FBN, Environmental Defense Fund Launch FBN Regenerative Agriculture Finance Fund
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Farmers Business Network (FBN) and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) announced the launch of the FBN Regenerative Agriculture Finance Fund (RAFF) – a...
View ArticleeFishery Sets New Funding Record With $90M Series C
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Indonesian aquaculture tech startup eFishery has broken records, successfully closing on a $90 million Series C and becoming the world’s largest...
View ArticleAqua-Spark, NORFUND Become Cornerstone Investors in African Tilapia Farmer...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In September 2021, Dutch sustainable aquaculture and related tech investor Aqua-Spark released AquaInsights, An Introduction to Tilapia in Sub-Saharan...
View ArticleBowery Farming Secures $150M Credit Facility Led by Private KKR Accounts
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Bowery Farming announced it has secured $150 million through a credit facility led by private credit accounts managed by global investment firm KKR,...
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15 Minutes With… Christine Moseley, Founder and CEO of Full Harvest
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media You could say that Full Harvest Founder and CEO Christine Moseley has made good on the motto “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure,”...
View ArticleFCL Investing $2B to Construct Integrated Ag Complex; Partners with AGT Foods...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Saskatchewan-based oil company Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL) has made multiple announcements touching upon its commitment to cut its greenhouse...
View ArticleChina’s Starfield Raises Largest Ever Plant-Based Protein Round With $100M...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media China’s Starfield Food Science & Technology (Starfield) has raised the largest plant-based protein funding round to-date, bringing in $100 million...
View ArticleMycoWorks Raises $125M Series C to Launch First Fine Mycelium Mass-Production...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In recent years we’ve been hearing about biomaterials companies making leather alternatives from a variety of foods or agricultural side streams, but...
View ArticleContinental Grain Invests in Vertically Integrated Berry Producer Agroberries
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media By this point, the wellness trend and the correlating consumer demand for fresh produce seem to be here to stay. It’s the new normal, as they say....
View ArticleSouth Korea’s Greenlabs Approaches Unicorn Status With $140M Series C
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 2017 by Scott Sungwoo Choi, Charlie Sanghoon Shin, and Luke Donghyun Ahn, South Korea’s Greenlabs is many things to many people as part of...
View ArticleVintage Wine Estates Expands Eastward With $25M Ohio Acquisition
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Vintage Wine Estates (VWE), a rapidly-growing company with 12 estates in Napa, Sonoma, California’s central coast region, Oregon, and Washington, and a...
View ArticleUK’s Vertical Future Raises Largest-Ever European CEA Round with £21M Series A
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media London-based controlled environment agriculture (CEA) technology and research startup Vertical Future has raised what is being acknowledged as the...
View ArticlePlenty Raises $400M Series E, Names Finistere’s Kukutai as New CEO, Partners...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media It remains true that vertical farming is not yet at the point of replacing traditional agriculture. However, the technology continues to mature, the...
View ArticleWhere The Rubber Meets The Road: The Challenges and Opportunities of a Large...
By Ben Palen, Ag Management Partners LLC Introduction In Part I of our case study [see GAI News December 14, 2021], we addressed some macro level topics pertaining to the sub-Saharan part of the...
View ArticleKoan Capital to Back Canadian Agtech Startups With Launch of Koan AgTech Fund
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Last year, a pretty significant deal in the agtech space happened that might have flown under the radar. Decisive Farming – a collaborative data-driven...
View ArticleMarubeni Announced Sale of Gavilon’s Grain Business to Viterra With...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media As part of a reorganization, Japan’s Marubeni announced it has agreed to sell the U.S. grain business of its subsidiary Gavilon to Viterra, the Dutch...
View ArticleNew C$100M Fund Launched by Canadian Partnership to Back Food Processors
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Claridge, a Montreal-based family office, is partnering with Investissement Québec and the Fonds de solidarité FTQ to launch a C$100 million (US$78.5...
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Japan’s IntegriCulture Raises $7M For Cell Cultured Meat Infrastructure Platform
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Twelve investors stepped up to participate in a $7 million Series A for Japanese agtech startup IntegriCulture, in support of its species-agnostic,...
View ArticleSPAC Agrinam Acquisition Corp. Files for $150M IPO For North America Agribiz...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Agrinam Acquisition Corporation (Agrinam) will be seeking out prospective qualified acquisitions after filing a preliminary prospectus on January 21,...
View ArticleUnovis Asset Management Closes Second Alt Protein Venture Fund Oversubscribed...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Global boutique investor Unovis Asset Management is quickly becoming a leader in the alt protein investment space. Its first fund, New Crop Capital...
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