By Lynda Kiernan -Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Anterra Capital announced the successful first close at $175 million for its second food and agtech fund, Anterra F&A Ventures II. With a mission to invest and partner with innovators affecting real transformation on the world’s food ecosystem through biotech and digital technologies across crop science, human nutrition, […]

photo credit: ENOUGH By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media ENOUGH (formerly 3F BIO), a Glasgow-based alternative protein startup making ABUNDA mycoprotein – a sustainable vegan protein created by fermenting fungi fed by renewable feedstocks – announced it has closed on a $51 million Series B.  “The market for delicious, nutritious vegan products is growing at […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media APG, the largest pension provider in the Netherlands, with approximately €583 billion (US$695 billion) under management as of April 2021, is planning to expand its investment in forestry and agriculture from its current €1.8 billion (US$2.15 billion) to €3-€5 billion (US$3.58-$5.96 billion) over the coming five years.  In support […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media French fashion label Chanel has committed $25 million as an anchor investment in The Landscape Resilience Fund (LRF) – a new climate adaptation fund looking to raise $100 million by 2025 to support sustainable agriculture, protect forests, and to support smallholder farmers in developing countries.  Launched through a partnership […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Israel-based plant-based nutrition company Equinom announced it has closed on a $20 million Series C led by The Phoenix, and including Fortissimo, BASF Venture Capital, Trendlines, and Maverick. Indeed, in February of last year, Trendlines chose Equinom as its first investment, committing $1.6 million of a $10 million Series […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media It was back in July 2018 that an anonymous writer using the pen name Rota Fortunae – Latin for ‘wheel of fortune’ (later revealed to be Quinton Mathews) wrote a defamatory attack against Farmland Partners (FPI) which was published on the financial website Seeking Alpha.  This “short and distort” scheme […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media InnerPlant, a company pioneering the development of genetically adapted living plant sensors, has closed on $5.6 million in pre-Seed funding led by MS&AD Ventures, the investment arm of Japanese insurance giant MS&AD Insurance Group.  This round marks one of the first strategic investments made by a top insurance name […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Food and ag investor Arable Capital Partners has expanded its fruit holdings, announcing that it has acquired Royal Ridge Fruits, Dorsing Farms, and related entities, through a partnership with the Dorsing family.  Under the terms of the deal, Arable Capital is acquiring the farming operations, which have grown to […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Enko, a Massachusetts-based company that develops novel crop protection solutions, has announced a multi-year partnership with Syngenta Crop Protection to develop next-generation, safe and sustainable crop solutions to resist pests and novel diseases.  The world’s farmers need new tools at their disposal. For years the agricultural industry has relied […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media S2G Ventures, a multi-stage VC investor across the food, agriculture, ocean, and seafood verticals, announced that it has taken a deep dive, investing in five companies across four countries as part of its inaugural deployments in oceans and seafood through its Ocean and Seafood Fund. Of this total, S2G […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Miranda Downs hasn’t been on the market long. Stanbroke Pastoral Co. owners, the Menegazzo family, placed the property on the market in April with the window for expressions of interest closing on June 3. Located in Normanton, Queensland, Miranda Downs is noted as being exceptional. “Miranda is quality northern […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Motif FoodWorks began its existence not too long ago – launched by Boston-based Ginkgo Bioworks in March 2019 with a mission to develop next-generation alternative proteins and ingredients for global companies.  “We started putting Motif together around February or March of 2018,” Jason Kakoyiannis, business development at Ginkgo and […]