By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Agricultural biotech leader NewLeaf Symbiotics (NewLeaf) has closed a fully funded $45 million Series D led by new investor Gullspång Re:food, with participation from Otter Capital Partners LP, S2G Ventures, Leaps by Bayer and other unnamed backers. NewLeaf is a pioneer and global leader in pink-pigmented facultative methylotrophs (PPFMs). […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media ADM has been on a sustained streak of acquisitions and building out a strong global flavors portfolio, and just before the close of 2023, has added two more: Revela Foods, a Wisconsin-based developer and manufacturer of dairy flavor ingredients and solutions – a deal that would enhance ADM’s capabilities […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Global investment manager of nature-based real asset and natural capital strategies New Forests is ahead of the curve. It was in December 2022 that it announced the launch of its new Australia New Zealand Landscapes and Forestry fund (ANZLAFF) with the goal of raising A$600 million (US$404.73 million) over […]
Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media With the amount of hard work that goes into agricultural production, I’m fairly certain that if farmers and managers were granted one wish it would be for the ability to clone themselves. Agtonomy is a software and services company working toward granting this wish by enabling agricultural and land maintenance […]
photo credit: Terviva By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media California-based regenerative agriculture and food company Terviva announced it has entered into a partnership with Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) that included an investment in the business from Mitsubishi. Terviva is working with local communities to harvest beans from the pongamia tree to produce protein-rich oil and meal. […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Historically, Chicago has been a leading meatpacking center. Now, Clever Carnivore, the city’s first cultivated meat company, has closed on an oversubscribed $7 million Seed round to make a (cultivated) sausage, as it were. The round was led by global alternative protein investor Lever VC and included significant backing […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media India is a top global producer of many agricultural products, ranking second in fruit and vegetable production only to China, producing 102.48 metric tons of fruit and 200.45 metric tons of vegetables according to the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India. It also is a young, high-energy country […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Colliers’ Global Agribusiness team is managing the campaign for the sale of the Merredin Farms Wheatbelt Portfolio, the largest corporate broadacre land asset in Western Australia. Currently owned by SALIC Australia Pty Ltd (SALIC Australia) and PenAgri Farms Pty Ltd (PenAgri Farms), and ideally located in the country’s enviable […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Only months after the inauguration of its new cocoa fruit factory in Ghana, Swiss-Ghanaian start-up Koa announced the completion of its Series B fundraising at $15 million committed from both existing and new investors. Led by the Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Fund from global asset manager Mirova, an affiliate […]
Photo credit: Chipotle Mexican Grill By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cultivate Next, the $50 million venture capital fund of Chipotle Mexican Grill, makes early-stage investments in strategically aligned startups with the potential to advance the company’s aggressive growth plans and further its mission to cultivate a better world. The two latest companies to join […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Wide Open Agriculture (WOA), Australia’s leading ASX-listed regenerative food and agriculture company, has been a pioneer in the use of Buntine Protein – a proprietary high-value, plant-based protein concentrate made from regeneratively grown Australian Sweet Lupin (Lupinus angustifolius). Grown in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia this crop was developed […]
Photo credit – Lithos Carbon By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded by Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify, Meta, McKinsey and the many businesses using Stripe Climate, Frontier Climate is an advanced market commitment to buy an upfront $1 billion-plus in permanent carbon removal between 2022-2030. Toward this goal, it has recently been announced that Frontier has […]
