The South African food and agribusiness private equity fund is targeting $175m overall and expects some repeat investors from its first $100m fund.
Sohan Lal Commodity Management is looking to raise fresh capital from investors to fund expansion into new countries and growth of its NBFC.
This is the council's second investment into an agriculture-related fund this year.
Tropical Farms, a subsidiary company of AIM-listed agriculture investment company Agriterra, wants to raise capital to develop its outgrower scheme.
The venture capital firm expects that agriculture technology firms will make up a portion of the $125m Opportunity Fund.
Blue Sky Strategic Australian Agriculture Fund will invest across agriculture infrastructure, agribusiness private equity and water entitlements offering an IRR of 12%-15%.
RASP, a cold storage technology inspired by fruit and vegetable wastage in India, is seeking funding to build a demonstration unit.
StarAgri Warehousing and Collateral Management, an Indian post-harvest management company, is launching StarAgri Finance to complement its existing services for farmers and agribusinesses.
India's Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) is expecting over 100 applications and will work with six of them alongside local VC firms.
Venture capital-backed Sweetwater Energy secured a bridge loan ahead of establishing the company's first commercial biomass-to-biochemical conversion facility.