On Thursday, FirstLight, a U.S. provider of fiberoptic data, Internet, data center, cloud and voice services to customers in the U.S. Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, announced…
Investable UniverseNovember 5, 2020
On Wednesday, West Coast agtech and vertical farming startup Plenty Unlimited announced that it has secured $140 million in Series D funding. Existing investor SoftBank’s Vision…
Investable UniverseOctober 16, 2020
A new report in Winsight Grocery Business this week has cast a speculative light on how physical grocery stores—the essential brick-and-mortar retail segment that has…
Investable UniverseOctober 9, 2020
On Thursday, a new investment management firm focused on the real assets of agriculture and food production announced its existence. Newly anointed fund manager Solum…
Investable UniverseOctober 9, 2020
With the approach of the fall corn and soybean harvest, it bears remembering that cash crops aren’t the only yields of U.S. soil. The farmland…
Investable UniverseSeptember 25, 2020
On Monday, Nuveen, the $1 trillion asset manager of TIAA, announced that it is joining investor-led climate activist group Climate Action 100+, and rolling out…
Investable UniverseSeptember 21, 2020
Podcast: Investing in Natural Capital with Pollination Group Partners Martijn Wilder and John Morton
In August, the world’s sixth-largest global bank by assets under management (AUM), U.K.-based HSBC, announced that it would embark on a new joint venture with…
Investable UniverseSeptember 10, 2020
On Thursday, HSBC Global Asset Management and Pollination Group Holdings announced a joint venture, HSBC Pollination Climate Asset Management, which is being positioned as the…
Investable UniverseAugust 27, 2020
In a nod to what might be termed the fast-growing field of plat-farming, North Carolina’s Growers Holdings--a farmer-founded, VC-funded agronomics software firm that makes seed,…
Investable UniverseFebruary 27, 2020