By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The supermarket is no longer a one-size-fits-all establishment, and consumers are no longer passive players in the food supply chain. As health and wellness continue to emerge as leading consumer concerns, the connection between people and their food choices has taken on a deeper significance. In recent years, there […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) continues to break ground as an investor. In November 2020, the bank was the first regional Asian investor to make an undisclosed investment in Equilibrium Capital’s Controlled Environment Foods Fund II. Then, within the span of two weeks in September 2021, DBJ continued […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Swiss agtech company Ecorobotix has completed its largest capital raise to-date, closing on a $52 million (CHF 46 million) Series B co-led by AQTON Private Equity GmbH and Cibus Capital LLP. Joining AQTON Private Equity and Cibus Capital were Swisscanto Invest/Swisscanto Growth Fund I, Yara Growth Ventures, Flexstone Partners, […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 2000 by Romanian entrepreneur Jabbar Kanani, Ågricover has two main business units: an agricultural inputs distribution division, and a specialized financing platform for farmers provided by non-banking financial institution Agricover Credit IFN S.A. In 2017, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development became a key shareholder in […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Agricultural insight company Sentera offers integrative in-field data insights products that can easily be used with the digital ag platforms in use by more than 80 percent of the growers in the U.S. The company’s business centers on FieldAgent, a software platform designed specifically for food and agriculture that […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Leading agrifood investment and innovation platform SVG Ventures|THRIVE is collaborating with Israel’s Start-Up Nation Central to forge a North America-Israel bridge supporting the mutual growth of, and connections between, the agrifood tech ecosystems in each country. Together, Silicon Valley-based SVG Ventures and Start-Up Nation Central, a nonprofit with a […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Co-founded in 2016 by Francisco Roque de Pinho and Joaquín Labella in Uruguay – a country with vast unexplored agricultural potential wedged between Argentina and Brazil – TLG Management Partners (TLG) works to implement improvements on, and then manage, underperforming farmland properties in South America on behalf of European […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Japanese trading giant Marubeni has invested in KitchenTown, a Silicon Valley-based food startup incubator – providing backing that will support KitchenTown’s consulting and incubation operations, along with Japanese startups working to enter the U.S. market, and U.S. startups expanding into Asia. “Startups drive the growth of the global economy […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Boston-based Folium Capital was co-founded in 2016 by three former Harvard Management Co. colleagues and forestry and agriculture investment specialists – Andrew Wiltshire, Oliver Grantham, and Alvaro Aguirre – with the goal of raising $500 million to invest in agriculture and timber investments. Expanding upon its focus on the […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Launched in November 2020 under the management of INVL, the leading investment management and life insurance group in the Baltics, with an initial target of EUR100 million (US$110.5 million), the INVL Sustainable Timberland and Farmland Fund II (STAFF II) operates with the intention of heavily focusing on the sustainable […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Athian’s key mission is to help the beef and dairy value chains capture and then claim carbon credits earned by aggregating, validating, and certifying greenhouse gas reductions – and then monetizing those reductions through the sale of the credits. These steps are accomplished for producers of all sizes through […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In business since 2009, Maple Hill Creamery has been a pioneer in regenerative agriculture as America’s original and largest 100 percent grass-fed, organic dairy company. The company has made healthy soil the cornerstone of their entire business model and works endlessly the farmers within its network who utilize only […]
