Mellinger’s Minutes: Japanese Investors are Eager to Meet You
Asia’s population, wealth, GDP, and food/protein consumption growth continue. While Intra-Asian/ASEAN agri-food-agtech deals are well understood, Asian investor allocations into the Americas &...
View ArticleGAI Events Attract a New Breed of Alternative Investor
A new breed of alternative investor is emerging in Japan with an eye on yield, an appetite for long horizons, and an expectation of a sound ESG strategy. Investments in agriculture epitomize...
View ArticleMacquarie’s Pastoral Paraway to Acquire Hassad Australia’s Remaining Farming...
Macquarie’s Pastoral Paraway has agreed to an acquisition that will be the largest farmland deal since the sale of S. Kidman to Gina Rinehart and China’s Shanghai CRED for A$386.5 million in 2016....
View ArticleBear Flag Robotics Raises $3.5 in Seed Funds for Self-Driving Tractors
Silicon Valley-based Bear Flag Robotics has raised $3.5 million in Seed funds through a round led by True Ventures, bringing total funding raised by the company to $4.5 million to-date. Founded just...
View ArticleLocal Insight and Global Ambitions at GAI Asia
Submitted by Unigrains Today agricultural and food companies need to be aware of anything, anywhere that could impact their sales, their supply, their margins, and their short, mid, and long-term...
View ArticleFarmer’s Fridge Raises $30M From High-Profile Investors for Healthy Food Vending
Farmer’s Fridge, a company responsible for a rapidly growing network of maintenance-free, low-energy “smart” healthy vending machines designed to transform the fresh food supply chain, announced it has...
View ArticleFood Safety Drives Disruption in China’s E-Commerce Market
This article will be featured along with other articles addressing investment opportunities in Australasian agriculture in Volume 5, Issue 3 of the GAI Gazette which will be distributed in conjunction...
View ArticleRabo Equity Advisors Invests $21M in LT Foods’ Organic Food Business
Rabo Equity Advisors has agreed to invest Rs 140 cr (US$21 million) in Indian organic food company Nature Bio Foods Ltd. (NBFL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of LT Foods. The investment, which is being...
View ArticleImpact Investor AgDevCo Secures $71M from British Gov’t
UK-based social impact and sub-Saharan-focused investor AgDevCo announced it has secured a further £55 million (US$71 million) from the British government’s Department for International Development...
View Article15 Minutes With… Larry Feinberg, CEO of KnipBio
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, GAI Media Global demand for seafood has increased 3.2 percent per year since 1960, outpacing the 1 percent annual growth in global population. Additionally, per capita...
View ArticleIsrael’s First Food Tech and Personalized Nutrition VC Fund Launches
Ruti Alon, former senior life sciences partner with Pitango Venture Capital, and Ilanit Kabessa-Cohen, a 20-year veteran in the consumer food sector, have announced the official launch of Medstrada,...
View ArticleAnthem Asia – First Close of $34.5M for Debut Fund
Anthem Asia announced an initial close of $34.5 million for the Anthem Asia Myanmar SME Venture Fund, its debut fund focused on providing growth and expansion capital to small and medium-sized...
View ArticleRice: Global Staple Holds Promise for Future Investment
This article will be featured along with other articles addressing investment opportunities in Australasian agriculture in Volume 5, Issue 3 of the GAI Gazette, which will be distributed in conjunction...
View ArticleBenson Hill Biosystems Closes on $60M Led by GV
St. Louis-based bioagtech company Benson Hill Biosystems announced a close of $60 million on a Series C led by GV. Included in the round were new investors Activant Capital and Tao Capital Partners,...
View ArticleGladstone Land Expands Holdings in Florida with $2.6M Deal
Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Gladstone Land has had an eye toward Florida this quarter, announcing the acquisition of a farm in the north of the state totaling 574 acres for $2.6 million. Upon...
View ArticleMaersk Leads $2.4M Seed Round for Ripe Technology, INC
Ripe Technology, INC (ripe.io), a blockchain technology startup focusing on the food and ag supply chains, announced the successful raising of $2.4 million through a Seed Round led by Maersk Growth,...
View ArticleLewis & Clark Leads $5M Series A Backing Growers Holdings’ Novel Business Model
Software and services provider Growers Holdings has raised $5 million through a Series A led by Lewis & Clark Ventures. Participating in the round are all of the company’s existing investors...
View ArticleUpdate: Aquaculture Tech Startup Umitron Lifts Early Stage Funding by $3.7M...
Aquaculture tech startup Umitron announced it has lifted its latest funding round by $3.7 million. Originally announced in June of this year, the company raised initial funding in the amount of $11.2...
View ArticleFoodShot Global Launches $30M Investment Platform
New York-based FoodShot Global announced the launch of a new investment platform aiming at accelerating the transformation of the food system, which will be led by former Obama-administration official,...
View ArticleAustralis Aquaculture Sells Massachusetts Land-Based Farm to Focus on...
Barramundi farmer and marketer Australis Aquaculture has sold its land-based fish farm operation located in Turner Falls, Massachusetts, to Great Fall Aquaculture for an undisclosed amount. Australis...
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