A Ugandan advisory firm helped agribusinesses raise $1.74 million, then discovered why its own success fee was a hard sell. Its next move says plenty about the gap between having a business and being able to finance it.
Conexus built its edge by treating banking deposits as Saskatchewan development capital. Now a three-way merger has made the co-op bigger, richer and harder to keep personal - which is exactly why its experiment matters.
Perry Vieth left a $7 billion bond desk to buy dirt. Eighteen years later, corn and soybean acres he leases to family farmers are worth $1.85 billion - and Wall Street finally wants in.