Paine Schwartz Partners Invests in Urban Farmer

Urban Farmer Acquires CAULIPOWER

November 3, 2025

Food & Beverage

Urban Farmer, a Paine Schwartz Partners–backed manufacturer of frozen dough and pizza products based in Manteno, Illinois, has acquired CAULIPOWER, the leading better‑for‑you cauliflower‑crust and gluten‑free frozen pizza brand. The deal combines Urban Farmer’s integrated manufacturing platform with CAULIPOWER’s brand, nationwide distribution, and innovation pipeline to create a vertically integrated frozen better‑for‑you foods platform; financial terms were not disclosed.

Paine Schwartz Partners Makes Growth Equity Investment in Advanced Agrilytics

September 17, 2019

Agriculture

Paine Schwartz Partners has made its first growth equity investment from Paine Schwartz Food Chain Fund V in Advanced Agrilytics, an agronomics services business that provides precision farming analytics and on‑the‑ground agronomic advice. Financial terms were not disclosed; the investment will support scaling the business, adding data scientists and agronomic professionals, and expanding customer and implementation teams.

Paine Schwartz Partners Takes AgroFresh Private

April 3, 2023

Agriculture

Paine Schwartz Partners has completed a go-private acquisition of AgroFresh Solutions, Inc., acquiring the company’s outstanding public shares and delisting it from NASDAQ. The transaction gives AgroFresh a private ownership structure intended to strengthen its financial foundation and support expansion initiatives, innovation investment, and its mission to reduce food waste across the fresh produce supply chain.

Paine Schwartz Invests in Chex Finer Foods

June 16, 2025

Food & Beverage

Paine Schwartz Partners has made a strategic growth investment from its Food Chain Fund VI into Chex Finer Foods, a third-generation, family-owned specialty and natural foods distributor headquartered in Mansfield, Massachusetts. The firm will partner with Chex’s management to accelerate organic growth, invest in technology and operations, and pursue M&A in the fragmented specialty food distribution market.

Paine Schwartz Makes Growth Investment in Elemental Enzymes

June 5, 2023

Biotechnology

Paine Schwartz Partners (via Paine Schwartz Food Chain Fund VI) completed a strategic growth investment in Elemental Enzymes, a St. Louis-based developer of naturally occurring enzymes and biochemicals for commercial agriculture. Financial terms were not disclosed; the Elemental Enzymes management team will remain in place and will work with Paine Schwartz to expand R&D, launch new products, and enter new markets.

Paine Schwartz Partners Invests in Kynetec

March 19, 2021

Data & Analytics

Paine Schwartz Partners has made a growth investment in Kynetec through Paine Schwartz Food Chain Fund V; financial terms were not disclosed. Kynetec, a provider of agricultural and animal health market research, data and insights based in Newbury, England (with operations in St. Louis, Missouri), will use the capital to accelerate growth, expand capabilities and pursue complementary bolt-on acquisitions.