By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Boston-based robotic agtech startup Root AI announced the successful raising of $7.2 million in Seed funding, bringing the company’s total funding to-date to $9.5 million. The oversubscribed round was backed by both new and existing investors including Rob May, general partner, PJC; Josh Kopelman, partner, First Round Capital; angel […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Impossible Foods announced it has closed on another $200 million in funding through a Series G led by new investor Coatue. Existing investors Mirae Asset Global Investments and Temasek also contributed to the rounds, as did additional new investor XN. This round, which brings total funding for the company […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Iowa-based PowerPollen announced it has closed on $13 million raised through a Series B that included new investor Ag Ventures Alliance, and a cohort of return investors that included Iowa Corn Growers Association. For such a critical part of crop success, pollination can be seriously inefficient due to the […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Rural Funds Management (RFM), manager for the ASX-listed Rural Funds Group (RFF), an owner of a diversified portfolio of high-quality Australian agricultural assets valued at approximately A$900 million (US$648.5 million), announced it has agreed to acquire 5,409 hectares (13, 366 acres) of sugar cane farms in Queensland from MSF […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek and the investment arm of Bayer, Leaps by Bayer, have partnered to create Unfold, a new venture that will focus on the development of new vegetable varieties that will play a role in enhancing the quality, sustainability, and efficiency of vertical farming. Unfold will address […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Harvest Agriculture, an Australia-based wholly-owned subsidiary of Guangxi Investment Co. Ltd, has acquired the 5,071-hectare Yaloak Estate for A$60 million (US$43 million) – approximately A$10 million (US$7 million) more than what the property was expected to fetch. The estate had been owned by businessman, corporate lawyer, and winery owner […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Foodtech startup Atomo Coffee announced it has raised another $9 million in Seed funding to bring bean-less, molecular coffee to market. This additional round brings total Seed funding for the company to $11.6 million. With this capital raised from S2G Ventures, AgFunder, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Horizon Ventures, Seattle-based […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media S2G Ventures, a multi-stage VC fund investing across the food, agriculture, agtech, and foodtech verticals, is now expanding its horizons by launching a dedicated $100 million oceans and seafood investment strategy. With a commitment to advance sustainable solutions for the climate, as well as the health of humans and […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Equilibrium Capital Group, an asset manager focused on sustainable and impact-driven real asset agricultural and agricultural distributed infrastructure, announced its first investment outside the U.S. Finka, an owner of advanced greenhouses based in Queretaro, Mexico, that pioneered the original Agropark, and that has managed multiple large scale greenhouses in […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Isareli smart beehive developer Beewise Technologies Ltd. has raised $10 million through a round led by Fortissimo Investment Fund. Also participating in the round were Micheal Eisenberg, the co-founder of the VC firm Aleph, lool Ventures, Atooro Fund, and ARC Impact. Bees are our critical partners, safeguarding human well-being […]
By Seana Day, partner, Better Food Ventures Institutional capital has been allocated to agriculture for decades. Investment in the sector surged following the 2008 financial crisis as institutional investors sought safer, real asset alternatives to the financial markets that also provided a hedge against inflation and currency protection. Capital continues to flow into the Food […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media It is no surprise that Kip Tom, formerly chairman of Tom Farms LLC and chairman of CereServ Inc., a 2.2 million bushel grain facility, both located in Leesburg, Indiana, USA, was confirmed as the United States’ permanent representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture in […]
