By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Toronto-based InvestEco Capital announced the final close of the InvestEco Sustainable Food Fund III at $100 million. With the announcement of the close, the firm also announced the addition of new institutional investors Farm Credit Canada, BDC Capital, Fondaction, Fonds de solidarité FTQ, and Vancity, who join the fund’s […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Tropic Biosciences, a pioneer in ag biotechnology that uses CRISPR gene editing to develop new, high-performing plant varieties best suited to tropical agriculture, announced it has closed a $28.5 million Series B led by Temasek. This round, which brought total funding for the company to-date to $40 million, also […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media As sustainability and ESG protocols and investment mandates take greater hold, it is becoming increasingly important that agricultural technologies advance to enable the continued meeting of benchmarks and goals. Israeli agtech startup Greeneye Technology announced it has raised (a significant) $7 million in Seed funding in support of its […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Apollo Agriculture, an agricultural products and financial services platform helping small-scale farmers in Kenya maximize their profits, announced it has raised $6 million through a Series A led by Anthemis Exponential Ventures. Also participating in the round were Leaps by Bayer, Flourish Ventures, Sage Hill Capital, To Ventures Food, […]
By Julie Deering, Women in Agribusiness Media Traditional food and agricultural supply chains were significantly disrupted when COVID-19 hit the United States earlier this year and companies, along with the U.S. government, started shifting to concerns for the safety of employees, customers, and citizens. As businesses were forced to shut down and families implemented social […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media The Trendlines Group announced that the Trendlines AgriFood Fund has expanded its portfolio with a third investment, participating in a funding round for agricultural precision irrigation startup Saturas, alongside previous investors Gefen Capital and Hubei Fobon Technology Co. Ltd. The Trendlines Agrifood fund began investing in February of this […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media “What really motivates me is making a difference… that’s how I am wired,” said Bill Murphy, who after decades of working with great innovators and companies in successfully attracting investment capital, came across impact investing. “I was looking to drive a different kind of difference when I came […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media New Zealand-based, large-scale dairy business, the Van Leeuwen Dairy Group, announced it is selling nine dairy farms in South Canterbury through a deal that includes 3,509 hectares of freehold land, irrigation rights, infrastructure, and an offtake contract with Oceania Dairy. The decision to sell follows substantial growth for the […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Agtech startup OSPIN GmbH, based in Berlin, is an automation and control technology provider for those in food and biotech firms. And while its products serve a wide array of industries – cell therapy, R&D, and automation to name a few – it is their contribution to the […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Farmers and agricultural investors alike have an increasingly heavy burden: to not only feed a booming global population, but to do it in a way that mitigates climate change, pollution levels, soil degradation, overexploitation of water resources, drought, and species, habitat and pollinator loss – while also addressing labor […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media nextProtein, a Paris and Tunis-based producer of animal feed components and biological fertilizer from insect larvae, announced it has raised €10.2 million (US$11.2 million) through a Series A led by an investor consortium coordinated by Blue Oceans Partners. Participants included Telos Impact and RAISE Impact, with support from Natixis […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Co-chaired by AgIS Managing Principal and President Jeff Conrad upon its launch in 1995, the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) Farmland Index is a widely relied-upon tool that includes data gathered from 1,163 investment-grade U.S. farm properties with a total market value of $11.7 billion. Broken […]
