Gresham House Forest Growth & Sustainability Fund HIts £200M With Second Close
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Gresham House manages approximately 136,000 hectares of forest land worth more than GBP1.9 billion (US$2.5 billion), harvesting in the neighborhood of...
View ArticleHormel Foods Anchors Launch of Green Circle’s Foodtech Ventures’ Fund I
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Green Circle Capital Partners has launched their venture capital division with a first close for Green Circle Foodtech Ventures I (GCFV), anchored by an...
View ArticleInVivo Completes US$2.5B Takeover of Soufflet; KKR, Bpifrance, Credit...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media InVivo, a leading French agricultural cooperative group bringing together 192 cooperatives, has completed the acquisition of Soufflet, the largest...
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Enforcing Free and Fair Trade: The Investigation of Unfair Trade Practices...
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Oilseed & Grain Media At the seventh annual Organic & Non-GMO Forum, held in Minneapolis December 1-2, Dan Ujczo, an attorney leading the Organic Soybean...
View ArticleGladstone Land Still At It, Acquires Florida Farmland For $7.4M
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Well, the way Gladstone Land has been on an investing spree, there’s no telling if this will be their last deal of the year, or not. Wrapping up a truly...
View ArticleInfarm Raises $200M Series D; Valuation Now Exceeds $1B
photo credit: Infarm By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 2013 by Osnat Michaeli and the brothers Erez and Guy Galonska, Infarm has pioneered an urban production model that...
View ArticleSofinnova Partners Raises €150M for Sofinnova Industrial Biotech II
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Leading European life sciences venture capital firm Sofinnova Partners announced it has raised €150 million (US$169.4 million) for its Sofinnova...
View ArticleIncofin Makes First Investment in Vanilla Farming and First Investment in...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Produced through a process that includes the maceration and percolation of vanilla pods in a solution of water and ethanol, vanilla extract is one of...
View ArticleCultivatd Raises $3M to Expand Indoor Farm Tech Brokerage
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in Ontario, Canada, in 2020 by managing partners and agtech industry veterans Eric Levesque and Eric Bergeron, Cutlivatd is mainly a brokerage...
View ArticleBlue Road Capital is Cornering U.S. Honey
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Sweet Harvest Foods, a leading natural sweeteners platform, one of the largest honey packers in North America, and a portfolio company of Blue Road...
View ArticleCargill Dramatically Expands Bio-Based Industrial Business Through $1B...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The bio-based food ingredient market is expected to grow at a CAGR of approximately 5.93 percent between 2020-2027, to reach a market value of nearly $3...
View ArticleDarling Ingredients Acquires Valley Proteins for Approximately $1.1B
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Darling Ingredients, a global producer of sustainable natural ingredients and specialty solutions, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire...
View ArticleBenson Hill Finalizes Go-To Market Strategy For Plant-Based Protein with...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media As demand for plant-based protein ingredients continues to grow, sustainable food tech innovator Benson Hill announced it has acquired ZFS Creston, an...
View ArticleMitsui, New Forests Jointly Develop A$50M Carbon Offset Fund
photo credit: Mitsui By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Japan’s Mitsui & Co. announced it has invested in an Australia-based carbon offset fund jointly developed with New Forests,...
View ArticleIsraeli Biotech Company Pluristem, Tnuva Group to Launch Cultured Food Platform
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Leading Israeli biotech company Pluristem Therapeutics and Tnuva Group, the largest food producer in Israel, announced their collaboration to develop,...
View ArticleShenhua Aggregation Acquired by Local Farmers, One Institutional Investor for...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The Shenhua aggregation, located on the Liverpool Plains and owned by Chinese mining giant Shenhua, had been earmarked for the development of Watermark,...
View ArticleTrendlines Expands Into Agri-Fintech With Investment in AgriG8
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media It is a universal truth that smallholders and family-sized farmers produce the bulk of the food consumed globally. However, despite being key to our...
View ArticleManulife Investment Management Launches Real Asset Investment Fund
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Manulife Investment Management announced the launch of the Manulife Real Asset Investment Fund – a vehicle through which accredited Canadian investors...
View ArticleAcreTrader Raises $40M Series B, Marking Second Funding Close in a Year
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media AcreTrader, a tech-driven platform that connects investors, land, and farmers, announced it has raised $40 million through a Series B that the company...
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Three Questions With… AQUA4D
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media In this new GAI News feature, Three Questions With…, we provide a “quick view” into innovative agtech companies and startups working to change...
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