Sustainable Food & AgTech Market Update – July 2018

Greentech Capital Advisors’ Sustainable Food & AgTech Monthly Market Update summarizes key announcements, M&A, and capital raising activity related to sustainable agriculture, while providing detailed trading metrics on public companies across the sector.

Key Takeaways:

• The European Court of Justice ruled that all genetic engineering techniques are to be regulated as GMO’s, encompassing a wide range of gene editing tools, including CRISPR, that some argue should be regulated separately
• Nutrien acquired Agrible, the developer of crop growth analytics tools, for $63mm. The acquisition of Agrible’s digital product validates the continued growth of farmers integrating data analytics into daily farm operations