By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Understanding that ag investment has long been a compelling asset class that has traditionally been inaccessible to individual investors, Harvest Returns has quickly become a disruptor by providing growers a streamlined, flexible source of capital, and offering qualified financiers and agribusiness entrepreneurs a curated, diversified portfolio of farms, ranches, […]

Photo credit: Cauldron By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Located in New South Wales, Cauldron was created to unlock the potential of precision fermentation. And as it continues on its growth trajectory, has closed on a A$9.5 million Series A led by Horizons Ventures, with participation from SOSV, In-Q-Tel, and existing investor Main Sequence.  Precision […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Oxley Capital Partners, led by managing director Ben Craw, has been retained as financial advisor and is overseeing an invitation of offers for up to 100 percent of the issued shares in Australian Soil Management (ASM or “Project Alpha”) through a Non-Binding Expressions of Interest (NBOI) process.  Founded in […]

Photo credit: Poseidon Ocean Systems By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Poseidon Ocean Systems (Poseidon), a company delivering innovative solutions that improve fish welfare and reduce the carbon footprint of aquaculture operations, announced the completion of a $20.75 million Series B led by Ecosystem Integrity Fund (EIF). Joining EIF were InBC Investment Corp. and Export Development […]

photo credit: Agrovision By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Headquartered in the U.S., Agrovision is a vertically integrated global superfruit platform with world-class operations in the world’s most optimal micro climates. In less than 10 years, the company has become a global leader in the premium blueberry category, is currently scaling up in premium raspberries, […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Mad Capital has launched its $50 million Perennial Fund II (PFII) with early capital commitments from Builders Vision, The Rockefeller Foundation, the Schmidt Family Foundation, Zellis Family Foundation, Zarpet Family Foundation, Matthew Zell Family Foundation, Lacebark Investments, and nine other unnamed investors.  Launched in 2019, Mad Capital has been […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Corteva Inc. announced it has launched Corteva Catalyst, an investment and partnership platform created to identify and bring to market agricultural innovation with the potential to drive value creation and advance the company’s R&D priorities. The initial focus will be to access opportunities across four strategic verticals: genome editing; […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Based in Lithuania, HeavyFinance operates as a connecting investor with European farmers in need of external funding for the expansion of their operations and shift to regenerative production.  With the goal of removing one gigaton of CO2 emissions through ag financing, to-date, the team has facilitated financial support for […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media We are still only just beginning to understand the potential that synthetic biology holds for the future of humanity and global food production systems. However, Tierra Biosciences (Tierra), the company that developed the world’s first predictive AI-guided, cell-free technology with the power to enable high-throughput, on-demand, custom protein synthesis, […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Combining impact with innovation, iyris (formerly RedSea) is advancing commercial farming for low-to-mid-tech farmers in arid climates through its patented and proprietary technologies that reduce water and energy consumption by up to 90 percent. Launched in 2018 with a mission to reduce food insecurity, the carbon footprint, and water […]

By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners LLC In considering the mega trends that have emerged in recent years in the agricultural world, two that stand out are sustainability and carbon. Those topics are part of a broader discussion that is occurring in the private and public sectors as the world grapples with climate change, reductions […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Five months after Treetoscope announced $7 million in Seed funding, the company returns to announce the extension of the round with additional investments from Stray Dog Capital (US), ECG (Thailand), and The Food Tech Lab (Spain), alongside other strategic investors Leon Recanati, GlenRock fund, SeedIL, YYM-Ventures, Agrovision, NEOME, GN-Z11, […]