Sherpa Asset Management's agri investment arm will soon close on around $40m of commitments across two projects in Colombia and Peru.
UK private equity firm Terra Firma is selling a A$300 million equity stake in its Australia beef cattle portfolio company after returning the company to profit.
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification is leading the $2bn-a-year initiative and is calling for expressions of interest from asset managers to help manage the fund.
The US farmland fund management firm held a final close for its first fund Wednesday, falling short of the pool’s original $225 million target.
Innovation Endeavors, the VC fund launched by Google chairman Eric Schmidt, invested in the round alongside other heavy hitting VC players and a crowd-funding platform.
Zymergen, a Californian company, raised funding from Data Collective and AME Cloud Ventures, the early stage fund of Jerry Yang, founder of Yahoo, among a range of other big VC players.
Cultivian Sandbox Ventures, the food and agri focused VC firm, led the round alongside farmland fund manager Fall Line Capital, in Asilomar Bio's first institutional round.
ASURO Group, co-founded by Robert Talevski and Summer Yan, will raise funds to invest at various points along the food chain and is targeting between A$50m and A$100m.
Details about the previously mooted cannabis VC fund from US rapper Snoop Dogg have been revealed in SEC filings.
Fund II has acquired 18,500 acres across six properties in four transactions. Fund I is set to open again before the end of the year.