The Macquarie/MD Sass JV will target $750m for its third agri debt fund and is also plotting its first pure private equity fund.
OpenAir Equity Partners led a Series B round attracting repeat investors and one new investor into FarmLink, an agtech company developing a yield benchmarking service for farmers.
Increasing numbers of fund management firms are popping up in the Central and Eastern European region, drawn by the cheap land on offer, according to an investment consultant at Towers Watson.
UK-based forestry and wind farm asset manager FIM has reopened fundraising and is expected to hold a final close on roughly $108m in November.
The US pension and asset management firm is expected to raise $2bn for its second agriculture investment-focused LLC.
Sunbird Bioenergy Africa will operate a cassava-based biofuels project financed by two partners providing equity and debt financing.
Český fond půdy, an open-ended Czech farmland investment fund, received commitments from mutual funds, high net worth individuals and a pension fund. It is targeting €10m a year.
The Larta Institute will use endowment funds to invest in start-up companies alongside its venture capital partner.
The UK venture capital firm led a A$6 million Series C investment round into Agworld, an Australian agdata software company. Agworld is now focusing on entering the US market.
Following its $50m fund close, the regenerative agri fund manager is raising $250m to invest across five US regions.
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