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…

The Yield Lab led a USD750k seed round for Space AG, a Peruvian drone and satellite image analytics platform for crop management, with participation from Winnipeg Capital.  (Redagricola) – La…

ZoomAgri, an Argentine quality analysis platform for agricultural commodities, raised a USD3.3m Series A from SP Ventures, Glocal, Artesian and GrainInnovate.  (LABS News) – A agtech argentina ZoomAgri, startup de inteligência…

G2VP led a USD43m Series C for ProducePay, a US-based financing platform for farmers in Latin America, with participation from IGNIA Partners, IFC, IDB Invest, Anterra Capital, Coventure, Astanor Ventures…

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…

Genesis Ventures, Fundacion Chile’s CLIN and SVG Ventures led a USD2.8m round for Instacrops, a Chilean sensor-based crop monitoring platform. CLIN invested USD300k in 2018.  (LatamList) –  Instacrops, a Chilean AgTech,…

Argentine insurance conglomerate Sancor Seguros led a USD2m Series A for Agree, an Argentine agriculture supply chain management platform. (La Nación) – En busca de acelerar la transformación digital en…

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…

Brazil-based private equity firm Lanx Capital led a R$13.5m round in Grão Direto, a Brazilian agricultural commodity marketplace that primarily execute transactions via mobile and WhatsApp, with participation from Barn…

KPTL (formerly A5 and Inseed Investimentos) invested R$3m in Ecotrace, a blockchain-based traceability platform for crops and livestock products.  (Baguete) – A Ecotrace, startup especializada em rastreabilidade com sistema baseado…