportunity to acquire one of the largest contiguous broadacre cropping assets in Eastern Australia. Founded in 2013, goFARM is one of the largest agricultural investors and managers in Australia, with about A$1 billion […]
photo credit: Advanced Farm By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Agricultural robotic tech startup Advanced Farm Technologies (Advanced Farm) has closed on a $25 million Series B round led by Catapult Ventures, with all of the company’s Series A investors: Kubota Corporation, Yamaha Motors Corporation, and Impact Ventures returning to take part in its Series […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Seattle-based agtech innovator Carbon Robotics is dedicated to eradicating one of the biggest problems facing farmers – weeds. In support of this mission, Anthos Capital, Ignition Partners, Fuse Venture Capital, Voyager Capital, Bolt, and Liquid2 Ventures have invested a combined $27 million in a Series B round for the […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) continues to break ground as an investor, becoming the first in Japan to agree to invest in a food-focused private equity fund by backing a fund managed by Proterra Investment Advisors (Proterra Asia). Spun off from Cargill’s Black River Asset Management in 2016, […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Robotics and AI-driven farming startup Iron Ox has closed on a $53 million Series C led by a new investor to the company – Breakthrough Energy Ventures. This round follows a $20 million Series B raised by the company in September 2020, and brings total funding to-date to $98 […]
