Grosvenor Food & AgTech has furthered its funding of Oxbury Bank – the UK’s first and only agtech bank – enabling more British farming and supply chain businesses to enhance their productivity and sustainability.

Oxbury has raised a further £20 million in equity from new and existing investors, including Grosvenor Food & AgTech, bringing the total capital raised from its latest funding round to £68 million. 

Anthony James, Managing Partner, Grosvenor Food & AgTech, said: “Grosvenor’s investment strengthens our support in Oxbury, helping to grow its operation, raise capital and increase its lending power, which will enable more British farming and supply chain businesses to enhance their productivity and sustainability. 

“Oxbury has made an immediate impact to UK agriculture, substantiated by its impressive lending figures and ambitious future targets, demonstrating that it is uniquely placed to support British farming through its innovative banking products and fintech solutions.”

Since first opening its doors to lending in February 2021, Oxbury has had a rapid impact on the funding available across Britain’s farming and food supply chain. Its strong performance since launch means it is forecast to breakeven by the end of 2022.
 
 The bank has a target to lend £1 billion to farming and food businesses by 2024, at least 50% of which will be to fund the transition to climate-positive production.

Oxbury’s unique and proprietary agtech banking platform – Oxbury Earth – is also powering a new range of unique data solutions for Oxbury’s farming and supply chain customers enabling them to gain powerful new data insights to improve sustainability, provenance and productivity performance across their businesses. 

James Farrar, Oxbury’s co-founder and CEO said: “Oxbury offers a completely different vision for how a finance company can support the UK’s critical farming and food ecosystem with both short- and long-term financing to meet the pressures of today and tomorrow. 

“With the power of our new agtech banking platform, Oxbury Earth, combined with our decades of finance and agricultural experience, we’ve identified a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the way farming, food businesses and the rural economy are supported by their bank to support ongoing food security and the natural environment.”