GOOD Meat Raises Additional $97M, Bringing Latest Round to $267M
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media GOOD Meat, a division of Eat Just, Inc., has raised an additional $97 million in new funding, bringing its $170 million round announced in May to $267...
View ArticleArdian Acquires Majority Stake in Florida Food Setting Valuation Over $1B
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The U.S. Buyout team of private equity investor Ardian has acquired a majority stake in Florida Food Products (FFP) from MidOcean Partners, setting the...
View ArticleLeonardo DiCaprio Invests In Mosa Meat and Aleph Farms to Advance Cultivated...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Consumers are more closely engaged with their food supply chains and retail choices than ever. In recent years, concerns associated with animal protein...
View ArticleRipple Foods Raises $60M, Outpacing Alt Dairy Category by 3X
photo credit: Ripple By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Ripple Foods, a producer of plant-based dairy alternative beverages and foods made from pea protein, has closed on a $60 million...
View ArticleDomaine Timber Advisors Makes Two Timberland Acquisitions in Georgia and...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Timberland is rapidly gaining credibility as a prime alternative investment for gaining environmental, social, and governance (ESG) benefits for...
View ArticleIron Ox Raises $53M Series C For Robotic Greenhouses
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Robotics and AI-driven farming startup Iron Ox has closed on a $53 million Series C led by a new investor to the company – Breakthrough Energy Ventures....
View ArticleDBJ First Japanese Investor to Back a Food-Focused PE Fund Through Proterra...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) continues to break ground as an investor, becoming the first in Japan to agree to invest in a food-focused private...
View ArticleCarbon Robotics Closes on $27M For Autonomous Weed Killing Robot
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Seattle-based agtech innovator Carbon Robotics is dedicated to eradicating one of the biggest problems facing farmers – weeds. In support of this...
View ArticleAdvanced Farm Technologies Closes $25M Series B to Expand Robot Picking From...
photo credit: Advanced Farm By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Agricultural robotic tech startup Advanced Farm Technologies (Advanced Farm) has closed on a $25 million Series B round led...
View ArticlegoFARM Appoints Elders to Market Yarrabee Park
photo credit: Elders By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media goFARM has appointed Elders to market Yarrabee Park – giving bidders a rare opportunity to acquire one of the largest contiguous...
View ArticleBurro Closes on $10.9M For Fully Autonomous Plug-And-Play Farming Robot
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Farming robotics startup Burro (formerly Augean Robotics) announced it has closed on a $10.9 million Series A led by Toyota Ventures and S2G Ventures,...
View ArticleThai Union, Royal DSM Make Large-Scale Deals in the Flavors Segment
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Two large-scale deals were announced in the flavors segment this month, with Thai Union Group and the Netherlands’ Royal DSM making moves to gain a...
View ArticleSemios Raises $100M to Bring “Precision Agriculture as a Service” to The World
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Semios, a leading Canadian, data-driven, precision farming platform for permanent and row crops, has raised $100 million in capital to fund the global...
View ArticlePPF, APG Acquire 62 Pct of Wenita Forest Products From Sinotrans NZ
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Two pension funds – the UK Pension Protection Fund (PFF), and APG Asset Management (working on behalf of Dutch pension fund ABP) have agreed to acquire...
View ArticleInvesting in African Agriculture —The Promises and The Pitfalls
By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners During the past 10-15 years, the amount of investment in agriculture by what are known as NTIs (non traditional investors) has grown from barely a blip on the radar...
View ArticleTemasek and CPP Investments Return to Lead $350M Series D For Perfect Day
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Perfect Day, a producer of animal-free, lab-created dairy proteins and the maker of the world’s first animal-free milk protein, announced that Temasek...
View ArticleLandFund Partners Creates Open-Ended Soil Enrichment Fund
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Farmland investor LandFund Partners announced the launch of the LFP Soil Enrichment Fund (SEF) – an open-end structured fund currently holding 20,100...
View ArticleEatable Adventures Launches €50M Food and Ag Tech Fund
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Spain’s Eatable Adventures has entered into a new phase of growth. After launching more than 10 accelerator and incubation programs, it has announced...
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Contributed Content from WIA Summit: Understanding the Plant-based Consumer
By Michele Fite, Chief Commercial Officer, Motif FoodWorks Editor’s Note: Michele Fite was a speaker at our sister conference — the 10th annual Women in Agribusiness Summit, which was held in...
View ArticleLaguna Bay Selling Woorndoo Aggregation With Expectations Exceeding $70M
photo credit: LAWD By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Australia’s Laguna Bay, a full service institutional investment management firm specialzing in the agri sector, made headlines in...
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