GIC acquired a significant minority stake in Aqua Capital-backed Soluções Biológicas (Biotrop), a Brazilian biological agtech inputs company. The transaction is subject to approval.  (Press Release) Private equity manager Aqua…

Valid announced the acquisition of 51.8% of Agrotopus, a startup focused on corporate solutions for agribusiness. Agrotopus’ customer base is coffee cooperatives that account for 12% of the Brazilian market. The acquisition value is R$ 6.5m. 

Chilean Fondo CLIN invested US$300k in Instacrops, a crop monitoring platform, and US$300k in SimpleRoute, a logistics platform. Fondo CLIN is administered by Fundación Chile, with funding from Corfo, family office Zoma Capital, Entel and Engie Factory.

Cedro Capital invested R$6m in Gira, a risk management platform for agribusiness receivables, through the Venture Brazil Central fund. 

IGNIA has sold its participation in Mexican sustainable tuna producer Grupo Procesa to the Central American Mezzanine Infrastructure Fund II LP (CAMIF II), an infrastructure fund managed by LAP Latin American Partners.

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…

Brazil’s Start You Up Ventures joined a group of companies to launch Agrofip, a fund through which it plans to invest up to R$25m in agribusiness, logistics management, IoT, BioTech,…

(Diario Financiero) NXTP Labs, RaiCap, Corfo, Endurance Investments, Chile Ventures and Alaya Capital Ventures are seeking to fill the gap between early and late stage investments in Chile via the…

Brazil’s agtech startup Strider just raised a US$3m Series A from Monashees and Qualcomm. This marks Monashees first investment in agtech and Qualcomm’s first agtech investment in Brazil. LAVCA spoke…