By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media The last time GAI shared news from Anuvia, it was when TPG ART led a $23 million funding round for the company in November 2016. Now, TPG ART returns with Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund (Pontifax AgTech) to co-lead a sizable $103 million Series C for Anuvia Plant […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Equilibrium Capital announced the successful sale of its Boardman, Oregon-based renewable natural gas facility to Resilient Infrastructure Group, a water infrastructure platform owned by private markets firm Partners Group. Developed by Equilibrium in partnership with Threemile Canyon Farms, the Boardman project is one of the largest dairy manure to […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Food and ag investor Arable Capital Partners announced it has made a strategic investment backing Pacific Trellis Fruit / Dulcinea – one of the U.S.’ top year-round growers, importers, and marketers of premium fresh fruit including melons, table grapes, citrus, cherries, stone fruit, among others, under the Dulcinea brand. […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media California-based New Age Meats (NAM), the first company to release a cellular pork sausage, has extended its post-Seed funding from August 2020 by an additional $2 million, to bring total funding to-date for the startup to $7 million. Follow-on investments were secured from ffVC, SOSV, and Innovating Capital, along […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Mondelēz International has launched Sustainable Futures, a new impact investment platform to incubate, finance, and build partnerships in self-sustaining ventures that address key global challenges, including climate change, and that advance ESG initiatives. The global powerhouse that is owner of iconic brands such as OREO, Cadbury, Toblerone, and Trident, among […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media FinDev Canada, a dedicated institution financing the private sector in developing countries to combat poverty through three pillars: job creation, women’s empowerment, and climate change mitigation, has committed $12 million to Miro Forestry Development – a sustainable forestry and timber operator with plantations in Ghana and Sierra Leone. This […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Carter Malloy had a vision a few years back. While working for a large investment firm, agriculture as an asset class caught his attention, especially since he grew up in a farming family in Arkansas and had been buying farmland alongside his father. Impressed with the benefits of […]
photo credit: Little Leaf Farms By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Equilibrium Capital has led $90 million in debt and equity financing for Massachusetts-based greenhouse operator Little Leaf Farms. Joining Equilibrium was Copperline Capital, Pilot House Associates, and founding investor Bill Helman. Bank of America, which has also committed $20 million to the company to-date, […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Saudi Arabia’s state-owned Saudi Agricultural Livestock Investment Company (SALIC) has deepened its partnership with Brazilian livestock company Minerva Foods in a deal that will see an expansion for both companies in Australia. SALIC originally agreed to acquire a 20 percent stake in Minerva in December 2015 for $188.4 million. […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Based in Philadelphia, TPP Capital Holdings is a Black-led social impact private equity fund manager, real estate developer, and urban healthcare investor dedicated to improving the health and welfare of residents in Black and Brown neighborhoods through improving access to healthy food. As part of this mission, and to […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Protix, a Dutch startup breeding larvae from Black Soldier Flies (BSF) for sustainable animal feed production, announced it has closed on €15.5 million (US$18.6 million) in new funding. Participating in the round was Invest-NL, a new investor for the company, that committed €7.5 million (US$9 million) to the round, […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Phatisa has closed its Food Fund 2 at $143 million with capital commitments from a collective of five DFIs (Development Finance Institution) and impact investors, totaling $82 million. The consortium consists of: – CDC Group – $30 million – Norfund – $20 million – Finnfund – $15 million – […]
