Agriculture

Agrolend is a credit business providing loans to financially underserved farmers in Brazil.

Website Latin America Selected: 2023 Agriculture Financing

Entrepreneurs

Andre Glezer Alan Glezer Valéria Bonadio

Local Office

Endeavor Brazil

Seedz

Seedz is an ag-tech company founded in Brazil in 2017 to transform the agribusiness sector, which makes up approximately 25% of Brazil’s GDP. The company focuses on transforming data into action by integrating the entire agribusiness value chain through its digital products.

Outlier Company

Website Latin America Selected: 2023 Agriculture Agricultural Sciences

Entrepreneurs

Matheus Ganem Daniel Rosa

Local Office

Endeavor Brazil

Research Reports Global Smart City

Scaling Climate Tech

Endeavor Insight partnered with HSBC to examine the challenges that climate tech founders face as they scale their companies, and the opportunities for investors and supporters to help them succeed.

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Planet Farms

Planet Farms built and operates the largest vertical farm in Europe, on the outskirts of Milan, producing and packaging basil and lettuce sold in 350+ supermarket chains and online retailers across Italy.

Website Europe Selected: 2022 Agriculture Produce & Commodities

Entrepreneurs

Luca Travaglini Daniele Benatoff

Local Office

Endeavor Italy

AcreTrader

AcreTrader democratizes the process of selling and investing in farmland. The company is an investing and trading platform that allows accredited investors to purchase shares of U.S. farmland in just minutes online.

Website U.S. & Canada Selected: 2022 Agriculture Financing

Entrepreneurs

Carter Malloy Garrott McClintock

Local Office

Endeavor Northwest Arkansas

Africa

Revolutionizing African Retailers with Twiga

Twiga provides small vendors, who represent 96% of FFV sales in Nairobi, with a mobile-based ordering platform to purchase their stock. Twiga joined the Endeavor network in 2017 through the Kenya office.

Sistema Bio

Sistema Biobolsa (Sistema.bio) enables farmers to use waste products to produce fertilizer and bio gas with a carbon negative, on-site biodigester.

Website Latin America Selected: 2017 Agriculture Agricultural Sciences

Entrepreneurs

Alexander Eaton Camilo Pages

Local Office

Endeavor Mexico

Investment Info

Fund II Series C Status: Active Invested: 2019

SFA Cebar

SFA CEBAR offers services to farmers and ranches that enable them to access financial products to structure productive projects.

Website Latin America Selected: 2009 Agriculture Agricultural Sciences

Entrepreneurs

Fabio Velasquez

Local Office

Endeavor Colombia

Novoagro

Novo Agro connects agricultural producers with opportunities in technology, capital, knowledge and markets.

Website Latin America Selected: 2014 Agriculture Produce & Commodities

Entrepreneurs

Ricardo Jaramillo Camilo Pérez Juan Sebastian Correa

Local Office

Endeavor Colombia

Thought Leadership Africa Agriculture

How to Support Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Agriculture

Endeavor Insight, with support from the Lemelson Foundation and Small Foundation, examines innovative companies in agriculture to understand how they can maximize their impact.