New Consumer Food Trends Driving Corporate R&D, M&A Activity: Cargill, SOSV & MissionPoint Partners

October 4, 2018

Growing demand for cleaner and healthier food brands is driving investment into new food brands, alternative proteins, food safety, food waste mitigation and supply chain efficiency.

Food Industry Embracing Blockchain for Safety, Organic Labeling and More

October 4, 2018

Farmers, commodity traders, food processors and others across the food & agriculture industry are making an ever-tighter embrace of blockchain technology to track food ingredients...

Fund Managers Develop Products to Help Reinvest Fossil Fuel Assets

September 21, 2018

The trend of pensions, endowment and other institutional investors divesting some or all of their fossil fuel holdings is already well underway and is creating opportunities for asset...

The Divestment Debate: Why Investors Are Dumping Fossil Fuels (or not)

September 6, 2018

As the climate continues to heat up, and as the federal government drags its feet on providing climate leadership, activists are putting increasing pressure on pension funds, university...

Institutional Investors Increasingly Focus on Financing Clean Tech Projects such as Battery Storage & Renewables

September 5, 2018

A roundup of recent activity highlighting institutional investor flows into clean tech infrastructure in North America & fundraising activity.

Briefing: EV Charging Infrastructure Moves Ahead, in US and Around the World

August 24, 2018

A look at recent fundings and other developments regarding EV charging networks driven by investors, large auto manufacturers, oil & gas companies, startups, utilities and governments....

Hungry for Investments: Agriculture Companies Hunt for Startups and Innovation

July 30, 2018

Momentum is strong and growing for investments in the Agriculture Technology sector. Key investment themes include: alternative protein, food safety & traceability and healthy food...

Battery Storage Investments & Financing Show Growing Strength

July 24, 2018

So far, 2018 is proving to be a good year for battery storage as investors and project developers are seeing an increased amount of money flowing in to the space, with an increased...

Generate Strikes $200M Deal with China’s BYD for Electric Buses in U.S.

July 20, 2018

As part of the venture, Generate is investing $200 million to buy and lease the buses..