By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media GAI News shared the launch of the INVL Sustainable Timberland and Farmland Fund II (STAFF II) by Lithuania’s INVL Asset Management on November 12, 2020. Founded in 1991 as part of the Invalda INVL group, INVL Asset Management has 30 years of experience in managing private equity assets and […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Brad Nordholm’s 40-year career has spanned agricultural and energy finance, capital markets, and credit. Since 2018, he has been president and CEO at Farmer Mac, the nation’s secondary market for agriculture credit. He has shepherded the company through the pandemic and has guided the development of its current […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media EXEO Capital has announced that its Agri-Vie Fund I has exited from its 62.7 percent stake in Cape Olive Holdings, one of the largest table olive suppliers in South Africa, selling its stake to Imibala, a subsidiary of the Lona Group and co-shareholder in Cape Olive. The Fund originally […]
photo credit: TerraClear By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Robotic tech startup TerraClear has closed on a $25 million Series A for an automated robotic solution capable of clearing as many as 400 rocks per hour, including moving rocks that weigh as much as 300 pounds. Having lived in rocky New England for the majority […]
photo credit: Good Startup By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Good Startup, a Singapore-based venture capital firm aiming to remove animals from food supply chains, announced it has raised $25 million and the first close of its Good Protein Fund I. By 2050, the dietary needs of more than 10 billion people will have to […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Are blueberries the new gold? Johannesburg and London-listed gold miner Pan African Resources (PAR) has stated that “desperate” conditions in the local community are driving the company to diversify into blueberry farming as a way to create a parallel economy. “Barberton Mines has been going for 150 years,” Cobus […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media S2G has led a multinational $4.3 million round through its S2G Oceans & Seafood Fund for ViAqua Therapeutics, an Israeli developer of an orally delivered RNA-particle platform to improve the health of aquaculture animals. Other investors participating in the round included new investors Thai Union and Agriline, and return […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media JBS SA has signed an agreement to fully acquire Rivalea – comprised of Rivalea Holdings and Oxdale Dairy Enterprise – from Singapore’s QAF Limited for an enterprise value of A$175 million (US$135 million). As a vertically integrated hog breeding and processing company in Australia – with breeding and production […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media BDO stands for 1,4-butanediol – a key raw material traditionally derived from butane used to manufacture plastics, elastic fibers such as spandex, polyurethane coatings, automotive parts such as bumpers, solvents for printer ink, artificial leathers, and films. Although necessary for the industrial production of a wide range of products, […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Open Prairie Rural Opportunities Fund, an $81 million private equity vehicle operating as a USDA-licensed Rural Business Investment Company (RBIC) providing capital for agribusinesses across rural America, has announced its first exit through the sale of Legacy Seed Companies. Upon the fund’s launch in 2016, Open Prairie partner and […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Recognizing that carbon sequestration by forests is one of the most highly effective investments that can be made to combat climate change, Gresham House, the largest commercial forestry manager in the UK, has launched the Gresham House Forest Growth & Sustainability strategy. Gresham House manages approximately 140,000 hectares of […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Saudi Arabian agtech startup Red Sea Farms announced it has raised $10 million from a collective of leading Saudi and UAE investors to advance its one-of-a-kind technology for the commercial farming of crops using primarily salt water. This investment reflects one of the largest agtech investments in the region […]
