#Sementis: 2024 Events List and more news!

#11 - January in LATAM - Sementis

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We had a carnival of news at the beginning of the year!

And have you already scheduled this year’s events? In the events section, I share a list of the main events in Latin America.

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Topics we will cover:

• 🌱 Ag

•  🍇 Food

• 🌤️ Climate

• 💡 General News

• 👩🏻‍💻 Publications

• 🗓️ Events

• 💼 Job Openings

• 💬 Quote of the Month

• 👀 Before you go…

• Agrivalle buys percentage of ByMyCell and advances in DNA soil analysis

• Agrotools announces new operational and commercial base in Brasília

• Amaggi puts biodiesel in the field, on the road and even on your uncles to eliminate its energy footprint

• AgTech Garage changes name to PwC Agtech Innovation

• AgTech Garage Co-Founder Leaves Hub to Invest in Chaac Capital

• AGI and Opea launch R$250 million fund to finance storage in Brazil

• Agrotoken wants to tokenize Brazil

• Auren counts on agriculture to dominate the free energy market

• Banco do Brasil, iRancho, Traive and MyCarbon develop livestock modernization projects

• BASF acquires stake in Grao Direto and expands digital services

• Bigtrade launches Fiagro and is already preparing new funding by the end of the year

• Biotrop raises R$100 million to finance customers

• BS2 partners with A de Agro to gain space in the field

• Casa Bugre and Krilltech come together to foster innovation

• Creditares - Rural credit agtech targets R$1 billion in new financing

• General Mills brings Brazil into global regenerative agriculture plan

• Earth Renewable Technologies (ERT) produces biodegradable plastic from sugarcane

• EqSeed becomes the platform's radar for agricultural startups

• GoSolos convinces producers to pay for analysis and plans to grow five times in 2024

• goFlux is selected for John Deere global acceleration program

• Harbor FZCO, of autonomous machines, arrives in Brazil

• John Deere joins forces with Elon Musk to connect their machines. Starting with Brazil

• Kinea is about to complete its fourth issuance with Fiagro of R$ 2.2 billion

• Koppert creates operation to serve Andean countries

• Morfo: Carbon credits encourage restoration of degraded soil on a farm in Rio de Janeiro

• NeoCrop raises US$350,000 in private financing and outlines its goals for 2024

• nstech already makes R$ 175 million in agriculture

• PecSmart reinforces funding round after conquering BRF, SLC and Bunge

• PwC sees increase in M&A in Brazilian agribusiness, with challenging scenario

• re.green launches BNDES credit for reforestation with R$ 187 million

• Revella grows in agriculture and also diversifies to serve the animal production sector with nanotechnology

• Rural Ventures raises funds for agricultural startups

• São Domingos Plant raises R$100 million

• Sicredi creates CVC, invests in startup and brings rural producers an app that helps them sell 20% more

• ​Tarken accelerates launches and expects to triple business in one year

• Traive foresees R$2 billion to convert degraded pastures in 2024

• Traive raises US$20 million in round with Banco do Brasil

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• Agtechs in Latin America raised 33% less in 2023

• Publication provides x-ray of agtechs in Latin America

• Ajinomoto and the investment in Manioca, Tucupi's startup

• Cellva raises R$ 6.5 million to sell cultivated pork fat

• ​Copel launches energy transition fund with investment of R$ 3.5 million in Move

• Daki raises R$25 million in ‘media for equity’

• Instituto GPA in collaboration with Connecting Food collected more than 8 thousand tons of food

• SystemBiotech - Chilean FoodTech startup focused on mental health

• Upcycling food: why you will still enjoy this sustainable trend

• Ambipar raises US$ 750 million with green bond

• BB Asset and JGP announce new manager focused on ESG

• Brazilian government includes green agenda in new industrial policy

• Energía Bogotá Group and Wayra Hispam look for the startups that will revolutionize the energy sector in Latin America

• LandBanking Group, that wants to include nature in its balance sheet arrives in Brazil

• Salva climatech already has contracts to reach 1,800 farms

• SeeTree, Israeli agtech, raises US$17.5 million in new round and focuses on Brazil

• TNC wants to encourage regenerative agriculture in partnership with Louis Dreyfus

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• Investments in climate techs shrink by 30% in 2023

• Natural disasters generated US$250 billion in losses in 2023

General:

• 500 Global announces new fund focused on Latin America to boost technology startups

• Colombia, Brazil and Mexico lead the region as countries with the best startup ecosystems

• Finep invests R$2.18 billion in industrial research in Brazil

• La Nave (Spain) starts the year strong and welcomes 43 new startups from Spain and Latin America

• Startco: the first event of the year for Latam startups opens its call

• The M&A starting bell has rung. Are you ready?

• Venture capital becomes Latin America's ally to promote startups

• Liga Ventures - Startup Landscape: Agtechs

• PWC - Blockchain universe: guide and study on the use of technology in Brazil

• World Economic Forum - Quantifying the Impact of Climate Change on Human Health

2024 LATAM Events Full List: click here

Upcoming events:

• 🇧🇷 Feb 05-09: Show Rural Coopavel

• 🇲🇽 Feb, 21-23: ExpoAgro Sinaloa

• 🇦🇷 Mar, 5-8: ExpoAgro Argentina

• 🇲🇽 Mar, 7-10: AgroBaja

• 🇲🇽 Mar, 12 - 14: GreenTech Americas

• 🇲🇽 Mar 14 - 16: Expoceres

• 🇨🇴 Mar, 14-15: Starco

• 🇨🇱 Mar, 28-31: ALAP 2023 – XXIX Congresso Latinoamericano de la Papa

• LATAM: Carbon Pulse - Environmental Markets Correspondent - Latin America

• LATAM: The Nature Conservancy (TNC) - Latin American Regenerative Ranching and Agriculture (R2A) Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Specialist

• LATAM: Workiva - Regional Sales Director - ESG & Sustainability

• 🇦🇷 Coca-Cola - Manager Sustainability - Brazil&South Cone

• 🇧🇷 Bunge - Field Sustainability Specialist

• 🇧🇷 Action for the Climate Emergency - Marketing Director

• 🇧🇷 Biolfílica - Senior Commercial Analyst

• 🇧🇷 Bunge - Especialista de Sustentabilidade no Campo

• 🇧🇷 Cargill - Customer Sustainability Manager

• 🇧🇷 Climate and Land Use Alliance - Senior Program Officer

• 🇧🇷 DigiFarmz Smart Agriculture - Revenue Manager

• 🇧🇷 DLL - Country Sales Manager - Food & Agri

• 🇧🇷 InPlanet - Farmer Community Manager

• 🇧🇷 Leaf Agriculture - Global HR Manager

• 🇧🇷 Rabobank - Carbon Business Development Senior Manager

• 🇨🇴 Palladium: Make It Possible - Strategic Business Specialist - TUMACO

• 🇨🇱Canonical - Americas Channel Sales Manager

• 🇲🇽 or 🇧🇷 Ingredion Incorporated - VP of Agriculture and Agri Business - LATAM

• 🇲🇽 Teradata: ESG Reporting and Program Manager

“Nothing is built on stone, all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.” Jorge Luis Borges

Meme of the Month

“Our CRM has valuable data!”

The CRM:

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