Wildtype Breaks Funding Record For Cultivated Seafood With $100M Series B
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media San Francisco-based Wildtype certainly has come far since it raised $3.5 million in Seed funding in 2018. Just approaching four years later, this...
View ArticleCNH Launches Strategic Investment Arm: CNH Industrial Ventures
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media CNH Industrial – the name behind some of the most recognized agricultural equipment brands including Case IH, New Holland Agriculture, and STEYR –...
View ArticleANZ Invests US$50M, Forms Strategic Partnership With Pollination
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media ANZ, the largest bank serving institutional and large-scale customers across Australia and New Zealand, has agreed to invest US$50 million in Australian...
View ArticleWorld’s Largest Salmon Farmer Offers $1.55B for Rival
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Norway’s Mowi ASA, the largest salmon farmer and producer of Atlantic salmon in the world, has made an offer of 13.8 billion kroner (US$1.55 billion) to...
View ArticleLaguna Bay Fund II Secures A$350M From WSIB; Laguna Subsidiary BidCo Offers...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Tim McGavin, founder and CEO of Laguna Bay, told GAI News in a former 2020 interview, “I would say that Laguna Bay’s origination edge comes from our...
View ArticleBetter Bite Ventures Launches Alt Protein Fund With Asia Pacific Focus
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Better Bite Ventures is a new venture capital investor launching with its first fund – a $15 million alternative protein fund with a dedicated focus on...
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15 Minutes With… Mark Barber of Elders Real Estate
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media (NOTE: Below is a transcription of the video interview done last week with Mark Barber, head of agribusiness investment service for Elders Real...
View ArticleTLG Fundraising in Uruguay to Buyout and Expand Portfolio
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Co-founded by Francisco Roque de Pinho and Joaquín Labella in 2016 in Uruguay – an unassuming country with vast unexplored agricultural potential wedged...
View ArticleFinland’s Onego Bio Raises EUR10M in Seed Funding to Make Eggs Without Chickens
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Finland-based cellular ag startup Onego Bio announced it has successfully closed on EUR10 million (US$11.2 million) in Seed funding through a round...
View ArticleAgDevCo Raises $90M to Advance Agribusiness Across Sub-Saharan Africa
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Impact and socially responsible investing has gained serious traction in recent years, however, it is estimated that there remains a $2.5 trillion (with...
View ArticleBunge North America, Chevron Finalize $600M Renewable Fuel JV
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Bunge North America is partnering with Chevron Corp, a subsidiary of Chevron U.S.A., in a joint venture for the production of feedstocks used in the...
View ArticleIn Ovo Raises EUR34M Series B to Stop Culling Male Chicks Through In-Egg...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 2013 and spun-off from Leiden University, Dutch Agtech startup In Ovo was launched for the purpose of ending the culling of male chicks....
View ArticleBank of America is First Corporate Global Financial Institution Investor in...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Bank of America announced it has made a $5 million capital commitment to the Agri-Business Capital Fund (ABC Fund), marking the first investment in the...
View ArticleNew Forests Has First Close at $120M For Tropical Asia Forest Fund 2
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Headquartered in Sydney since its inception in 2005, New Forests is a certified B corporation with operations in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia,...
View ArticleTastewise Secures $17M to Bring AI-Driven Insight to the Food and Beverage...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In February 2019 Israeli startup Tastewise announced the launch of its AI-powered intelligence platform designed to predict rapidly changing food trends...
View ArticleKilter Rural Closes Australian Farmland Fund at AUD$65M
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 2004 with an initial investment of $175 million from Vic Super, Kilter Rural is self-described as “a specialist manager, dedicated to...
View ArticleAmsterdam’s Source.ag Raises $10M in Seed Funding for AI-Driven Indoor Farms
photo credit: Source.ag By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The increase in demand across Europe during the global pandemic for organic foods and foods produced without the use of chemical...
View ArticleMycorena Raises Largest Ever Alt Protein Series A in the Nordic Region
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Sweden’s Mycorena has done it again. Last July, the startup completed a Pre-Series A round raising SEK 77 million (US$9 million), marking one of the...
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Three Questions With… Clicrtechnologies
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media The latest in our “speed dating” series that introduces agtech companies to our audience is this feature on Clicrtechnologies. Based in Florida,...
View ArticleNewLife Forest Restoration Secures First-of-its-Kind $200M Green Bond
photo credit – New Life Forest Restoration By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Reflecting a first-of-its-kind transaction in the emerging “green bond” market, NewLife Forest Restoration,...
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