Rabo Food & Agri Innovation Fund supports portfolio company Vence with follow-on investment in $12m Series A round” Vence offers virtual fencing solutions to beef cattle ranchers. By enabling remote animal management and automated herding through its proprietary wearable device and user platform, Vence allows farmers to reduce capex-investments and adopt rotational grazing. Proceeds from the equity raise will be directed to further scaling the company and driving continued product development of new value-added functionality

With the investment, GO Sharing, the Dutch scale-up in electric shared transport, will strengthen its proposition in electric shared mopeds and expand its company offerings with e-bikes as well as electric cars. The capital injection will also accelerate the international expansion. In addition to the Netherlands, GO Sharing is already active in Austria and this week the company also started in Antwerp. Germany, the UK and Turkey will be added to the service area over the coming months. The investment round is led by investment company Opportunity Partners and supported by existing shareholder Rabo Investments.

Rabo Corporate Investments, jointly with Smile Invest and management, acquires IGS GeboJagema, the European market leader in high-end injection moulding for optical and medical end markets. This acquisition signifies the next phase for the high-tech company in Eindhoven, focused on market expansion and international growth, in particular in the United States.

The proceeds will be used to fund Vivera’s expansion plan aimed to triple revenues from EUR 85m in 2020 to EUR 250m in 2025. In order to meet growing demand for vegetarian and vegan food, Vivera will invest at least EUR 30m in expansion of its production facilities in the Netherlands over the next 3 years. The European plant-based food market is expected to continue to see strong double-digit growth, driven by a number of favourable long-term market trends (e.g. increased sustainability awareness, focus on healthy lifestyles and improvements in product quality and affordability). During the Covid-19 lockdown, demand grew even faster on the back of increasing health awareness and high demand in the food retail channel. Vivera has strong growth expectations and is committed to support the movement to healthier and more sustainable plant-based diets.

Rabo Corporate Investments is pleased to announce its follow-on equity investment in portfolio business The Kingfish Company, ahead of today’s Initial Public Offering on the Norwegian Stock Exchange.

InnovoPro develops revolutionary chickpea-based food products. The capital from the Series B investment round, led by Jerusalem Venture Partners, will be used to further scale operations.

Oatly gains momentum in its global plant-based movement and will use the injection of capital to fund the company’s overall growth plans, which include expansion in current markets and new production plants and related jobs in Europe, the US and Asia.

Cindy van Rijswick, expert Fresh Produce at Rabobank, together with portfolio company 30MHz will dive into how innovations can support sustainability.

BeeHero enables growers to optimize crop yields by using precision pollination technology and beekeepers to improve bee health. The Seed funding will be used to further scale operations.

Erasmus Centre of Entrepreneurship in collaboration with Rotterdam School of Management monitors growing companies in the Netherlands. This results in a ranking of the fastest growing companies: the Top 250 Scale-ups 2020 in which 30MHz was listed.