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The Yield Lab
LATAM
The AgriFoodTech Venture Capital firm with the largest presence and experience across Latin America.
Founded in 2017 and with offices in Argentina, Brazil and Chile, our team is investing in companies based in Latin America in the whole food and agriculture innovation spectrum, from farm to fork.
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COMPANIES
EIWA
EIWA is an imagery analysis startup using a combination of drones, field-level imagery, and computer vision to analyze, predict and model crop behavior for the plant breeding industry.
Agree
Agree is a cloud-based trading platform that allows users to buy or sell grains, oilseeds, byproducts and specialties on a mobile or desktop, in both global and domestic markets. Their mission is to democratize food commercialization, providing efficiency, transparency and traceability through technology.
Kilimo
Kilimo is a full stack service for irrigation management. Using data from a range of sources, Kilimio’s proprietary water balance algorithm offers farmers decision support and recommendations for optimal irrigation practices for each crop.
Digirodeo
Digirodeo has a technology that tracks vaccine delivery guns and correlates that with livestock health management.
Circular
Cloud based, smart freight solution that captures the efficiencies of an integrated system.
By digitizing the network they can provide infrastructure, collect data and offer shared services to the industry.
By digitizing the network they can provide infrastructure, collect data and offer shared services to the industry.
Polynatural
Polynatural has developed an organic product called Shel-Life® which reduces dehydration and rotting, two key factors causing the spoilage of your fresh fruit inventories, improving its appearance and smell.
Space Ag
Space Ag collects and processes information - such as soil moisture and plant temperature - captured by drones, satellites and sensors (thermal and infrared) to generate models that increase productivity and reduce the costs of agribusiness companies.
TerraMagna
TerraMagna developed FIDES is a risk management cloud and mobile platform for agricultural operations. The product offers satellite crop monitoring throughout the crop season from pre-financing stage until it is ready for harvest. The company provides an easier way for credit and loan providers to monitor the collateral “crop receipt” of agricultural loans.
Botanical Solutions
Biotechnology Co. that has developed a unique platform for manufacturing plant based Active Ingredients and products based out of advanced botanicals; it’s first Ag-input product is Botristop - a natural biofuncide for the control of Botrytis in high value crops.
Ucrop.it
On-field remote certainty based on blockchain technology to provide traceability for all collaborative Ag-players behind a crop production effort.
@Tech
The Co. that uses AI, Data Science and IoT to optimize animal protein production, integrate supply chains and increase value creation in the animal protein industry. Their first product is Beeftrader, which is able to predict the optimal trading point (OPT) in cattle both for feedlot and grass systems with the end game to maximize profitability for the livestock producer while doing an efficient use of resources.
VOA
Offers a fully-integrated drone fleet and analytics based services for precise monitoring, rational application of biological agents, agrochemicals and Nutrients at scale.
Seedz
Seedz is a Brazilian company that provides business intelligence and insights to large agribusiness companies through its loyalty and sales incentive platform. By using loyalty and cashback programs, companies can create deeper engagement with farmers outside the normal sales cycle to gain greater traction and insights, while providing farmers with concrete benefits and recognition.
Agroforte
AgroForte is a Brazilian company with a mission to become the first complete digital bank for small and medium producers of poultry, pork and dairy. Eventually their aim is to promote complete financial inclusion in the countryside (for producers and their families).
Microterra
Microterra is a Mexican Foodtech company that produces a nutritional & functional ingredient for plant based foods in an affordable and sustainable way.
Heartbest
Heartbest is the first FoodTech and one of the fastest growing food companies in Mexico, offering a portfolio of revolutionary plant-based dairy products such as cheese, milk and spreads.
Auravant
Auravant is a Big Data company for agriculture that through its SaaS platform helps agronomists and farmers to adopt precision agriculture tools to farm in a more sustainable and efficient way and upstream companies to improve their businesses by facilitating their digital transformation.
Sioma
Sioma is a startup that develops a technological ecosystem to increase the operational productivity of tropical farmers through the use of adapted hardware and software. Currently, more than 30,000 hectares of tropical crops, such as bananas and oil palm, use its technology in Colombia, Ecuador, and Guatemala. Their integrated hardware and software solutions help to create a positive impact in climate change mitigation and adaptation.
TEAM
Graciela Budinich
Graciela is a Business and ecosystem developer in multiple industries, with experience in corporate innovation in
sectors as new materials, mining, culture, among
others. Holds an MSc degree in Innovation and Design from
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.
sectors as new materials, mining, culture, among
others. Holds an MSc degree in Innovation and Design from
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.
Kyle Welborn
Kyle is a co-founder and General Partner at Cultivation Capital where he focuses on making AgriFood Tech investments through the Yield Lab.
Adriana Coderch
Adriana is a food tech entrepreneur and business strategist focused on the agriculture, food, and consumer products industries. Former CEO at Via Wines Group in Chile and management consultant at Bain & Company.
Roberto Vitón
Roberto is the founder & MD of Valoral Advisors, an internationally recognized advisory Firm specialized in food and agricultural investments with over $500 Million worth of transactions’ advice across Latam. Former McKinsey & Co. consultant and Food & agribusiness private equity analyst.
Michael Hayes
Over 20 years of experience in the areas of strategy.
corporate development, marketing and
transformational project management with the
major insurance groups in Latin America and world
class strategic consultants.
Established Agora Partnerships in Chile, acceleration
the development of a new generation of high impact
entrepreneurs committed to achieve the UN
Sustainable Development Goals.
Former strategic consultant with Accenture and
Kearney, and marketing director of MetLife Chile.
corporate development, marketing and
transformational project management with the
major insurance groups in Latin America and world
class strategic consultants.
Established Agora Partnerships in Chile, acceleration
the development of a new generation of high impact
entrepreneurs committed to achieve the UN
Sustainable Development Goals.
Former strategic consultant with Accenture and
Kearney, and marketing director of MetLife Chile.
Santiago Murtagh
Santiago has 20 years corporate experience in the water treatment & PE industry. Former president or board member of several companies, councils and NGOs focused on innovation, competitiveness & management tools.
2018 Global Innovation Award recipient (granted by the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils).
He holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2018 Global Innovation Award recipient (granted by the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils).
He holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Kieran Gartlan
Kieran is an Agricultural Commodities Expert with 25 years experience in South America. Headed CME Group's Brazil office, leading a small team to develop business in the region and managing major accounts including Central Banks, Investment Banks, Asset Managers and Commercial and Corporate hedgers. Continue to focus on Latam Commercial and Corporate business development, including education on futures and options and use of CME's trading tools.
Tomás Peña
Tomás has 20 years of banking experience, focused in private banking and innovation. He is also a passionate business developer and co-founder of S4, a Yield Lab Portfolio startup that helps row crop farmers transfer their risk to financial markets in the US and Latam.
Jeff Peterson
Jeff Peterson is a founding member and Managing Director of the Yield Lab. Prior to the Yield Lab, Jeff served Monsanto as Vice President of Strategic Development.
Camila Petignat
Camila is a bio-entrepreneur and business developer specialized in biotech ventures. She holds a MSc degree in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from Universidad de Buenos Aires. In 2011 she co-founded Neogram, an agri-biotech startup that genetically improves pastures to contribute to a more sustainable livestock production.
Franco Pierini
Franco has 14 years experience trading and investing in financial markets (Latam, Cenin Agriculture, Finance, anBagement having invested personally in many startups (S4, Invoinet, CountIT and AENVI). He worked in JPMorgan Chase Argentina and Louis Dreyfus Company (Argentina and Switzerland).
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