Top 50 Agriculture (agtech) Angel Investors in LATAM in November 2024

Investor	Agriculture (agtech) LATAM investments
Carlos Rodriguez	2
Ariel Lambrecht	2
Ariel Lambrecht	2
Carlos Rodriguez	2
Juan Andrés Escudero	1
Wolfgang Schuch	1
Helio Waszyk	1
Gregorio Moreno	1
Ignacio Smith	1
Helio Waszyk	1
Francisco Forbes	1
Gregorio Moreno	1
Juan Andrés Escudero	1
Martín Moreno	1
Bob Goodman	1
Geoffrey KALISH	1
Jeff Horing	1
Mark Gormley	1
Robert Stavis	1
Ignacio Smith	1
JP Duque	1
Tomás Peña	1
Wolfgang Schuch	1
Rafael Coelho	1
Claude Ricci	1
Pablo Arrebola	1
Guilherme Weege	1
Rafael Duton	1
Paulo Piccini	1
Santiago Ardisonne	1
Saurabh Gupta	1
Fernando Reis	1
Paulo Piccini	1
Tomás Peña	1
Robert Stavis	1
Saurabh Gupta	1
Rafael Coelho	1
Guilherme Weege	1
Jeff Horing	1
Fernando Reis	1
JP Duque	1
Claude Ricci	1
Geoffrey KALISH	1
Francisco Forbes	1
Mark Gormley	1
Martín Moreno	1
Bob Goodman	1
Santiago Ardisonne	1
Rafael Duton	1
Pablo Arrebola	1

Carlos Rodriguez

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Chile, Denmark, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Vozy — Vozy is an artificial intelligence voice platform that helps companies change the way they interact with their customers, using voice assistants and conversational AI.
Bruna by Altum Lab — AltumLab is a startup led by women, which allows to improve production processes with algorithms based on Artificial Intelligence. Bruna, is our SaaS platform, it is capable of reducing the use of energy resources; predict the quality and characteristics of finished products according to their raw materials; optimize the use of machines in theoperation and provide insights to make strategic production decisions in the short and medium term. It has been supported by various government and private funds
Bright Star Studios — Publisher of Ember Sword. We build zero-friction next-gen social MMOs that empower gamers through open player-centric-economies based on digital collectibles.

Ariel Lambrecht - Founder @ Mara

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Mexico, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Salvy — A melhor operadora para o seu time!
Elevva — Elevva help e-commerce brands in retail management, e-commerce channel expansion, and vendor management.
CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.

Ariel Lambrecht - Founder @ Mara

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Mexico, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Salvy — A melhor operadora para o seu time!
Elevva — Elevva help e-commerce brands in retail management, e-commerce channel expansion, and vendor management.
CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.

Carlos Rodriguez

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Chile, Denmark, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Vozy — Vozy is an artificial intelligence voice platform that helps companies change the way they interact with their customers, using voice assistants and conversational AI.
Bruna by Altum Lab — AltumLab is a startup led by women, which allows to improve production processes with algorithms based on Artificial Intelligence. Bruna, is our SaaS platform, it is capable of reducing the use of energy resources; predict the quality and characteristics of finished products according to their raw materials; optimize the use of machines in theoperation and provide insights to make strategic production decisions in the short and medium term. It has been supported by various government and private funds
Bright Star Studios — Publisher of Ember Sword. We build zero-friction next-gen social MMOs that empower gamers through open player-centric-economies based on digital collectibles.

Juan Andrés Escudero

Investment focus

Farming, Agriculture
Pre-Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

AGRO GO — Agro Go is a digital agricultural portal that specialises in the sale of work farms and animals.

Wolfgang Schuch

Investment focus

Farming, Chemical, Agriculture
Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

Botanical Solutions — BSI produces plant-based biofungicides for sustainable agriculture & advanced botanical materials for the gold standard vaccine adjuvant QS-21

Multicultural senior executive with 40 years experience built internationally with responsibilities in strategic and operational functionsManaged P&L at country and regional leves in markets/regions of high growth relevance (India, South East Asia)Strategic responsibility for Global Food business with development & implementationof strategies, Innovation pipelines , Brands guardianship & communication, capital expenditure and Talent managementShaped and implemented the Global Nestle R&D and PTC new set-up being today the blueprint to the present operationsProfound exposure on Corporate Governance through Board membershipsRecently has joined IMD Business School as Executive-in-Residence becoming active working with its faculties and programsMulticultural life exposure by living in Brazil USA, France, Switzerland, Israel, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore

Investment focus

B2B, B2C, AgTech
Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Ecotrace — Ecotrace FOCUS ON AGRO, founded by entrepreneurs accumulating 14 years of experience in agribusiness, offering an unique end-to-end traceability solution, ensuring reliability, security and transparency throughout the value chain, using a set of technological solutions such as: Machine Learning, IoT, Big Data and Data Science, thus creating aunique traceability platform for its trust and transparency in data through the Ecotrace protocol that uses Blockchain technology.

Gregorio Moreno

Investment focus

Farming, Agriculture
Pre-Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

AGRO GO — Agro Go is a digital agricultural portal that specialises in the sale of work farms and animals.

Ignacio Smith

Investment focus

Farming, Chemical, Agriculture
Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

Botanical Solutions — BSI produces plant-based biofungicides for sustainable agriculture & advanced botanical materials for the gold standard vaccine adjuvant QS-21

Multicultural senior executive with 40 years experience built internationally with responsibilities in strategic and operational functionsManaged P&L at country and regional leves in markets/regions of high growth relevance (India, South East Asia)Strategic responsibility for Global Food business with development & implementationof strategies, Innovation pipelines , Brands guardianship & communication, capital expenditure and Talent managementShaped and implemented the Global Nestle R&D and PTC new set-up being today the blueprint to the present operationsProfound exposure on Corporate Governance through Board membershipsRecently has joined IMD Business School as Executive-in-Residence becoming active working with its faculties and programsMulticultural life exposure by living in Brazil USA, France, Switzerland, Israel, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore

Investment focus

B2B, B2C, AgTech
Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Ecotrace — Ecotrace FOCUS ON AGRO, founded by entrepreneurs accumulating 14 years of experience in agribusiness, offering an unique end-to-end traceability solution, ensuring reliability, security and transparency throughout the value chain, using a set of technological solutions such as: Machine Learning, IoT, Big Data and Data Science, thus creating aunique traceability platform for its trust and transparency in data through the Ecotrace protocol that uses Blockchain technology.

Francisco Forbes is the Global Director | Investments at Global Director | Investments. Attended Santa Cruz College.

Investment focus

AgTech, Drones, Hardware
Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Arpac Drones — ARPAC delivers important results in pest control through their own research and development of their aircraft and application systems; as well as, performing services in locations where other vehicles can not reach.

Gregorio Moreno

Investment focus

Farming, Agriculture
Pre-Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

AGRO GO — Agro Go is a digital agricultural portal that specialises in the sale of work farms and animals.

Juan Andrés Escudero

Investment focus

Farming, Agriculture
Pre-Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

AGRO GO — Agro Go is a digital agricultural portal that specialises in the sale of work farms and animals.

Martín Moreno

Investment focus

Farming, Agriculture
Pre-Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

AGRO GO — Agro Go is a digital agricultural portal that specialises in the sale of work farms and animals.

Robert Goodman is a general partner at Goodman served as a director at he joined Bessemer Venture Partners. He has also worked at Goodman holds a bachelor’s degree in arts from

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, Mexico, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Formally — Formally is a platform for legal collaboration. We leverage intelligent technology with behavioral science to create a whole new category of legal tech. And it all starts with immigration.
Tackle — Tackle helps you identify the right buyers, co-sell with your Cloud Partners, and transact through the Marketplaces with a platform built for Cloud GTM success.
Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood

Mr. Kalish is a Partner at Aquiline Capital Partners. Previously, Mr. Kalish was also the Founder and Managing Director at Venturion Capital. He has served on the boards of numerous financial services companies in Europe and the US. He holds a history degree from Columbia and a masters degree in public policy from Harvard.

Investment focus

AgTech, Seafood, Biotechnology
Series A
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood

Jeff Horing has been a co-founder and managing director at Insight Venture Partners since 1995. Under his leadership Insight has become a premier venture capital and private equity firm focused on growth investments in software and internet businesses, currently investing from a $2.56 billion fund. Jeff's areas of focus include mobile,online gaming, data, infrastructure and internet software. Jeff is a former member of the board of directors of Airborne Entertainment (acquired by Cybird Co.), CTSpace (acquired by Sword Group), Beechwood Data Systems (acquired by Cap Gemini), Greenfield Online (IPO, later acquired by Microsoft), Hitwise (acquired by Experian Group Ltd), IAG Research (acquired by The Nielsen Company), ProMira Software (acquired by Manugistics), Shutterstock (IPO), SLP Infoware (acquired by Gemplus), Solarwinds Inc. (IPO NYSE: SWI), and Xchange (IPO acquired by Amdocs).Jeff is an investor or currently serves on the board of directors of AirWatch (mobile device management), Anaqua (IP asset management), GFI Software (cloud-based services), Jagex Ltd (online gaming), Nexon (online gaming), Datacore Software (storage virtualization), New Relic (application performance management), Teamviewer (remote desktop collaboration), WIX (free DIY flash-based websites), Whitney University System (distance learning technology), and Zumba (global fitness and lifestyle brand).Prior to founding Insight, Jeff was a key member of the technology investing team at Warburg Pincus. Earlier in his career he worked at Goldman Sachs in the Capital Markets group.Jeff holds an MBA from the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management. He has dual undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Engineering and Wharton School, where he graduated with high honors and was Phi Beta Kappa. Jeff is a regular speaker at Wharton as part of the Distinguished Guest speaker series.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood
Abnormal Security — Advanced email protection to prevent credential phishing, business email compromise, account takeover, and more.
Sensi.Ai — Sensi.Ai developed the first audio AI that's able to analyze the routine in long term care environments, detect anomalies and provide insight on trends, with the purpose of improving the quality of care

Mark K. Gormley is a Partner at Lee Equity Partners. Prior to joining Lee Equity in 2006, Mr. Gormley was a Partner at Capital Z Financial Services Partners (“CZFS”), a leading financial services private equity firm, where he played a leading role in the operations and investment activities of the $1.85 billion fund. Mr. Gormley co-founded CZFS in1998 and shared responsibility for the oversight of all of the firm's investment and monitoring activities. Prior to founding CZFS, Mr. Gormley served as a Managing Director at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (“DLJ”), specializing in the insurance and asset management industries. While at DLJ, Mr. Gormley worked on corporate finance and merger and acquisition assignments, as well as on principal related activities on behalf of DLJ Merchant Banking. Prior to joining DLJ in 1989, he was a founding member of the Insurance Group at Merrill Lynch in 1985. Mr. Gormley serves or has served as a director of numerous public and private companies, including The Edelman Financial Group, Skopos Financial Group, Captive Resources, Carlile Bancshares, PDR Network, MidCap Financial, Universal American, Permanent General, NewStar Financial, British Marine Holdings, Catlin Group, Bank Handlowy, Ceska Sporitelna, NACOLAH among others. Mr. Gormley received a B.S.B.A. cum laude in Finance and Economics from the University of Denver and an M.B.A. from New York University.

Investment focus

Service Industry, Insurance, AgTech
Series A, Private Equity, Secondary Market
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

McLarens — McLarens is an insurance industry leader providing claims management, loss adjusting and risk mitigation services to clients around the world.
Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood
Simplicity Group Holdings — Simplicity is the leading partner for advisors, financial institutions, and consumers by delivering the best combination of wealth accumulation and financial protection products that meet the needs of a consumer-oriented holistic financial plan.

Rob Stavis is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series C, Series B, Series A
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood
FLOWER CO — We sell weed on the internet. Thousands of products delivered overnight throughout California from Humboldt to San Diego
Bespoke Financial — Bespoke Financial is a licensed lender supporting cannabis companies. They alleviate working capital constraints across the entire cannabis supply chain. Bespoke supports their clients as they scale and grow with unique financing solutions and cannabis business loans.

Ignacio Smith

Investment focus

Farming, Chemical, Agriculture
Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

Botanical Solutions — BSI produces plant-based biofungicides for sustainable agriculture & advanced botanical materials for the gold standard vaccine adjuvant QS-21

Latam-focused Angel Investor (pre-seed to series A). Experience in VC, investment banking (M&A), private equity, angel and impact investing

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Big Data
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Mexico, Colombia, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Jefa — Jefa is a digital financial platform for women. Starting in Mexico, Jefa provides a digital app with access to a financial marketplace in an affordable, convenient, and secure solution.Jefa's goal is to empower women to live without limits or obstacles. Jefa does this by giving its clients access to fair, affordable, and secure financialservices through a mobile account.
Pura Mente — Meditation app in Spanish
Plurall — At Plurall, we are applying technology, data science, and a hyper-focus on customer to deliver mission critical financial services to those entrepreneurs and SMEs who have been left out of the digital revolution. Despite decades of product design, market presence, and market dominance by incumbents, we believe the ideal financial servicesplatform – one that is accessible, instantaneous, friendly, and transparent – hasn’t been built yet.With the support of Visa and leveraging in proven technology from well established fintech suppliers in Latam, we will launch our MVP in the 1st Q of 2022. Our waitlist is available at www.plurall.com

Tomas Pena joined The Yield Lab as Managing Director in 2017.

Investment focus

AgTech, FinTech, Insurance
Seed
Argentina

Portfolio highlights

S4 — S4 is a technology service company that provides risk management solutions to ensure food production. It also develops index-based coverage to transfer the agriculture industry's volatilities to the financial markets, through OTC-derivatives contracts. The company offers products and services are used by a broad range of customers includinglarge growers, crop protection and seeds suppliers, crop insurance providers, banking, and commodity exchanges.S4 integrates the harvest information with a planting plan, seed density, and soil analysis. They had developed a decision-making geo-referenced platform for the agricultural producer. They seek to improve the decision-making process in complex environments to collaborate in the global challenge of generating quality food for humanity.S4 was founded on 2011 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Wolfgang Schuch

Investment focus

Farming, Chemical, Agriculture
Seed
Chile

Portfolio highlights

Botanical Solutions — BSI produces plant-based biofungicides for sustainable agriculture & advanced botanical materials for the gold standard vaccine adjuvant QS-21

Result oriented professional and a team player while running several projects over the companies that have worked for. Has worked for Louis Dreyfus Commodities, Infinity Ventures, as well as starting up an internet focused Brazilian VC fund, W7 Venture Capital. Has strong analytical skills developed in a position of commodity market analysis andventure capital portfolio manager. Excellent social networking habits including very active use of new social media.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, iOS, Baby
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Widbook — Widbook is one of the world's largest digital community for writers, readers and book lovers to share stories in an e-book format with members in over 100 countriesWidbook is engaging people to write and to read better and more.Through Widbook's website, writers can experiment a completely new experience writing a story or amultimedia ebook, make it much more efficient then the secular current model.Widbook's IOS and Android apps allow people to read awesome new stories anywhere and anytime they have at least 5 minutes.
Bebe Store — Bebe Store is an online retail service for buying baby products such as clothes, shoes, strollers, and baby seats. The company was named Info-Prize Info-Exam-Startup Magazine of the Year of 2012. Bebe Store was founded in 2009 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Caffeex — Caffeex is the first independent coffee trading platform designed by traders and for traders with the goal of improving the quality and efficiency in the over the counter trading of the green physical coffee.

Claude Ricci

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
Pre-Seed, Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Visto.bio — Visto.bio desenvolve tecnologias, produtos e serviços para uma relação mais equilibrada entre pessoas e planeta
Wedy — Organize seu casamento com facilidade usando nosso aplicativo gratuito, repleto de recursos que abrangem todos os aspectos do seu dia especial
Caffeex — Caffeex is the first independent coffee trading platform designed by traders and for traders with the goal of improving the quality and efficiency in the over the counter trading of the green physical coffee.

Pablo Garcia Arrebola is Director of Business Development at NordelEnergy S.A..He is Investor & Board of Director at Booster.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Mobile Apps
Angel
Argentina

Portfolio highlights

BoosterAgro — BoosterAgro is the largest farmer digital-community in South AmericaWe help farmers make better decisions and improve efficiency with digital tools and content around topics like weather, precipitation, crop health satellite imagery, smart spraying, seasonal forecasts, among others. Currently we're serving over 80.000 users across the mainagricultural countries in South America: Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia. Farmers freely access on-demand to all this content through their mobile phones and tablets.To help users further their agronomic goals, we also connect farmers directly with suppliers. Users seeking for products and services for their farm are immediately matched to a vendor in their area who meets their needs.

Guilherme Weege - Board Member @ Infracommerce

Investment focus

AgTech, Rental, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Tabas — Tabas is a Provider of fully furnished apartments with exclusive design and all necessary amenities for a comfortable stay. The company's services include fully furnished apartments with exclusive design and professional cleaning service and equipped with Wi-Fi, Smart-TV, air conditioning, and all necessary amenities, enabling people to rentthese apartments and stay there for as long as they want.
Frexco — Disrupting the fresh produce supply chain to create the best b2b marketplace for mom-and-pop shops in BR

Rafael Duton is a co-founder of 21212 Digital Accelerator and Movile. Duton obtained his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and master’s degree in business from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Hash — Hash allows B2B companies to provide financial, payments, and banking solutions to their merchant partners. With a fully customizable product, its platform enables clients to absorb financial transaction flows from all their buyers.The company was certified by the Great Place to Work and is on PEGN Magazine's "100 Startups toWatch" list. Earlier this year, it also made the “Top Fintech Companies in Brazil 2021” list, by the British magazine Daily Finance. Recently, Hash was selected by StartupCity magazine for the "Top Startups in Brazil 2021" list, and also made it to “The Fintech 250: The Top Fintech Companies Of 2021”, by CB Insights.João Miranda founded the company in 2017.
JurisHand — Top 1 Legal Vade Mecum App in Brazil.
180° Insurance — Uma nova forma de distribuir e consumir seguros no Brasil.

Paulo Piccini - Founder, CEO @ Ananke

Investment focus

Marketplace, E-Commerce, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Olist — Olist is an SMB commerce enabler ecosystem that specializes in the fields of logistics and capital. Commerce has changed and platforms like shopify, amazon, meli, alibaba and their peers are more and more relevant to our economy throughout the globe. This movement triggered a new generation of enablers to support small businesses navigate in suchrich and fragmented ecosystem. Olist is leading the way as the #1 commerce enabler for SMBs in Brazil, now expanding globally.The company started with a single core connecting merchants to marketplaces and evolved to a complete ecosystem of integrated products in 3 dimensions. (1) Commerce: (a) Olist Store is the leading solution to sell on marketplaces; (b) Olist Shops is our ecommerce solution, mobile first, natively connected to social media, present in 180 countries. (2) Logistics: Olist Pax is a leading cloud based logistics and fulfillment network provider operating in Brazil. (3) Capital: Olist Credit and Olist Pay.
nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
Caffeex — Caffeex is the first independent coffee trading platform designed by traders and for traders with the goal of improving the quality and efficiency in the over the counter trading of the green physical coffee.

Santiago Ardisonne

Investment focus

AgTech, FinTech, Agriculture
Seed
Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Agrotoken — Agrotoken is a grain-backed, transactional digital asset used to save or exchange for supplies, services, and other assets. Agrotokens allow to carry out commercial and financial transactions with the direct support of the grains. Agrotoken creates a safe ecosystem to make trading grains easier, more efficient, and more reliable.Agrotoken isfocused on tokenization of commodities, smart contracts, and digital economy solutions for Agribusiness.

Saurabh Gupta is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at DST Global.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
Series C, Series D, Seed
United States, India, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Repool — Repool is the leading hedge fund launch, administration, and investor experience platform for emerging managers. Learn more.
Connectly.ai — Our easy-to-use tools promote meaningful 2-way conversations in the channels your customers use the most. Businesses of all sizes can deliver personalized, automated alerts and notifications, simplifying how you find new customers, sell your products & services, and manage the myriad tasks associated with the customer experience.
Checkmate — Never miss a deal.

Fernando Reis is the Co-Founder of Gênica.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Education
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

AgroAdvance — AgroAdvance offers solutions in education and experimentation for the agriculture business. They provide services ranging from onboarding training for entry-level employees to management training through hands-on training. They collect data and analyze the metrics for faithful monitoring of the project.

Paulo Piccini - Founder, CEO @ Ananke

Investment focus

Marketplace, E-Commerce, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

Olist — Olist is an SMB commerce enabler ecosystem that specializes in the fields of logistics and capital. Commerce has changed and platforms like shopify, amazon, meli, alibaba and their peers are more and more relevant to our economy throughout the globe. This movement triggered a new generation of enablers to support small businesses navigate in suchrich and fragmented ecosystem. Olist is leading the way as the #1 commerce enabler for SMBs in Brazil, now expanding globally.The company started with a single core connecting merchants to marketplaces and evolved to a complete ecosystem of integrated products in 3 dimensions. (1) Commerce: (a) Olist Store is the leading solution to sell on marketplaces; (b) Olist Shops is our ecommerce solution, mobile first, natively connected to social media, present in 180 countries. (2) Logistics: Olist Pax is a leading cloud based logistics and fulfillment network provider operating in Brazil. (3) Capital: Olist Credit and Olist Pay.
nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
Caffeex — Caffeex is the first independent coffee trading platform designed by traders and for traders with the goal of improving the quality and efficiency in the over the counter trading of the green physical coffee.

Tomas Pena joined The Yield Lab as Managing Director in 2017.

Investment focus

AgTech, FinTech, Insurance
Seed
Argentina

Portfolio highlights

S4 — S4 is a technology service company that provides risk management solutions to ensure food production. It also develops index-based coverage to transfer the agriculture industry's volatilities to the financial markets, through OTC-derivatives contracts. The company offers products and services are used by a broad range of customers includinglarge growers, crop protection and seeds suppliers, crop insurance providers, banking, and commodity exchanges.S4 integrates the harvest information with a planting plan, seed density, and soil analysis. They had developed a decision-making geo-referenced platform for the agricultural producer. They seek to improve the decision-making process in complex environments to collaborate in the global challenge of generating quality food for humanity.S4 was founded on 2011 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Rob Stavis is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series C, Series B, Series A
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood
FLOWER CO — We sell weed on the internet. Thousands of products delivered overnight throughout California from Humboldt to San Diego
Bespoke Financial — Bespoke Financial is a licensed lender supporting cannabis companies. They alleviate working capital constraints across the entire cannabis supply chain. Bespoke supports their clients as they scale and grow with unique financing solutions and cannabis business loans.

Saurabh Gupta is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at DST Global.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
Series C, Series D, Seed
United States, India, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Repool — Repool is the leading hedge fund launch, administration, and investor experience platform for emerging managers. Learn more.
Connectly.ai — Our easy-to-use tools promote meaningful 2-way conversations in the channels your customers use the most. Businesses of all sizes can deliver personalized, automated alerts and notifications, simplifying how you find new customers, sell your products & services, and manage the myriad tasks associated with the customer experience.
Checkmate — Never miss a deal.

Result oriented professional and a team player while running several projects over the companies that have worked for. Has worked for Louis Dreyfus Commodities, Infinity Ventures, as well as starting up an internet focused Brazilian VC fund, W7 Venture Capital. Has strong analytical skills developed in a position of commodity market analysis andventure capital portfolio manager. Excellent social networking habits including very active use of new social media.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, iOS, Baby
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Widbook — Widbook is one of the world's largest digital community for writers, readers and book lovers to share stories in an e-book format with members in over 100 countriesWidbook is engaging people to write and to read better and more.Through Widbook's website, writers can experiment a completely new experience writing a story or amultimedia ebook, make it much more efficient then the secular current model.Widbook's IOS and Android apps allow people to read awesome new stories anywhere and anytime they have at least 5 minutes.
Bebe Store — Bebe Store is an online retail service for buying baby products such as clothes, shoes, strollers, and baby seats. The company was named Info-Prize Info-Exam-Startup Magazine of the Year of 2012. Bebe Store was founded in 2009 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Caffeex — Caffeex is the first independent coffee trading platform designed by traders and for traders with the goal of improving the quality and efficiency in the over the counter trading of the green physical coffee.

Guilherme Weege - Board Member @ Infracommerce

Investment focus

AgTech, Rental, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Tabas — Tabas is a Provider of fully furnished apartments with exclusive design and all necessary amenities for a comfortable stay. The company's services include fully furnished apartments with exclusive design and professional cleaning service and equipped with Wi-Fi, Smart-TV, air conditioning, and all necessary amenities, enabling people to rentthese apartments and stay there for as long as they want.
Frexco — Disrupting the fresh produce supply chain to create the best b2b marketplace for mom-and-pop shops in BR

Jeff Horing has been a co-founder and managing director at Insight Venture Partners since 1995. Under his leadership Insight has become a premier venture capital and private equity firm focused on growth investments in software and internet businesses, currently investing from a $2.56 billion fund. Jeff's areas of focus include mobile,online gaming, data, infrastructure and internet software. Jeff is a former member of the board of directors of Airborne Entertainment (acquired by Cybird Co.), CTSpace (acquired by Sword Group), Beechwood Data Systems (acquired by Cap Gemini), Greenfield Online (IPO, later acquired by Microsoft), Hitwise (acquired by Experian Group Ltd), IAG Research (acquired by The Nielsen Company), ProMira Software (acquired by Manugistics), Shutterstock (IPO), SLP Infoware (acquired by Gemplus), Solarwinds Inc. (IPO NYSE: SWI), and Xchange (IPO acquired by Amdocs).Jeff is an investor or currently serves on the board of directors of AirWatch (mobile device management), Anaqua (IP asset management), GFI Software (cloud-based services), Jagex Ltd (online gaming), Nexon (online gaming), Datacore Software (storage virtualization), New Relic (application performance management), Teamviewer (remote desktop collaboration), WIX (free DIY flash-based websites), Whitney University System (distance learning technology), and Zumba (global fitness and lifestyle brand).Prior to founding Insight, Jeff was a key member of the technology investing team at Warburg Pincus. Earlier in his career he worked at Goldman Sachs in the Capital Markets group.Jeff holds an MBA from the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management. He has dual undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Engineering and Wharton School, where he graduated with high honors and was Phi Beta Kappa. Jeff is a regular speaker at Wharton as part of the Distinguished Guest speaker series.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Israel, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood
Abnormal Security — Advanced email protection to prevent credential phishing, business email compromise, account takeover, and more.
Sensi.Ai — Sensi.Ai developed the first audio AI that's able to analyze the routine in long term care environments, detect anomalies and provide insight on trends, with the purpose of improving the quality of care

Fernando Reis is the Co-Founder of Gênica.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Education
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

AgroAdvance — AgroAdvance offers solutions in education and experimentation for the agriculture business. They provide services ranging from onboarding training for entry-level employees to management training through hands-on training. They collect data and analyze the metrics for faithful monitoring of the project.

Latam-focused Angel Investor (pre-seed to series A). Experience in VC, investment banking (M&A), private equity, angel and impact investing

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Big Data
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Mexico, Colombia, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Jefa — Jefa is a digital financial platform for women. Starting in Mexico, Jefa provides a digital app with access to a financial marketplace in an affordable, convenient, and secure solution.Jefa's goal is to empower women to live without limits or obstacles. Jefa does this by giving its clients access to fair, affordable, and secure financialservices through a mobile account.
Pura Mente — Meditation app in Spanish
Plurall — At Plurall, we are applying technology, data science, and a hyper-focus on customer to deliver mission critical financial services to those entrepreneurs and SMEs who have been left out of the digital revolution. Despite decades of product design, market presence, and market dominance by incumbents, we believe the ideal financial servicesplatform – one that is accessible, instantaneous, friendly, and transparent – hasn’t been built yet.With the support of Visa and leveraging in proven technology from well established fintech suppliers in Latam, we will launch our MVP in the 1st Q of 2022. Our waitlist is available at www.plurall.com

Claude Ricci

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
Pre-Seed, Angel
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Visto.bio — Visto.bio desenvolve tecnologias, produtos e serviços para uma relação mais equilibrada entre pessoas e planeta
Wedy — Organize seu casamento com facilidade usando nosso aplicativo gratuito, repleto de recursos que abrangem todos os aspectos do seu dia especial
Caffeex — Caffeex is the first independent coffee trading platform designed by traders and for traders with the goal of improving the quality and efficiency in the over the counter trading of the green physical coffee.

Mr. Kalish is a Partner at Aquiline Capital Partners. Previously, Mr. Kalish was also the Founder and Managing Director at Venturion Capital. He has served on the boards of numerous financial services companies in Europe and the US. He holds a history degree from Columbia and a masters degree in public policy from Harvard.

Investment focus

AgTech, Seafood, Biotechnology
Series A
Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood

Francisco Forbes is the Global Director | Investments at Global Director | Investments. Attended Santa Cruz College.

Investment focus

AgTech, Drones, Hardware
Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Arpac Drones — ARPAC delivers important results in pest control through their own research and development of their aircraft and application systems; as well as, performing services in locations where other vehicles can not reach.

Mark K. Gormley is a Partner at Lee Equity Partners. Prior to joining Lee Equity in 2006, Mr. Gormley was a Partner at Capital Z Financial Services Partners (“CZFS”), a leading financial services private equity firm, where he played a leading role in the operations and investment activities of the $1.85 billion fund. Mr. Gormley co-founded CZFS in1998 and shared responsibility for the oversight of all of the firm's investment and monitoring activities. Prior to founding CZFS, Mr. Gormley served as a Managing Director at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (“DLJ”), specializing in the insurance and asset management industries. While at DLJ, Mr. Gormley worked on corporate finance and merger and acquisition assignments, as well as on principal related activities on behalf of DLJ Merchant Banking. Prior to joining DLJ in 1989, he was a founding member of the Insurance Group at Merrill Lynch in 1985. Mr. Gormley serves or has served as a director of numerous public and private companies, including The Edelman Financial Group, Skopos Financial Group, Captive Resources, Carlile Bancshares, PDR Network, MidCap Financial, Universal American, Permanent General, NewStar Financial, British Marine Holdings, Catlin Group, Bank Handlowy, Ceska Sporitelna, NACOLAH among others. Mr. Gormley received a B.S.B.A. cum laude in Finance and Economics from the University of Denver and an M.B.A. from New York University.

Investment focus

Service Industry, Insurance, AgTech
Series A, Private Equity, Secondary Market
United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

McLarens — McLarens performs claims management, loss adjusting, pre-risk and damage surveying, and auditing services for companies throughout the world. Specific areas of expertise include Aviation, Agriculture, Property, Casualty, Technical Services, Transportation, Crime & Specie, Claims Management, and Audit. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA,McLarens has offices around the world. McLarens’s global footprint enables it to provide streamlined consistent service to global customers, while at the same time delivering local expertise and responsive service. McLarens is the only global, employee-owned loss adjusting firm in the world. McLarens’ adjusters have an average of over 20 years of claims experience, and this experience is a key part of how McLarens has built its reputation for high quality loss adjusting services.
Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood
Simplicity Group Holdings — Simplicity is the leading partner for advisors, financial institutions, and consumers by delivering the best combination of wealth accumulation and financial protection products that meet the needs of a consumer-oriented holistic financial plan.

Martín Moreno

Investment focus

Farming, Agriculture
Pre-Seed
Colombia

Portfolio highlights

AGRO GO — Agro Go is a digital agricultural portal that specialises in the sale of work farms and animals.

Robert Goodman is a general partner at Goodman served as a director at he joined Bessemer Venture Partners. He has also worked at Goodman holds a bachelor’s degree in arts from

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, Mexico, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Formally — Formally is a platform for legal collaboration. We leverage intelligent technology with behavioral science to create a whole new category of legal tech. And it all starts with immigration.
Tackle — Tackle helps you identify the right buyers, co-sell with your Cloud Partners, and transact through the Marketplaces with a platform built for Cloud GTM success.
Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood

Santiago Ardisonne

Investment focus

AgTech, FinTech, Agriculture
Seed
Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Agrotoken — Agrotoken is a grain-backed, transactional digital asset used to save or exchange for supplies, services, and other assets. Agrotokens allow to carry out commercial and financial transactions with the direct support of the grains. Agrotoken creates a safe ecosystem to make trading grains easier, more efficient, and more reliable.Agrotoken isfocused on tokenization of commodities, smart contracts, and digital economy solutions for Agribusiness.

Rafael Duton is a co-founder of 21212 Digital Accelerator and Movile. Duton obtained his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and master’s degree in business from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Hash — Hash allows B2B companies to provide financial, payments, and banking solutions to their merchant partners. With a fully customizable product, its platform enables clients to absorb financial transaction flows from all their buyers.The company was certified by the Great Place to Work and is on PEGN Magazine's "100 Startups toWatch" list. Earlier this year, it also made the “Top Fintech Companies in Brazil 2021” list, by the British magazine Daily Finance. Recently, Hash was selected by StartupCity magazine for the "Top Startups in Brazil 2021" list, and also made it to “The Fintech 250: The Top Fintech Companies Of 2021”, by CB Insights.João Miranda founded the company in 2017.
JurisHand — Top 1 Legal Vade Mecum App in Brazil.
180° Insurance — Uma nova forma de distribuir e consumir seguros no Brasil.

Pablo Garcia Arrebola is Director of Business Development at NordelEnergy S.A..He is Investor & Board of Director at Booster.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Mobile Apps
Angel
Argentina

Portfolio highlights

BoosterAgro — BoosterAgro is the largest farmer digital-community in South AmericaWe help farmers make better decisions and improve efficiency with digital tools and content around topics like weather, precipitation, crop health satellite imagery, smart spraying, seasonal forecasts, among others. Currently we're serving over 80.000 users across the mainagricultural countries in South America: Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia. Farmers freely access on-demand to all this content through their mobile phones and tablets.To help users further their agronomic goals, we also connect farmers directly with suppliers. Users seeking for products and services for their farm are immediately matched to a vendor in their area who meets their needs.