ReFED Launches The COVID-19 Food Waste Solutions Fund
By Lynda Kiernan Prior to COVID-19 becoming our new reality, food waste was already a serious issue. At a time when one in seven Americans is food insecure, 52 million tons of food ends in a landfill,...
View ArticlePlantible Raises $4.6M to Create Alternative Proteins From Duckweed
By Lynda Kiernan California-based Plantible Foods has raised $4.6 million in Seed funding through a round co-led by Hong-Kong-based Vectr Ventures and New York-based Lerer Hippeau. Additional investors...
View ArticleIFAD Makes First Private Sector Investment, Committing $9M to Bamboo...
By Lynda Kiernan The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has made its first direct investment in the private sector, allocating $9 million to Bamboo Capital’s Agri-Business Capital...
View ArticleGladstone Land Returns to Nebraska to Close on $3.5M Deal for Irrigated...
By Lynda Kiernan Real estate investment trust (REIT) Gladstone Land announced it has closed on a $3.5 million irrigated farmland deal in Chase County, Nebraska. The 648-acre, mixed-crop operation...
View ArticleAdvantage Capital Invests $2.94M to Drive Expansion and Growth For Cultiva
By Lynda Kiernan Las Vegas-based agtech startup Cultiva announced it has secured a $2.94 million investment from Advantage Capital to drive expansion and growth at a time when COVID-19 poses a...
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Contributed Content: Examining How Farm Management Software Brings Value in a...
By Aaron Magenheim, CEO & Co-Founder of AgTech Insight & Growers Insight “Farm Management” has turned into a buzzword many people use broadly yet don’t really understand the importance of and...
View ArticleAmbienta Continues to Build Out Flavors and Ingredients Platform With...
By Lynda Kiernan Ambienta, the largest sustainability-focused private equity investor in Europe, continues to build out its natural flavors and ingredients platform Nactarome Group with the acquisition...
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Contributed Content: How In-Soil Data Can Drive Sustainability, Even During a...
By Guy Sela, VP of Agronomy, CropX Farming has been under extreme economic and environmental pressures for years. However, the current COVID-19 crisis has turned an even brighter spotlight on the...
View ArticleYamaha Motor Ventures Makes Two Agtech Investments Within a Week
By Lynda Kiernan Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley Inc., the strategic business development and investment arm of Yamaha Motor Co., has announced investments in two different...
View ArticleAlterra Sells 913-Hectare Dambadgee Springs for A$3.1M – Will Redeploy Funds...
By Lynda Kiernan Alterra Limited, an Australian agricultural investor, developer, and manager focused on regenerative land development, announced it has agreed to sell 913-hectares (2,256-acres) of its...
View ArticleHewitt Cattle Australia Lists Charters Tower Aggregation for Sale Amid Focus...
By Lynda Kiernan Hewitt Cattle Australia, a joint partner of Canadian pension fund – Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), has listed its Mt. Cooper aggregation in Northern...
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Contributed Content: COVID-19 is a Silver Lining for Plant-Based Protein
By Adam Bergman, Managing Director, EcoTech Capital For most new technologies, including those in the food & ag sectors, one of the hardest things to do is move from early adoption to mass market...
View ArticleSaama Capital Leads $5.9M Series A for Intello Labs
By Lynda Kiernan India’s Intello Labs announced it has raised $5.9 million through a Series A led by new investor Saama Capital. Other participating new investors include Singapore-based agtech...
View ArticleElevate Farms Secures $10M to Bring Vertical Farming to Remote Northern Canada
By Lynda Kiernan Less than three months after announcing a $1.8 million investment led by Brightspark Ventures, tech-based vertical farming company Elevate Farms announced that it has secured a $10...
View ArticleFarm Credit Canada, Forage Capital Launch $100M Venture Capital Fund
By Lynda Kiernan Farm Credit Canada (FCC) has partnered with Calgary-based venture capital firm Forage Capital Inc. to launch a new $100 million (US$72 million) venture capital fund designed to support...
View ArticleApisProtect Partners With Microsoft to Protect Honey Bees
By Lynda Kiernan As World Bee Day is May 20, ApisProtect, an Irish agtech startup working to save the world’s bee population, announced it has joined the Microsoft for Startup program, forging a...
View ArticleFoodtech and Agtech Startups Cubiq Foods and CubicFarms Raise €5M and C$5M...
By Lynda Kiernan Maybe it’s the lack of fresh air, but I admit, I was confused for a hot minute – so I decided to get my ducks in a row and write one article about recent capital rounds raised by Cubiq...
View ArticleArtemis Growth Partners Leads $105M Acquisition of Bridge Farm Group from...
By Lynda Kiernan A new entity led by representatives of U.S.-based Artemis Growth Partners has acquired Bridge Farm Group, the UK’s leading producer of herbs, produce, flowers, and plants, and one of...
View ArticleSound Agriculture Raises $22M for On-Demand Plant Breeding Platform
By Lynda Kiernan Sound Agriculture, a developer of sustainable crop solutions that “unleash the natural power of plants”, announced it has raised $22 million through a Series C led by Chicago-based S2G...
View ArticleSeeka Agrees to Sell Three Aussie Kiwi Orchards for A$26.5M
By Lynda Kiernan Te Puke, New Zealand-based Seeka Limited – the largest grower of kiwifruit in the country – announced it has agreed to sell three of its Australian kiwi orchards with a total land area...
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