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Featured in Wall Street Journal: Montana Ranchers’ New Side Hustle: Giving Tourists the ‘Yellowstone’ Experience
Sharing website LandTrust offers outdoor enthusiasts access to land for recreational activities

Trailhead Capital Closes Tech-Enabled Regenerative Food and AG Fund at $50M
Trailhead Capital believes that regenerative agriculture is our greatest opportunity to improve planetary and animal health, the condition of the soil, and the human condition today, thereby making it an optimal channel for outsized returns for stakeholders.

Trailhead Capital Closes Inaugural $50 Million Fund Focused on Regenerative Food and Agriculture Companies
Trailhead Capital Regeneration Fund I (the “Fund”), with total commitments of approximately $50 million, underscoring strong investor confidence in the team and demand for the investment strategy.

This Start-Up Taps Into A Hidden World To Restore Biodiversity And Capture CO2
Funga is an Ag Tech start-up leveraging recent advances in mycology—the study of fungi—to increase the carbon sequestration capacity of commercial pine tree plantations.


Fractal Agriculture Launches Investment Platform to Address US Farmland Financing Crisis
Fractal, a US-based company, is launching a first-of-its-kind farmland equity financing platform to help solve a key gap in farm financing.

Cultivated beef co Omeat begins generating revenues… but not from meat
Omeat: 'The ways animals make such proteins is much more efficient compared to what we now do using recombinant protein technology.” Image credit: istock/Clara Bastian

Podcast: Using AI to Solve Big Problems in the Agri-Food Supply Chain with Anthony Howcroft, CEO of SWARM Engineering
Anthony Howcroft is the CEO of SWARM Engineering. SWARM is a Software-as-a-Service platform that uses next-generation cognitive computing to tackle challenges in the agri-food supply chain to save costs, reduce waste, and deliver environmental benefits.

Regenerative Agriculture Metric Series — Part 1: Regenerative Land Management
In the coming months the working group Proof will release a blueprint of a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) identified by a working group of regenerative agriculture experts and practitioners.

Trace Genomics expands relationship with CHS Inc.
Trace Genomics helps CHS Inc. deliver agronomic insights to growers through their Advanced Soil Analytics platform

Omeat emerges from stealth armed with $40m to scale novel approach to cultivated meat production
Armed with $40 million in funding, Los Angeles-based startup Omeat has emerged from stealth with a “simple and elegant solution” to scaling cultivated meat production involving the humane extraction of growth factors and other components from “healthy, living cows.”

Local Line Acquires Forager to Accelerate Sales Between Farms and Grocery Stores
Local Line acquires Forager to accelerate sales between farms and grocery stores – becoming the sourcing platform for local food.

Podcast: Stanford Ph.D. Scaling Carbon Removal with Olivine and Agriculture — Adam Wolf, CEO of Eion
Eion is an enhanced rock weathering startup that works with farmers and ranchers to safely and permanently pull carbon out of the air. They use rock called olivine, which is the most abundant on Earth, and by 2026, they will be on track to permanently remove 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year.

Mr. Wonderful Sees Big Things in North Dakota
Kevin O’Leary, one of America’s most well-known businessmen, is looking to make a big-time impact in North Dakota through Wonder Fund North Dakota, a North Dakota Development Fund direct investment program that will use federal funds allocated through a State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) grant.

Podcast: Commerce for Regional Food Systems with Cole Jones, CEO and Founder of Local Line
Cole Jones is the CEO and Founder of Local Line. Local Line helps farmers, food hubs, and farmers' markets access new customers and digitize their businesses. Their e-commerce, CRM, inventory and logistics modules enable food producers of all kinds to control their own brand and grow their business on their terms.

Beth Richtman: Investing in “Polysolutions"
As the world becomes rife with interconnecting environmental and social challenges, the World Economic Forum introduced the new term “polycrisis” in their annual Global Risk Report for 2023.

SWARM Engineering Announces AgriFood Virtual Advisor (AVA), Powered by OpenAI and Microsoft Azure
SWARM Engineering is proud to announce AVA, the first AgriFood Virtual Advisor, an AI-powered digital assistant based on OpenAI, Microsoft Azure and SWARM technology, designed to help businesses in agri-food solve operational challenges and save millions of dollars.

How Mad Capital is Changing the Trajectory of Regenerative Farm Finance
Mad Capital is pushing the envelope about how we think about regenerative agriculture finance by blending new debt and traditional debt models, all within a larger MAD! ecosystem that supports other transitioning farmer needs.

Curbing Post-Harvest Food Waste | Clean Crop
Clean Crop Technologies is an agriculture technology company at the leading edge of the Power to Ag movement, replacing fossil fuel-derived chemicals with air and electricity to boost yields, improve food safety, and reduce food waste.

From Startup to Scale-up: SDTC Invests in Made-in-Canada Sustainable Solutions
Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) is proud to announce an investment of $68.2 million toward 17 innovative Canadian companies.