Premium Tea Startup Teabox Raises $7M to Expand Tea Commerce Business
India and Singapore-based e-commerce tea startup Teabox announced it has raised $7 million through a Series B led by Singapore-based RB Investments, and including existing investors and venture debt...
View ArticleGladstone Land Expands Organic Permanent Crop Holdings in $6M Deal
Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Gladstone Land announced it has acquired a California organic almond orchard for $5.9 million. At the same time, the company announced that it has successfully...
View ArticleCampbell Soup Makes Largest Acquisition in Company History with $4.87B Deal
Campbell Soup Company announced it has agreed to acquire leading snack company Snyder’s-Lance for $4.87 billion in cash. Campbell Soup plans to finance the transaction via a combination of long and...
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Brazilian Farmland – Is the Risk Worth the Reward?
By Michael DeSa, Founder of AGD Consulting, and Monica Ganley, Principal at Quarterra In recent years, Brazil has solidified its role as a global agricultural powerhouse. It has become the world’s...
View ArticleCargill, Techstars, Ecolab Partner to Launch Food Tech Accelerator
Expanding into the tech arena, Cargill announced that it is partnering with water and hygiene tech company Ecolab and venture-capital network and facilitator Techstars to launch the Techstars Farm to...
View ArticleContributed Content: Green bonds: A new financing tool to foster a more...
By Roberto Vitón, Managing Director – Valoral Advisors The global food and agriculture sector starts the new year on a high note as investors look to deploy more capital into the many themes available...
View ArticleOntario Teachers’ Acquires Australian Avocado Grower Jasper Farms
Canada’s largest single-profession pension fund – the C$180.5 billion Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (Ontario Teachers) – announced its acquisition of Jasper Farms – the second largest avocado producer...
View ArticleGAI News – Looking Forward and Back: Top 10 Stories of 2017
Hello Readers, Do you feel the same as me? That each year passes more rapidly than the last? As the final days of 2017 approach, there is an innate desire to simultaneously look back upon the...
View ArticleCooke Aquaculture Announces $500M Omega Protein Acquisition
New Brunswick, Canada-based seafood giant Cooke Aquaculture, has announced its largest deal to date in the U.S with the acquisition of Omega Protein, a Houston, Texas-based fishing company that sources...
View ArticleFarmWise Raises $5.7M to Advance Autonomous Weeding Technology
San Francisco-based FarmWise has raised $5.7 million in seed funding through a round led by venture fund Playground, and backed by Felicis Ventures, Basis Set Ventures, and Valley Oak Investments....
View ArticleAfter Divesting SAF Portfolio, AgCAP’s Focus for 2018 – Dairy
In March 2017 AgCAP, the fund manager of Australia’s Sustainable Agriculture Fund (SAF) decided to divest the portfolio when after seven years as cornerstone investors – a collection of Australian...
View ArticleHershey Captures Greater Share of Snacking Market with $1.6B Cash Acquisition
Hershey has expanded its position in the snacking market with the acquisition of Amplify Snack Brands Inc. for $12 per share, or $1.6 billion. The all-cash deal is indicative of the strategic plan of...
View ArticleIsrael’s SuperMeat Raises $3M to Advance Lab-Created Chicken
Israel-based biotech startup SuperMeat, a company dedicated to developing cultured meats in a laboratory setting, has raised a Seed round of $3 million backed by U.S.-based venture capital fund New...
View ArticleNuritas Targets U.S. with $20M Series A
Nuritas, an Ireland-based food and biotech company, has raised $20 million through a Series A backed by Cultivian Sandbox. Founded in 2014 by mathematician and computational biologist Dr. Nora Khaldi,...
View ArticleAmundi Launching US$180M Italian Agri-Food Debt Fund
French asset manager Amundi is launching a €150m (US$180M) private debt fund backed by luxury Italian agri-food products such as Parma ham and Parmesan cheese. The fund is targeting between 10 and 20...
View ArticleFirmenich Acquires Category Pioneer, Natural Flavors
Firmenich, the largest privately owned flavors and fragrances business in the world, announced it has acquired New Jersey-based organic and natural flavors business Natural Flavors for an undisclosed...
View ArticleAussie Crop Health Monitoring Startup FluroSat Raises A$1.5M
Australian agtech startup FluroSat announced it has raised A$1.5 million (US$1.2 million) in funding through a round including CSIRO Main Sequence Ventures, AirTree Ventures, and the Cotton Research...
View ArticleExpert Commentary: The Fallout of Rescinding the Obama Admin Marijuana...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rescinded guidelines put in place by the Obama Administration that removed marijuana from the list of federal-level drug enforcement priorities. Moving forward,...
View ArticlePE Partnership Establishes Beverage Platform, Acquires Sweet Leaf Tea,...
Consumer -focused private equity group Fireman Capital Partners (FCP) announced it has created a partnership with strategic beverage platform Dunn’s River Brands (DRB) to launch a beverage...
View Article15 Minutes With… Deborah Perkins, Global Head of Food & Agribusiness at ING
ING, a global financial institution with more than 52,000 employees and banking services for customers in over 40 countries, today announced the appointment of Deborah Perkins as global head of its new...
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