SP Ventures and US-based VC Acre.VC led a USD10m Series A for Moss, a Brazilian blockchain-based marketplace for companies to trade carbon credits, with participation from Jive Investments and Arrington…

SP Ventures and Astella Investimentos led a USD17m Series A for Traive, a Brazilian lending platform for agricultural producers. Minerva Food invested USD3m in September; Traive raised ~USD2.8m led by…

SP Ventures invested ~USD2.7m in venture debt in Digibee, an e-commerce digital integration manager for SMEs. Digibee raised ~UD5m in a round led by GAA Investments in 2020.  (Startupi) – Criada…

SP Ventures led a USD5m Series A for Frizata, an Argentine frozen fruit and vegetable DTC platform with plans to launch operations in Brazil, with participation from Norte Ventures and…

SP Ventures, through its Brazil Venture Debt Fund, invested BRL13.5m in debt financing in SoluBio, a Brazilian agtech enabling in-farm production of pesticides. SP Ventures launched its BRL140m Brazil Venture Debt…

Barn Investimentos, SP Ventures, Continental Grain Company and Provence Capital invested USD1.8m in Agrolend, a Brazilian uncollateralized credit platform for small crop farmers.  (Valor Ecônomico) – O brasileiro André Glezer…

SP Ventures announced a R$130m second close for AgVentures II, with a R$40m commitment from French animal nutrition company Adisseo and US phosphate mining company Mosaic. SP Ventures reached a US$17.2m…

SP Ventures invested R$14m in Traive, a Brazilian lending platform for agricultural producers, with participation from Bread & Butter Ventures and Techstars. (Valor Econômico) – A SP Ventures, gestora de…

SP Ventures invested R$6m in debt financing in Ambar Tech, a Brazilian real estate construtech providing digitization services for construction projects. In 2019, Igah Ventures (formerly e.Bricks Ventures) made a…

SP Ventures reached a US$17.2m first close for its Latin America-focused agfoodtech fund. The fund targets US$50m and counts Syngenta Ventures and BASF Venture Capital as investors.  (AgFunderNews) Brazil-based SP Ventures has…

SP Ventures led a US$23m Series B in Agrofy, an Argentine marketplace for agricultural supplies, with participation from Fall Line Capital and ACRE Capital, and follow-on from Cygnus Capital. Agrofy…

BASF Venture Capital invested US$4m in SP Ventures¹ AgVentures Fund II. (Olivre) A BASF Venture Capital é um dos maiores investidores na primeira rodada de captação de recursos do fundo…

SP Ventures launched a venture debt vehicle, Brazil Venture Debt, with R$140m under management from BNDES and others. Gabriela Gonçalves is CEO of the new vehicle. (Valor Econômico) Com as taxas…

SP Ventures and Capital Lab invested R$2m in Pink Farms, an urban vertical farming startup focused on vegetable production that is based in São Paulo. (Startupi) A SP Ventures, gestora…

SP Ventures and Abseed made a R$5m investment in Aegro, a software platform for grain cultivation with a team from UFRGS and IRGA. SP Ventures also invested in 2017.

Gonzalo Costa, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of NXTP Labs, and Francisco Jardim, Founding Partner of SP Ventures, talk about why investors should be excited about the agtech opportunity in Latin…

SP Ventures made a R$4.5m investment in SpecLab, a soil fertility analysis solution that spun out of Brazilian agriculture lab IBRA (Instituto Brasileiro de Análises).

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SP Ventures is preparing to launch its second venture capital fund, which will exclusively focus on agtech opportunities. The firm is also expanding its geographic focus outside Brazil, and it is planning to invest in up to 20 startups across Latin America.

SP Ventures invested R$3m in JetBov, a Brazilian management platform for beef cattle breeders. 

SP Ventures, Syngenta Ventures, Bunge Ventures and Endeavor Catalyst made a US$6m Series A investment in Argentine agribusiness marketplace Agrofy, with participation from current investor farming conglomerate Cresud. Cresud and…

SP Ventures made a R$6m investment in Gênica, a Brazilian agtech startup developing a vaccine for a common soybean fungus, acquiring a 44% stake. (Globorural) Nascida há pouco mais de…

SP Ventures exited Bug Agentes Biológicos, a Brazilian biotech firm, though a sale to Dutch biochemical company Koppert Biological Systems. (Valor Econômico) A holandesa Koppert fechou a aquisição, por meio…

SP Ventures made a R$2.2m investment in Bart Digital, a blockchain-enabled agribusiness barter platform. (Valor Econômico) A SP Ventures, gestora de fundos de investimento com foco em empreendimentos inovadores, acaba…

SP Ventures made an undisclosed investment in Aegro, a Brazilian agribusiness technology startup. (Baguete) A Aegro, uma startup gaúcha de tecnologia para o segmento de agronegócio, acaba de receber um…

SP Ventures announced a R$3m investment in Brazilian drone startup Horus Aeronaves, which plans to expand its commercial network and launch new products geared toward agriculture. (Valor Econômico) A gestora…

SP Ventures invested R$2.5m in Agronow, an agtech productivity monitoring platform based in the northeast of Brazil.

(Valor Econômico) InCeres, an agribusiness management system based in Vale do Piracicab, also known as “AgTech Valley,” received an investment of R$2.5m from SP Ventures’ fund Fundo de Inovação Paulista.

(Agfunder News) Agrosmart, a service that intends to connect farmers to their crops, has raised a US$1m seed round from Sao Paulo-based venture capital consultant and investor Baita and Brazilian…

(Press Release) Brazil-based Nexxto, a provider of corporate solutions for Internet of Things (IoT), has received an investment from SP Ventures.