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WEBSep 19, 2013 · General Mills, PepsiCo join Trusted Advisor Partnership in ‘de-risking’ regenerative agriculture in Canada. Reporting from the frontlines of the food revolution where foodtech startups, entrepreneurs, and venture …
FBN gets $300m plus 'validation' from Fidelity, ADM
WEBNov 18, 2021 · FBN’s $300m Series G with Fidelity, ADM brings ‘validation’ to oft-controversial company. November 18, 2021. Louisa Burwood-Taylor. Californian agtech startup Farmers Business Network (FBN) has raised $300 million in Series G funding at a valuation just shy of $4 billion. That’s more than double …
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WEBSuspended animation: Insect ag startup Nasekomo enhances neonate delivery service with advanced suspension tech. A quarter of the planet faces extremely high water stress. Meet the innovators trying to change that.
Regenerative Agriculture Investing: 70 Investment Groups Worth …
WEBJul 11, 2019 · This week, a new report, cleverly called Soil Wealth, has come out detailing the level of investment in regenerative agriculture-related projects and the numbers are surprisingly high: there are some 70 investment strategies with assets under management of over $47.5 billion, and that’s just in the US. Just to clarify, that amount includes ...
Pasturebird Raises Funding to Create Largest Pastured Poultry …
WEBFeb 23, 2017 · Pasturebird, a poultry farming company using a novel way of raising chickens on pasture, has raised a seed extension funding round from angel investors.The new capital will enable the Murrieta, California rotational grazing operation to expand to 100 acres. Paul Greive, co-founder and CEO of the business, believes this expansion will make it the largest pastured poultry operation in the US.
Anterra Capital Closes on $125m Fund, Opens Boston Office
WEBMarch 16, 2016. Louisa Burwood-Taylor. Anterra Capital, the European agtech investment firm, has held a second close of its first fund on $125 million, getting further investment from Rabobank, the Dutch global food and agriculture bank, and Eight Roads, the proprietary capital arm of global investment house Fidelity International.
As regenerative agriculture takes root, let’s hold ... - AgFunderNews
WEBMar 17, 2022 · Earlier this year, AFN compiled a list of climate commitments from agrifood corporates in an effort to keep track of and hold businesses accountable to these promises. Increasingly, these include regenerative agriculture commitments. Regenerative agriculture isn’t new — indigenous populations have used it for millennia, and modern-day ...
The Nature Conservancy invests in 5 soil health startups
WEBMar 9, 2021 · Lauren Manning. US-headquartered environmental nonprofit The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has invested in five agrifoodtech startups, it announced today. “We’ve been working around initiatives to rebuild soil health in North America aggressively since 2016 and [we want] to move the needle on 50% of US cropland and put it …
FMC buys BioPhero for $200m to boost biologicals portfolio
WEBJun 30, 2022 · Jack Ellis. US agribusiness major FMC has agreed to acquire BioPhero, a Danish startup producing pheromone-based biocontrols for the crop-growing industry. An FMC statement said that the company will buy BioPhero for approximately $200 million. BioPhero will become part of FMC’s plant health business, which is also based in Denmark.
EXCLUSIVE: RapidAIM nets funding for pest insect sensor system
WEBMar 11, 2021 · RapidAIM, an Australian agtech startup that’s developing a cost-effective monitoring system for crop pests, has raised funding from Melbourne-based VC firm Tenacious Ventures.Further financial details of the funding were not disclosed, though RapidAIM co-founder and CEO Nancy Schellhorn told AFN it was a seven-figure amount.. The Brisbane-based startup was launched by Schellhorn and her co ...
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