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Feb 2023
Stable announces its first organic soybean meal hedge using Fastmarkets data
Stable, a technology-based commodity price risk management solutions provider, today announced the first-ever organic soybean meal hedge. The transaction will be settled against the Fastmarkets organic soybean meal Midwest US price. Click here for the full press release
Mar 2022
Stable Launches Price Hedging on Express Markets, Inc. Poultry Pricing
Stable announces the launch of poultry hedging capabilities, utilizing prices published by Express Markets, Inc. (“EMI”). The unique combination of Stable’s price risk management tools and EMI’s poultry price indices will allow producers and consumers of chicken to protect their businesses against volatile price movements like never before. Click here for the full press release
Jun 2022
Stable Launches Hedging on Mercaris Organic Prices
Source: Mercaris

We are excited to announce that Stable and Mercaris have officially partnered to bring more risk management tools to the organic soybean and corn markets. Starting today, Stable will offer their game-changing price risk protection options that settle directly against the benchmark prices published by Mercaris.

The Mercaris organic prices are the latest additions to Stable's arsenal of over 7,000 global commodity indexes. We are thrilled to partner with Mercaris to unlock new hedging strategies for agricultural and food businesses of every size and sector. Click here for the full press release
Jan 2022
Stable Launches Price Hedging on Fastmarkets Agriculture Prices
Source: Fastmarkets

We're excited to announce our partnership with Fastmarkets, one of the most trusted cross-commodity price reporting agencies (PRA) in the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining, and energy transition markets. Their price data, forecasts, and market analyses give customers a strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets.

We're thrilled to be able to offer clients the ability to secure commodity price risk management tools on their robust market prices. Check out what they have to say about the partnership announcement here. Click here for the full press release
Dec 2021
The Food Biz Podcast: Managing Volatile Commodities Prices with Stable
Source: Barchart

Stable's Commercial Director, Jim Sullivan, and Customer Success Manager, Taylor Coughlin, join Barchart's The Food Biz podcast to discuss how the food industry has changed during their careers and how Stable is helping the industry reimagine commodity price risk management. Click here for the full press release
Nov 2021
Agricultural Insurtech Offers Lifeline for Smallholders
Source: Financial Times

Stable is featured in Financial Times highlighting our vision to change the way the $5trn agri-food industry manages price risk. From small farmers in Africa, to the worlds largest food companies, our technology and team are working to make a real difference to millions of businesses around the world. Click here for the full press release
Nov 2021
Web Panel on Emerging Technology in Global Commodities
Source: JPMorgan Center for Commodities

Stable's Commercial Director, Jim Sullivan, sits down with the JPMorgan Center of Commodities to explain how Stable is offering innovative risk management tools for the agrifood industry to manage their price risk. Click here for the full press release
Nov 2021
Stable Awarded 2021 FIA Innovator of the Year
Source : FIA

Today Stable won the Futures Industry Association ‘Innovator of the Year’ award in Chicago for its work to enable millions of businesses around the world to manage commodity price risk. Thanks to the FIA, Inc. for supporting our vision to redefine risk management and congrats to all the finalists Click here for the full press release


Watch the Stable Team’s Winning Pitch
Oct 2021
Mintec & Stable Partnership
Source: Mintec

We are delighted to announce that Stable now offers the first price risk management tools for the nut market in partnership with Mintec Ltd. Stable will offer options that settle directly against the benchmark nut prices published by Mintec Ltd.
We are hugely excited by this partnership and are thrilled to be bringing this price risk management tool to the nut market. Click here for the full press release
Oct 2021
Stable Selected as Finalist for 2021 Innovator of the Year
Source: FIA

We are honored and excited to have been chosen to compete next week in FIA, Inc.'s showcase event, The Innovators Pavilion, as part of the annual FIA Expo event in Chicago.

The Pavilion consists of start-ups chosen by FIA’s selection committee, based on their relevance to the industry and their innovative approach to solving business problems. Stable will have a booth to introduce their products and services to the FIA community and an opportunity to give a short pitch directly to Expo attendees.

If you are going to be attending FIA Expo, please stop by our booth to meet the team and learn more. See you next week! Click here for the full press release
Oct 2021
Stable raises $46.5M in Series A Funding
Source : TechCrunch

We are thrilled to officially announce our Series A fund raise and say thank you to an epic team of commodity experts, data scientists, investors and risk capital partners that have made it possible.

Their support and encouragement has meant our vision to make hedging simple for millions of businesses around the world, seems a little closer today. This next stage in our adventure will allow us to continue to build the team and the technology to help many more clients manage volatile prices in a simple, modern and effective way.

Thank you to our risk capital partners: Anthemis Group, Notion Capital, Greycroft, Continental Grain Company, Syngenta, and Ascot Group.

Check out what our partners say about us :
Notion Capital
Anthemis

Click here for the full press release
Sep 2021
High U.S. Meat Prices Are Here to Stay Amid Depleted Reserves
Source: Bloomberg

Stable's Commercial Director, Jim Sullivan, expands on how the Covid-19 outbreak depleted America’s meat reserves, and new data from the U.S. shows they still haven’t recovered. Click here for the full press release
Aug 2021
Farm of the Future Interview: Stable
Source: Farm of the Future

Stable's Commercial Director, Jim Sullivan, talks with Ag Information Network on how Stable's commodity risk management tools are helping manage price risk in traditionally unhedgeable commodity markets.

Interview Part 1
Interview Part 2
Aug 2021
Jim Sullivan & Stable Want to Change the Way People Manage Commodity Risk
Source: John Lothian

Stable's Commercial Director, Jim Sullivan, says Stable offers an innovative solution to commodity hedging for those commodities that don’t have listed futures contracts and for those commodities where those contracts may not work as well as they should.. Click here for the full press release
Dec 2020
Understanding Price Risk Management: An Interview with Stable
Source: Urner Barry

Urner Barry sat down with Richard Counsell to understand more about Stable’s business and the help they are providing the industry with their risk management tools. Growing up with a farming background in the southern UK, Richard spent his early career managing both commodity and technology focused businesses in London, Chicago and Melbourne. As the CEO of Stable, Richard currently divides his time between London, Minneapolis and Bermuda, expanding Stable's global platform to match complex commodity risks with simple financial solutions. Click here for the full press release
Aug 2020
Stable showcased as 2020 Insurtech Initiative of the Year Finalist
Source: Business Insurance

We're thrilled to be recognized as a finalist of Business Insurance's US Insurance Awards in the category of Insurtech Initiative of the Year for Underwriting and Insurance Platforms. Congratulations to all other finalists and this year's winners Click here for the full press release
Mar 2020
KTN Agri-Tech Investment Showcase
Source: KTN AgriFood Team

Stable among 55 other UK based startups to participate in KTN Agri-Tech Investment Showcase programme. Click here for the full press release
Jan 2020
Start-Ups Showcase: 15 Innovators Shaping the Future of Farming
Source: World Agri-tech

Stable recognized by the World Agri-tech Innovation Summit as one of the top 15 startups bringing innovative solutions to the agriculture industry to shape the future of the farming sector. Click here for the full press release
Dec 2019
Stable places as Runner Up at 2019 TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin
Source: TechCrunch

Stable competes against various disruptive technology startups at 2019 TechCrunch Disrupt in Berlin. Click the link below to watch CEO & Founder Rich Counsell present to the judges on how Stable is modernizing commodity risk management with simple and innovative index based hedging tools. Click here for the full press release
Apr 2019
7 Top Agtech Startups Defining the Future of Agriculture
Source: AgFunderNews (AFN)

Stable recognized among other young companies shaping the future of agriculture. Click here for the full press release
Mar 2019
Stable raises $6M in Seed Funding
Source: AgFunderNews (AFN)

We are excited to share we have raised $6M in Seed round capital to accelerate our mission to help the agrifood industry manage its commodity price risk. Thank you to Anthemis, Syngenta, Baloise, and Ascot for believing in the vision and embarking on this journey with us. Click here for the full press release

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