Chris Janiec
Chris Janiec is Americas Editor at Agri Investor. Based in New York, Janiec coordinates coverage of private investment into global food and agriculture with colleagues in London. Previously, Janiec covered non-bank capital markets for PEI’s Private Debt Investor, taught international relations and US foreign policy at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing and worked as an analyst of petroleum and shipping markets in New York.
The Swiss firm's impact investment arm has committed an undisclosed amount of capital to Shared-X, which works with smallholders in emerging markets.
The Colombia-registered company aims to raise $180 million over the next five years, on top of the $35 million it is targeting this year.
Townsend Group has been the investor's advisor since 2011.
The fund has brought on its second institutional investor after MainPERS confirmed an investment in the fund in September.
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