| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.10.2024 | Agrolend Secures $53 Million to Fuel Agribusiness Growth in Brazil | In the heart of Brazil's agribusiness landscape, a digital bank is making waves. Agrolend, based in São Paulo, has successfully raised $53 million in a Series C funding round. This latest influx of capital brings the company’s total funding... |
| 18.10.2024 | Agrifintech Agrolend banks $53m Series C: ‘It demonstrates the market’s confidence in our business model’ | Agribusiness finance platform Agrolend has raised a $53 million Series C round, bringing its total funding to nearly $100 million.
Impact investor Creation Investments and Syngenta Group Ventures led the round.
New investors Vivo Ventures, ... |
| 01.07.2024 | Exclusive: With $12m in fresh funding, Brazil’s Genica tackles soil health, the next phase for ag biologicals | In what it says is the largest transaction so far for ag biologicals in Brazil this year, Genica has raised R$68 million ($12 million), with Mitsubishi’s Agrex group leading the round.
Brazil’s state bank Banco do Brasil also invested throu... |
| 09.06.2022 | More than 1,500 startups mapped in report on Brazilian agrifoodtech innovation | The Covid-19 pandemic rapidly accelerated technology development and adoption in Brazil’s agriculture sector, according to a new market map of the Brazilian agtech ecosystem.
The Radar Agtech Brasil map details 1,574 agtech companies in 33 ... |
| 28.04.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Middle East in the money as Foodics gets $170m, Red Sea Farms nets $19m | This week, UAE-based Foodics landed Series C funding to bolster its order management and fintech platform for restaurants. In neighboring Saudi Arabia, Red Sea Farms raised funds to expand its greenhouse tech that leverages saltwater to cul... |
| 28.04.2022 | EXCLUSIVE: Brazil’s Decoy scores $2m seed round to bring biologicals to animal ag | When it comes to crops, biologicals are all the rage. Could livestock be next?
Brazil’s Decoy Smart Control certainly thinks so. The Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo-based startup claims it is the first team in the world to develop biological cont... |
| 15.03.2022 | Climate tech will become the next big VC thesis for Latin America | Francisco Jardim is founding partner, and Marcella Falcão is associate, at SP Ventures, São Paulo, Brazil. The views expressed in this guest commentary are the authors’ own and do not necessarily reflect those of AFN.
Last month, SP Venture... |
| 16.12.2021 | Agrofy adds $30m to grow ‘agfintech’ services | Argentine farmer marketplace Agrofy has raised $30 million in Series C funding. The deal takes its total funding to date to $66 million across four rounds. |
| 04.11.2021 | Ag fintech company Traive raises $17m Series A funding for US-Brazil venture | Ag fintech in Latin America got a boost recently when US- and Brazil-based Traive, a technology platform that helps farmers access capital, announced its $17 million Series A fundraise. Traive says this is one of the largest-ever fundings c... |
| 04.11.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Ag fintech company Traive raises $17m in Series A funding for US/Brazil venture | Ag fintech in Latin America got a boost recently when US/Brazil-based Traive, a technology platform that helps farmers access capital, announced its $17 million Series A fundraise. Traive says this is one of the largest-ever fundings closed... |
| 08.10.2021 | Yara International : Growth Ventures invests in one of Latin America's top venture capital firms | Leading SP Ventures is Francisco Jardim and his team who bring deep agriculture and technology focus with cumulative decades of experience in the Latin American agri-food startup community. Started in 2007 as a way to tap into the rapidly g... |
| 30.09.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: SP Ventures closes fund on $42m, adds major financial industry players | Brazilian agrifoodtech investor SP Ventures has closed its latest fund on $41.5 million. The fourth close adds big-name investors to the table including Banco do Brasil, one of the largest financial institutions in the country with 50% of t... |
| 25.08.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: ZoomAgri raises $3.3m for ‘vision-as-a-service’ food inspection tech | ZoomAgri has raised $3.3 million in a “pre-Series A” round from SP Ventures, Artesian, GrainInnovate, and Glocal, AFN can reveal. This round brings the business’s total funding to $4.75 million.
Headquartered in Spain but mainly operating i... |
| 09.07.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Brazilian farm management platform Aegro scores seed funding, eyes fintech opportunity | Brazilian farm management platform Aegro has raised 12 million reals ($2.22 million) in a seed round led by existing investors SP Ventures and ABSeed.
Also participating in the fundraise were local VC firms SLC Ventures — the corporate vent... |
| 21.04.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Brazil’s Agrolend raises $1.6m seed funding for farmer fintech solution | Ag fintech has been catching more attention lately, as startups see an opportunity to modernize some of the more antiquated ways in which farmers take care of financial matters.
Brazil’s Agrolend is one of those startups, and it just raised... |
| 26.03.2021 | Confira os destaques da edição especial AGTECH no Innovation Tour Setorial | Esta semana ocorreu a edição especial AGTECH da mais importante imersão no ecossistema de inovação e startups do País: o Startupi Innovation Tour. A edição setorial focou na inovação no Agronegócio e reuniu os líderes da SP Ventures, Agrono... |
| 22.02.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: SP Ventures adds World Bank in third close, exits fintech startup Brain Ag | It’s a big week for LatAm’s agrifoodtech fund, SP Ventures. The Brazil-based outfit has closed its third fund, AgVentures II, led by the International Finance Corporation, which is a member of the World Bank. The fund will close on around $... |
| 17.02.2021 | Agtech CVC: BASF Venture Capital on ‘catalyzing change for the chemicals industry’ | This interview is part of a series on agrifoodtech corporate VC investment strategies and insights. The series is produced in collaboration with the OnRamp Agriculture Conference, which brings together the agriculture and food industries’ l... |
| 22.12.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: SP Ventures gets bullish on livestock tech with second close of LatAm fund | Brazilian VC firm SP Ventures has announced the second close of its AgVentures II fund, which now exceeds 130 million reals ($25 million).
French animal nutrition company Adisseo and Florida’s Mosaic, one of the largest miners of phosphate ... |
| 10.11.2020 | Brazil & US fintech startup Traive raises $2.5m pre-Series A from SP Ventures | Ag fintech startup Traive Finance has raised $2.5 million in a round led by Brazil-based SP Ventures. Bread & Butter Ventures and Techstars also participated in the financing.
This is the third investment out of the new 90 million real ... |
| 27.08.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: SP Ventures announces first close of Syngenta Ventures, BASF-backed LatAm Fund | Brazil-based SP Ventures has announced the first close of a $50 million fund targeting agrifoodtech in Latin America. The firm raised $17.2 million in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The fund will focus on seed and Series A-stage deals ... |
| 27.08.2020 | SP Ventures announces first close of Syngenta Ventures, BASF-backed LatAm fund | |
| 16.01.2020 | Amazon for ag? Agrofy closes $23m Series B in LatAm’s largest-ever agtech deal | Argentina’s Agrofy has raised $23 million in Series B funding in the largest fundraising effort for a Latin American agtech startup on record. Agrofy is an online agribusiness marketplace matching buyers and sellers of a wide range of agric... |
| 12.07.2018 | Brazil Agtech Market Map: 338 Startups Innovating in Agricultural Powerhouse | Editor’s Note: Francisco Jardim is founding partner of Brazilian agtech venture capital firm SP Ventures. Working with Centro Universitário FEI, and with the help of his colleagues, Agtech Garage, Pulse, Usina, Esalqtec, and Agrihub, here J... |
| 26.03.2018 | Syngenta to Acquire Brazilian Farm Management Software Strider as Competition Heats Up in Latin America | **Update: Added comments Dan Burdett, global head of digital agriculture at Syngenta. **
Syngenta plans to acquire Brazilian farm management software platform Strider for an undisclosed sum, pending regulatory review by Brazilian authoritie... |
| 12.03.2018 | Q&A: SP Ventures On Becoming the Leading Farm Tech Investor In South America | In 2017, when agrifood tech deal count fell globally, Brazil and Argentina were two of just 15 countries with positive growth in deal count according to the AgFunder Agrifood Tech Investing Report 2017. If this trend is to continue, SP Vent... |
| 06.03.2018 | Syngenta and Bunge Ventures Back South American Agribusiness Marketplace Agrofy | Argentinian agribusiness marketplace Agrofy has raised an oversubscribed $6 million Series A round led by Sao Paulo Ventures (SP), along with corporate VCs Bunge Ventures, Syngenta Ventures, and Endeavor Catalyst, a pan-Latin American techn... |
| 20.07.2017 | Brazil’s First Agtech Accelerator Program Pulse Seeking Startups | Pulse, Brazil’s first dedicated agtech accelerator program, is accepting applications for its first cohort of 10 startups. The accelerator program will offer no funding, nor require equity, but will provide six months of programming on two ... |
| 30.03.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Latin American Startups, Ag Marketplaces, Bio-Inputs, Sensors, more | Arvegenix, an ag biotech company creating genetically improved field pennycress for oil, raised a $2.4 million venture round with a long list of investors, including some agtech-focused funders like agtech accelerator The Yield Lab, Cultivi... |
| 19.05.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Precision Ag Startups from Outside the US Raise Seed Funding, more | Avrio Capital Completes Three Investments
Avrio Capital has now deployed C$15 million of capital from its $110 million Fund III. The investments include poultry and swine health data analytics startup Intelia Technologies Inc. frozen fruit ... |
| - | The future of farming: how Brazilian agtechs can multiply and change the sector for good | The number of Brazilian startups focused on agribusiness – the agtechs – grew 40% in 2020 compared to the previous pre-pandemic year, according to the Radar AgTech Brasil 2020/2021 report, a document prepared in partnership by Brazilian Agr... |
| - | BASF investe US$ 4 milhões em fundo administrado pela SP Ventures | A BASF Venture Capital é um dos maiores investidores na primeira rodada de captação de recursos do fundo brasileiro AgVentures II, alocando US$4 milhões. O fundo é administrado pela SP Ventures, com sede em São Paulo (SP), e visa às startup... |
| - | Startup do setor agrícola recebe R$2,5 milhões de investimento | A Agronow, empresa que desenvolve uma plataforma de mapeamento agrícola que estima, informa e projeta a produtividade agrícola em menos de um minuto, recebeu um aporte de R$2,5 milhões do Fundo Inovação Paulista, e a partir de agora, faz pa... |
| - | Brazilian Pink Farms grows to new heights | Imagine a farm that is seven meters high. That’s right. A seven-meter-high urban vertical farm.
This is Pink Farms, a farm tech located in Vila Leopoldina, a neighborhood in downtown São Paulo. Inside, towers of up to ten floors, lit by red... |
| - | Após convite para programa da NASA, Agrosmart recebe aporte | A Agrosmart, empresa que utiliza o conceito de cultivo inteligente, monitorando fazendas em tempo real, recebe aporte do Fundo de Inovação Paulista, realizado pela Desenvolve SP, e agora faz parte do portfólio de empresas da SP Ventures. O ... |
| - | Fintech recebe aporte de R$2,5 milhões e foca em MEIs | A fintech Moneto acaba de anunciar o aporte de R$2,5 milhões e é a nova empresa aportada pelo Fundo de Inovação Paulista, idealizado pela Desenvolve SP e gerido pela SP Ventures, gestora de capital de risco para startups do setor de agroneg... |
| - | Empreendedor e investidor comentam grandes oportunidades de inovação com tecnologia aplicada em áreas tradicionais | Recebemos no escritório do Startupi dois jovens profissionais que admiro e vieram falar sobre suas trajetórias (ímpares) e opiniões sobre o mercado (super embasadas). A grande mensagem da conversa é: além de focar em tendências ou na tecnol... |
| - | Confira os destaques da edição especial AGTECH no Innovation Tour Setorial | Esta semana ocorreu a edição especial AGTECH da mais importante imersão no ecossistema de inovação e startups do País: o Startupi Innovation Tour. A edição setorial focou na inovação no Agronegócio e reuniu os líderes da SP Ventures, Agrono... |
| - | Agtech recebe aporte de R$2 milhões da SP Ventures e Capital Lab | A SP Ventures, gestora de fundos de investimento de Venture Capital especializada no agronegócio, e a Capital Lab, plataforma de investimento proprietário de capital seed e de risco, anunciam aporte de R$2 milhões na Pink Farms, uma das pri... |
| - | Plataforma de biotecnologia recebe aporte de R$6 milhões | A SP Ventures, gestora de fundos de investimento de Venture Capital especializada no agronegócio, anuncia o aporte de R$6 milhões na Gênica Inovação Biotecnológica, plataforma de acesso ao mercado agrícola para companhias de biodefensivos, ... |
| - | Onde estão as grandes oportunidades do Agro? Uma visão de dentro da porteira | Em outubro de 2016 acompanhamos o lançamento do AgriHub, uma rede de inovação em agricultura que conecta produtores, startups, mentores, empresas, pesquisadores e investidores, criando um ecossistema de inovação e empreendedorismo no agrone... |
