By S2G Ventures This is the third and final installment of a series looking back on S2G Venture’s report, Trends Shaping the Future of Food in 2023. Read Part 1 of this series, Reflections on 2023 AgTech Trends, and Part 2, “Reflections on 2023 Food and Agriculture Supply Chain Trends.” In March of 2023, we […]

Photo credit: Oishii By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The aptly named vertical farming leader Oishii (meaning “delicious” in Japanese) announced the successful closing of a $134 million Series B led by Japanese telecommunications company NTT, bringing total funding to-date to $189 million. “While many in the industry prioritize short crop cycles and unrelenting expansion, […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) startup Hippo Harvest announced it has secured $21 million in Series B funding led by Standard Investments and including Congruent Ventures, Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, Hawthorne Food Ventures, and Energy Impact Partners to advance its first-of-its-kind modular greenhouse design platform.  The intersection of greenhouse production […]

Photo credit: Simple Planet By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Biotech startup Simple Planet has closed on an oversubscribed $6 million pre-Series A round to fund its development of functional future food ingredients through its cell culture platform.  Global protein consumption is expected to climb at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.7 percent, […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Driscoll’s, a global market leader of fresh blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries, announced as a critical strategic partner in the deal, that the purchase of Costa Group – Australia’s leading grower, packer, and marketer of fresh fruit and vegetables – has been completed by a North American-based consortium led […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Global investment manager of nature-based real asset and natural capital strategies New Forests announced that the first investment made through its Tropical Asia Forest Fund 2 (TAFF2) is in a project to conserve and restore the Kuan Kreng Landscape (KKL) in Thailand – the country’s second largest peat swamp […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cargill is expanding its partnership with food tech company ENOUGH by joining its most recent growth funding round, and by signing a commercial agreement to use and market ABUNDA, ENOUGH’s signature sustainable and vegan protein created by fermenting fungi fed by renewable feedstocks. Founded in 2015 under its original […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Biodiversity is the interconnected network that supports life as we know it. It is ideally designed, with each animal species, plant, insect, natural resource, and climatic phenomenon playing a distinct role in the majestic and graceful machine that is Earth.  Being born into it for millennia of generations, it […]

By S2G Ventures This is the second installment of a series looking back on our report, “Trends Shaping the Future of Food in 2023.” Read Part 1 of this series, Reflections on 2023 AgTech Trends. In March of 2023, we published a white paper entitled “Trends Shaping the Future of Food in 2023.” Almost a […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media WeedOUT’s approach is inspired by sterility techniques successfully used since the 1940s for controlling pest populations like flies and mosquitos. Since the inception of these sterility techniques 80 years ago, insect control using these methods has not encountered any issues of resistance, and has been considered one of the […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Gresham House has launched the Gresham House Biodiversity Co-Invest LP (GHBC), a new sector specialist strategy to accelerate the deployment of nature-based solutions to mitigate biodiversity loss while gaining strong financial returns.  Anchoring the strategy, which has a funding goal of $380 million, is Willis Towers Watson (WTW), a […]

photo credit: HutanBio By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded by scientists from Cambridge University and in Malaysia, biotech company HutanBio has a mission to disrupt the biofuels industry through the commercialization of HBx, its carbon-negative biofuel designed to serve the transition to net zero in the marine and heavy transport sectors.  To accelerate the […]