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The $4bn climate impact venture BeyondNetZero's first deal sees it investing in an agricultural strategy to reduce food miles alongside parent General Atlantic and Blue Earth Capital.

The world of agricultural private market investments has had a strong start to the year, with one of biggest fund closes in the past couple of years and significant SPAC transactions.

The C$119bn pension formally added agriculture in 2019 to a historically timber focused portfolio, which was rebranded as 'renewable resources.'

Chairman Dave Chen says developments in controlled environment ag since Fund I’s $336m close in 2019 helped attract large Canadian and European pensions to its successor.

The race to buy and build profitable greenhouses favors capital that can strengthen project finance, construction and government relations networks in key geographies.

Cameron Geiger says he will help the controlled-environment ag company respond to large retailers’ demand for reliable, large-scale production.

Co-founder David Rosenberg says he saw risk in allowing other companies’ technology to define the category for public market investors.

Flavorite Group, the Australian tomato producer backed by Roc Partners, has expanded through a merger with businesses owned by the Murphy family in Victoria, formerly known as Murphy Fresh and Tatura Fresh. The two Murphy family businesses grow truss tomatoes in glasshouses across two sites in the state covering 15 ha. Roc Partners said the […]

Chief investment officer Sanjeev Krishnan says recent developments in controlled environment ag evoke earlier stages of renewable energy markets.

iUNU uses cameras and sensors to monitor plants grown in an indoor setting and is the second greenhouse-related investment by Ceres’ second fund.