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…

DOMO Invest and Silver Angels invested R$1m in Sensix, a Brazilian satellite image processor for crop management and harvest planning. (Startupi) – A Sensix, startup que atua no processamento e análise…

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,…