Social impact investor AgDevCo has established the Lending for African Farming Company with the German development bank and debt provider Root Capital to provide sub-Saharan African farming enterprises with reliable access to finance.
DJI and Accel Partners have launched the $10m SkyFund to invest in drone start-ups and more broadly across robotics and intelligent machines. Airware's Commercial Drone Fund follows suit.
LPs are raising the stakes on GPs’ responsible investment policies. Managers that haven’t yet responded will need to do so soon, including smaller ones with limited budgets, argues Kelly Holman, senior reporter at Private Equity International in New York.
The precision agriculture data management tool provider will use the funding to help expand its operations in Russia, Brazil, Australia and the US.
4Front Capital has completed its first round of capital raising to make strategic investments in the production and distribution of cannabis in various states in the US, leveraging off its consultancy business.
Greensoil Investments is raising a third fund to invest in food and agriculture technology companies in Israel and the Netherlands.
CannaVest, a manufacturer and distributor of hemp derivatives, closed a $6.5m financing with an undisclosed institutional investor.
The Estonian agtech start-up, which uses cloud-based software, raised the capital from the Estonian Development Fund and a local VC firm to expand its services across Europe.
AfDB is seeking capital from Brazil, Argentina, China and India to invest across the value chain.
The Canadian biotech company is raising $15m in Series B funding to accelerate its second bio-stimulator product for agricultural production.
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