By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Vinci Partners Investments, a Brazil-based company in control of a leading alternative investment platform, announced it has agreed to acquire MAV Capital, an alternative asset manager with approximately R$550 million (US$105.6 million) in AUM focused on the Brazilian agribusiness space. Although financial details were not disclosed, the transaction, which […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Iowa-based cooperative Landus is a leading ag solutions company with a presence in 34 U.S. states and 16 countries that notes it works to bridge the gap between the farmer and consumer – between the rural and the urban – by focusing on sustainable growth and helping farmers gain […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Colliers Agribusiness is bringing to market Cheeky Farms, one of the largest mango plantations in the Northern Territory with operations across four properties and 283 hectares of well-developed orchards. Located about one hour from Darwin, across the Lambells Lagoon and Berry Springs regions, the aggregation also includes land in […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Ecozen, a Pune, India-based leader in climate-smart technology solutions, announced it has closed on $30 million comprising a mix of debt and equity thanks to continued support from Nuveen and other existing investors. As part of the fundraise, new debt support was also included from InCred Credit Fund and […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Acres was created as a platform to support a more transparent and efficient land market by providing users with the information needed to make confident decisions about buying, listing, or farmland investment transactions by combining weekly market intelligence, parcel-level data, and research tools on a single platform for web […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Indoor farming company Vertical Harvest Farms announced that it has secured $59.5 million in financing for the development and operation of a 51,000-square-foot hydroponic vertical farm in Westbrook, Maine. This funding was led by Madison One, and was supported by Waterside Commercial Finance, and includes $25 million and $23.795 […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Builders Vision, an impact investment platform launched by Walmart heir Lukas Walton, has made an undisclosed investment in Agroforestry Partners (AP). AP is an alternative investment fund implementing agroforestry practices including alleycropping of annual crops between perennial trees, silvopasture, riparian forest buffers, forest farming, and windbreaks on U.S. farmland […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Over the past 10 years, AgIS Capital has established an impressive track record of acquiring and managing high-quality, investment-grade farmland assets and, when a value proposition presents itself, related agricultural commodity processing assets. The valuable thought leadership born of such a history is now being shared by AgIS Capital […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media VitalFluid, a leader in the production of Plasma Activated Water (PAW) applications, announced it has raised €5 million in Seed funding from Future Food Fund, Graduate Entrepreneur, Horticoop, and Innovation Industries to accelerate its market introduction strategy. “We have been following VitalFluid for seven years and decided now is […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Israeli investment company Deep Insight, and existing investors Syngenta Group Ventures, JVP, Orbia Ventures, and Eyal Waldman, the founder and former CEO of Mellanox, have invested $20 million in Greeneye Technology (“Greeneye”) in support of the company’s mission to significantly reduce the agricultural chemicals applied globally each year – […]
By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners LLC The work week ended with an extremely sobering read. A brilliant article by Carl Zulauf from Ohio State University, and the University of Illinois’s Gary Schnitkey, Joana Colussi, and Nick Paulson, which was just published in farmdocdaily, notes that “the world has added 398 million harvested acres of […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Listed cellular agriculture leader Agronomics announced that its portfolio company Mosa Meat has raised $40 million in new funding to scale production of its cultivated beef in preparation for market entry. This oversubscribed round was co-led by Lowercarbon Capital and M Ventures, a part of Merck Group. Joining the […]
