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…

ONEVC led a US$2.7m round in TerraMagna, a Brazilian agtech platform providing working capital for farmers, with participation from MAYA Capital and Accion Venture Lab, and angels Patrick Sigrist (iFood),…

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…

Capria Ventures invested US$1m in Agrofy, an Argentine marketplace for agricultural supplies, with follow-on from SP Ventures. SP Ventures led a US$23m Series B in Agrofy in 2019, and led…

Cultivan Sandbox Ventures invested US$2m in Leaf, a San Francisco-based agtech startup for integrating farmland data across tech platforms, with participation from SP Ventures and Radicle Growth.  (FinSMEs) Leaf, a…

Brazilian shopping center developer Aliansce invested R$15.5m in BeGreen, a Brazilian farm-to-table vegetable subscription platform building farms in shopping center parking lots.  (Contxto) Food waste is often the outcome of…

Aquabyte, a Norwegian aquaculture monitoring startup with operations in the UK and Chile, raised US$10m from undisclosed investors. Alaya Capital made an undisclosed investment in Aquabyte in 2019. (IntraFish) Aquabyte,…

KPTL acquired a minority stake in Gestão Agropecuária, a Brazilian livestock management platform focused on monitoring cattle, for an undisclosed amount. (Startupi) A gestora de investimentos em tecnologia e inovação,…

Unbox Capital led a US$40m Series B round in Solinftec, a Brazilian agtech. Also included in the round was US$20m agri asset-backed debt, led by Itaú BBA and Gaia Securitizations…

Fundación Chile GM Marcos Kulka announced plans to launch an agtech-focused VC fund in 2H2019.  (Diario Financiero) Marcos Kulka de Fundación Chile: “Chile debe enfocar la investigación donde tiene escala.…