By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Conexus Venture Capital’s Emmertech Fund is taking steps to drive innovation in the winemaking industry by leading a $3.1 million Seed round for Vancouver-based BarrelWise Technologies Ltd. Ag Capital Canada also provided additional funding to the company. (Emmertech has had a banner week – also leading a $26 million […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Canadian agtech venture capital fund Emmertech has led a $26 million Series C for Vive Crop Protection (Vive), a precision chemistry company that has developed technology that improves the targeting and performance of both synthetic and biological inputs. Cibus funds, and existing investors Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Macquarie Asset Management has expanded its farmland holdings through the acquisition of the Cowal Agriculture farmland portfolio in central Queensland, in a deal reported to be valued as high as A$120 million (US$82.49 million). Affiliated with U.S.-based Global Endowment Management, and located in Queensland Central Highlands region, the Cowal […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Cooke Inc., the parent company of Cooke Aquaculture in New Brunswick, Canada, has reached an agreement to acquire Tassal Group (Tassal), the largest vertically integrated seafood producer in Australia, for A$1.1 billion (US$760 million). (Fourth time’s a charm, as Tassal reportedly refused Cooke’s first three takeover bids.) “Tassal is […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media China has rapidly undergone a significant shift from being largely rural and agrarian to a more urban and market-engaged society. This overarching evolution has brought food production away from fragmented smallholders into the reality of commercially-scaled industrial agricultural production and beyond, to tech-driven food and ag innovations that have […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Constellation has been realigning for a few years now. In 2018, the group made a surprising announcement that it was investing a further $4 billion in publicly traded Canadian marijuana grower Canopy Growth. In 2019, the group sold approximately 30 wine brands and related facilities located in California, New […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media “Without traders, global food security would not exist…,” said Soren Schroder, former CEO Bunge Ltd. “Trading companies are crucial in navigating supply and demand imbalances, as they swiftly move commodities around the world from surplus to deficit regions.” The landscape through which global traders navigate is fraught with challenges. […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Boston-based GreenLight Biosciences develops sustainable solutions for some of the world’s most challenging issues through RNA-driven products for agriculture and life sciences applications. RNA is the oldest molecule on the planet that controls the biological processes of all living things. And while RNA-based products in relation to plant and […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Los Angeles-based, food-focused private equity investor Butterfly announced the closing of its second fund with capital commitments of $1 billion. Nearly double the size of its predecessor, the closing of this fund brings Butterfly’s total AUM, including its first fund and co-investments, to almost $4 billion. In play since […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media With the completion of its recent Series A-1, Singapore-based agrifood tech startup ProfilePrint has added Cargill as a backer, bringing the total to five of the world’s largest food ingredient conglomerates, representing more than 50 percent of the global food trade, as strategic shareholders. To date, existing shareholders in […]
By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners At this time each year (with rare exceptions), I make the trek to my family’s cemetery, located in a no-stop-light town deep in the heart of Kansas. Three generations have their final resting place there, and all of them share an agrarian heritage. It is about a 1,000 mile round […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Japanese food tech company Spread is a true vertical farming veteran. Based in Kyoto, Spread has been in operation since 2007, gaining expertise over the course of 15 years, beginning production at its Kameoka Plant, and then through its next-generation automated vertical farm – Techno Farm Keihanna. Today, Spread […]
