ApisProtect Announces U.S. Launch of Commercial Honey Bee Monitoring Platform
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Following successful trial monitoring more than 20 million honey bees worldwide, Irish bee monitoring innovator ApisProtect (Apis is the Latin word for bee)...
View ArticleNature’s Fynd Raises $45M, Adds List of High-Profile CPG Execs to Team
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Born as a research project under NASA, and based out of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago, the original aim...
View ArticleBrief: Major Carrot Producer Grimmway Farms Acquired by Teays River Investments
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Indiana-based Teays River Investments has agreed to acquire family-owned Grimmway Farms – the self-proclaimed largest carrot producer in the world – for an...
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15 Minutes With… Max Clegg, Head of Louis Dreyfus Company’s Corporate Venture...
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media As one of the world’s largest agri-commodities merchants, Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) has stood the test of time throughout its nearly 170-year...
View ArticleEXEO Capital’s Agri-Vie Fund II Backs Leading Kenyan Dairy and Chocolate Company
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media EXEO Capital was launched in March 2016 through a 50/50 joint venture between the founders of the South African private equity fund, Agri-Vie, and pan-African...
View ArticleManna Tree Returns to Lead $87M Series D for Gotham Greens’ Mission of...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Following a year in which Gotham Greens doubled its revenue and doubled its capacity, the company announced the raising of $87 million in capital that...
View ArticleInsight: Ag Investing Innovations Flow in 2020
By Greg Mellinger, CEO, HighQuest Partners, LLC Twenty-twenty has seen expanded offerings from agricultural investing powerhouses with assets over $1 billion AUM, smaller funds, and new entrants. More...
View ArticleCapital One Makes First Impact Investment in Food Waste Mitigator Goodr
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Capital One has made its first impact investment through Capital One Ventures, the financial services’ venture arm, in Goodr, a food waste specialist that...
View ArticleAbu Dhabi Invests $143M to Build Fish, Vegetable, Fruit, Cattle and Poultry...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media The food crisis of 2007 brought food security to the forefront for the United Arab Emirates. In response, a Food Security Committee and the Food Security...
View ArticleBoost Biomes Extends its Series A by $2M With New Investor
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media U.S. agbiotech startup and global crop nutrition company Boost Biomes announced that Japanese investor Universal Materials Incubator (UMI) has extended the...
View ArticleGladstone Expands Note with Farmer Mac by $100M, Acquires California...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Through one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, real estate investment trust (REIT) Gladstone Land has expanded its secured note purchase facility with Federal...
View ArticleMarubeni Backs Japanese Plant-Based Meat Startup DAIZ, Plans U.S. Launch
photo credit: Marubeni By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media At the same time that plant-based foods have been dominating the consumer food trends narrative, Marubeni has grown to be an...
View ArticleUnigrains Backs French Apple Leader Innatis to Pursue Strategic Growth
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media French independent ag and food investor Unigrains has made an undisclosed investment in Innatis, France’s second largest name in the apple industry, with the...
View ArticleRemilk Raises $11.3M to Advance Animal-Free Dairy Fermentation Technology
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media The evolution and introduction of non-dairy alternatives onto the global market has been rapid and highly disruptive to the category. However, with the...
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Executive Profile: John Lumpe, CEO, Illinois Soybean Association
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Oilseed & Grain News In February 2020, the Illinois Soybean Association (ISA), which represents more than 43,000 soybean farmers in Illinois, the top...
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Contributed Content: EU Farm to Fork Strategy: How Reasonable is The Turmoil...
By Dr. Yelto Zimmer, Coordinator, agri benchmark Cash Crop, yelto.zimmer@agribenchmark.net The U.S. agricultural ministry (USDA) recently published a report on the likely consequences if the EU...
View ArticleRegenerative Ag Startup reNature Closes First Seed Round
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media reNature, a startup that develops and scales regenerative farming and agroforestry projects, has closed on its first Seed round, adding four private impact...
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Contributed Content: The Promise of 2020 Will be Achieved in 2021
By Adam Bergman, Managing Director, EcoTech Capital The agtech & food tech sector started out with a lot of optimism in 2020, coming off a record fundraising year in 2019. The sector seemed poised...
View ArticleCropIn Raises $20M in Series C Led by ABC World Asia
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media ABC World Asia, a private equity fund with a dedicated focus on evidence-based impact investing in Asia launched by Temasek in May 2019, has led a $20 million...
View ArticleGro Intelligence Raises $85M to Address Climate Risk and Food Security
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in Nairobi, Kenya, and with offices in both Nairobi and New York, Gro Intelligence announced it has raised $85 million through a Series B co-led by...
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