| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.12.2025 | Crisp Secures $26M to Expand AI Retail Platform | Crisp, an Arkansas-based AI company, just raised $26 million. This Series B1 round fuels expansion. The focus? Retail and supply chain solutions. Crisp’s AI isn’t general. It’s built *for* retail. Expect faster growth, new features, and mor... |
| 12.12.2025 | Crisp Raises $26 Million In Series B1 Funding To Scale Vertical AI For Retail And Supply Chains | Crisp has closed a $26 million Series B1 financing round to accelerate the expansion of its vertical artificial intelligence solutions for the retail industry. The round was led by Paine Schwartz Partners, with participation from Blue Cloud... |
| 10.12.2025 | Crisp Closes $26M Series B1 Funding | Crisp, a Bentonville, Ark.-based provider of an AI platform for retail data, closed a $26M Series B1 funding round.
The round was led by Paine Schwartz Partners with participation from Blue Cloud Ventures, FirstMark Capital, Cox, DNX, Prolo... |
| 12.11.2025 | Lucky Energy Raises $25M in Series B Funding | Lucky Energy, a NYC-based energy beverage brand, raised $25M in Series B funding.
The round was led by Paine Schwartz Partners with participation from North Fifth Services, LLC, Sequel, and Joyance Partners, among others.
The company intend... |
| 12.11.2025 | Lucky Energy: $25 Million Series B Raised To Accelerate National Growth | Lucky Energy, one of the fastest-growing energy beverage brands in the United States, announced it has raised $25 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by Paine Schwartz Partners. The round included participation from exis... |
| 03.11.2025 | Caulipower purchased by private equity firm | Listen to the article 2 min
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Plant-based brand Caulipower is being acquired by private equity firm Paine Schwartz Partners.
Caulipower, which makes cauliflower-crust pizz... |
| 04.09.2024 | Paine Schwartz Partners Adds Adam Klein as Managing Director on its Investment Team | NEW YORK, Sept. 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Paine Schwartz Partners, a global leader in sustainable food chain investing, today announced the addition of Adam Klein as a Managing Director on its Investment Team. Mr. Klein brings over 20 years o... |
| 27.07.2024 | The Food Industry's Sustainability Shift: A New Era of Accountability | The food industry is at a crossroads. As climate change looms large, businesses are under pressure to adapt. The recent acquisition of Foodsteps by Registrar Corp signals a pivotal moment in this transformation. This merger is not just a bu... |
| 23.07.2024 | Registrar Corp acquires Foodsteps as food industry faces mounting pressures to deliver supply chain sustainability | LONDON, and HAMPTON, Va. , July 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Registrar Corp ("Registrar"), a Paine Schwartz Partners portfolio company and the U.S.' leading provider of regulatory and compliance software, has acquired Foodsteps, a pio... |
| 23.07.2024 | ECHL's Maine Mariners to be Acquired by Dexter Paine | PORTLAND, Maine, July 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Maine Mariners today announced that Dexter Paine has reached an agreement to acquire the team from Comcast Spectacor.
A native of North Conway, New Hampshire, and lifelong Boston Bruins fan... |
| 11.06.2024 | Paine Schwartz Partners selects Backstop Solutions to streamline investor relations and deal management | NEW YORK, June 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- ION Analytics, a global provider of personalized, predictive data and market intelligence to advisers, banks, investors, law firms, and corporates announces that Paine Schwartz Partners has selected I... |
| 03.06.2024 | Paine Schwartz Partners Releases Seventh Annual Sustainability Report | NEW YORK, June 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ --Paine Schwartz Partners ("Paine Schwartz"), a global leader in sustainable food chain investing, today announced the publication of its seventh Annual Sustainability Report, which highlights s... |
| 26.03.2024 | ‘Incremental’ innovation, a warning on the push for profitability and investors ‘scared shitless’ about portfolios: overheard at World Agri-Tech | Hours after an upbeat conversation on agri-tech investing featuring Vinod Khosla and Dave Friedberg on stage at the World Agri-Tech summit in San Francisco last Tuesday, delegates were brought back down to earth by investors on a later pane... |
| 28.09.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Paine Schwartz launches $1.7bn agrifood fund, Cricket One unveils new plant, Infarm ‘declared bankrupt’ | Agrifood’s biggest news this week is PE firm Paine Schwartz closing its $1.7 billion food- and agribusiness-focused fund. Fund VI is “exclusively focused on sustainable investments” in food and agribusiness, and the firm has already deploye... |
| 27.09.2023 | Paine Schwartz Partners closes $1.7 billion fund | NEW YORK — Paine Schwartz Partners has closed on a Paine Schwartz Food Chain Fund VI, L.P. at $1.7 billion. The fund is aimed at investing in the food and agribusiness value chain.
The company has invested about 40% of Fund VI in AgroFresh ... |
| 26.09.2023 | Paine Schwartz Partners Closes $1.7 Billion Food and Agribusiness-Focused Fund VI | Paine Schwartz Partners, a NYC-based private equity firm which specializes in sustainable food chain investing, closed its $1.7M Billion food and agribusiness-focused Fund VI.
Fund VI, which is the largest fund dedicated to investing across... |
| 26.04.2023 | Stop food waste day: Later-stage funding, M&A remain robust for US food waste mitigation startups, despite downturn | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
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| 22.05.2022 | Registrar Corp Announces Acquisition of Cosmetic Industry SaaS Company, Cosmetri, GmbH | The Cosmetri acquisition expands our value proposition by providing existing clients and prospects with a robust software solution that helps meet regulatory and production needs on a global basis.”
— David Lennarz, CEO of Registrar Corp
HA... |
| 08.03.2022 | EQT Future to invest in SNFL and IFG, two innovators in fruit genetics | EQT Future to invest in SNFL and IFG, two innovators in fruit genetics
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EQT Future to make a significant minority investment in the combination of SNFL and IFG, two innovators in table grape an... |
| 24.11.2021 | Mitsui : to Participate in Hendrix Genetics, B.V., a leading multi-species animal genetics and technology company Based in the Netherlands, through Investment in a Paine Schwartz Partners Fund | Mitsui & Co., Ltd. ("Mitsui", Head Office: Tokyo, President and CEO: Kenichi Hori) has agreed to participate as an affiliated co-investment partner in a fund formed by Paine Schwartz Partners ("PSP"), a private equit... |
| 13.07.2021 | Organic beverage company Suja Life sold to investor group | Suja Life, the Oceanside organic juice maker that stocks drinks seen in health food and grocery stores across the country, announced Tuesday it has been purchased by Paine Schwartz Partners, a private equity firm based in San Mateo and New ... |
| 13.07.2021 | Suja Life is Acquired by Paine Schwartz Partners | SAN DIEGO, July 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Suja Life, the California-based leader in cold-pressured, organic beverages announces today its acquisition by Paine Schwartz Partners, a global leader in sustainable food chain investing, from Goldm... |
| 13.07.2021 | Suja Life is Acquired by Paine Schwartz Partners | |
| 22.01.2021 | BRIEF: Verdesian Life Sciences acquired by AEA Investors in exit for Paine Schwartz | Plant health and nutrition startup Verdesian Life Sciences has been acquired by New York-based AEA Investors, AFN has learned. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Verdesian was launched in 2012 by agrifood-focused private equi... |
| 15.12.2020 | Temasek acquires micro-irrigation firm Rivulis | Temasek has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in Israeli irrigation tech company Rivulis. The Singapore sovereign fund now owns approximately 85% of Rivulis, having taken control of stakes previously held by Israel’s FIMI Opport... |
| 15.12.2020 | Temasek acquires micro-irrigation firm Rivulis | Temasek has acquired a majority stake in Israeli irrigation tech company Rivulis. The Singapore sovereign fund now owns approximately 85% of Rivulis, having taken control of stakes previously held by Israel’s FIMI Opportunity Funds and the ... |
| 15.06.2020 | AgroFresh Solutions Receives Commitment for $150 Million Strategic Equity Investment from Paine Schwartz Partners as Key Component of Comprehensive Refinancing | - |
| 06.11.2019 | Paine Schwartz is eyeing plant-based revolution with new $1.5bn PE fund | Institutional investors are increasingly looking to invest in important sectors that matter and food and agriculture is one of them, according to Kevin Schwartz.
He should know. Schwartz is managing director of Paine Schwartz, the private e... |
| 01.10.2019 | Paine Schwartz closes $1.425bn food & ag private equity fund | Paine Schwartz Partners has raised $1.425 billion for its fifth food and agribusiness private equity fund. This is the largest private equity fund for the industry outside of the farmland space.
The fund exceeding its original target and ha... |
| 01.10.2019 | Paine Schwartz Partners Closes Food and Agribusiness-Focused Fund V at $1.425 Billion | - |
| 26.03.2019 | Animal AgTech, The Sector’s Awkward Uncle, Proudly Struts Its Stuff In San Fran | This year’s Rethink AgriFood Innovation Week in San Francisco saw an awkward uncle stride proudly into the week’s agenda for the first time with last Monday’s inaugural Animal AgTech Innovation Summit.
Animal agritech often struggles to evi... |
| 10.01.2019 | Term Sheet — Thursday, January 10 | CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Good morning, Term Sheet readers.
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Today, Axios reported that Fidelity will lead a $300 million funding round in e-scooter startup, Bird. Well, that’s a hea... |
| 08.10.2018 | MS Biotech Receives Strategic Investment from Paine Schwartz Partners | MS Biotec Holdings, Inc., a Wamego, Kansas-based provider of natural, proprietary products that maximize performance and enhance profitability in the beef feedlot and dairy markets, received an investment from Paine Schwartz Partners.
Paine... |
| 18.09.2018 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, September 18 | A NEW UNICORN
Good morning, Term Sheet reader. Lots of funding news today:
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| 14.09.2017 | Paine Schwartz-backed Global ID Appoints Brad Riemenapp CEO | The Global ID Group, a Paine Schwartz Partners, LLC portfolio company and a market leading platform dedicated to providing food safety and food quality solutions, today announced that, in connection with its succession planning, Brad Riemen... |
| 13.08.2017 | Paine-backed Global ID Acquires Analitus | The Global ID Group, a Paine Schwartz Partners, LLC portfolio company and a market leading platform dedicated to providing food safety and food quality solutions, today announced that it has acquired Analitus Análises Biotecnológicas, a lea... |
| 10.02.2017 | Term Sheet — Friday, February 10 | ET CETERA
Deal: Podium, an enterprise software startup, is working with investment bank Houlihan Lokey to raise a large new round of funding, Term Sheet has learned. The company seeks around $20 million to $25 million at a pre-money valuati... |
| 06.01.2015 | Paine & Partners closes food, agribusiness-focused fund oversubscribed at $893m | - |
| 06.01.2015 | Paine & Partners raises $893 million for new agribusines fund | - |
| 06.01.2015 | Paine & Partners raises $893 mln for fourth fund | - |
| - | Is Now the Time to Invest in Ag Tech? | A look at a market that some GPs claim is overlooked by private equity, which means greater opportunity for those already investing. |
