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From Global AgInvesting Asia: An Executive Profile with Mitsui’s Kenichi Hori
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Global AgInvesting (GAI) hosted its 10th annual Global AgInvesting Asia conference last week. Originally set to take place in Tokyo, but due to...
View ArticleBenson Hill Secures $150M Series D to Advance Tech, Deliver on First...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Crop biotech and food innovation company Benson Hill has raised $150 million through a Series D co-led by Wheatsheaf and GV. The company’s business model and...
View ArticleBits x Bites Has $30M First Close on New $70M Fund, Makes First Investment
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Bits x Bites, the first agrifood tech-focused VC focused on the Chinese market announced that it has completed its first $30 million close for its new $70...
View ArticleMass-Based SPAC Natural Order Acquisition Files for $250M IPO
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Natural Order Acquisition, a Massachusetts-based special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) focused on sustainable plant-based foods and beverages, is looking...
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CIBO Launches CIBO Impact – A Platform to Help Farmers Generate and Sell...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media CIBO has announced the launch of CIBO Impact – a platform to help farmers generate and sell carbon credits based on their regenerative farming practices, and...
View ArticleHomestead Capital Closes Fund III at $596M, Brings Total AUM Beyond $1B
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Homestead Capital USA Farmland Fund III has held its final close at $596 million, bringing the firm’s total AUM across its three funds to exceed $1 billion....
View ArticleADM Ventures Invests in Seventure’s Health For Life Capital Fund II
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Archer Daniel Midlands’ venture capital arm ADM Ventures has made a capital commitment to Seventure’s Health For Life Capital (HFLC) Fund II. Based in Paris,...
View ArticleUnifrutti Acquires Italy’s Leading Producer of Blood Oranges with Capital...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media The Carlyle Group has invested an incremental €35 million (US$41.4 million) in Unifrutti – one of the largest and leading fresh fruit producers in the world....
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Contributed Content: The Rise of Impact Investment in the Water Sector
By Jeremy Stroud Benjamin Franklin famously asserted, “When the well’s dry, we will know the worth of water.” A timely aphorism considering the current circumstances. As groundwater and river systems...
View ArticleMIRA Makes Cash Bid of A$300M For Aussie REIT Vitalharvest
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Global alternative asset manager Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) announced that one of its managed agricultural funds has proffered a cash...
View ArticleAbu Dhabi Invests US$41M Across Three Agtech Companies to Advance Innovation...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media The Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) announced an investment of AED152 million (US$41 million) across three companies advancing agtech innovation across...
View ArticleAustralia’s Provectus Algae Raises $3.25M for “Precision Photosynthesis™”
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Australian biotech startup Provectus Algae announced it has secured $3.25 million in Seed funding led by Hong Kong-based Vectr Ventures. Also participating in...
View ArticleLouis Dreyfus Opens to Outside Ownership for First Time, Sells 45 Pct Stake...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Iconic grain trader Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) has agreed for the first time in the company’s 169-year history to open itself to outside ownership, agreeing...
View ArticleNew EUR100M Fund Launched Targeting Sustainable Ag and Forestry in the Baltic...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Lithuania’s INVL Asset Management, one of the largest asset management companies in the Baltics, has launched the INVL Sustainable Forest and Agriculture Land...
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Unigrains Funds its Growth Ambitions with EUR250 Million in RCF Financing
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Independent ag and food investor Unigrains announced that it has secured EUR250 million (US$296 million) in revolving credit facility (RCF) financing from a...
View ArticleContributed Content: Unique “Green” Technology in Livestock Feed Production...
By Roza Gazizova, Founder and Managing Director, Sogdiana Advisory Growing global population (from 7.8 billion(1) as of March 2020 to 9.1 billion by 2050(2)) drives the growth of the global demand for...
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From GAI Gazette: Why Africa is the Next Destination for Food & Ag...
This article will be featured in the next GAI Gazette, Volume 7, Issue 2, which will be distributed digitally in conjunction with the Global AgInvesting Europe event, which will be held virtually on...
View ArticleDevelopment Bank of Japan Invests in Equilibrium Capital’s Controlled...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media The Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) has made an undisclosed investment in Equilibrium Capital’s Controlled Environment Foods Fund II, becoming the first...
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COVID Helps Drive 2020 AgriFood Investment to New Records, According to...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Research being conducted by Finistere in partnership with PitchBook examining global financing activity across both the agtech and foodtech sectors finds that...
View ArticleBrief: Lewis & Clark Backs Irrigation Tech With $7.7M Investment Through its...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Lewis & Clark AgriFood announced it has allocated a $7.7 million investment through their Rural RBIC Fund in irrigation tech company Hortau Corp. Based...
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