Spatial.Ag
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Spatial.Ag is an agtech firm that provides data-driven agribusiness solutions using AI, geospatial technology, and satellite imagery.
AgroBee
Pre Seed Round in 2023
AgroBee is a company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-integrated platform aimed at enhancing food quality and quantity through ecosystemic bee services. The platform connects flower producers seeking pollination with beekeepers who provide bee services, fostering a sustainable agricultural ecosystem. By leveraging advanced algorithms and technology, AgroBee offers solutions for beehive management, farm management, and crop management. This approach not only aids rural producers and bee breeders in protecting bee populations but also promotes sustainable agricultural practices, enabling all parties involved to benefit from improved productivity and environmental stewardship.
Founded in 2017, SSCrop specializes in developing digital platforms tailored for agricultural businesses. Its core offering is an online tool that streamlines financial statistics and resource management, empowering farming companies with efficient data organization.
Agro Insight
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Agro Insight is a digital platform that curates and provides practical content to support agricultural professionals. It operates an education and curation portal, connecting the Brazilian agricultural sector and promoting sustainability alongside profitability. The platform offers real-time data on weather, soil conditions, and crop health, along with recommendations for irrigation, fertilization, and pest control, aiming to enhance farmers' productivity.
Tarvos is a Brazilian company established in 2017, specializing in agricultural pest monitoring solutions. The company has developed a sensor-based trap that counts and classifies insects, providing real-time data to inform users about pest presence in crops. This automated monitoring platform enables farmers to assess pest pressure, evaluate potential damage, and optimize the timing of insecticide applications. By delivering timely insights, Tarvos supports improved decision-making and enhances crop yields for its clients. Based in Campinas, Brazil, Tarvos aims to advance agricultural practices through innovative technology.
Mozare3
Venture Round in 2022
Mozare3 is an agricultural-fintech platform that serves smallholder farmers, connecting farming communities to local and global demand. It provides periodic field visits, reports, recommendations, and training to build farmers’ capacity, enabling them to access deals from agricultural service providers and nurseries and to obtain basic inputs such as pesticides, fertilizers, seedlings, or seeds through flexible payment terms. The platform serves over 20 million underserved, unbankable smallholder farmers and their families.
Bart Digital
Convertible Note in 2022
Bart Digital streamlines agricultural credit processes for industries, traders, and distributors via workflow automation, digital signatures, and integrated services. It also provides strategic data like satellite crop monitoring to assess borrower credit risk.
Tarvos is a Brazilian company established in 2017, specializing in agricultural pest monitoring solutions. The company has developed a sensor-based trap that counts and classifies insects, providing real-time data to inform users about pest presence in crops. This automated monitoring platform enables farmers to assess pest pressure, evaluate potential damage, and optimize the timing of insecticide applications. By delivering timely insights, Tarvos supports improved decision-making and enhances crop yields for its clients. Based in Campinas, Brazil, Tarvos aims to advance agricultural practices through innovative technology.
Meu Pescado
Angel Round in 2022
Meu Pescado is an agricultural technology company that develops a platform for managing fish and shrimp farms. The application monitors the farm in real-time, offering complete management solutions including financial and zootechnical aspects, connecting producers with buyers, and promoting quality and safety.
Muda Meu Mundo
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Muda Meu Mundo is a startup that focuses on connecting small producers, particularly family farmers, with retailers through a specialized supply chain platform. The company leverages data intelligence to provide comprehensive tracking throughout the production chain and facilitate transformation for each family in its network. By screening the supply chain at every level, Muda Meu Mundo engages producers in the market as retailers, ensuring that social and environmental impacts are considered at each link in the chain. This approach enables small-scale farmers to harness ESG data intelligence, fostering the development of a sustainable supply chain while generating positive outcomes for all stakeholders involved.
Apollo Agriculture
Series B in 2022
Apollo Agriculture is an agtech company that provides smallholder farmers with access to high-quality inputs, credit, and advisory services. Using agronomic machine learning, remote sensing, and mobile technology, it assesses farmer credit risk and tailors each package to a farm’s location by integrating satellite data, soil information, farmer behavior, and crop yield models. The company delivers a bundled offer that includes financing for inputs such as fertilizer and seed, crop insurance, and ongoing consulting to improve farming decisions. Originating in Kenya with operations anchored in Nairobi, Apollo aims to expand to emerging markets and help farmers boost yields and profitability through customized credit, inputs, and advice. The approach combines modern data analytics with practical agronomy to enable farmers to adopt advanced farming methods.
SciCrop applies big data analytics and smart farming technologies to revolutionize agriculture. It collects real-time data from diverse sources, processes it using agricultural data modeling, and delivers customized insights to help growers and stakeholders make informed decisions.
Agrointeli
Seed Round in 2021
Agrointeli is a digital agriculture company founded in 2017 and based in Campo Grande, Brazil, with additional offices in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Chile. The company develops a comprehensive platform that centralizes and integrates various data sources, providing farmers with easy access to critical information for decision-making. Agrointeli's software utilizes NDVI satellite imagery to assess crop health, identifies pest infestations, and integrates data from farm machinery and field sensors. It also offers real-time weather data and forecasts tailored to users' regions. By employing artificial intelligence techniques for data analysis, Agrointeli generates actionable recommendations, enabling small and medium-sized farmers, agricultural consultants, and technicians to enhance efficiency, optimize processes, and make informed decisions based on precise data.
Cyklo Agritech
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Cyklo Agritech is a startup accelerator established in 2019 and based in Luis Eduardo Magalhaes, Bahia. The company specializes in supporting businesses in the agriculture, livestock, and agribusiness sectors. Cyklo Agritech provides a comprehensive range of services, including infrastructure, research centers, mentorship, operational support, financial assistance, and access to academic resources and investors. Its focus is on fostering innovative alternatives in agribusiness that enhance productivity and sustainability. By offering essential guidance and expert support, Cyklo Agritech aims to help startups secure financing and navigate the challenges of growth in the agricultural sector.
Sardrones
Pre Seed Round in 2021
SarDrones is a company that specializes in agricultural technology, focusing on the development and deployment of drones to enhance farming practices. The company produces a product known as "I-drones," which integrates artificial intelligence with drone technology to optimize agricultural operations. By utilizing their proprietary software and specialized dispensers, SarDrones aims to automate labor-intensive tasks such as pest control and seed dispersal. This innovative approach not only improves operational efficiency and yields for agriculturalists but also minimizes the environmental impact associated with traditional farming methods. Through these advancements, SarDrones is positioned to transform the agricultural landscape, making it safer and more sustainable.
ManejeBem
Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2016, ManejeBem is a Brazilian company that operates an online platform connecting farmers, specialists, and other stakeholders in plant production. Its mission is to promote sustainable agriculture through digital platforms and facilitate the connection within the organic production chain.
Trace Pack
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Trace Pack is a developer of electronic tracking devices that enhance logistics and security for agricultural inputs and assets. The company utilizes embedded IoT technology to create solutions that enable clients to monitor and manage non-energized assets effectively. By connecting machines in the field, Trace Pack generates valuable data that helps improve operational efficiency, leading to cost savings and increased productivity. Their innovative approach allows clients to track and locate agricultural products, ensuring better management and oversight of resources in the agricultural sector.
Muda Meu Mundo
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Muda Meu Mundo is a startup that focuses on connecting small producers, particularly family farmers, with retailers through a specialized supply chain platform. The company leverages data intelligence to provide comprehensive tracking throughout the production chain and facilitate transformation for each family in its network. By screening the supply chain at every level, Muda Meu Mundo engages producers in the market as retailers, ensuring that social and environmental impacts are considered at each link in the chain. This approach enables small-scale farmers to harness ESG data intelligence, fostering the development of a sustainable supply chain while generating positive outcomes for all stakeholders involved.
AgVend
Venture Round in 2021
AgVend develops a digital engagement platform that connects agricultural retailers with farmers for online purchases of crop protection inputs and services. The platform enables farmers to shop anytime, while retailers maintain control over the customer experience.
Flowins
Venture Round in 2021
Flowins is a technology company based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, founded in 2018. It operates an online marketplace designed to connect coffee producers with coffee shops and baristas, facilitating direct transactions and knowledge sharing within the coffee industry. The platform aims to simplify and enhance the coffee production process by providing tools that help producers understand market demands, improve product value, and achieve better financial returns. By promoting specialty coffees over commodity sales, Flowins seeks to empower coffee farmers and elevate their offerings in the marketplace.
Aerobotics
Series B in 2020
Aerobotics is a data analytics company specializing in providing insights for tree and fruit management through the use of drone imagery and artificial intelligence. The company's technology combines satellite and drone imagery with machine learning algorithms to offer actionable data to farmers. This includes tools for orchard management, identifying problem trees, managing pests and diseases, and optimizing yield. By enabling farmers to scan their farms and analyze captured information, Aerobotics helps reduce costs and increase agricultural productivity.
Solubio Agricultural Technologies
Venture Round in 2020
Solubio Agricultural Technologies is a biopesticide manufacturing company that creates an integrated on-farm management system. They offer a complete solution for the production of bioinputs on the farm, offering integrated technology with industrial standards, all equipment, inputs, training, and technical assistance. It also develops industrial-standard integrated technology and provides all necessary equipment, inputs, quality control, training, and technical assistance to its customers in order for them to produce their own bio-input on the farm. The company's on-farm bio-input production technology allows producers to cut costs in soy, corn, wheat, cotton, sugarcane, coffee, and fruit and vegetable crops by up to 70%.
Sensix is a developer of an agricultural monitoring intelligence platform known as FieldScan, which utilizes analytical intelligence and machine learning to enhance farming practices. This web-based platform consolidates data from various sources, including drones, satellites, and soil samples, to create input application maps that help farmers improve crop predictability and profitability. FieldScan provides tools for producing weed localization maps, assessing planting gaps, and identifying variations in crop vigor and biomass. Additionally, the platform enables farmers to analyze their crop's nutritional status and detect pest or disease threats through sensor data. By facilitating direct communication with agricultural machinery, Sensix optimizes the application of fertilizers and pesticides, thereby promoting efficient input use, crop uniformity, and increased yields.
Startchy develops natural edible coating solutions that extend the shelf life of fruits and vegetables. Founded in 2017, the company is based in Beirut, Lebanon, with an additional office in Chicago, Illinois. Its coating is a natural, organic edible film that preserves color and reduces respiration and transpiration in a controlled environment, thereby extending the freshness of produce.
Living Carbon
Seed Round in 2020
Living Carbon is a public benefit corporation based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019 by Maddie Hall and Patrick Mellor. The company leverages advanced biotechnology to enhance the natural ability of plants, particularly trees, to capture and store carbon dioxide (CO2). By improving photosynthesis, inhibiting photorespiration, increasing growth rates, and shortening tree growing cycles, Living Carbon aims to create more durable wood for building and manufacturing applications while addressing climate change. The company's ultimate goal is to restore balance to the planet's metabolic processes through innovative forest biotechnology solutions.
Barn2Door
Series A in 2020
Barn2Door is a vertical software company that operates an e-commerce marketplace and direct-sales platform for local agriculture. It connects farmers with chefs and other buyers, enabling farmers to list and sell products online and in person through an all-in-one SaaS solution. The platform provides real-time inventory tracking, online payments, order management, notifications, and automated reminders, as well as delivery management and access to customers across web, social, mobile, and email channels. By combining marketplace functionality with farm-focused business management tools, Barn2Door helps produce, livestock, and specialty items reach local buyers while streamlining listings, payments, delivery, and customer communications. Founded in 2015 and based in Seattle, the company supports farmers in selling directly to restaurants and consumers, supporting local food systems and diversified incomes.
eFishery is an aquaculture technology company that develops IoT-based feeding systems and a cloud data platform to help fish and shrimp farmers grow their businesses sustainably. Its automatic feeder uses motion sensors to gauge appetite and determine feed amounts, while a dashboard provides monitoring and insights. The company also offers integrated services spanning farming operations, financing, and distribution, enabling farmers to boost productivity, reduce waste, and improve safety and equity in aquaculture.
Karavel Trade
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Karavel Trade is a technology-driven company based in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2018 to streamline the exportation of agricultural products. It operates an innovative marketplace that connects sellers with international buyers, facilitating the online distribution of a wide range of agro-based food products. By leveraging technology and expertise in international trading, Karavel aims to simplify the export process, making it more efficient and accessible for businesses involved in agricultural trade. The company's scalable platform supports a diverse array of products, enhancing global trade opportunities for its users.
Bear Flag Robotics
Seed Round in 2020
Bear Flag Robotics, Inc. is an agricultural technology company that specializes in developing autonomous technology for farm tractors. Founded in 2017 and based in Sunnyvale, California, the company designs software that enables users to plan routes, schedule jobs, and monitor equipment in real-time. Its self-driving technology incorporates perception sensors and robotic actuators, allowing tractors to navigate fields autonomously. The system also provides features such as remote emergency stops and obstacle avoidance. By gathering data on field patterns, Bear Flag Robotics offers predictive analytics that assist farmers in optimizing their operations, thereby increasing productivity, reducing costs, and enhancing safety in agricultural practices.
Gro Intelligence
Venture Round in 2020
Gro Intelligence, Inc. is an agricultural data analytics company founded in 2014, with offices in New York City and Nairobi, Kenya. The company specializes in providing insights into agricultural productivity by utilizing proprietary algorithms and artificial intelligence to collect and synthesize data from various sources. This platform offers predictive analytics that help users understand critical factors affecting commodity markets, including weather patterns, trade flows, and pricing dynamics. By transforming complex data into actionable knowledge, Gro Intelligence enables financial institutions, corporations, and public sector entities to make informed decisions regarding supply chains, climate challenges, and food security. The company's holistic approach combines advanced technology with human expertise, positioning agricultural and climate data as essential infrastructure for societal advancement.
AgVend develops a digital engagement platform that connects agricultural retailers with farmers for online purchases of crop protection inputs and services. The platform enables farmers to shop anytime, while retailers maintain control over the customer experience.
Agrofy operates an online platform facilitating transactions between agricultural industry participants. Established in 2015, it offers a wide range of products and services for farmers, including machinery, inputs, infrastructure, tools, crops, cattle, insurance, loans, farmlands, jobs, and vehicles.
Solubio Agricultural Technologies
Seed Round in 2019
Solubio Agricultural Technologies is a biopesticide manufacturing company that creates an integrated on-farm management system. They offer a complete solution for the production of bioinputs on the farm, offering integrated technology with industrial standards, all equipment, inputs, training, and technical assistance. It also develops industrial-standard integrated technology and provides all necessary equipment, inputs, quality control, training, and technical assistance to its customers in order for them to produce their own bio-input on the farm. The company's on-farm bio-input production technology allows producers to cut costs in soy, corn, wheat, cotton, sugarcane, coffee, and fruit and vegetable crops by up to 70%.
Agrointeli
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Agrointeli is a digital agriculture company founded in 2017 and based in Campo Grande, Brazil, with additional offices in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Chile. The company develops a comprehensive platform that centralizes and integrates various data sources, providing farmers with easy access to critical information for decision-making. Agrointeli's software utilizes NDVI satellite imagery to assess crop health, identifies pest infestations, and integrates data from farm machinery and field sensors. It also offers real-time weather data and forecasts tailored to users' regions. By employing artificial intelligence techniques for data analysis, Agrointeli generates actionable recommendations, enabling small and medium-sized farmers, agricultural consultants, and technicians to enhance efficiency, optimize processes, and make informed decisions based on precise data.
Sensix is a developer of an agricultural monitoring intelligence platform known as FieldScan, which utilizes analytical intelligence and machine learning to enhance farming practices. This web-based platform consolidates data from various sources, including drones, satellites, and soil samples, to create input application maps that help farmers improve crop predictability and profitability. FieldScan provides tools for producing weed localization maps, assessing planting gaps, and identifying variations in crop vigor and biomass. Additionally, the platform enables farmers to analyze their crop's nutritional status and detect pest or disease threats through sensor data. By facilitating direct communication with agricultural machinery, Sensix optimizes the application of fertilizers and pesticides, thereby promoting efficient input use, crop uniformity, and increased yields.
Agronow Tecnologia
Seed Round in 2018
Agronow Tecnologia S.A. is a Brazilian company founded in 2015 and based in São José dos Campos, specializing in agricultural technology. It develops a platform that analyzes agricultural areas and crop data, providing users with the ability to monitor their crops every three days. The technology offers essential features such as harvest alerts for crop shortfalls and quality, as well as tools for scheduling and generating analytical reports. Agronow's platform enables users to compare data related to farm production and productivity, monitor rural properties using satellite imagery, and assess the productivity potential of various crops, including soy, maize, eucalyptus, sugar cane, and pasture. The company serves a diverse clientele, including small, medium, and large growers, banks, insurance companies, trading companies, chemical industries, and agronomical consulting firms.
BioSolvit
Venture Round in 2018
Biosolvit is a biotechnology company based in Barra Mansa, Brazil, founded in 2014. The company specializes in developing ecological and sustainable solutions to address environmental challenges using renewable resources. Its product offerings include various oil containment and absorption materials, such as natural and synthetic flakes, powders, and emergency kits, as well as specialized barriers for oil and water separation. Additionally, Biosolvit provides organic substrates for cultivating orchids and bromeliads. The company operates through three divisions: Biosolvit, which focuses on research and development; Biogreen, dedicated to manufacturing products for flora preservation; and Bioblue, which specializes in water preservation products. By emphasizing cost reduction and improved efficiency, Biosolvit aims to deliver better results for remediation companies and other industries involved in environmental protection.
Cellulant
Series C in 2018
Cellulant Corporation is a prominent multinational payments company headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, focused on digitizing payments across Africa's major economies. Founded in 2004, Cellulant offers a comprehensive mobile payments platform that connects businesses and governments, facilitating various consumer payment solutions. Its key products include Mula, a versatile payment platform; Agrikore, a blockchain-based tool designed for the agriculture sector that streamlines contracting and digital payments; and Tingg, which enables users to manage card, bank, and bill payments seamlessly. By providing locally relevant payment solutions, Cellulant addresses the intricate needs of global, regional, and local merchants, making it easier for them to collect and make payments in multiple currencies.
Muda Meu Mundo
Pre Seed Round in 2018
Muda Meu Mundo is a startup that focuses on connecting small producers, particularly family farmers, with retailers through a specialized supply chain platform. The company leverages data intelligence to provide comprehensive tracking throughout the production chain and facilitate transformation for each family in its network. By screening the supply chain at every level, Muda Meu Mundo engages producers in the market as retailers, ensuring that social and environmental impacts are considered at each link in the chain. This approach enables small-scale farmers to harness ESG data intelligence, fostering the development of a sustainable supply chain while generating positive outcomes for all stakeholders involved.
iAgro
Venture Round in 2018
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Leaf Agriculture
Venture Round in 2018
Leaf Agriculture is a technology company based in Florianopolis, Brazil, founded in 2017. It specializes in developing a unified application programming interface (API) platform that offers data services tailored for the agriculture industry. This platform facilitates seamless access to agricultural data by connecting various AgTech APIs, enabling users to validate access and retrieve information through a single API. Leaf Agriculture aims to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of agricultural practices by leveraging digital solutions to improve data management and accessibility in the sector.
DigiFarmz Smart Agriculture
Pre Seed Round in 2018
DigiFarmz Smart Agriculture is a digital platform focused on enhancing crop management through advanced data analytics. By integrating various factors such as climatic conditions, cultivar genetics, sowing dates, and disease biology, the platform offers personalized agronomic recommendations tailored to the specific needs of each farm and field plot. This approach is designed to minimize decision errors in plant health and nutrition management, addressing the significant losses in crop yield potential experienced by growers. With over sixteen years of field and greenhouse research backing its algorithms, DigiFarmz provides real-time, dynamic insights that optimize agrochemical usage and boost crop yield and profitability. By continuously adapting to changes in environmental scenarios, the platform empowers users to make informed decisions, ultimately leading to smarter and more effective management of their agricultural practices.
Solugen
Pre Seed Round in 2017
Solugen, Inc. is a specialty chemicals company based in Houston, Texas, founded in 2016. It focuses on producing industrial chemicals through the application of biotechnology and green chemistry, specifically utilizing plant-derived substitutes to replace petroleum-based products. The company offers a range of products, including BioPeroxide, a carbon-negative hydrogen peroxide, and BioChelate, a biodegradable chelant. Other offerings include ScavSol, a multivalent metal sequestrant for energy applications, ScaleSol, an alternative to phosphonates for scale control, and CorrSol, which addresses corrosion and fouling. Solugen's innovative approach combines fermentation and petrochemical processing along with advancements in synthetic biology and enzymatic technology, enabling it to create environmentally friendly chemicals from bio-based feedstocks. Its solutions cater to diverse industries such as agriculture, cleaning, energy, and water, contributing to reduced costs and lower carbon emissions while promoting sustainability.
Cowlar Inc. is a company that develops, manufactures, and markets smart neck collars specifically designed for monitoring dairy cows. Established in 2016 and headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, with a research and development office in Islamabad, Pakistan, Cowlar's waterproof and non-invasive monitoring system tracks each cow's temperature, activity, and behavior. This technology enables farmers to receive actionable insights aimed at enhancing milk yield, improving reproduction rates, and facilitating early illness detection. The company's product is user-friendly, easily installed, and maintained, offering significant benefits such as higher productivity, healthier cows, and reduced risk of losses. Additionally, Cowlar also develops dairy management software to further support dairy operations.
Grupo 4 Elas
Pre Seed Round in 2016
4Vets Group is a technology company focused on enhancing the distribution and retail of veterinary and animal health products in Brazil and Latin America. The company operates an online platform that connects industries and distributors with veterinarians, clinics, pet shops, agricultural stores, and rural producers. This platform provides a convenient channel for these businesses to order a wide range of products, including medicines and vaccines. By leveraging the latest technologies, 4Vets Group aims to streamline the purchasing process and add value to veterinarians and their suppliers, thereby improving the overall efficiency of the veterinary supply chain.
BioSolvit
Seed Round in 2016
Biosolvit is a biotechnology company based in Barra Mansa, Brazil, founded in 2014. The company specializes in developing ecological and sustainable solutions to address environmental challenges using renewable resources. Its product offerings include various oil containment and absorption materials, such as natural and synthetic flakes, powders, and emergency kits, as well as specialized barriers for oil and water separation. Additionally, Biosolvit provides organic substrates for cultivating orchids and bromeliads. The company operates through three divisions: Biosolvit, which focuses on research and development; Biogreen, dedicated to manufacturing products for flora preservation; and Bioblue, which specializes in water preservation products. By emphasizing cost reduction and improved efficiency, Biosolvit aims to deliver better results for remediation companies and other industries involved in environmental protection.
JetBov is a Brazilian company that specializes in developing livestock and farm management software for the agriculture sector. Founded in September 2015 and headquartered in Joinville, the company offers a cloud-based platform designed to streamline the entire reproductive cycle of beef cattle. This innovative platform integrates technology and intelligence into the meat production chain, allowing farm owners to digitize and manage critical information related to animal health, production metrics, and financial and operational data. JetBov's solution is accessible via both mobile and computer devices, facilitating improved decision-making for agronomical, zootechnical, and economic management across the livestock industry.
TNS Nanotecnologia
Venture Round in 2011
TNS Nano creates sustainable and innovative chemical solutions that can be used in textiles, polymers, paints, ceramics, coatings, and agribusiness. It offers foliar fertilizer, shield coating, antimicrobial agents for farms, antiviral, antibacterial, and antifungal additives, odor-inhibiting molecules, and repellents, and nano and micro technologies.