Bossa Invest

Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011. The firm specializes in managing investment portfolios and providing asset management services across various sectors, including finance, technology, and real estate. Bossa Invest analyzes market trends to guide its investment decisions, with a particular focus on companies in the software as a service sector. Through its strategic investments, the firm aims to support the growth and development of innovative businesses.

Thiago Gomes Hilário de Oliveira

Partner

Guilherme Pepe

Investment Analyst

Past deals in Agriculture

Gado Certo

Venture Round in 2024
Gado Certo specializes in providing personalized support services in the livestock sector, focusing on the digital buying and selling of cattle. The company offers consultancy and operational services for the purchase and sale of cattle lots, facilitating secure transactions through an integrated payment system. Additionally, Gado Certo features a calculator designed to help ranchers assess the feasibility of purchasing specific cattle lots based on their individual preferences and viable market values. Through these services, Gado Certo aims to streamline the cattle trading process for ranchers.

SScrop

Seed Round in 2023
SSCrop is a digital platform focusing on the agricultural sector, established in 2017 and headquartered in Bahia, Brazil. It specializes in developing software that facilitates rural administration and farm management. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools for managing financial statistics and resource information related to farming operations. SSCrop's web-based solution allows users to track expenses, income, loans, investments, accounts payable and receivable, bank reconciliations, and sales contract management. By organizing this vital data, the platform enables agricultural producers to make informed decisions and enhance the overall management of their farms.

Gado Certo

Seed Round in 2023
Gado Certo specializes in providing personalized support services in the livestock sector, focusing on the digital buying and selling of cattle. The company offers consultancy and operational services for the purchase and sale of cattle lots, facilitating secure transactions through an integrated payment system. Additionally, Gado Certo features a calculator designed to help ranchers assess the feasibility of purchasing specific cattle lots based on their individual preferences and viable market values. Through these services, Gado Certo aims to streamline the cattle trading process for ranchers.

Agro Insight

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Agro Insight is a digital platform that provides curated, practical content to support agricultural professionals.

Tarvos

Seed Round in 2023
Tarvos is a Brazilian company established in 2017, specializing in agricultural pest monitoring solutions. It has developed a sensor-based trap that counts and classifies insects, providing real-time data to farmers. This technology helps identify pest locations and optimal intervention times, enabling timely and effective pest control. Additionally, the platform assesses pest pressure and potential crop damage, facilitating informed decision-making regarding insecticide application. By offering these insights, Tarvos aims to enhance crop monitoring and improve agricultural yields for its clients.

Mozare3

Venture Round in 2022
Mozare3 operates as an agricultural-fintech startup. Mozare3 is a platform that serves more than 20 million underserved, unbankable smallholder farmers and their families.

Tarvos

Seed Round in 2022
Tarvos is a Brazilian company established in 2017, specializing in agricultural pest monitoring solutions. It has developed a sensor-based trap that counts and classifies insects, providing real-time data to farmers. This technology helps identify pest locations and optimal intervention times, enabling timely and effective pest control. Additionally, the platform assesses pest pressure and potential crop damage, facilitating informed decision-making regarding insecticide application. By offering these insights, Tarvos aims to enhance crop monitoring and improve agricultural yields for its clients.

Meu Pescado

Angel Round in 2022
Meu Pescado is an agricultural technology firm that develops a platform for managing fish and shrimp farms. The application monitors the farm in real time. The company's contact modes are mail, phone, and physical address.

Apollo Agriculture

Series B in 2022
Apollo Agriculture Ltd. is an agtech company based in Nairobi, Kenya, that supports smallholder farmers by providing financial and technical assistance. Founded in 2015, the company offers loans to help farmers acquire essential inputs such as fertilizer, seeds, and crop insurance, along with access to expert advice. By utilizing agronomic machine learning, remote sensing, and mobile technology, Apollo customizes financing packages based on individual farmer needs, assessing credit risk through satellite and soil data. This tailored approach aims to enhance farming practices and significantly increase crop yields, thereby maximizing profits for farmers in emerging markets.

SciCrop

Series A in 2021
SciCrop specializes in big data analytics applied to agriculture, focusing on prescriptive farming solutions. The company collects and analyzes real-time data from various sources, including climate, soil conditions, pests, and market logistics. By employing advanced data modeling and analysis techniques, SciCrop delivers tailored insights that assist growers and agricultural stakeholders in making informed decisions. To enhance the accuracy of its analyses, the company utilizes censoring equipment for automatic data tracking and cloud transmission, even in areas lacking internet access. This innovative approach aims to improve productivity and optimize costs within the agricultural sector.

Agrointeli

Seed Round in 2021
Agrointeli is a digital agriculture company that helps farmers make decisions based on real numbers of their crops in a sustainable way. It link sensors, weather data, and an online application to generate information for precision agriculture. From this information, Agrointeli performs data analysis using artificial intelligence techniques and generates recommendations to the farmer's decision-making.

Cyklo Agritech

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Cyklo Agritech is a startup accelerator that focuses on agriculture, livestock, and agribusiness. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Luis Eduardo Magalhaes, Bahia.

Twiga Foods

Series C in 2021
Twiga Foods Ltd. operates a mobile-based business-to-business supply platform that serves retail outlets, kiosks, and market stalls across Africa. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, the company facilitates the ordering of various supplies, including bananas, pineapples, and tomatoes, through its platform. By leveraging a cashless system, Twiga connects millions of small and medium-sized vendors in urban markets, streamlining the supply chain and enhancing access to essential goods.

Sardrones

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Sardrones specializes in agricultural technology, focusing on the development and deployment of drones to enhance farming practices. Their primary product, the "I-drones," integrates proprietary software with drone technology to facilitate the use of artificial intelligence in agriculture. This innovative approach enables farmers to manage agricultural pests and seed dispersal more efficiently, ultimately leading to increased crop yields while minimizing environmental impact. By replacing manual labor with advanced drone solutions, Sardrones aims to improve productivity in agribusiness, thereby providing significant benefits to agriculturalists seeking modern, sustainable farming methods.

ManejeBem

Seed Round in 2021
ManejeBem is an online platform based in Florianópolis, Brazil, that connects farmers, specialists, and individuals interested in plant production. Founded in 2016, the platform promotes sustainable agriculture by facilitating the connection of the organic production chain. It provides agricultural technical assistance aimed at structuring rural production systems, catering to the needs of the industry, governments, and organizations. By capturing field data, ManejeBem supports the planning of agricultural actions and the monitoring of sustainability impacts. This approach enables family farmers to connect with technicians, ultimately enhancing their production capabilities.

MilkRun

Series A in 2021
MilkRun provides an online retail channel for small and mid-sized producers to engage directly with their customers, orchestrating the direct sale, distribution and fulfillment of locally grown and made goods. With an end-to-end solution, MilkRun can deliver a 6x improvement to producers by using technology to deploy the pre-industrial distribution model for local food systems.

Muda Meu Mundo

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Muda Meu Mundo is a startup focused on connecting small producers and family farmers with retailers through a specialized supply chain platform. The company utilizes data intelligence to facilitate complete tracking throughout the production chain, ensuring transparency and sustainability. By screening the supply chain at every level, Muda Meu Mundo engages producers with the market while generating positive social and environmental impacts. This approach enables small-scale farmers to leverage ESG data, ultimately creating a more sustainable supply chain and providing benefits for all participants involved.

Solubio Agricultural Technologies

Venture Round in 2020
Solubio Agricultural Technologies is a biopesticide manufacturing company that creates an integrated on-farm management system. They offer a complete solution for the production of bioinputs on the farm, offering integrated technology with industrial standards, all equipment, inputs, training, and technical assistance. It also develops industrial-standard integrated technology and provides all necessary equipment, inputs, quality control, training, and technical assistance to its customers in order for them to produce their own bio-input on the farm. The company's on-farm bio-input production technology allows producers to cut costs in soy, corn, wheat, cotton, sugarcane, coffee, and fruit and vegetable crops by up to 70%.

Aerobotics

Series B in 2020
Aerobotics is a data analytics company that specializes in providing insights into tree and fruit health through the use of drone imagery and artificial intelligence. The company has developed aerial imagery technology that combines satellite and drone data with machine learning algorithms. This technology assists farmers in various aspects of orchard management, including the identification of problematic trees, pest and disease management, and yield optimization. By enabling farmers to efficiently scan their fields and analyze the information captured, Aerobotics helps reduce costs and enhance agricultural productivity.

Barn2Door

Series A in 2020
Barn2Door, Inc. operates an e-commerce marketplace that connects local farms with chefs, facilitating easy access to local food products. Founded in 2015 and based in Seattle, the company provides farmers with a comprehensive platform to sell a variety of items, including pastured meats, jams, heirloom produce, and non-food goods such as firewood and soaps. The platform automates the matching of farm stores to chefs, allowing users to place orders, receive notifications, and track payments and deliveries. By offering tools for real-time inventory tracking and flexible delivery management, Barn2Door enables farmers to effectively manage their direct sales, both online and in-person, thus enhancing their business operations and accessibility to customers.

Future Fields

Seed Round in 2020
Future Fields is a company focused on sustainable production through insect biotechnology, specifically utilizing its EntoEngine™ platform, which leverages the genetic capabilities of fruit flies to generate environmentally friendly biomolecules. Founded in 2018 and based in Edmonton, Canada, Future Fields specializes in developing insect-based recombinant proteins that serve as growth components essential for cell culture. By prioritizing sustainability, the company aims to reduce the environmental impact of protein production while enhancing the economic feasibility of cell-based foods in the agriculture industry. Future Fields is supported by notable venture capital firms and investors from Silicon Valley and beyond.

AppHarvest

Series C in 2020
AppHarvest, Inc. is a food production company based in Lexington, Kentucky, founded in 2017. The company focuses on building and operating controlled-environment greenhouse farms that utilize advanced agricultural technology to produce non-GMO, chemical-free vegetables. By combining traditional farming methods with innovative techniques, AppHarvest aims to create a climate-resilient food system while enhancing water efficiency in its operations. The greenhouses are designed to optimize water distribution and minimize overall water usage, reflecting the company's commitment to sustainable agricultural practices.

Gado Certo

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Gado Certo specializes in providing personalized support services in the livestock sector, focusing on the digital buying and selling of cattle. The company offers consultancy and operational services for the purchase and sale of cattle lots, facilitating secure transactions through an integrated payment system. Additionally, Gado Certo features a calculator designed to help ranchers assess the feasibility of purchasing specific cattle lots based on their individual preferences and viable market values. Through these services, Gado Certo aims to streamline the cattle trading process for ranchers.

Bear Flag Robotics

Seed Round in 2020
Bear Flag Robotics, Inc. specializes in developing autonomous technology for farm tractors, aiming to enhance productivity and safety in agriculture. Founded in 2017 by Igino Cafiero and Aubrey Donnellan, the company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Its software enables users to plan routes, schedule jobs, and receive real-time alerts about equipment status. Additionally, it features remote emergency stop capabilities and obstacle avoidance, ensuring safe operation in various conditions. By utilizing perception sensors and robotic actuators, Bear Flag Robotics' technology allows central mission control to manage tractor operations, providing real-time data that helps farmers optimize their practices, reduce input costs, and increase production yields.

Gro Intelligence

Venture Round in 2020
Gro Intelligence, Inc. is an agricultural data analytics company that provides insights to enhance productivity and access to capital in the farming sector. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Nairobi, the company employs proprietary algorithms and artificial intelligence to aggregate, process, and analyze data related to weather patterns, trade flows, pricing dynamics, and production. Its platform offers computational and visualization tools that enable financial institutions, corporations, and government entities to make informed decisions regarding supply chains, climate change, and food security. By bridging data gaps across global agriculture, Gro Intelligence synthesizes diverse farming data points from various sources, delivering a comprehensive view of factors influencing commodity markets. The company emphasizes the importance of combining artificial intelligence with human insight to transform raw agricultural and climate data into actionable knowledge.

Agrofy

Series B in 2019
Agrofy S.A. is an online retail platform based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that facilitates transactions for agricultural products and machinery. Founded in 2015, the platform serves as a comprehensive marketplace for various agricultural needs, including machinery, inputs, infrastructure, tools, crops, cattle, insurance, loans, farmlands, jobs, and vehicles. By providing a centralized space for buying and selling, Agrofy aims to enhance efficiency and transparency within the agribusiness sector, enabling farmers to access the latest machinery and resources necessary for effective farming operations. The company is dedicated to boosting agribusiness on a global scale through its innovative online platform.

Agrointeli

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Agrointeli is a digital agriculture company that helps farmers make decisions based on real numbers of their crops in a sustainable way. It link sensors, weather data, and an online application to generate information for precision agriculture. From this information, Agrointeli performs data analysis using artificial intelligence techniques and generates recommendations to the farmer's decision-making.

Sistema.bio

Series C in 2019
Sistema.bio designs and manufactures prefabricated modular biodigester systems aimed at enhancing the efficiency and quality of life for small farmers. The company's biodigesters utilize anaerobic bacteria to convert manure from livestock and other organic waste into methane gas and organic fertilizer. This process not only provides farmers with biogas for cooking and heating but also generates mechanical energy for agricultural activities. By transforming waste into valuable resources, Sistema.bio enables farmers to tackle waste management issues while increasing their productivity and sustainability.

Muda Meu Mundo

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Muda Meu Mundo is a startup focused on connecting small producers and family farmers with retailers through a specialized supply chain platform. The company utilizes data intelligence to facilitate complete tracking throughout the production chain, ensuring transparency and sustainability. By screening the supply chain at every level, Muda Meu Mundo engages producers with the market while generating positive social and environmental impacts. This approach enables small-scale farmers to leverage ESG data, ultimately creating a more sustainable supply chain and providing benefits for all participants involved.

iAgro

Venture Round in 2018
IAgro

DigiFarmz Smart Agriculture

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Growers currently lose 75% of crop yield potential due to decision errors in plant health and nutrition management. DigiFarmz uses algorithms that combine biotic (genetics, pathogen, etc.) and abiotic (climate, sowing dates, location, etc.) parameters and a big data with more than sixteen years of field and greenhouse researches, to provide real-time dynamic recommendations for the very reality of each farm and field plot, optimizing the use of agrochemicals, increasing the yield and profitability of crops.

Leaf Agriculture

Venture Round in 2018
Leaf Agriculture is a Brazilian company founded in 2017, based in Florianopolis, that specializes in providing a unified application programming interface (API) platform for the agriculture industry. This platform offers data services that facilitate access to agricultural data and validation of user access. By connecting various AgTech APIs, Leaf Agriculture enables users to access agricultural data efficiently through a single API, contributing to the advancement of digital agriculture. The company's mission focuses on enhancing the future of food and agriculture through innovative data solutions.

Shipamax

Seed Round in 2017
Shipamax Ltd. is a London-based company that specializes in data extraction software solutions for the supply chain industry, focusing on freight forwarders, chartering teams, and shipbrokers. Founded in 2016, Shipamax's technology is designed to understand various logistics documents, converting them into machine-readable formats. This capability streamlines complex processes typically associated with the movement of goods, where multiple companies can be involved, thus reducing the manual workload for users. The platform offers data entry automation and facilitates end-to-end digital brokerage for bulk freight, including agriculture commodities, metals, and gasoline. By simplifying these behind-the-scenes operations, Shipamax aims to enhance the scalability and adaptability of logistics in an increasingly on-demand economy.

Cowlar

Seed Round in 2017
Cowlar Inc. specializes in developing and manufacturing smart neck collars for dairy cows, aimed at enhancing farm productivity. These waterproof and non-invasive collars monitor individual cows' temperature, activity, and behavior, providing farmers with actionable insights to boost milk yield, improve reproductive rates, and detect illnesses early. The collars are designed for ease of use, installation, and maintenance, making them accessible to farmers. In addition to the hardware, Cowlar also offers dairy management software to streamline operations. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, the company has a research and development office in Islamabad, Pakistan, further supporting its innovative approach to dairy farming.

Alluagro

Seed Round in 2017
Alluagro operates as an intelligent marketplace that connects farmers with certified service providers of agricultural machinery through geolocation technology. The platform allows farmers to access services for various agricultural needs, including soil preparation, planting, spraying, harvesting, and freight. Additionally, Alluagro offers a suite of control dashboards known as Alluagro PRO, which helps farmers monitor and manage agricultural processes effectively, minimizing potential losses. By facilitating on-demand connections via a mobile application, Alluagro enhances decision-making for farmers by providing not only equipment rental options but also valuable insights into the progress of their agricultural activities.

JetBov

Seed Round in 2016
JetBov develops livestock and farm management software for the agriculture industry. It began operation in September 2015, with its headquarters in Joinville in Brazil.

Agrotrac

Venture Round in 2015
Agrotrac
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