By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Ag investment firm Farmers Gate (founded by Dan Fabian, formerly with Blue Road, Stephen Smith, formerly with Harvard, and Thaddeus Tracy, formerly of Teays River) has partnered with family-owned agribusiness Red Dog Management, and grower, marketer, and distributor Oppy on the formation of New Wave Berry, LLC, a joint […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media International private equity group Bridgepoint has agreed to acquire Sun World, a global leader in fruit genetics, research and development, and licensing. This deal follows a transformative period of ownership by Renewable Resources Group and Vision Ridge Partners during which Sun World divested its substantial farming, packing, and marketing […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Amfora, a California-based biotechnology company using gene editing to raise the protein density in soybeans and other crops, has closed on a $6 million Series B backed by Leaps by Bayer and Spruce Capital Partners. With a mission to fuel the plant-based protein revolution by meeting the world’s growing […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Kempen Capital Management, via its Fiduciary Management and Institutional Solutions team and the investment specialists of the Private Markets team, has partnered with Stichting Pensioenfonds PostNL to launch the SDG Farmland Fund – a new investment solution to offer institutional investors global access to farmland as an asset class […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Weren’t we just here discussing Louis Dreyfus Company’s move to sell out of its sugar holdings? Well, now another of the global ABCD-giants is following suit. Cargill is exiting sugar trading, and has agreed to sell its 50 percent stake in Alvean, the largest sugar company in the world, […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Less than 10 months after its launch, Berlin and Lübeck-based Bluu Biosciences, the first company in Europe to develop and produce cell-based fish, announced it has raised EUR7 million in Seed funding. Bluu Biosciences was founded in 2020 by Dr. Sebastian Rakers and Simon Fabich with an expert team […]
By Adam Bergman, Managing Director, EcoTech Capital As one of the leading advocates for the indoor farming sector, I was excited to see the March 2021 announcement that AeroFarms, a trailblazing vertical farming company, would be going public. Although the AeroFarms transaction was not the first public listing for an indoor farming company, coming almost six […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Leading UK private debt investment manager Prestige Funds announced the launch of Premium Alziraea Fund, a dedicated Islamic, Shariah-compliant real assets and project financing fund focusing on agriculture, horticulture, and renewables in the UK, which the firm notes have operated with lower defaults compared to other sectors. Prestige Funds […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media As AeroFarms’ co-founder and CEO David Rosenberg noted that the business is at an inflection point, the leading vertical farming company is merging with Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) Spring Valley Acquisition to list on the Nasdaq with expectations of an approximate value of $1.2 billion. Moving forward, the new, […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media It was one year ago, in March 2020, that GAI News first shared news about LIVEKINDLY Collective, a new plant-based food platform launched by a consortium of founders, entrepreneurs, and global industry leaders with a mission to transform the global food system. Now, LIVEKINDLY announced it has raised $200 […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) has agreed to sell the business and related assets of Imperial Sugar Company to Clewiston, Florida-based U.S. Sugar for an undisclosed amount. LDC, which is one of the top five sources, merchandisers, transporters, and marketers of raw and white sugars in the world, acquired Imperial […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Soil analytics company CropX has forged a strategic partnership with NASA Harvest – NASA’s Food Security and Agriculture Program housed within the NASA Applied Sciences Program – to collaborate on global agricultural monitoring, and to provide NASA with unprecedented insights into soil health. First introduced through their involvement in […]
