Sociedad Quimica Y Minera

Founded in Chile in 1968, SQM is a global company operating in diverse industries through five business lines: Specialty Plant Nutrition, Iodine and derivatives, Lithium and derivatives, Industrial Chemicals, and Potassium. It primarily extracts these materials from salt brine deposits and caliche ore.

Pablo Altimiras

General Manager / CEO Iodine, Plant Nutrition and Industrial Chemicals Division

2 past transactions

Adionics

Series B in 2023
Adionics is a Paris-based technology company focused on saline water valorization and desalination. It develops and commercializes processes and chemicals for removing salts from saline sources, including AquaOmnes, a water-desalination technology that extracts salt from salty water to leave fresh water, and Flionex, an ion-absorbing liquid that binds salts. The company serves municipal water, power, oil and gas, and chemical markets. It also develops FLIONEX, a selective extractant for lithium salts, and pursues research to enable lithium recycling from batteries. Its saline water treatment platform uses a chemical-free liquid-liquid extraction with hot water stripping to recover lithium, valuable minerals, or remove impurities from brine, seawater and other saline sources, aiming for cost-effective, low-environmental impact solutions.

Instacrops

Venture Round in 2022
Instacrops develops a real-time agronomic platform that converts farm data into actionable insights. It combines IoT sensors, satellite imagery, and AI to monitor agro-climatic parameters, weather forecasts, soil and crop health, pest risks, and irrigation needs. The platform provides preventative alerts and optimization recommendations for irrigation, fertilizer use, and pest management, delivering information through dashboards, reports, and alerts via email or SMS. It helps farmers make data-driven decisions to increase yields, conserve water, and promote sustainable agriculture. Founded in 2014 and based in Santiago, Chile.
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