By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Manulife and the World Economic Forum (The Forum) announced their collaborative launch of two Innovation Challenges this year through UpLink, the Forum’s open innovation platform.  Announced at Forum’s Annual Meeting held in Davos, Switzerland, January 16-20, 2023, this partnership aims to engage with ecopreneurs and other partners to scale […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Germany-based fund manager Salm-Salm announced it raised $130 million from German institutional investors for the initial close of its new fund, the Salm Global Timber Fund. Since its launch in Wallhausen, Germany, in the 1980s, the Salm-Salm Group has been investing on behalf of clients in the agriculture and […]

photo credit: No Meat Factory By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Alternative, plant-based protein company No Meat Factory announced the close of a $42 million Series B led by new investor Tengelmann Growth Partners. Existing investor Emil Capital Partners (ECP), who initially invested in the company upon its launch in 2019, also participated in this […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cibus, a precision agricultural gene editing leader, and Calyxt, a plant-based synthetic biology company, announced a definitive agreement to merge their businesses through an all-stock transaction.  The resulting company will combine two pioneers in agriculture-focused gene editing, establishing an industry leader with one of the most sophisticated facilities for […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media New York-headquartered Patricof Co. was launched in 2018 as a proprietary and unique strategy able to leverage the privileged access to private deals afforded elite professional athletes.  Through its advisory services, Patricof Co. helps its athlete clientele develop the knowledge base, networks, and skills to grow into experienced and […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media After being in development for five years at Alphabet’s moonshot lab – X, Google’s parent company has officially debuted its newest portfolio company, Mineral (ML).  With a mission to scale sustainable agriculture, Mineral is designed to gather, organize, and uncover the deepest understanding yet of the plant ecosystem with […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Olam Group announced its plans to list its agribusiness subsidiary Olam Agri Holdings Pte. Ltd. (OAHPL) on the mainboard of the Singapore Exchange as early as H1 2023, and its intention to explore a concurrent listing on the Saudi Exchange, if market conditions are positive.  Built over the course […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Doubling down on its commitment to Florida citrus, integrated fresh citrus company IMG Citrus, a subsidiary of IMG Enterprises, has acquired the assets of J&J Fresh Produce including 1,000 acres of farmland in the Delta Farms water district and a new 185,000 square-foot cold storage and packaging facility, in […]

photo credit: RE:OCEAN By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The European Investment Bank (EIB) has made a venture debt investment of SEK 530 million (US$50.85 million) in RE:OCEAN, a company developing Sweden’s first inland, large-scale fish farm in Säffle, Värmland. Currently, Sweden imports nearly all of the salmon consumed in the country. Between 2017-2020, imports […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media UK-based specialist alternative investment management group Gresham House announced the launch of the Irish Strategic Forestry Fund – a major new fund for Irish and international investors to drive afforestation across Ireland.  Seeded with an initial cornerstone investment from Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) of €25 million (US$26.84 million), […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Samurai Incubate Africa, Future Africa, and Consonance Investment Managers have led a $2.7 million Seed round, with participation from Stephen Pagliuca, chairman of Bain Capital, and Justin Kan of Twitch, for Releaf, a Nigerian agtech startup developing proprietary hardware and software solutions to advance the country’s oil palm sector. […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Colliers Agribusiness is beginning 2023 on a high note, having been appointed by partners Brett Blundy and Jane and Scotty Armstrong as the agents to exclusively market Northern Australia’s most developed cattle property, Beetaloo Aggregation. Located in the Northwestern end of the Barkly Tablelands near Elliot, NT, Beetaloo Aggregation […]