Mosa Meat Closes on $40M in Funding to Scale Cultivated Meat for Market Entry
April 22, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Listed cellular agriculture leader Agronomics announced that its portfolio company Mosa Meat has raised $40 million in new funding to scale production of its cultivated beef in preparation for market entry. This oversubscribed round was co-led by Lowercarbon Capital and M Ventures, a pa
Read morePSP Investments Executes Two Major Australian Ag Deals With Combined Value of A$250M
April 19, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Canada’s PSP Investments, the fourth-largest pension manager in the world with a total CAD$243.7 billion (US$177.4 billion) in AUM and a Natural Resources Group with CAD$12.3 billion (US$8.95 billion) of net AUM as of March 31, 2023, has recently executed two major agricultural investments
Read moreNature’s Miracle, Agrify Merge to Form CEA Products and Solutions Leader
April 18, 2024
photo credit: Nature's Miracle By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Major vertical farming tech and infrastructure company Nature’s Miracle Holding has agreed to acquire 100 percent of Agrify Corporation, a leading provider of innovative cultivation and cannabis extraction solutions, to create the leader of CEA products an
Read moreContributed Content: Report: FarmTogether’s Sustainable Investing & Management
April 18, 2024
Photo credit: FarmTogether FarmTogether’s commitment to providing innovative capital solutions for accessing farmland goes hand-in-hand with the firm’s core value of sustainable land stewardship. FarmTogether’s recently released report breaks down the firm’s sustainability efforts across its entire portfolio, spanning 48 properties
Read moreContributed Content: China’s Future Role in U.S. Exports
April 18, 2024
By Michael Swanson, Ph.D., Chief Agricultural Economist, Wells Fargo, Agri-Food Institute(This article is reprinted with permission from Wells Fargo.) China has had an outsized influence on U.S. agriculture for the last two decades. As the second largest economy in world1 and tied with India for the largest population,2 China has entered
Read moreAstarte Capital Partners, SilviPar Close Impact Forestry Fund Highly Oversubscribed at $325M
April 18, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media In early 2021, real asset-focused investment firm Astarte Capital Partners and Stockholm-based forestry development and management company SilviPar AB launched their inaugural Silvipar Astarte Impact Forestry Fund (“SAIFF”). Under the terms of the partnership, Astarte Capital had comm
Read moreInverness Graham-Backed Custom Agronomics Acquires BioTek Ag
April 17, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Custom Agronomics ("Custom Ag"), the second of three active portfolio companies of Inverness Graham Green Light, the environmental sustainability-focused, lower-middle market buyout strategy of Inverness Graham, announced it has acquired BioTek Ag, a Florida-based provider of solutions that
Read moreGinkgo Bioworks Acquires AgBiome’s Platform Assets
April 17, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Ginkgo Bioworks announced its acquisition of AgBiome’s platform assets including more than 115,000 sequenced and isolated strains, more than 500 million unique gene sequences, associated functional data and metadata, and AgBiome’s development pipeline. These newly held assets wi
Read moreManulife Investment Management White Paper – Regenerative Agriculture: Definition, Implementation, and Impact
April 12, 2024
Brent McGowanManaging Director, Global Head of Agricultural Operations Weiyi Zhang, Ph.D.,Associate Director, Agricultural Economics Hannah BarkanManager, Impact Investing & Natural Climate SolutionsFeeding a growing population in a world of increasingly scarce natural resources will require sustainable solutions, which is where reg
Read moreWindfall Bio Raises $28M for Methane-Eating Microbes
April 11, 2024
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Methane-to-value solutions startup Windfall Bio has raised $28 million in Series A funding led by Prelude Ventures with participation from Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, Global Brain (through its Norinchukin Innovation Fund L.P.), Incite Ventures, Positive Ventures, and existing investor B3
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