Serra Ventures, Grondex International Launch Serra-Grondex Ag & Food Tech Fund II
January 17, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Illinois-based Serra Ventures announced it has partnered with leading Netherlands-based regenerative farming asset management company Grondex International to launch the Serra-Grondex Ag & Food Tech Fund II. This partnership represents a collaboration between two teams with more
Read morePerfect Day Raises $90M in Pre-Series E Funding, Makes Leadership Changes
January 16, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 2014 by bioengineers Ryan Pandya and Perumal Gandhi, Perfect Day has a mission to reimagine food production for a more sustainable future by producing animal-free proteins through fermentation that are nutritionally identical to proteins derived from animals. Over the past 10 y
Read moreDBJ Makes First Investment in Japanese Agri Sector, Backs Nippon Agriculture
January 16, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) has been making overseas investments in food and agriculture funds since 2020 and acquiring advanced knowledge to solve agricultural issues along the way. In November 2020, the bank was the first regional Asian investor to make an undisclosed investme
Read moreIt Isn’t What You Don’t Know
January 16, 2024
Contributed Content by Michael Swanson, Ph.D., Chief Agricultural Economist, Wells Fargo, Agri-Food Institute NOTE: This article first appeared in our sister publication, Women in Agribusiness Today. There is an old saying in systems analysis about the problem of your thinking. It goes like this: “It isn’t what you don’t know,
Read moreHomestead Capital Fund IV Nearing Target of $500M
January 12, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Homestead Capital USA Farmland Fund IV is nearing its target of $500 million with $460 million in capital commitments, according to an SEC filing. Led by co-founders Gabe Santos, a former executive with Goldman Sachs’ natural resources group, and Daniel Little, previous head of a globa
Read moreCriterion Africa Partners Completes Investment in Mozambique Fibra Ltd
January 11, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Criterion Africa Partners (CAP) announced the completion of an undisclosed investment in Mozambique Fibra Ltd (MozFibra), a subsidiary of Mozambique Tree Farming Pty Ltd (MTF). Active since 2010, CAP is an independently owned private equity firm investing across the forestry value chain i
Read moreIndigo Ag Announces Former Tyson CEO Dean Banks as New CEO, Closes on Nearly $270M
January 11, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Bioplatform innovation company Flagship Pioneering and sustainable ag leader Indigo Ag have made multiple announcements - one of them an expansion to a very impressive funding round. But we’ll get to that in a minute. First, Dean Banks, the former president and CEO of Tyson Foods
Read moreCenturia Agriculture Fund Grows to $351M AUM With $21.5M P’Petual Holdings Acquisition
January 11, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Australian fund manager Centuria Capital Group has acquired 12 hectares of protected glasshouse and greenhouse cropping assets in South Australia through its open-ended, unlisted Centuria Agriculture Fund (CAF) for A$21.5 million (US$14.38 million). The assets, which are operated by South
Read moreInsight: AgTech & FoodTech Predictions for 2024
January 9, 2024
By Adam Bergman, Managing Director | CitiClean Energy Transition Group | Global Head of AgTech At the start of 2023, there were hopes that the challenging investment environment experienced throughout 2022 would improve and the financial markets would rebound. However, despite a few positives, like an improved IPO market and the Dow Jones
Read moreFarming Robotics Company Burro Closes $24M Series B
January 9, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Farmers – especially those growing labor-intensive specialty crops such as grapes, berries, and nursery crops – are facing ever greater challenges throughout their production cycles. It is these farmers in particular, who are widely un-mechanized and employ 88 percent of the crop w
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