Rabobank Among Investors Committing $18M to Chickpea Protein Company InnovoPro
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Israeli chickpea protein producer InnovoPro announced it has secured $18 million in funding through a second round led by Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP),...
View ArticleHancock Prospecting Cleaning House, Divesting ‘Several’ Assets to Focus on...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Hancock Prospecting is undertaking a bit of house cleaning and is planning to divest as many as six cattle stations in the Northern Territory and Western...
View ArticleAstanor Ventures Launches $325M Agri-Food Tech Impact Fund
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Although still somewhat nascent, the growing awareness of sustainable investing reflects an increasing need that has been demonstrated by the ever-greater...
View ArticleFinance Earth Launches Ocean-Focused Blue Impact Fund
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Finance Earth, in collaboration with World Wildlife Fund and Sky Ocean Rescue, has just launched Blue Impact Fund, the UK’s first fund focused on improving...
View Article8F-Backed Pure Salmon to Invest $228M in Virginia Fish Farming Facility
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Pure Salmon, the land-based salmon farming company backed by 8F Asset Management, is investing $228 million in its Virginia production facility, marking one...
View ArticleGlobal Organic and Plant-Based Leader SunOpta Sells Off Ingredients Business...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Nearly two years after selling its organic soy and corn business to Pipeline Foods for $66.5 million, SunOpta continues to slim down with the sale of Tradin –...
View ArticleInspired by HRH The Prince of Wales, Lombard Odier Announces Launch of...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Swiss wealth and asset manager Lombard Odier refers to sustainability as the “next economic revolution” and “perhaps the single biggest investment opportunity...
View ArticleFrom GAI Gazette: Field of Agronomic Dreams: Rethinking the Farm Supply Co-op...
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 ArticleIntrinsic Capital Closes Intrinsic Health Partners Fund at $102M
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Intrinsic Capital Partners announced it has closed Intrinsic Health Partners LP (the Fund) – its growth equity fund focused on technologies and life sciences...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs Leads $51M Round for Plant-Based Functional Liquid Nutrition...
photo credit: Kate Farms By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Although there is admittedly still much we don’t know about the connection and interaction between our genes and the foods we eat,...
View ArticleNorth Star Pastoral’s Maryfield and Limbunya Stations Up For Sale; Expected...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Colin Ross, the owner of Australia’s North Star Pastoral, is selling two of the country’s well-known cattle stations – Maryfield and Limbunya – with...
View Article15 Minutes With… Diego Angelo, Head and CBO of Biotalys Inc.
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Belgian food and crop biological protection company Biotalys NV has had a busy year. In March, the company raised its Series C, announcing a...
View ArticleNew INVL Sustainable Timber and Farmland Fund II Makes First Investment
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media On November 12 GAI News shared the launch of the INVL Sustainable Timberland and Farmland Fund II (STAFF II) by Lithuania’s INVL Asset Management. With a...
View ArticleADM Capital’s Cibus Enterprise Fund One of Eight Cornerstone Investors for...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media With a feed conversion ratio (FCR) of 1.2:1, seafood is one of the most efficient means of meeting the nutritional demands of a global population. In regard...
View ArticleSolar Foods Secures Another US$5.1M in Funding From Business Finland to Make...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in Helsinki in 2017 as a spin-off from a VTT and LUT research program, Solar Foods uses a unique bioprocess similar to that used to make beer or wine...
View ArticleRoc Partners Enters Australian Grain Sector With Acquisition of Emerald Grain...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media After owning a 50 percent stake in the company since 2010, and fully owning it since 2014, Sumitomo has agreed to sell Emerald Grain to Sydney-based...
View ArticleS2G Ventures, Ceres Partners Lead $7M Series A For iUNU to Scale LUNA Platform
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Commercial greenhouse operators are tasked with steep challenges – to balance a wide range of conditions such as temperature, humidity, crop diseases, and...
View ArticleBenson Hill Builds Supply Chain Infrastructure Through Partnership With Rose...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Crop biotech and food innovation company Benson Hill has announced a collaboration with Rose Acre Farms, the second largest egg producer in the U.S., that...
View ArticleNZ Super Fund Acquires Four Vineyards from Yealands Wine Group for NZ$34M
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media New Zealand Super Fund has acquired four vineyards – Confluence, Brackenfield, Willow Flat, and Medway – from Yealands Wine Group for NZ$34 million (US$24...
View ArticlePaine Schwartz Sells FoodChainID to Berkshire Partners, Launches New...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Sustainable food chain investor Paine Schwartz Partners has made multiple moves this week. The first, an exit. An announcement has been made that Paine...
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