Brazil Agtech Marketplace Map: 338 Startups Innovating Inwards Agricultural Powerhouse

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Editor’s Note: Francisco Jardim is founding partner of Brazilian agtech venture uppercase theatre SP Ventures. Working with Centro Universitário FEI, and with the assist of his colleagues, Agtech Garage, Pulse, Usina, Esalqtec, together with Agrihub, hither Jardim presents the Brazil Agtech Market Map together with offers insights into the growth of Brazil’s agtech startup ecosystem.

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Over the past times few decades, Brazil has gone from a internet importer of nutrient to an agriculture powerhouse. It has overtaken Commonwealth of Australia together with Canada to seat itself equally the minute largest agricultural exporter on the planet. The South American patch is the world’s leading producer of orangish juice, java together with saccharide together with minute inwards soybean, ethanol, and beef.

When it comes to exports, Brazil leads the pack inwards soybeans, beef, poultry, coffee, sugar, ethanol, orangish juice together with comes minute inwards corn. Brazil is also i of the summit 5 producers together with exporters of cotton, pork, and cacao. It is prophylactic to say that the locomotive of Brazil is agribusiness. It is the virtually dynamic engine of the economic scheme together with accounts for to a greater extent than or less 50% of the country’s exports together with 23% of GDP. The sector has overstep away together with thence globally integrated together with of import to the domestic economic scheme that it turned itself immune to the region´s economical together with political volatilities; spell Brazil faced i of its worst recessions, seeing gross domestic product shrink past times to a greater extent than than 3.3% inwards 2016, agribusiness gross domestic product expanded past times to a greater extent than than 3%.

Brazil’s success inwards ag

The success of Brazil’s ag sector has oftentimes live on attributed to rampant regime back upwardly together with deforestation of the Amazon, this couldn’t live on farther from the truth: historically, province back upwardly for agriculture inwards Brazil has ranged from 5-7% of full farm income, compared amongst 10-12% inwards the US, 25-30% inwards the EU, together with a 25-26% average inwards OECD countries; together with amongst heart together with someone agricultural growth taking house 1,000 km from the rainforest, the Amazon has been left relatively untouched.

Scientific together with technological breakthroughs take away maintain also contributed to this success. EMBRAPA (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corp), established inwards 1973 past times the government, is the largest tropical agriculture enquiry institute inwards the globe together with has developed hundreds of innovations for Brazilian farmers. But perchance its unmarried virtually of import contribution was the epic transformation of Brazil’s semi-arid Cerrado portion from unfarmable solid reason to the world´s novel breadbasket. This involved the volume application of lime together with the breeding of rhizobium bacteria to cut soil acidity together with cook nitrogen. EMBRAPA has also taken a Pb inwards biotechnology past times genetically improving brachiaria grass together with the soybean plant, making both highly suitable to the semi-arid region. Together this enabled the region’s large-scale livestock together with grain production operations today.

Another of import enquiry establishment for Brazil’s agriculture manufacture is the University of São Paulo´s prestigious Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ). The schoolhouse has been consistently ranked equally i of the summit 5 agrarian sciences universities inwards the world, together amongst Wageningen inwards the Netherlands), UC Davis & Cornell inwards the the States together with the PRC Agricultural University. ESALQ has helped transform the urban center of Piracicaba, inwards Sao Paolo state, into the Menlo Park of the Brazilian agtech ecosystem, which stands to overstep away i of the world’s virtually exciting agtech ecosystems.

Brazil’s agtech ecosystem

Piracicaba is a fundamental pillar of Brazil’s agtech ecosystem.

Raízen, the largest saccharide together with ethanol grouping inwards the world, founded inwards the city´s river valley inwards 1936, teamed upwardly amongst Argentinian accelerator platform NXTP Labs together with SP Ventures to launch an agtech accelerator called Pulse based inwards the city. Pulse is currently embarking on its minute cohort of startups after a highly successful outset round.

The town also boasts a scientific discipline commons together with a startup incubator — within ESALQ — both inhabited primarily past times agtech companies. In the centre of the downtown lies the AgTech Garage, perchance the virtually of import agtech hub together with intend tank inwards Latin America.

The improving technological infrastructure of Brazil, such equally connectivity, mobile penetration, satellite imagery, together with digital literacy, has been fundamental to developing the country’s agtech ecosystem, enabling businesses to convey novel products together with solutions to Brazilian farmers inwards a cost-efficient manner. Between 2012 together with 2017, smartphone penetration increased from 16% to over 70%. 

Another fundamental pillar of Brazil’s agtech ecosystem is the broad arrive at of participants. The ecosystem is populated amongst native tech firms founded past times well-networked entrepreneurs, amongst a non bad agreement of local culture, infrastructure, together with agronomic peculiarities, tackling the regions heart together with someone problems. Building a fellowship has overstep away a summit career selection for many of the brightest minds. The investor community interested inwards this manufacture is growing too, which nosotros volition address inwards a later on article.

At SP Ventures, nosotros screened 54 agtech startups betwixt 2007 together with 2014. But betwixt 2015 together with Feb 2018, nosotros had screened over 400. Not exclusively has dealflow growth been explosive, simply lineament has improved significantly along amongst the talent pool.

The agtech startup landscape tin laissez passer on notice live on divided into 3 macro segments depending on where inwards the agricultural render chain the startups operate.

2018 Brazil Agtech Market Map:

1. Before The Farm 

An integrated network of agtech startups including inputs manufacturers (i.e. seeds, beneficial insects, microbes, fertilizers together with industrial plant life nutrition), digital procurement together with frontier diagnostics (i.e. genomics, etc.), equipment sharing platforms, together with the intersection of fintech amongst agtech, where uppercase is a basic input for conducting farming activities.

Key Examples:

• Promip – a spin-off from ESALQ´s Entymology department, this startup has the largest production portfolio inwards the Brazilian macrobiological marketplace together with is venture backed past times ESALQTEC & SP Ventures
• BartDigital – employs blockchain applied scientific discipline to dematerialize together with disrupt Brazil’s ag barter debt market, worth over $50 billion annually, together with backed past times Brazillian accelerator Startup Farm together with SP Ventures.

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