Plenty Partners with Driscoll’s For Year-Round, Indoor Production of...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Leading vertical farming pioneer Plenty and top fresh berry producer and brand Driscoll’s have announced a joint development agreement to grow Driscoll’s...
View ArticleRemaining 50 Pct Stake in Green Plains Cattle Co. Sold to Investor Group...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Green Plains Inc. announced it has sold its remaining 50 percent stake in Green Plains Cattle Co. (GPCC) to an investor group that includes AGR Partners and...
View ArticleFollowing $200M Founders Round, LIVEKINDLY Raises Another $135M
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media LIVEKINDLY is a multi-brand plant-based food platform launched in March of this year with $200 million in founders’ funding committed by a consortium of...
View ArticleWoolworths Foots $2.9M Series A for Health and Wellness Platform Spoon Guru
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media W23, the venture capital arm of Australian retailer Woolworths, is the sole investor in an A$4 million (US$2.9 million) Series A for London-based, AI-driven...
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15 Minutes With… Ingo Mueller, CEO of AgriFORCE Growing Systems Ltd.
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media It is now a well-told story that COVID-19 exposed the inefficiencies in the global food supply chain, but it is a fortuitous result that...
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From GAI Gazette: Shifting Trends in Global Tree Nut Markets
This article will be featured in the next GAI Gazette, Volume 7, Issue 2, which will be distributed digitally in conjunction with the Global AgInvesting Europe event, which will be held virtually on...
View ArticleArbor Investment Closes Fund V at $1.5B and DOF II at $168M (In Less Than 90...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Arbor Investments, a specialized private equity firm focused solely on investment opportunities in the food and beverage verticals and their related...
View ArticleBrightFarms Locks Down $100M Series E For U.S. Expansion
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Next-generation hydroponic greenhouse farming company BrightFarms announced it has secured more than $100 million in debt and new equity capital through a...
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From WIA Summit: The Changing Sales Landscape: Perspectives on 2020 Trends
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Women in Agribusiness Media At the 2020 Women in Agribusiness Summit, Liz Harrison and Tamara Charm of McKinsey & Company spoke about the big shifts in sales through...
View ArticleStartup v2food Closes Largest Funding Round in Aussie Plant-Based Meat Sector
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Less than one year after closing an impressive A$35 million (US$24 million) Series A, Aussie vegan meat brand v2food has closed on more significant funding....
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Contributed Content: Indoor Farming is Going Mainstream
By Adam Bergman, Managing Director, EcoTech Capital Significant changes are underway in the indoor farming sector, none bigger than the recent AppHarvest public listing and the Plenty and Driscoll’s...
View ArticleVerde Farms Closes Series A with New Funding, Welcomes Johnsonville CEO Nick...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Verde Farms, a leading provider of 100 percent grass-fed, organic, and pasture-raised beef has secured new funding from minority investors Johnsonville...
View ArticleFinistere Leads $10.2M Series B for TeleSense to Digitize Post-Harvest Grain...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Finistere has returned to lead a $10.2 million Series B for TeleSense, an IoT pioneer using AI to modernize grain supply chains, improve food safety, and...
View ArticleLaguna Bay Agricultural Fund I Sells First Asset, Banongill Station, for...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media It was in 2016, after Laguna Bay Agricultural Fund I closed at $280 million that the fund acquired its first asset – Banongill Station, a cropping and...
View ArticleSoftBank Leads $140M Series D for Plenty
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media SoftBank Vision Fund I has returned to lead a $140 million Series D for vertical farming leader Plenty. Top fresh berry producer and brand Driscoll’s, who...
View ArticleGladstone Announces Second Deal in a Month; Makes First Acquisition in South...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Gladstone Land continues its recent acquisition streak, disclosing its second deal within the month. The REIT announced it has acquired 597 gross acres of...
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Farm to Fridge: Food and Agriculture are Ripe with Visual Technology...
By Abby Hunter-Syed, Partner, LDV Capital Plants selected by cameras. Cows fed and milked by robots. Proteins acting as sweeteners. Fridges suggesting recipes. Our food system is in for a major...
View ArticleApeel Secures $30M in New Funding to Create Participatory, Inclusive Food...
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Apeel Sciences has raised another $30 million in new funding from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Temasek, and Astanor Ventures. Together with...
View ArticleEos Capital Launches Third Fund with Goal of US$33.5M by March 2021
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Namibian private equity firm Eos Capital has launched its third fund, the Euphrates Agriculture Fund, with the goal of raising N$500 million (US$33.5 million)...
View ArticleConsolidated Pastoral Company Sells to Britain’s Guy Hands for at Least $500M
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Held by UK private equity firm, Terra Firma, rumors about the sale of the CPC portfolio have circulated since November of 2014, but the divestment process did...
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