15 Minutes With… Kate Danaher, Managing Director with S2G Ventures
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media As managing director of S2G Ventures’ Ocean and Seafood fund, Kate Danaher specializes in structuring capital, facilitating syndications, and...
View ArticleFresh Del Monte Enters Row Crop Business
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Vertically integrated producer, distributor, and marketer of fresh fruits and vegetables Fresh Del Monte announced its expansion into the row crop...
View ArticleDSM, Firmenich Merge in Deal Valuing DSM at $23B
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Following an announcement last year by Royal DSM that it planned to divest its materials division to re-focus its energies on the production of...
View ArticlePotlatchDeltic, CatchMark to Merge Creating Consolidated 2.2M Acre Timber...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media PotlatchDeltic and CatchMark, two leading U.S. timberland investment managers, announced their agreement to merge through an all-stock transaction,...
View ArticleReFED and Closed Loop Partners Launch $100M Funding Platform to Scale Food...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media At a time when one in seven Americans is food insecure, 52 million tons of food ends up in a landfill, not counting another 10 million tons of food that...
View ArticleStrella Biotechnology Closes $8M Series A to Monitor Freshness Along the...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Millennium New Horizons has led an oversubscribed $8 million Series A for Strella Biotechnology, the developer of a proprietary sensor technology...
View ArticleAAM Raising A$60M in Capital on Path Toward A$500M in AUM
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Australia’s AAM Investment Group (AAMIG) launched its fourth fund, the AAM Diversified Agriculture Fund (ADAF), at the end of 2019 with an initial goal...
View ArticleSCiFi Foods Brings Price and Taste Parity – Raises $22M for Hybrid...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Bay Area food tech startup Artemys Foods has rebranded under its new name, SCiFi Foods, and has closed on $22 million in Series A funding led by...
View ArticleGunn Agri Reveals Purchase of 6,000 He of Shenhua Aggregation
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 ArticleAAG Partners Acquires Blackbull Station for About AUD$25M, Plans Conversion...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Australian Agricultural Growth (AAG) Partners has acquired the 14,342-hectare (35,4400-acre) Blackbull Station in the Northern Territory for about...
View ArticleWith $60M in Funding, Raptor Ag is Now the Largest Hazelnut Grower in North...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Over the course of a brief two-year period, Oklahoma-based Raptor Ag has completed a series of deals with a range of institutional investors including...
View ArticleLittle Leaf Raises $300M to Fund Aggressive CEA Expansion
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media As climate change intensifies and demographics shift, the world is seeing changes in food demand at the same time that it is seeing a constriction of...
View ArticleInsight: Omega Ratios of Canadian Farmland
By Stephen Johnston, Managing Partner, Veripath & Equicapita *The content put forth by Global AgInvesting News and its parent company HighQuest Partners is intended to be used and must be used...
View ArticleKellogg to Split Into Three Independent Companies
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Under a plan already approved by its Board of Directors, Kellogg Company intends to split its business into three independent public companies by...
View ArticleAQUA4D to Advance Precision Irrigation With New Funding From Abaque Finance
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Precision irrigation company AQUA4D announced it has secured major new funding from France’s Abaque Finance, which the startup stated will enable it to...
View ArticlePSP Investments, Citri&Co Forge Deal to Acquire and Manage EU Ag Properties
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), one of the country’s largest pension investment managers with C$230.5 billion...
View ArticlePortugal’s Jerónimo Martins Invests €16.8M in Innovative Norwegian Salmon...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Portugal-based food group Jerónimo Martins has invested NOK173.9 million (€16.8 million, US$17.66 million) in tech-driven Norwegian salmon farmer...
View ArticleCenturia Capital Group Launches Open-Ended Ag Fund
photo credit: Centuria Capital Group By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media ASX-listed, specialist investment manager Centuria Capital Group, announced the launch of Centuria Agriculture Fund...
View ArticleFood Tech VC Supply Change Capital Secures Equity Investment From BOA
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media It was in April of this year that 301 INC, the venture arm of General Mills, committed a combined $15 million to two early-stage venture capital funds...
View ArticleRhode Island, El Paso Pension Funds Commit Capital to Paine Schwartz Food...
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Two U.S. pension funds have announced capital commitments to Paine Schwartz’ Food Chain Fund VI as they re-examine and adjust allocations due to...
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