Agri-food

The private credit fund has received €20m from the European Investment Fund to support agricultural SMEs looking to decarbonise their businesses in Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Portugal.

The Swedish private equity impact investor has added STIM to its portfolio of investments aimed at boosting sustainable food production, at a time when investor interest in aquaculture is on the rise.

UK-based impact investor Bridges Fund Management has announced its second investment exit of 2024, with the sale of a supplier of plant-based foods to private equity firm NVM.

A new venture capital firm co-founded by Henry Dimbleby, a British food campaigner and co-founder of the natural fast food chain Leon, aims to make food production more sustainable.

The project seeks to increase agricultural output in one of Africa’s poorer countries by increasing supply of green ammonia to make fertilisers more widely available.

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 Dutch insect breeder also gets the backing from the InvestEU programme to scale up its sustainable protein production.

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.