By Gerelyn Terzo, Global AgInvesting Media Estonia-based eAgronom, an agtech company specializing in climate technology, has attracted EUR 10 million to its coffers in a Series A2 equity round led by Swedbank AB. Of the total investment, eAgronom netted EUR 4.2 million from a booster round that took place last year, which has since been […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Indicative of decarbonization’s role in tackling climate change, HutanBio announced it has expanded its Seed funding to £3 million (US$3.84 million) with additional funding committed by UK Innovation and Science Seed Fund (UKI2S). This development follows the company’s announcement in February of this year that Clean Growth Fund, a […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Canadian investment firm Tall Grass Ventures (TGV) announced the oversubscribed final close of its inaugural fund – Tall Grass Fund I – at CAD$32 million. While there are myriad advancements on the horizon, the agricultural sector demands urgent attention due to the intensifying impacts of climate change, increasing food […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cal-Maine Foods, the largest producer and distributor of fresh shell eggs in the U.S., is continuing to expand its national footprint with the acquisition of ISE America for approximately $110 million in cash. Eggs are one of the most commonly used animal proteins. Global egg production has almost doubled […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media UNCAGED Innovations (UNCAGED), the world’s first leather alternative company making sustainable leather from grains at scale, has closed on an oversubscribed $5.6 million Seed round co-led by Green Circle Foodtech Ventures and Fall Line Capital. Ponderosa Ventures, Golden Seeds, and existing investor InMotion Ventures, the investment arm of Jaguar […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media IDeA Agro, managed by DeA Capital Alternative Funds SGR and the first private equity fund in Italy to focus on agribusiness and farmland, has completed its investment cycle with its tenth investment – the acquisition of a majority stake in S.P.O. Zentrum, the Sicily-based leading platform in Italy, for […]
Photo credit: LAWD By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media With expectations of attracting both domestic and global interest, LAWD is managing the sale of Proterra Investment Partners’ (Proterra) One Tree Portfolio targeting collective returns of more than A$250 million million. Consisting of three aggregations across some of Australia’s highest-quality agriculture zones, the 23,595-hectare portfolio is […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media ACCESS Pool, a £40 billion (US$50.56 billion) UK pension fund vehicle overseeing the pooled assets of 11 administering authorities consisting of a collaboration of Central, Eastern, and Southern Shire Councils, has selected Stafford Capital Partners (Stafford) and J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) to be its global timberland managers. Two of […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Inverness Graham Green Light Fund has made its third investment, executing a major recapitalization for My Yield, a direct provider of specialty and integrated seed treatment formulas, application systems, and agronomic support to growers. Active as a lower middle market buyout strategy, Inverness Graham Green Light Fund seeks to […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Despite being a contributor, agriculture is also one of the most vulnerable sectors to climate change. But regenerative growing practices, which work with nature to optimize the health of the entire ecosystem, offer growers the ability to build healthy soils that can protect crops from uncertain rainfall patterns, reduce […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The UN postulates that global climate, biodiversity, and land degradation goals will remain unmet unless investments in nature-based solutions more than double by 2025, to $384 billion per year. Doing their part, Equator VC has led a $4.2 million funding round for Downforce Technologies, a UK-based climate tech leader […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Women in Agribusiness Media (This interview is reprinted from our sister publication, Women in Agribusiness Today.) A geographer at heart with more than 15 years in academia as a research assistant and professor, Dr. Alyssa Whitcraft was the perfect candidate to establish NASA Acres (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), a new U.S.-focused agriculture […]
