The Yield Lab LATAM

Founded in 2017 with offices in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, The Yield Lab LATAM is a venture capital firm investing in AgriFoodTech companies across Latin America, spanning the entire food and agriculture innovation spectrum.

Graciela Budinich Villanelo

Principal

Kieran Gartlan

Managing Director

Marcelo McGrech

Venture Partner

Santiago Murtagh

Managing Director

Guilherme Paiva

Principal

Past deals in South America

Kilimo

Series A in 2024
Kilimo is a company specializing in water management solutions for agriculture, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cordoba, Argentina. It offers an irrigation management tool that simplifies farm management and enhances efficiency by utilizing big data. The company's technology integrates climate monitoring with satellite and site-specific soil data, allowing it to provide tailored irrigation prescriptions for various crops. By analyzing soil conditions and leveraging advanced algorithms, Kilimo enables farmers to optimize water usage, ultimately improving crop yields while conserving water resources.

goFlux

Series A in 2024
Founded in 2015, goFlux is a Brazilian SaaS platform that connects businesses with service providers like carriers and logistics operators. It provides transparency in transportation quotation processes and enables shippers to manage carrier hiring through its cloud-based platform.

Circular

Seed Round in 2021
Circular is a Buenos Aires-based company that develops an application for order and documentation management specifically designed for the transportation and logistics sector. Its platform facilitates the management of travel history and real-time monitoring of fleet status, effectively reducing and planning waiting times at ports. Additionally, it helps coordinate the flow of trucks to ports and addresses incidents through direct communication with truckers, thereby streamlining the cargo dispatch process. Circular primarily serves truckers, transport coordinators, ports, and agricultural producers, focusing on enhancing the efficiency of cereal logistics through improved collaboration and integrated process management.

EIWA

Seed Round in 2020
Eiwa, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with additional offices in Londrina, Brazil, and Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, specializes in AgTech solutions for the agricultural sector. The company provides terrestrial and aerial systems designed for plant breeding programs and seed production, including services for colorimetric analysis and morphological detection. Eiwa enables clients to conduct multiple flights throughout the growing season, facilitating the upload and processing of data in the cloud. The company's offerings focus on providing analytics for crops such as soybean, corn, and wheat, aiming to enhance the efficiency of field information management and accelerate the development cycles of agricultural inputs.

PolyNatural

Seed Round in 2020
PolyNatural is a pioneering company focused on advancing the fruticulture industry through innovative research and the development of natural products. Drawing inspiration from traditional South American agriculture, the company creates applications that utilize 100% natural components to enhance food quality globally. One of its flagship products, Shel-Life, is an edible biopolymer coating made exclusively from natural extracts, lipids, and plant polymers. This coating forms a protective layer on fruits, significantly reducing food waste by minimizing dehydration and microbial growth. Shel-Life stands out in the agribusiness market, as it replaces synthetic waxes commonly used by fruit exporters, which are derived from petroleum. PolyNatural is committed to improving quality of life while prioritizing environmental sustainability in its operations.

Circular

Seed Round in 2019
Circular is a Buenos Aires-based company that develops an application for order and documentation management specifically designed for the transportation and logistics sector. Its platform facilitates the management of travel history and real-time monitoring of fleet status, effectively reducing and planning waiting times at ports. Additionally, it helps coordinate the flow of trucks to ports and addresses incidents through direct communication with truckers, thereby streamlining the cargo dispatch process. Circular primarily serves truckers, transport coordinators, ports, and agricultural producers, focusing on enhancing the efficiency of cereal logistics through improved collaboration and integrated process management.

TerraMagna

Seed Round in 2019
TerraMagna is a Brazilian fintech company specializing in innovative financial solutions for the agriculture sector. It offers personal loans, CFB lending, embedded buy-now-pay-later services for agricultural inputs, and crop-collateralized financing, all accessible via its web platform. TerraMagna aims to strengthen the entire agricultural value chain by providing tailored credit options, reducing dependence on traditional financiers, and promoting sustainable food security.

Digirodeo

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Digirodeo is an Argentina-based AgTech company offering strategic technology for the agricultural sector, with a focus on veterinary vaccination, animal traceability and digital record-keeping. It provides hardware and software solutions for producers and vaccinators, including a digital syringe device and a mobile platform that captures treatment data, manages contacts, and generates digital reports and treatment minutes. The company aims to create an integrated ecosystem that supports animal welfare and enables public and private entities to monitor and digitize animal health activities.

Kilimo

Seed Round in 2018
Kilimo is a company specializing in water management solutions for agriculture, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cordoba, Argentina. It offers an irrigation management tool that simplifies farm management and enhances efficiency by utilizing big data. The company's technology integrates climate monitoring with satellite and site-specific soil data, allowing it to provide tailored irrigation prescriptions for various crops. By analyzing soil conditions and leveraging advanced algorithms, Kilimo enables farmers to optimize water usage, ultimately improving crop yields while conserving water resources.

EIWA

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Eiwa, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with additional offices in Londrina, Brazil, and Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, specializes in AgTech solutions for the agricultural sector. The company provides terrestrial and aerial systems designed for plant breeding programs and seed production, including services for colorimetric analysis and morphological detection. Eiwa enables clients to conduct multiple flights throughout the growing season, facilitating the upload and processing of data in the cloud. The company's offerings focus on providing analytics for crops such as soybean, corn, and wheat, aiming to enhance the efficiency of field information management and accelerate the development cycles of agricultural inputs.

Agree Market

Seed Round in 2018
Agree Market is a global online marketplace facilitating the trade of grains, oilseeds, and other commodities. Headquartered in San Isidro, Argentina with operations in Montevideo, Uruguay, it enables registered users to buy or sell commodities via mobile or desktop platforms.
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