#Sementis 1 year with news and festivals! 🎉

#12 - February in LATAM - Sementis

Mar 02, 2024

Holaaaa, Oláaaaa, Helloooo

We have reached the 12th Newsletter! Yes, we completed 1 year!
With more than 200 subscribers and +600 views per month, it's just the beginning!

Thank you very much for reading and engaging! Information is power!

And to celebrate, I'm sharing 2 amazing event coupons!

The first is for the South Summit Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), which brings together more than 22 thousand visitors, and 600 investors, 30 of which are international funds. The 2024 edition takes place on March 20th and 22nd and with the coupon “RURALVEN_30OFF_ATT” from Rural Ventures, you guarantee 30% OFF.

South Summit estreará nova identidade visual global da marca no evento em Porto Alegre | GZH

The second is for an event that shows the importance of innovative livestock farming in gastronomy. Bárbaros BBQ is the biggest meat festival in Brazil and brings together the best chefs and barbecue chefs for 9 hours of open food and drinks. And, using the Blog da Carne link, you get a 10% discount.

13ª Edição Bárbaros BBQ - São Paulo 2024

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Let's go!

Topics we will cover:

🌱 Ag
🍇 Food
🌤️ Climate
💡 General News
👩🏻‍💻 Publications
🗓️ Events
💼 Job Openings
💬 Quote of the Month
👀 Before you go…

General:

Highlights:

Investments

Agtechs in Latin America raised R$1.23 billion in 2023.

This information was published in the "Startup Landscape" report by the open innovation network Liga Ventures, in partnership with Bunge and Hub CNA Digital (National Confederation of Agriculture).

And, although the value seems significant, it was 33% lower than the previous year. Brazilian agtechs received 71% of the amount (R$882 million).

Brazil also has the largest number of active startups in the sector, followed by Argentina (5%), Mexico (4%), Colombia (4%) and Chile (3%), considering the 977 agtechs mapped by the study.

And 2024? Expectations for the year are for growth, especially in M&A.

SaaS LATAM

This month, the State of SaaS LatAm 2024 report was released, which presents the evolution of this segment in the region, analyzing the business structure in several areas, such as customer acquisition and retention, financial, commercial aspects and the application of Artificial Intelligence in business.

The study is a very important benchmark for Founders and executives who work with the SaaS business model.

And, with aggregated data from more than 400 companies in Latin America, we highlight that founders of SaaS startups in Latin America:

1️⃣ Perform miracles with limited resources;

2️⃣ Are on top of US growth rate benchmarks and quickly catching up to global ARR growth rate benchmarks, with impressive growth by leveraging operational efficiency;

3️⃣ They are retention champions compared to global averages (lower turnover and higher NDR);

4️⃣ Prioritize sustainable acquisition strategies from the beginning, focusing on efficiency in indicators such as LTV/CAC, in addition to being more conservative regarding CAC return times than US founders.

State of SaaS LatAm 2024 was developed by a strong cast in technology, sponsored by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and partners such as HubSpot, Cubo Itaú, Pingback, Startups, Clicksign and Endeavor.

GAFFFF - The biggest agricultural festival in the world

The Global Agribusiness Forum has grown and has a new stage: the Allianz Parque arena, in São Paulo (🇧🇷). It will be on the 27th and 28th of June.

Organized by Datagro and presented by XP, the event's new proposal includes content (international speakers), gastronomy, music (Chitãozinho & Xororó and Jorge & Mateus) and the exhibition of the most innovative technology in the sector, with an exclusive space (and close to the goal!) for ag, food and climate techs.

And, together with the Rural Ventures team, I have a special condition for your startup to be present at this giant event. Send me a message and find out more!

Know More

Some of the confirmed speakers:

Janusz Wojciechowski, Commissioner for Agriculture, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
⁠Dr Monique Eloit, Director General, WAHO World Animal Health Organization, Paris, France
Graça Machel Mandela, Former First Lady of South Africa, South Africa
Andre Aranha Corrêa do Lago, Ambassador, Secretary of Climate, Energy and Environment, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brasília, Brazil
Gro Brundtland, Former Prime Minister of Norway and Former Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO), Oslo, Norway
Parag Khanna, Global Strategy Advisor, New America Foundation, Kanpur, India
Marcelo Gleiser, Professor, Dartmouth College, United States
Michael Schaupp, CEO, Pfeizer & Langen, Cologne, Germany

Call for Startups: