Tag: impact investing

3 Ways Ag Startups Can Strengthen the Enabling Environment for their Businesses in Developing Markets

November 26, 2018

Here are three ways private sector agricultural businesses can engage to strengthen policies, regulations, and laws with benefits to both their business and the agricultural sector more broadly.

ReFED: US Food Waste Startups Have Raised $125m+ in 2018 as Grant Funding in the Space Grows 70%

November 15, 2018

A new report from ReFED also revealed that grant funding from foundations reached $134 million in the first three quarters of 2016, increasing 70% over five years.

Why Wharton Impact Investing Partners is Interested in AgriFood Tech

November 12, 2018

Curious about the role of AgriFood tech startups in impact investing? Read on as Devika Balachandran, an associate on Wharton Impact Investing Partners’ Food & Nutrition sector team, discusses the importance of AgriFood Tech in impact investing.

FoodShot Launches Multi-Stakeholder Platform to Invest in ‘MoonShots for Better Food’

September 13, 2018

A non-profit consortium of venture funds, banks, corporations, universities, and foundations has launched a platform to invest in startups and projects addressing some of the food system's major challenges.

Fintech Startup Tarfin Enables Institutional Investors to Invest in Turkey’s Farmers

July 3, 2018

Tarfin, a Turkish startup providing farmers with credit to purchase the inputs they need each season, has successfully sold its first portfolio to a family office.

UPDATE: InspiraFarms Adds €2.5m to Series A for Cold Storage and Processing Tech in East Africa and Central America

April 10, 2018

Described as a ‘game changer’ InspiraFarms' technology consists of modular cold storage and food processing units, which run on off-grid renewable energy and aim to increase farm incomes by 40%.

TPG Rise Fund’s Agriculture Lead Discusses First Investment in Indian Dairy

February 22, 2018

We caught up with Joy Basu ahead of the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit, to discuss how she approaches impact investing in agriculture at The Rise Fund and how agtech can fit into an impact investing thesis.

India-Focused Agtech VC Omnivore Partners Holds First Close on $46m for Second Fund

February 12, 2018

Omnivore Partners, which calls itself an "impact venture fund" is solely focused on agtech investments in India, and investors (LPs) in the fund were largely impact-minded funds from Europe, India, and the US, demonstrating the growing link between agriculture and impact investing.

225 Major Investors Commit to Pressure Bayer, BASF, Nestle and Other Carbon Emitters

December 13, 2017

The Climate Action 100+ initiative is the work of 225 investors with more than $26.3 trillion assets under management including banks, private equity firms, and pension funds to name a few.

Report Reveals 22 Most ‘Investible’ Post-Harvest Food Waste Technologies

November 14, 2017

A recent report evaluating new innovations in the food system based on potential impact on post-harvest food waste and commercial feasibility reveals what the authors call “high-priority investible innovations.”

SafeTraces Raises $6.5m Series A for Traceability Tech Led By Omidyar

October 18, 2017

SafeTraces technology allows users to place an invisible, seaweed-based DNA tag on individual food items so that their provenance and qualities can be traced and verified throughout the supply chain.

Cultured Meat Will Cost Startups $150m-$370m (and Take At Least 4 More Years) to Bring to Market

October 10, 2017

Agrifood tech founders and investors weigh in on how much it will cost, and how long it will take, to get cultured meat into stores.

The 4 Shocking Consequences of Food Waste

June 5, 2017

Ever get to the end of the week faced with a fridge full of rotting produce and gone off meat because plans to cook up a storm got sidetracked? You're not alone.

Ag Industry Brief: Tyson Hires First Sustainability Officer, Food + Future Lab May Close, Unilever Acquires Sir Kensington’s, more

April 21, 2017

Tyson Foods Appoints its First Chief Sustainability Officer

Major poultry producer Tyson Foods has named Justin Whitmore to the newly-created role of Chief Sustainability Officer. The appointment follows the company’s introduction of a new initiative that puts sustainability at the core of the company’s future aspirations.