INVESTMENTS | AG OPPORTUNITIES I FUND
Overview
Through our Ag Opportunities platform, we invest in companies across the agriculture industry with a focus on established companies in the Midwestern United States. Our experience in production agriculture provides us with unique perspective and real-time insight into factors affecting the industry. this bottom-up approach paired with experience, relationships with agribusiness executives, lenders, and financial advisors lead to proprietary investment opportunities and give us the ability to add value to the companies we partner with.
Our Approach
We take a principled, partnership approach towards investing in agribusiness companies. We collaborate with company owners and management teams to develop and execute a shared vision for each company. While each business plan is unique, our approach will be consistent in the following ways:
What we will do:
Support the culture and legacy that made the business successful
Provide capital for growth opportunities (organic and via acquisition)
Engage our network of industry leaders to help advance company initiatives
Help locate key personnel (as needed)
Encourage local community involvement
Incentivize key employees to ensure alignment of interests
Provide strategic oversight and advice
What we won’t do:
Micromanage
Over-leverage
Investment Criteria
We invest in companies that generally fit the following criteria, but we evaluate opportunities that don’t necessarily meet all these guidelines:
+Company Profile
Established and successful business; greenfield development and distressed situations will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis
+Financial Metrics
Revenue: $20 - $200 million EBITDA: $4 - $30 million
+Investment Type
Majority equity investment for shareholder liquidity and/or growth equity
+Industry
Agriculture, renewable energy, and related industries (agriculture need not be the sole focus, but should constitute a substantial part of the company’s operations)
+Sectors
Equipment, processing, logistics, storage, transportation, services, manufacturing, inputs, wholesale
+Geography
United States, with a focus on the Midwestern United States