By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Crop biotech and food innovation company Benson Hill has raised $150 million through a Series D co-led by Wheatsheaf and GV. The company’s business model and global potential to improve health and well-being attracted a diverse range of new and existing investors to this round, including Argonautic Ventures, Caisse […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Global AgInvesting (GAI) hosted its 10th annual Global AgInvesting Asia conference last week. Originally set to take place in Tokyo, but due to current pandemic conditions, the event was held virtually. With speakers from Westchester Group Investment Management, The Norinchukin Bank, Hancock Natural Resource Group, Nishimura & Asahi, […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Held by UK private equity firm, Terra Firma, rumors about the sale of the CPC portfolio have circulated since November of 2014, but the divestment process did not begin in earnest until 2018 with the sale of Nockatunga Station, a bullock fattening operation located in southwest Queensland. Terra Firma […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Namibian private equity firm Eos Capital has launched its third fund, the Euphrates Agriculture Fund, with the goal of raising N$500 million (US$33.5 million) by March 2021. The challenges being faced by the Namibian agricultural sector (one being that right now only Agribank is committing large-scale investments in agriculture […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Apeel Sciences has raised another $30 million in new funding from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Temasek, and Astanor Ventures. Together with the $250 in capital the company raised in May of this year, this round brings total funding for the company for just the past six-month period to […]
By Abby Hunter-Syed, Partner, LDV Capital Plants selected by cameras. Cows fed and milked by robots. Proteins acting as sweeteners. Fridges suggesting recipes. Our food system is in for a major makeover over the next five years that will have imaging and computer vision at its core. It is a makeover that is far overdue in […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Gladstone Land continues its recent acquisition streak, disclosing its second deal within the month. The REIT announced it has acquired 597 gross acres of farmland and farm-related facilities spread across three farms in Bamberg and Orangeburg Counties, South Carolina, for $3.8 million. This is the first acquisition for Gladstone […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media SoftBank Vision Fund I has returned to lead a $140 million Series D for vertical farming leader Plenty. Top fresh berry producer and brand Driscoll’s, who recently entered into a joint development agreement to have Plenty grow Driscoll’s proprietary strawberries, also participated in the round. This funding brings Plenty’s […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media It was in 2016, after Laguna Bay Agricultural Fund I closed at $280 million that the fund acquired its first asset – Banongill Station, a cropping and livestock asset in Victoria’s Western District – from former VFL footballer Stewart Gull and his wife Sue in an off-market deal for an […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Finistere has returned to lead a $10.2 million Series B for TeleSense, an IoT pioneer using AI to modernize grain supply chains, improve food safety, and develop advanced grain storage solutions. Additional participants in the round include a mix of new investors and global leaders – Fulcrum Global Capital, Artesian, […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Verde Farms, a leading provider of 100 percent grass-fed, organic, and pasture-raised beef, has secured new funding from minority investors Johnsonville Holdings and NHL player Alex Biega to bring total funding to-date to $25 million. The company also announced the addition of Nick Meriggioli, CEO of Johnsonville, to its […]
By Adam Bergman, Managing Director, EcoTech Capital Significant changes are underway in the indoor farming sector, none bigger than the recent AppHarvest public listing and the Plenty and Driscoll’s joint development agreement. I have been an outspoken advocate of indoor farming in my articles: “Is indoor farming poised to challenge the status quo?” and “Is Agriculture the […]
