Farmers Business Network Raises $250M Series F to Fuel Farmer-to-Farmer Tech...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Farmers Business Network (FBN), the pioneering direct-to-farm and farmer-to-farmer tech platform, announced it has closed on a $250 million Series F led by...
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FROM GAI GAZETTE: Potential Shifts in Supply Chains and Consumer Trends in...
This article will be featured in the next GAI Gazette, Volume 7, Issue 1, which will be distributed digitally in conjunction with the annual Global AgInvesting flagship conference, which will be held...
View ArticleElo Life Systems Forges Strategic Partnership With Dole to Save the Cavendish...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media The world loves bananas. However, the banana as we know it is threatened with extinction by Fusarium TR4 – a soil-borne, pathogenic fungus that is decimating...
View ArticleStray Dog Capital Leads Funding Rounds for Two Plant-Based Startups
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Stray Dog Capital, a venture capital investor focused on emerging plant-based brands, has led separate funding rounds for two plant-based food startups. These...
View ArticleAppHarvest Closes $28M Series B, Welcomes Martha Stewart, J.D. Vance, and...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media As AppHarvest prepares to open the world’s largest indoor farm in Morehead, Kentucky, the high-tech, climate-controlled greenhouse developer has made a series...
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15 Minutes With… Kip Tom, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations...
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media It is no surprise that Kip Tom, formerly chairman of Tom Farms LLC and chairman of CereServ Inc., a 2.2 million bushel grain facility, both...
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Contributed Content: Cashing In On Farm Data: How Institutional Ag Investors...
By Seana Day, partner, Better Food Ventures Institutional capital has been allocated to agriculture for decades. Investment in the sector surged following the 2008 financial crisis as institutional...
View ArticleIsraeli Startup Beewise Raises $10M to Automate Beehive Management and Save...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Isareli smart beehive developer Beewise Technologies Ltd. has raised $10 million through a round led by Fortissimo Investment Fund. Also participating in the...
View ArticleEquilibrium Makes First Investment Outside U.S., Partners with Finka on CEA...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Equilibrium Capital Group, an asset manager focused on sustainable and impact-driven real asset agricultural and agricultural distributed infrastructure,...
View ArticleS2G Ventures Launches $100M Oceans and Seafood Investment Strategy, Expands Team
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media S2G Ventures, a multi-stage VC fund investing across the food, agriculture, agtech, and foodtech verticals, is now expanding its horizons by launching a...
View ArticleCoffee Made Without Beans is Gaining Traction as Atomo Raises $9M
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Foodtech startup Atomo Coffee announced it has raised another $9 million in Seed funding to bring bean-less, molecular coffee to market. This additional round...
View ArticleBrief: Harvest Agriculture Acquires Dryland Cropping and Grazing Operation...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Harvest Agriculture, an Australia-based wholly-owned subsidiary of Guangxi Investment Co. Ltd, has acquired the 5,071-hectare Yaloak Estate for A$60 million...
View ArticleTemasek, Bayer Partner to Launch New Vertical Farming Venture With $30M in...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek and the investment arm of Bayer, Leaps by Bayer, have partnered to create Unfold, a new venture that will focus on...
View ArticleU.S. Investor Acquires Canadian Canola Streaming Company Input Capital for...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Bridgeway National, a Washington D.C.-based investor, has acquired Canadian canola streaming company Input Capital for approximately $97.5 million, or $1.75...
View ArticleRural Funds Management Acquires 5,409 He. of Sugar Cane Farmland for A$81M;...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Rural Funds Management (RFM), manager for the ASX-listed Rural Funds Group (RFF), an owner of a diversified portfolio of high-quality Australian agricultural...
View ArticlePowerPollen Raises $13M Series B for Pollination on Demand Technology
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Iowa-based PowerPollen announced it has closed on $13 million raised through a Series B that included new investor Ag Ventures Alliance, and a cohort of...
View ArticleImpossible Foods Raises Another $200M, Total Funding Approaches $1.5B
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Impossible Foods announced it has closed on another $200 million in funding through a Series G led by new investor Coatue. Existing investors Mirae Asset...
View ArticleRoot AI Closes on $7.2M to Deploy Produce Harvesting Robot
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Boston-based robotic agtech startup Root AI announced the successful raising of $7.2 million in Seed funding, bringing the company’s total funding to-date to...
View ArticleLever VC Fund I Announces First Close as $23M, Debuts Portfolio of 10...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Lever VC, an early stage alternative protein investor, announced the completion of a first close for Lever VC Fund I at $23 million. Headquartered in Hong...
View ArticleNigeria’s First Plant-Based Company Raises Angel Investment from California,...
*photo credit VeggieVictor By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media VeggieVictory, the first vegan company in Nigeria, has raised an undisclosed round of Angel funding from Ryan Bethencourt, founder...
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