By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Applied Carbon, a Houston, Texas-based agtech startup whose automated machines convert ag crop waste into biochar for carbon sequestration, has attracted $21.5 million in a Series A round for its biochar technology. Led by TO VC, the round extended to multiple participants, including Congruent Ventures, Grantham Foundation, Microsoft Climate […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media InnerPlant, a Davis, California-based farmer-first seed-technology startup, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by an alliance of large North American farmers spearheaded by Coutts Agro, an ag operator and investor. Other participants in the round included Systemiq Capital, Deere & Company and Bison Ventures, […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Natural Ventures, an impact-driven investment firm with offices in the UAE and the Netherlands, has announced the first close of its inaugural fund with $100 million in commitments. The fund’s roster of anchor investors includes Germany’s Helm AG, Swiss-based family office Chemovarteq and a strategic UAE investor amid a […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Monarch Tractor, a Livermore, a California-based startup behind the first 100 percent electric, autonomous smart tractor on the planet, dubbed MK-V, has raised $133 million in a Series C round. The fundraising, which according to the company is the biggest of its kind in agricultural robotics history, was co-led […]
By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Australia-based Atlantic salmon producer Huon Aquaculture, which is 100 percent backed by Brazilian food giant JBS, has committed to invest A$110 million (US$71.8 million) to bolster land-based salmon production at its Whale Point site in southern Tasmania. Huon, Australia’s No. 2 salmon producer and the pioneer of aquaculture and […]
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 […]
