The Yield Lab Latam

The Yield Lab Latam, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a prominent AgriFoodTech venture capital firm with a significant presence in Latin America. It operates in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, focusing on investments across the entire food and agriculture innovation spectrum, from farm to fork. As part of a global network of venture capital funds, The Yield Lab aims to cultivate the emerging AgTech ecosystem in the region. The firm supports entrepreneurs, fosters collaboration among public and private stakeholders, and provides essential funding to drive growth in the sector. Through its initiatives, The Yield Lab Latam plays a crucial role in nurturing the long-term development and sustainability of agriculture and food technology in Latin America.

Graciela Budinich

Principal

Kieran Gartlan

Managing Director

Marcelo McGrech

Venture Partner

Santiago Murtagh

Managing Director

Guilherme Paiva

Principal

Camila Petignat

Partner

Tomás Peña

Managing Director

22 past transactions

AgroForte

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Agroforte is a digital credit service that came to help rural producers.

Seedz

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of an agri-business platform designed to connect farmers with agricultural industries, dealers, coops, businesses, and farmers. The company offers coalition and redemption currencies of incentive programs, software systems, crop mapping, loyalty, cashback, financial service systems, ERP software, and other software for users, enabling clients to recognize the value of agricultural entrepreneurs and rural producers & boost their agricultural business.

Heartbest

Seed Round in 2021
Heartbest Foods produces plant-based cheese and milk. The company produces milk and cheese from peas, amaranth, rice, and soybeans. Heartbest Foods was founded in 2017 and is based in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

Auravant

Seed Round in 2021
Auravant, founded in 2014 and based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, specializes in precision agriculture by providing decision support tools for farmers and agronomists. The company utilizes satellite and drone imagery to enhance agricultural practices, enabling field zoning, variable rate sowing, fertilization, and crop monitoring. By analyzing aerial data, Auravant helps agricultural producers optimize the use of seeds, fertilizers, herbicides, and other inputs, ultimately improving efficiency and productivity in the sector. This innovative approach allows farmers to increase yields and profitability while promoting sustainable agricultural methods.

Auravant

Seed Round in 2021
Auravant, founded in 2014 and based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, specializes in precision agriculture by providing decision support tools for farmers and agronomists. The company utilizes satellite and drone imagery to enhance agricultural practices, enabling field zoning, variable rate sowing, fertilization, and crop monitoring. By analyzing aerial data, Auravant helps agricultural producers optimize the use of seeds, fertilizers, herbicides, and other inputs, ultimately improving efficiency and productivity in the sector. This innovative approach allows farmers to increase yields and profitability while promoting sustainable agricultural methods.

Space AG

Seed Round in 2021
Space AG, founded in 2017 and based in Lima, Peru, specializes in developing an integrated platform for the analysis and management of specialty crops. The company utilizes data captured from drones equipped with infrared and thermal cameras, along with mobile sensors attached to tractors, to create models that enhance productivity and reduce costs for agribusinesses. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Space AG's solutions enable farmers to make informed decisions, thereby maximizing yields and optimizing the use of essential resources such as water, fertilizers, and pesticides.

ucrop.it

Seed Round in 2020
ucrop.it operates as a blockchain farming and crops traceability platform that delivers certainty across crop cycles. It connects medium-sized growers with corporate stakeholders from the agro value chain to agree on farming objectives for sustainable crop production, competitive financing, quality crops sourcing, amongst value drivers to achieve improved gross margins for them all. The company was founded in 2018 by Diego Hoter, Matias O’Keefe and Marcos Botta.

VOA

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Our platform is a market place for farmers and pilots with drones, creating connections based geographic location, availability and technical capacity. Our platform offers a fully automated drone service delivery for biological agents, fertilisers and chemical products. VOA was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Dover, Delaware.

@Tech

Seed Round in 2020
@Tech is a company focused on enhancing value creation in the animal protein industry through the integration of artificial intelligence, data science, and Internet of Things technologies. Established in 2013 by Tiago Albertini in Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, the company offers solutions for agriculture aimed at improving sustainable food production. Its flagship product, BeefTrader, serves as a market intelligence platform that assists producers and slaughterhouses in determining the ideal time to trade cattle, leveraging real-time market information and sensor data for each animal. By prioritizing research, development, and innovation, @Tech generates significant value for the agricultural network, promoting efficiency and sustainability in livestock management.

VOA

Seed Round in 2020
Our platform is a market place for farmers and pilots with drones, creating connections based geographic location, availability and technical capacity. Our platform offers a fully automated drone service delivery for biological agents, fertilisers and chemical products. VOA was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Dover, Delaware.

Botanical Solutions

Seed Round in 2020
Botanical Solutions SpA is a Chilean company founded in 2010 and based in Santiago, specializing in the manufacture of biopesticides for fruit and horticulture crops. The company focuses on developing plant-based active ingredients derived from advanced botanicals, with its flagship product, Botristop, designed to combat Botrytis cinerea fungus. Botanical Solutions aims to support sustainable agriculture by providing biopesticides that are effective in protecting crops without leaving harmful residues, thereby ensuring the safety of field workers. This approach enables growers to implement integrated pest management programs while addressing consumer demand for high-quality, healthy food.

Eiwa

Seed Round in 2020
Eiwa is a company specializing in agriculture-based imagery analysis, aimed at enhancing plant breeding programs and seed production. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with additional offices in Brazil and Pennsylvania, Eiwa provides both terrestrial and aerial systems for crop analysis. Their services include flights for colorimetric analysis and morphological detections, allowing users to conduct multiple flights throughout the growing season and upload data to the cloud for processing. Eiwa focuses on delivering objective and reliable data from extensive trial plots, ensuring seed purity and quality, estimating yields, and controlling field services. This enables clients in the seed and agrochemical sectors to access valuable genotypic and phenotypic information, thereby improving research and development accuracy while reducing data capture costs.

PolyNatural

Seed Round in 2020
PolyNatural focuses on innovative research and development in the fruticulture industry, leveraging natural components to create unique, environmentally sustainable products that enhance food quality. Inspired by traditional South American agricultural practices, the company has developed Shel-Life, a 100% natural plant-based emulsion that serves as an edible biopolymer coating for fruits. This coating significantly reduces food waste by minimizing dehydration and microbial growth, distinguishing itself from competitors that typically use synthetic waxes derived from petroleum. By offering solutions that improve the shelf life and overall quality of fresh produce, PolyNatural aims to enhance consumer access to safe and fresh food while promoting sustainability in agribusiness.

Circular

Seed Round in 2019
CIRCULAR develops an application for order and documentation management. Its application is used to manage the travel history; monitor the status of the fleet in real time; reduce and plan the waiting times in ports; monitor the flow of trucks to the port; solve incidents by communicating individually/in groups with truckers; and simplify cargo dispatch procedure. The company serves truckers, transport coordinates, ports/plants, and agricultural producers. Its application is available on Google Play. CIRCULAR is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

TerraMagna

Seed Round in 2019
TerraMagna is a fintech company established in 2017 and based in São José dos Campos, Brazil, that specializes in providing financial solutions for agribusinesses in Latin America. By utilizing technology and alternative data sources, TerraMagna aims to mitigate risks associated with agriculture, transforming a traditionally volatile process into a more manageable experience. The company offers a range of financial products, including personal loans, embedded buy now pay later options for agricultural inputs, and crop-collateralized financing. These services are accessible through a user-friendly web interface, designed to cater to the specific challenges and opportunities faced by retailers, industries, and farmers. TerraMagna also facilitates fair credit access for agribusinesses while providing investors with opportunities for high-yield, market-uncorrelated assets.

Space AG

Seed Round in 2019
Space AG, founded in 2017 and based in Lima, Peru, specializes in developing an integrated platform for the analysis and management of specialty crops. The company utilizes data captured from drones equipped with infrared and thermal cameras, along with mobile sensors attached to tractors, to create models that enhance productivity and reduce costs for agribusinesses. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Space AG's solutions enable farmers to make informed decisions, thereby maximizing yields and optimizing the use of essential resources such as water, fertilizers, and pesticides.

DigiRodeo

Pre Seed Round in 2019
DigiRodeo S.A. is an AgTech company based in Vicente López, Argentina, that specializes in developing digital syringes for livestock vaccination. Founded in 2017, the company offers a technological solution that captures vaccination data, which is then stored in a mobile application. This platform allows users to manage contacts, track treatments, and generate digital reports related to animal care. Additionally, the technology integrates geolocation and climatic data at the time of treatment, enhancing the overall management of livestock health. DigiRodeo sells its products through an internet-based platform, catering to both producers and veterinarians in the agricultural sector.

Eiwa

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Eiwa is a company specializing in agriculture-based imagery analysis, aimed at enhancing plant breeding programs and seed production. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with additional offices in Brazil and Pennsylvania, Eiwa provides both terrestrial and aerial systems for crop analysis. Their services include flights for colorimetric analysis and morphological detections, allowing users to conduct multiple flights throughout the growing season and upload data to the cloud for processing. Eiwa focuses on delivering objective and reliable data from extensive trial plots, ensuring seed purity and quality, estimating yields, and controlling field services. This enables clients in the seed and agrochemical sectors to access valuable genotypic and phenotypic information, thereby improving research and development accuracy while reducing data capture costs.

Auravant

Series A in 2018
Auravant, founded in 2014 and based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, specializes in precision agriculture by providing decision support tools for farmers and agronomists. The company utilizes satellite and drone imagery to enhance agricultural practices, enabling field zoning, variable rate sowing, fertilization, and crop monitoring. By analyzing aerial data, Auravant helps agricultural producers optimize the use of seeds, fertilizers, herbicides, and other inputs, ultimately improving efficiency and productivity in the sector. This innovative approach allows farmers to increase yields and profitability while promoting sustainable agricultural methods.

Kilimo

Seed Round in 2018
Kilimo is a Big Data solution for water management in agriculture.. It features climate monitoring by using satellite and site data to provides prescription for each crop and increase water use efficiency. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cordoba, Argentina.

Agree

Seed Round in 2018
Agree Market is a global online marketplace specializing in agricultural commodities, allowing registered users to buy and sell a variety of products including grains, oilseeds, fruits, and vegetables. Founded in March 2017, the company is headquartered in Martínez, Argentina, with an additional operational presence in Montevideo, Uruguay. It offers a cloud-based platform accessible from both mobile and desktop devices, facilitating seamless transactions in the B2B food sector.

Agree

Seed Round in 2018
Agree Market is a global online marketplace specializing in agricultural commodities, allowing registered users to buy and sell a variety of products including grains, oilseeds, fruits, and vegetables. Founded in March 2017, the company is headquartered in Martínez, Argentina, with an additional operational presence in Montevideo, Uruguay. It offers a cloud-based platform accessible from both mobile and desktop devices, facilitating seamless transactions in the B2B food sector.
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