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Earth Day 2020: COVID-19 Exposes Paradox of Simultaneous Food Shortages and...
By Adam Bergman, Managing Director, EcoTech Capital Approaching Earth Day 2020 on April 22nd, the world looks very different than just one year ago, and hardly any country has escaped being hit by the...
View ArticleKKR Invests $500M in US Foods to Help Weather COVID-19
By Lynda Kiernan US Foods Holding Corp. (US Foods) announced that affiliates of KKR have invested $500 million in the company via newly issued convertible preferred stock. KKR is funding the investment...
View ArticleHargol FoodTech Raises $3M to Advance Commercial Production of Grasshoppers...
By Lynda Kiernan Israeli foodtech startup and Trendlines portfolio company Hargol FoodTech has raised $3 million in a round consisting of existing investors including Singapore-based Sirius Venture...
View ArticleAgbiotech Pioneer Inari Secures $45M to Bring Next-Gen Seeds to Market
By Lynda Kiernan Mission-driven seed breeding technology company Inari announced it has secured a further $45 million through a loan and security agreement with life sciences-focused investor K2...
View ArticlePlant-Based Company The Collaborative Raises $7M, Names New CEO for U.S....
By Lynda Kiernan British plant-based yogurt and dessert company The Collaborative (formerly called The Coconut Collaborative) announced it has raised $7 million from PowerPlant Ventures, and has named...
View ArticleLaunch of Leading Harvest Brings Universal Standards to Quantify Agriculture...
By Lynda Kiernan There are some developments in the farmland and ag investing space that I personally think of as “shorebird events”. This is a label I privately give to developments that, to me,...
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Contributed Content: The Role of Farmland in Mitigating Climate Change
*picture credit: Bonnefield farmland in Northern British Columbia’s Peace River region By Jeremy Stroud, analyst, Bonnefield Financial, Marcus Mitchell, CIO, Bonnefield Financial The topic of...
View ArticleThis Canadian Agtech Startup has Raised C$2.2M in Bridge Funding to Allow...
By Lynda Kiernan Based in Nunavut, Canada, Province Brands has raised C$2.2 million (US$1.6 million) in bridge funding, led by a San-Francisco-based private investor, to advance its first-of-its-kind...
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Second Annual SRI Report Places HNRG in Leading Role For a More Sustainable...
By Lynda Kiernan It’s true that the world is collectively being faced with unprecedented ecological, environmental, and societal challenges. Climate change, pollution levels, soil degradation, species...
View ArticleRadicle Growth and Syngenta Partner to Launch the $1.25M Radicle Protein...
By Lynda Kiernan San Diego-based accelerator Radicle Growth and Syngenta jointly announced the launch of The Radicle Protein Challenge by Syngenta. Through this challenge, together, Radicle and...
View ArticleDanone Manifesto Invests $10M in Plant-Based Laird Superfood
By Lynda Kiernan Laird Superfood, a producer of all-natural, functional superfood products, announced that it has secured a $10 million investment from Danone Manifesto to support its growth...
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Lessons and Disruptions from the COVID-19: A GAI Interview with Tim McGavin...
In January of this year, GAI News featured Tim McGavin, CEO and founder of Laguna Bay of Australia, which was founded in 2010, in a 15 Minutes With… profile. McGavin provided a more detailed look at...
View ArticleManna Tree Partners Raises $141.5M for Health and Wellness-Focused Fund I
By Lynda Kiernan Vail, Colorado-based asset manager Manna Tree Partners announced the successful raising of $141.5 million for its first fund Manna Tree Partners Fund I. The capital was committed from...
View ArticleAlumina Partners Commits Up To $6M to Bee Vectoring Technologies
By Lynda Kiernan Bee Vectoring Technologies (BVT), an agtech startup pioneering a natural, precision method of delivering biological pesticide alternatives to crops using commercially-reared bees,...
View ArticleBrief: Australia’s Primewest Group Enters Ag With New $100M Fund, First...
By Lynda Kiernan Australian property investor Primewest has entered agricultural investment with the launch of a new agricultural investment vehicle, and has acquired its first ag acquisition toward...
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15 Minutes With… The Founders of Peritia Capital Management
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, GAI Media Boston-based Peritia Capital Management may be less than a year old, but its three co-founders are industry veterans who have 45-years-plus of collective...
View ArticleTrendlines Agrifood Fund Makes Second Investment in Agbiotech Startup Insectta
By Lynda Kiernan The Trendlines Group announced that the Trendlines AgriFood Fund has made its second investment in Singapore-based agbiotech startup Insectta. In October 2019, Israel and...
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15 Minutes With… Gabrielle Rubenstein of Manna Tree Partners
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, GAI Media The Manna Tree Partners team, under the direction of CEO Gabrielle “Ellie” Rubenstein, has established a culture based on 3W’s: Wilderness, Wellness, and...
View ArticlePaine Schwartz Founding Partner Mitchell Presser Joins Morrison & Foerster as...
By Lynda Kiernan Bringing vast experience, Mitchell Presser, a founding partner of leading food and agriculture investor Paine Schwartz Partners, has joined New York-based global law firm Morrison...
View ArticleBreakthrough Energy Ventures, Temasek Co-Lead $100M Series C for Pivot Bio
By Lynda Kiernan Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Temasek have co-led a $100 million Series C for Pivot Bio – an agtech startup dedicated to developing more sustainable, effective, and safer...
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