NZ Super Acquires 27 Pct Stake in Fruit and Veg Operation NZ Gourmet
The NZ$38.5 billion (US$26.3 billion) New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZ Super) has acquired a 27 percent minority stake in Auckland-based global fresh fruit and vegetable grower and marketer, NZ...
View ArticleArable Capital Partners Acquires Irrigation Tech Company
Arable Capital Partners has acquired its second irrigation company in three months. The firm announced that it has partnered with company principle Steve Borra Jr. to acquire California-based Lodi Pump...
View ArticleBioagtech Startup Phytelligence Lifts Series B by Nearly $10M
Seattle-based bioagtech startup Phytelligence has raised an additional $9.85 million from undisclosed investors toward its Series B announced in July of last year. This funding now brings the company’s...
View ArticleInvestment Thesis Proves Out: Gladstone Announces Significant Gain on Farm Sale
Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Gladstone Land announced the sale of a one of its Oregon-based farming assets for $20.5 million. A company statement disclosed that the farm in question is a...
View ArticleDenmark’s 3B Ventures Launches $60M Frontier Fund II
Danish venture capital firm 3B Ventures announced the launch of the Frontier Fund II – a $60 million impact investment fund focusing on investments in agriculture, water, energy, health, and education...
View ArticleNutreco Invests in ViAqua to Combat Disease in Aquaculture Production
Dutch animal and aquaculture feed specialist Nutreco announced it has made an undisclosed investment in Israel-based ViAqua, producer of the first orally-administered treatment for shrimp that...
View ArticleAthos Capital Commits US$1.4M to Farmland Management Tech Startup Agroptima
Athos Capital has invested €1.2 million (US$1.4 million) in Spain’s Agroptima, a farmland management tech startup that allows farmers and agricultural operation managers to raise efficiency in their...
View ArticleJapan’s Leapfrog Ventures Launches $4.5M Fund for Sub-Saharan Africa
Tokyo-based Leapfrog Ventures has launched a $4.5 million fund focusing on investments in startups across sub-Saharan Africa, centered on the countries of Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. Launched...
View ArticlePredictive Analytics Company Agrible Acquired for $63M
Digital agricultural analytics company Agrible has been acquired by Nutrien, the largest provider of crop inputs and services in the world, for $63 million. Founded in 2012 in Champaign, Illinois,...
View ArticleSalmon Evolution Gets OK to Build Largest Salmon Farm in EU
Salmon Evolution announced that it has received the appropriate license granting the go-ahead to build a US$367.2 million land-based salmon farm in Fraena, in northern Norway. Once completed, the...
View ArticleGladstone Land Acquires Five Florida Farms for $37.4M
Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Gladstone Land is in the news again this week, announcing that it has agreed to acquire five farms in southern Florida totaling 5,630 acres for a total consideration...
View ArticleFormer Tillridge Global Agribusiness Exec Joins Bunge Board Amid ADM Takeover...
Bunge announced that Mark Zenuk, former managing director of Tillridge Global Agribusiness Partners, is joining the company’s Board of Directors effective July 17. Prior to his position with Tillridge,...
View ArticleCanadian Precision Agtech Group Acquires Harvest International for $13M
Canadian precision seeding and planting company Clean Seed Capital Group announced it has signed an agreement to acquire U.S.-based farming equipment manufacturer Harvest International for $13 million....
View ArticleAgBiome Raises $65M Series C for Novel Crop Protection Development
AgBiome, an agtech developer of biological crop protection products based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, has raised $65 million through a Series C round of funding. Investors in this round...
View ArticleSeeka Sale of Nine Orchards to be Investor Opportunity in Prime NZ Horticulture
Seeka Limited, a Te Puke, New Zealand-based company providing orchard leasing, management, and post-harvest services, announced its intention to sell its Northland land holding. The assets in question...
View ArticleAlliance Consumer Growth Closes Fourth Fund at $350M
Consumer-retail focused growth equity firm Alliance Consumer Growth (ACG) announced the close of its fourth fund (ACG IV) oversubscribed at its hard cap of $350 million. Fund IV’s investors are largely...
View Article15 Minutes With… CEO Craig Piggott of Halter of New Zealand
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall It’s a new technology with a tall mission: to reduce farmer’s work hours, enhance the well-being of cows and other livestock, protect the environment, and increase milk...
View ArticleOn the Heels of General Mills Partnership, Midwestern BioAg Raises $15M
Wisconsin-based biological farrning company Midwestern BioAg has raised $15 million in fresh capital through a funding round backed by three unnamed investors, according to a filing with the Securities...
View ArticleSouth African Aerial Imagery and Analytics Company Raises $2M Series A
Aerobotics, a South African aerial data and analytics startup, has raised a $2 million Series A that included commitments from AgFunder, South African bank, Nedbank Group, South African investment...
View ArticleCannabis Company Acreage Holdings Closes Record $119M Round
New York-based, multi-state cannabis company Acreage Holdings announced it has raised $119 million through a Series E round of funding. this fundraising represents the largest private round in the...
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