Japan’s Mitsui Invests in Technology to Advance Land-Based Fish Farming
Japanese trader Mitsui & Co. has agreed to invest 900 million yen (US$8 million) in exchange for an 80 percent stake in FDR Japan Co. (FDR) – a startup that is pioneering a recirculating system...
View ArticleADM Capital Announces $100M First Close for Cibus Fund
London-based private equity and advisory firm ADM Capital announced the first $100 million close for global agribusiness investment vehicle, The Cibus Fund. Led by ADM Capital co-founder, Robert...
View ArticleSpain’s Planasa Acquires California Strawberry Nursery
Spanish horticultural leader Planasa continues its global expansion with the acquisition of California-based strawberry nursery, NorCal Nursery. This deal builds upon Planasa’s rapid expansion into...
View ArticleBoston Agtech Innovation Spotlight: TellusLabs
As a lead up to GAI AgTech Week 2017, the GAI team thought it would be interesting to tell you about some of the local agtech players we’ve been meeting. TellusLabs David Potere, PhD CEO | Co-Founder...
View ArticleIFC Commits $10M to Kenyan Fertilizer Producer
World Bank member, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) announced it has committed $10 million to fertilizer company, Kenya-based Fertiplant East Africa Ltd to fund the building of a new plant...
View ArticleFormer GV CEO Bill Maris Launching New Fund
After stepping down from his position of chief executive officer with GV, the venture capital unit launched out of Google in August of last year, Bill Maris has announced his next project – the...
View ArticleRevealed: AccelFoods Re-Opened Fund II in March for Danone
GAI News reported in March 2017 that AccelFoods had reopened its latest funding round, expanding its second fund by $15 million to $35 million while also making new capital deployments. At the time,...
View ArticleMellinger’s Minutes: Verifying Organic in the Global Supply Chain
Demand in the U.S. for organic food, including milk, meat and eggs, continues to grow, placing strains on global supply chains to ensure the adequate supply of feed ingredients required to produce...
View ArticleDubai’s Pegasus Agriculture Group Launching Food Security Venture
Dubai-based hydroponic farming investor Pegasus Agriculture Group announced its planned launch of Pegasus Food Futures – an integrated approach to improving food security through technology, expert...
View ArticleCanada’s PSP Investments Moving on Another Large Australian Deal
The Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), one of the largest pension funds in Canada, is reportedly in the midst of structuring a deal with private agricultural group Australian...
View ArticleProterra Invests $100M in Indonesian Food and Agri Group
U.S.-based private equity group Proterra Investment Partners has invested a substantial $100 million in Indonesia’s FKS Food & Agri in exchange for a minority stake in the company. FKS Food &...
View ArticleBoston AgTech Innovation Spotlight: Soft Robotics
As a lead up to GAI AgTech Week 2017, the GAI team thought it would be interesting to tell you about some of the local agtech players we’ve been meeting during our planning of this third annual agtech...
View ArticleBoston AgTech Innovation Spotlight: Freight Farms
As a lead up to GAI AgTech Week 2017, the GAI team thought it would be interesting to tell you about some of the local agtech players we’ve been meeting during our planning of this third annual agtech...
View ArticleDanish Agribusiness Fund Invests in Leading Chilean Pork Producer
The largest deal in the history of the Chilean pork sector has been finalized in Copenhagen. The Danish Agribusiness Fund (DAF) has agreed to invest $12 million in Chile-based Coexca S.A., one of the...
View ArticleRoc Partners Invests in Ultra-Premium Wagyu Beef Enterprise
Roc Partners has acquired a majority stake in Stone Axe Pastoral Company, an Australian enterprise located in Kojonup that is aiming to establish a large scale, vertically integrated full-blood Wagyu...
View ArticleGlencore Approaches Bunge with Informal Takeover Offer
Following a period of reorganization undertaken by Glencore to reduce its $30 billion debt load by $10 billion during which the company sold a 40 percent stake in its agriculture business to Canada’s...
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Surge seen in institutional investor interest in agtech investing; learn more...
BOSTON, May 24, 2017 – Agtech disruptors, innovators, and investors alike will gather at the third annual Global AgInvesting (GAI) AgTech Week, here, June 26-28 at the Marriott Long Wharf to examine...
View ArticleNOVACAP Backs Canada’s Mucci Farms
Leading Canadian private equity firm NOVACAP has made an undisclosed investment in Ontario-based Mucci Farms. Located in Kingsville and launched in 1961 by Tony and Gino Mucci, Mucci Farms grows its...
View ArticleBoston AgTech Innovation Spotlight: American Robotics
As a lead up to GAI AgTech Week 2017, the GAI team thought it would be interesting to tell you about some of the local agtech players we’ve been meeting during our planning of this third annual agtech...
View ArticleLeonardo DiCaprio and Strand Equity Partners Back Plant-Based Snack Startup
Natural snack food startup HIPPEAS, a producer of organic, gluten-free, vegan, and non-GMO chickpea puffs, announced that Strand Equity Partners, a leading growth equity fund co-founded by Leonardo...
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