By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Farmland LP, a California-based investment firm dedicated to transforming conventional farmland into sustainable organic farms, has announced the acquisition of three properties in Northern California’s Sacramento Delta across 2,625 acres for a combined price tag of $35.6 million. The farms, all three of which are currently planted with almonds, […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Manna Tree Partners, a global private equity firm based in Vail, Colorado, and focused on nutrition, has taken a controlling interest in Verde Farms, a Woburn, Massachusetts, company that produces 100 percent grass-fed and pasture-raised beef. As a follow on to a minority $15 million stake taken in 2020, […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Consolidation is afoot in Australia’s water entitlement market. In its second acquisition in a matter of weeks, ASX-listed Regal Partners has announced it will take a 40 percent stake in Argyle Group, which invests in a diverse portfolio of water entitlements, combining two of the country’s biggest asset managers […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Agrobiomics, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based agtech startup, has raised €4 million (U$4.3 million) from NOON Ventures, a local deep-tech venture fund, in its latest funding round. The agtech company, which according to Crunchbase has raised a total of €6 million (U$6.5 million) since inception, plans to direct the proceeds toward […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Agtech startups have proven to be the rainmakers in the current dealmaking environment, including Boston-based Farmblox. The company is behind a farm automation system and just raised $2.5 million in a seed round to bring AI and automation to North American farms. Farmblox connects equipment and in-field sensors to […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media LAWD, a national Australian real estate firm that specializes in the agriculture industry, is overseeing the sale of Moorabinda, one translation of which is “foot of the hill” and which it describes as the “jewel in the crown of Queensland’s finest beef production region”. The property, which is considered […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media GrowUp, a London-based vertical farm startup, has secured a £38 million (US$49.1 million) investment from Generate Capital, a San Francisco-headquartered sustainable infrastructure platform, to produce locally grown, pesticide-free greens. GrowUp will direct the proceeds, which represent Generate Capital’s second allocation to the startup, to meet rising U.K. retailer demand […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Building on a trend set in motion by the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank (SMTB) has committed to invest in Laguna Bay Fund 2, overseen by Brisbane, Australia-based Laguna Bay Group. Tokyo’s SMTB has signed on as an impact equity investor as part of a […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media San Francisco-based farming startup Plenty Unlimited has formed a joint venture with Mawarid Holding Investment, an Alpha Dhabi Holding subsidiary, in the UAE for fresh strawberry production using its vertical farming technology. The companies have committed to investing a total of $680 million over the next half decade to […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media The Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) has announced an investment into the Seviora Future of Food and Farming (T3F) Feeder Fund LP, the first of its kind for Asia-based investment manager Seviora Capital, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings. The strategy, which was originally launched in early […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media One agtech startup has just moved closer to its vision of improving the lives of coconut growers around the world. Permia Sensing, a London-based company whose agriculture and monitoring solutions detect Red Palm Weevil (RPW) larvae growing in coconut palm trees, has raised £150,000 (US$195,041) from the British Design […]

By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Cultivation Capital, a St. Louis-based venture capital firm, is feeling optimistic about market conditions for agtech deals. According to a U.S. SEC filing, the firm has introduced the Cultivation Capital AgTech Fund IV for a total offering amount of $20 million, with a minimum allocation from outside investors of […]