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Our professionals have deep real-world experience throughout the ag, food, forestry sectors and bring skills and insights beyond our robust M&A expertise.
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Our Experience

We are recognized as the leading M&A and strategic advisory group for firms transforming the global agribusiness, food and forestry industries.

EFC Systems

DIGITAL AGRONOMY AND ERP SOLUTIONS FOR AGRIBUSINESS
Acquired by: Banneker Partners and Ever.Ag

EFC Systems empowers the agribusiness supply chain’s ability to seamlessly interact with wholesalers, retailers, and growers. Through the use of its industry-leading solutions, Merchant Ag, its comprehensive Ag focused ERP accounting and operations solution, and FieldAlytics, its digital agronomy operations platform, both retailers and their growers are able to improve the efficiency and profitability of their operations.

e-Emphasys

ASSET MANAGEMENT SAAS
Acquired by: TA Associates and True Wind Partners

e-Emphasys is a global IT solutions company, providing ERP software to Dealerships and Rental companies of heavy equipment for the agriculture, forestry, construction, mining, and material handling industries.

Clear Ag

AGRICULTURE & WEATHER ANALYTICS FOR AGRONOMIC DECISION SUPPORT
Acquired by: DTN

ClearAg is a global leader in decision support for agriculture, offering best-in-class solutions for customers throughout the agriculture supply chain.  ClearAg offers real-time, hyperlocal weather information and land surface models to make predictive agronomic solutions. 

FarmShots

SATELLITE AND DRONE IMAGERY
Acquired by: Syngenta

FarmShots is a platform to view and analyze satellite and drone imagery for agronomic decision support and the evaluation of relative farm performance for financial and actuarial purposes.​

Whole Harvest

CLEAN LABEL PROCESSING
Acquired by: Bunge

Whole Harvest uses a proprietary refining method to provide hexane-free vegetable oils to the food industry. The company sells wholesale to food companies and markets its branded consumer products through retail and online distribution.​

ZedX, Inc.

DIGITAL FARMING
Acquired by: o-BASF Chemical Company

ZedX, Inc. is a world leader in advanced information technology for integrated decision support and agricultural business intelligence and has been a pioneer in “cloud biology,” or the convergence of data analytics, cloud computing, and biological expertise. ​

CAEB International

BIOLOGICAL DISCOVERY
Acquired by: FMC

As world leaders in endophytic microbes and plant-host interactions, CAEB’s advanced discovery, optimization, and validation platform have developed products that exhibit a range of beneficial properties and strong efficacy for agricultural and environmental applications.​

Observant

IOT AND DIGITAL FARMING
Acquired by: Jain Irrigation

Observant Pty Ltd. is a leading technology platform offering products and services to optimize water management efficiencies for agriculture. Smart, connected software, sensors, and infrastructure enhance water management for connected customers to improve sustainability and profitability on the farm.

Manna Irrigation

IRRIGATION SAAS
Consulting

Manna, an irrigation intelligence leader, provides growers with the actionable information for irrigation decisions. Its sensor-free, software-only approach leverages high-resolution, frequently refreshed satellite data and hyper-local weather information to deliver highly affordable and accessible solutions for site-specific irrigation recommendations

Farm Market ID

AG MARKET INTELLIGENCE SAAS
Consulting 

Farm Market iD aggregates farm-level intelligence to help agribusinesses find and reach customers for their solutions.

Beck Ag

BUSINESS CONSULTING FOR AGRIBUSINESS
Consulting 

Beck Ag is a consulting and solutions provider to Agribusiness that partners with its clients to improve their operating efficiencies and business results.

J&J Family of Farms

PRODUCE GROWER AND PACKER
Acquired by: Sequel Holdings

J&J is a vertically integrated farm-to-fork business with full supply-chain visibility with its grower-partners to ensure consistent produce to customers’ specs, grown and shipped, with food safety and sustainability as its standard.

ACRE Investment Management

REFORESTATION
Executive Team: ACRE Investment Management, LLC

C2I is the parent company of ACRE Investment Management and GreenTrees. GreenTrees is the largest reforestation project globally, holding 98.6% of the voluntary carbon credit market.

Tolleson Lumber

FOREST PRODUCTS
Acquired by: ILIM Timber

Tolleson Land & Timber, Inc. is located in Perry, Georgia. The company operates two sawmills and actively manages a forestry program with significant timber assets.​

RTI International

TECHNICAL AND GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Consulting and Buy Side M&A Advisory

Advised RTI on initiatives serving agricultural entrepreneurs (farmers) and sustainability initiatives worldwide through USAID and other governments / NGO programs.

Trace Genomics

SOIL ANALYTICS
Consulting and Management Team Participation 

Trace Genomics provides soil analysis and metagenomic sequencing to quantify regenerative farming practices for carbon calculations and crop input optimization.

Agradis

AG BIOLOGICALS
Acquired by: Monsanto Company

As a spin-out from Synthentic Genomics, Agradis provides a platform analyzing microbe-plant communities and screening for beneficial microorganisms used to develop additional biological products to improve agricultural productivity.​

Synthetic Genomics / Viridos

BIOTECH FOR ECOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS
Consulting and Management Team Participation 

The company develops solutions addressing environmental and energy challenges through genomics-driven innovations.

Edison Agrosciences

PLANT BASED INDUSTRIAL MATERIAL PRODUCTION
Consulting and Management Team Participation 

Edison is an agricultural biotech that develops and commercializes plant-based industrial materials, with a primary focus on alternative rubber crops.

Biotality

AG BIOLOGICALS
Consulting and Management Team Participation

Biotality develops and manufactures biological crop protection products intended to prevent crop damage from pests.

Dragon

AGRICULTURE INPUTS
Consulting

Dragon develops and markets agrochemical products.

SoilMetrix

AG SOFTWARE
Consulting and Management Team Participation 

SoilMetrix develops crops, soils, and weather algorithms for data layers used to drive selection of crops, crop varieties, fertilizer nutrients, soil amendments, and biological products as well as their respective application rates to agricultural production fields.

Pasteuria Bioscience

AG BIOLOGICALS
Acquired by: Syngenta

Pasteuria develops and commercializes biological products to control plant-parasitic nematodes using the naturally occurring soil bacteria Pasteuria app. A revolutionary in-vitro production process enables the development of cost-effective nematicides with a novel mode of action.​

Paradigm

AG GENETIC SERVICES
Acquired by: o-BASF Chemical Company

Paradigm is a biotechnology company providing a platform focusing on an integrated suite of technologies on the product development cycle, from target discovery to subsequent enhancement of the safety and efficacy profiles of development candidates in agriculture and human health.​

SlantRange

COMPUTER VISION ANALYTICS FOR ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Acquired by: Hiphen

SlantRange is a platform to view, analyze and provide decision support for research, development and management purposes, primarily related to phenotyping for crop performance.

Advisory Boards

We actively serve on Advisory Boards for two of the most well-respected research institutes for food, nutrition, and agriculture: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Nutrition Research Institute and the California Institute for Food & Agricultural Research at UC Davis