# Francisco Jardim

> Francisco Jardim is a Series A investor at SP Ventures backing Agriculture and Software. See 39 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SP Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sp-ventures)
- Location: São Paulo, Brazil
- Total investments: 39
- Last investment: Jul 2023
- Lead investor: 69%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franciscojardim
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/f_jardim
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- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/francisco.jardim.31

Francisco Jardim is a Series A investor at SP Ventures in São Paulo focused on Agriculture and Software. Francisco Jardim is based out of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and is the founding partner and managing director of SP Ventures. Francisco previously worked at Concil as a board member. Francisco Jardim attended the Saint Louis University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Agriculture | 12 | 31% |
| Software | 7 | 18% |
| Biotechnology | 7 | 18% |
| AgTech | 6 | 15% |
| Farming | 6 | 15% |

58 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 24 | 62% |
| Seed | 6 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 3% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brazil | 25 | 64% |
| Spain | 1 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Argentina | 1 | 3% |
| United States | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ZoomAgri | ZOOMAGRI provides an assessment of agricultural commodities to all participants of Agri supply chain via AI, computer vision and IoT. | $6.1M | Series A | Jul 18, 2023 |  |
| 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. |  | Seed | Aug 31, 2022 |  |
| Verge Ag | We help progressive grain farmers save time and money by increasing the productivity of their existing equipment. Verge Ag’s software empowers a farmer to execute their field operations with their existing equipment at a level of productivity and efficiency previously out of reach. Our product, Launch Pad, provides farmers with the tools to harnessthe power of artificial intelligence and digital simulation to automate in-field decision making and improve field operations. While most agtech companies have been focused on increasing production or optimizing inputs, we have always obsessed over increasing profitability across the entire farm. That obsession has driven us to the digitization of how farmers operate their farms of all sizes and types from all corners of the globe. | $7.5M | Series A | Apr 28, 2022 |  |
| Moss.Earth | Moss.Earth is the world's largest environmental platform focused on developing innovative approaches to pursuing a sustainable environment. An initial focus on the Amazon rainforest has proven successful, yet we are confident we can make a global impact. Most of our activities revolve around the sourcing and selling carbon credits, albeitthrough digitally-powered and viable processes. | $10M | Series A | Jan 31, 2022 |  |
| Agrofy | Agrofy is an online agrobusiness platform built to boost agribusiness globally through agile and transparent transactions between all the industry participants. built to boost agribusiness globally through agile and transparent transactions between all the industry participants. It operates all the relevant categories for the farmer: machinery,inputs, infrastructure, tools, crops, cattle, insuarance, loans, farmlands, jobs and vehicles.Additionally, Agrofy operates all the relevant categories for the farmer: machinery, inputs, infrastructure, tools, crops, cattle, insurance, loans, farmlands, jobs, and vehicles.The company was founded in 2015, based in Rosario, Argentina. | $29M | Series C | Dec 01, 2021 |  |
| Traive | Traive is an ag-fintech that unlocks credit to farmers by connecting them to lenders and providing ML-based credit risk assessment and monitoring. Traive brings farmers state-of-the-art technology to offer a novel and fair credit risk assessment, opening the door for affordable funding for their businesses. For lenders, Traive provides adifferentiated analysis applied over alternative farming and individual data, while allowing access to a much larger and diversified portfolio of borrowers. | $17M | Series A | Oct 18, 2021 |  |
| Verge Ag | We help progressive grain farmers save time and money by increasing the productivity of their existing equipment. Verge Ag’s software empowers a farmer to execute their field operations with their existing equipment at a level of productivity and efficiency previously out of reach. Our product, Launch Pad, provides farmers with the tools to harnessthe power of artificial intelligence and digital simulation to automate in-field decision making and improve field operations. While most agtech companies have been focused on increasing production or optimizing inputs, we have always obsessed over increasing profitability across the entire farm. That obsession has driven us to the digitization of how farmers operate their farms of all sizes and types from all corners of the globe. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 11, 2021 |  |
| Agrofy | Agrofy is an online agrobusiness platform built to boost agribusiness globally through agile and transparent transactions between all the industry participants. built to boost agribusiness globally through agile and transparent transactions between all the industry participants. It operates all the relevant categories for the farmer: machinery,inputs, infrastructure, tools, crops, cattle, insuarance, loans, farmlands, jobs and vehicles.Additionally, Agrofy operates all the relevant categories for the farmer: machinery, inputs, infrastructure, tools, crops, cattle, insurance, loans, farmlands, jobs, and vehicles.The company was founded in 2015, based in Rosario, Argentina. | $23M | Series B | Dec 31, 2019 |  |
| Agrosmart | Agrosmart is the largest Agdata network in Latin America, using technology to accelerate the transition to a more productive, sustainable and climate resilient agriculture. The company supports over 100k farmers as well as the whole agricultural supply chain and grew 170% in 2021. | $5.8M | Series A | Sep 04, 2019 |  |
| Pink Farms | They are the first urban vertical farm in Latin America, they have always thought a lot about how the chain could zero waste and bring a finally safe product to the big city. Let us do the work. You just need to open the package and eat natural leaves with unmatched quality. | $362K | Seed | Jul 18, 2019 |  |

10 of 39 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fall Line Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fall-line-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Acre Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acre-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Syngenta Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/syngenta-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Astella](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/astella-investimentos) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Baita Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baita-accelerator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Banco Bradesco](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/banco-bradesco) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About SP Ventures

VC Fund · Pinheiros, Brazil

Portfolio (Fundo de Inovação Paulista)Launched in 2014, Fundo de Inovação Paulista (FIP) is a R$ 105 Million Venture Capital Fund that counts with top tier Limited Partners: Desenvolve SP, FINEP, FAPESP, Sebrae-SP, CAF, and Jive Investments. FIP is focused on technology-based startups located in the state of São Paulo, the most importanteconomic pole in Brazil. Investment tickets vary from R$ 2 Million to R$ 6 Million per company, on average, but can reach R$ 15 Million including follow-ons.Track-Record (Fundo Criatec I)SP Ventures was established in 2007 as the Venture Capital firm responsible for Criatec I Fund’s investments in São Paulo. Criatec I was a cornerstone in Brazilian Venture Capital Industry led by BNDES and BNB. From 2007 to 2013, over 1,200 companies were analyzed and 8 investments were made by SP Ventures.EntrepreneursWe back technology-based companies in the segments of Agricultural Technologies; Information and Communication Technologies; Health Technologies; New Materials; and Nanotechnologies.We seek investment opportunities with the following profile:- Passionate entrepreneurs with solid technical background and market-orientated attitude- Proprietary technology with high scalability potential- Large proportions targeted-market- São Paulo based- Annual Revenue inferior to R$ 18 Million"

5 contacts available at SP Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bruno Santos | Director of Venture Debt | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruno-santos-6 |
| Felipe Guth | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felipe-guth |
| Francisco Jardim | Founding Partner and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francisco-jardim |
| Raffael Costa | Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raffael-costa |
| Sagar Patel | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sagar-patel-f3fa |

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## FAQ

### What does Francisco Jardim invest in?

Francisco Jardim invests primarily in Agriculture, Software and Biotechnology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 39 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Francisco Jardim last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Francisco Jardim closed in Jul 2023. Shizune tracks 39 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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