Corteva Launches Investment and Partnership Platform Corteva Catalyst
March 20, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Corteva Inc. announced it has launched Corteva Catalyst, an investment and partnership platform created to identify and bring to market agricultural innovation with the potential to drive value creation and advance the company’s R&D priorities. The initial focus will be to access op
Read moreHeavyFinance Launches €50M Fund with Anchor Investment from EIF
March 19, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Based in Lithuania, HeavyFinance operates as a connecting investor with European farmers in need of external funding for the expansion of their operations and shift to regenerative production. With the goal of removing one gigaton of CO2 emissions through ag financing, to-date, the
Read moreTierra Biosciences Closes $11.4M Series A Funding for Cell-Free Protein Platform
March 19, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media We are still only just beginning to understand the potential that synthetic biology holds for the future of humanity and global food production systems. However, Tierra Biosciences (Tierra), the company that developed the world’s first predictive AI-guided, cell-free technology with the po
Read moreRedSea Rebrands as iyris, Announces Strategic Partnership with Magrabi Agriculture
March 18, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Combining impact with innovation, iyris (formerly RedSea) is advancing commercial farming for low-to-mid-tech farmers in arid climates through its patented and proprietary technologies that reduce water and energy consumption by up to 90 percent. Launched in 2018 with a mission to reduce
Read moreOp. Ed.: Getting Paid for Carbon – a Farmers Perspective
March 15, 2024
By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners LLC In considering the mega trends that have emerged in recent years in the agricultural world, two that stand out are sustainability and carbon. Those topics are part of a broader discussion that is occurring in the private and public sectors as the world grapples with climate change, reductions in
Read moreTreetoscope Expands Seed Round, Adds New Investor to Drive Sap Sensor Tech
March 15, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Five months after Treetoscope announced $7 million in Seed funding, the company returns to announce the extension of the round with additional investments from Stray Dog Capital (US), ECG (Thailand), and The Food Tech Lab (Spain), alongside other strategic investors Leon Recanati, GlenRock f
Read moreGreen Climate Fund Boosts Sustainability in India with $24.5M Investment in Avaana Capital
March 15, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Green Climate Fund (GCF) has backed its first climate venture fund in India, marking a collaborative effort to advance climate resilience and sustainable development in the country by committing $24.5 million to Avaana Capital’s Avaana Climate and Sustainability Fund. Recognized a
Read moreBrief: BFG Partners Launches $125M Third Fund
March 14, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded by Tom Spier (co-founder of EVOL) in 2014 in Boulder, Colorado, BFG is a food and beverage-focused venture centered on backing disruptive, better-for-you, innovative, and socially-conscious food beverage and supplement brands. Following the success of their first Fund, which clo
Read moreElevated Signals Partners with Vertical Harvest to Digitize North America’s First Vertical Hydroponic Greenhouse
March 13, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Elevated Signals announced a new collaboration with mission-driven Vertical Harvest to drive the digital transformation of its vertical farming operations and to act in support of its impending expansion. Using food as a medium for meaningful change, Vertical Harvest is a hydroponic
Read moreProteinDistillery Closes on Impressive €15M in Seed Funding
March 12, 2024
Photo credit: ProteinDistillery By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Berlin-based impact food tech venture fund Green Generation Fund has led a Seed round exceeding €15 million (US$16.39 million) for ProteinDistillery, a food tech company looking to redefine protein ingredients by leveraging the powers of nature and cuttin
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