By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media U.K.-based ag-biotech startup Solasta Bio, which helps growers protect crops with nature and peptide-based insecticides, has secured $14 million in an oversubscribed Series A fundraising round. Led by Forbion through its BioEconomy fund strategy, the round also included an investment from sustainable ag-focused FMC Ventures, the corporate VC arm […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media In a bullish sign for dealflow in the ag industry, Indianapolis-based seed company Corteva has partnered with Pairwise, a Durham, N.C.-domiciled gene-editing play, to accelerate the delivery of advanced gene editing solutions to farmers from Nepal to Nebraska. The deal involves a $25 million strategic investment made by Corteva […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Mandalay Venture Partners, which backs agri-food tech companies, is making an expansion push in Australia. The firm has announced dual investments into Queensland’s Nbryo and Haelen Technology/Wholey Milk Company, each specializing in livestock genetics and milk processing, respectively. The deals, the value of which Mandalay is keeping close to […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Amid an urgency for water supply and sanitation infrastructure investment, Kansas City, Missouri-based asset manager WaterEquity has raised over $100 million for its Water & Climate Resilience Fund. WaterEquity, whose sole focus is to finance water and sanitation solutions in emerging and frontier markets, has attracted a high-profile roster […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Blue Forest, a conversation finance non-profit dedicated to forest restoration, has captured the attention and capital of financial institutions of late. Earlier this month, the organization received a $25 million capital injection from California’s Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank’s (IBank’s) Climate Catalyst Revolving Loan Fund. The funds, which technically […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Toronto-based not-for-profit Convergence, a global network for blended finance, has awarded Vietnam-based Mekong Capital a proof-of-concept grant for an impact initiative. The proceeds are being directed to the private equity firm’s Mekong Earth Regeneration Fund (MERF), a $200 million impact project supporting growth-stage funding for regenerative ag and sustainable […]
By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners LLC Earlier this year, I wrote a couple of articles that addressed some issues that I believe to be essential topics for the evaluation of natural capital investments. They were the facts that (a) since the start of this century, the world has added some 398 million acres of […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Number 8 Bio, a Sydney, New South Wales-based startup whose tagline is ‘changing feed, feeding change,’ has received a ringing endorsement from the VC community. The company has raised A$7 million (US$4.7 million) in a seed round led by existing backer Main Sequence, a NSW-domiciled technology-focused VC firm and […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Cryptocurrencies are known to have characteristics of commodities, and now the blockchain is increasingly making its way into the ag sector. Most recently, Tether Holdings, an early mover for digital assets known as stablecoins, has taken close to a 10 percent position in Latin American agro-industrial company Adecoagro, with […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Farmland LP, an investment fund manager that generates returns by converting conventional commercial farmland to sustainably farmed crops, has received a major endorsement from Big Tech. The firm has announced an investment by software giant Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund into Vital Farmland III, Farmland LP’s massive $250 million real […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Spain-domiciled Santander and Atitlan, an influential business group in the Iberian Peninsula, have launched a €500 million (US$552 million) global investment platform dedicated to agricultural projects. The platform, dubbed Atgro, is a private equity fund that has secured initial contributions of €200 million (US$220 million) from Santander and €50 […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Conservation Resources (CR), an impact investment firm specializing in real assets, has announced the final close of its inaugural North American farmland private equity fund. Introduced in 2019, the Conservation Resource Capital VI fund has committed to an impact focused strategy in which it seeks to both develop and […]
