Zebra Impact Ventures is investing in precision farming, alternative nutrition, and food waste. Christopher Walker talks to co-founder Lionel Artusio-Payot about the firm’s investment approach and strategy for the future.
The fund has invested in Rift Labs, a lighting company helping to increase crop yields and reduce water consumption and pesticide use, and Looping, a company tackling transport plastic packaging waste.
The fund aims to help foster the development of indigenous tech companies in Ireland to support the country in meeting its climate change targets across a spectrum of agricultural and industrial sectors.
The impact investor’s new sustainable forestry and agriculture blended finance fund builds on experience gained with an earlier land use fund, which has just made its final investments.
Can coffee made of lupine, chickpea and blackcurrant beans taste as good as the real thing? Dutch company Northern Wonder is working with agricultural researchers to make sure the end product resembles real coffee.
British International Investment’s most recent allocations target food security and electric vehicles. The institution says it is increasingly focusing its investments on fighting the climate emergency.
Goodwill Investments increases funding into insurtech firm Inclusivity Solutions. Plus: Clarity AI and Radient AI announce strategic partnership to integrate sustainability data with fund insights | ABC Fund invests in Ugandan coffee supplier JKCC
responsAbility Investments has invested $24m in Peruvian grower and supplier of superfruits Agrovision Corp through its Sustainable Food Latin America Fund.
Protix, a pioneering Dutch insect breeder backed by a wide range of impact investors, has landed a two-fold investment from Tyson Foods, the biggest meat company in the US.
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