Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$6,000,000.00Target Investment:
$3,050,000.00
Skills
Education
- SL
Lists including Francisco
Investments
ZoomAgri
Total Funding: $9M
Verge Ag
Total Funding: $8M
Moss.Earth
Total Funding: $10M
Agrofy
Total Funding: $58M
Agrosmart
Total Funding: $16M
InCeres
Total Funding: $2.7M
Promip
Total Funding: $6M
Horus Aeronaves
Total Funding: $960K
Aegro
Total Funding: $800K
Agronow Tecnologia
Total Funding: $820K
Work Experience
2007
Founding Partner
2007
SP Ventures provides venture capital to help innovative entrepreneurs and business leaders build transformational, industry-leading companies in Brazil. We are particularly experienced in agritech.
Managing Director
2013
Responsible for all of the Fund's operations, such as generating deal flow, evaluating / valuing projects, negotiating / structuring deals, monitoring performance of investments and harvesting / exiting equity positions
2016
Board Member
2016
Inceres developed and distributes a SaaS platform for precision agriculture applications. Among the firm´s missions, are to disseminate and democratize precision agriculture throughout tropical ecosystems. The founder is an experienced precision ag entrepreneur and the firm is a spin-off from the most prestigious Agricultural Sciences University in Brazil - ESALQ.
Board Member
2016
Promip is a leading Brazilian Biotech firm created through cutting edge research by ESALQ Phds Marcelo Poletti and Roberto Kono. The Company mass produces predatory mite, parasite wasps and stingless bees for pest management and polinization applications. They are also a one-stop R&D shop specialized in tropical agriculture for the largest global biotech and chemical firms.
2016
Board Member
2016
SaaS agtech platform bridging the gap between Farmers and the most sophisticated Business Intelligence available through satelites. Applications involve harvest projections, realtime farm monitoring, pest management and soil fertility. I represent our venture fund in the board.
2016
Board Member
2016
Agrosmart is a Brazilian IoT startup that sells smart farming solutions to the national and international agribusiness market. The firm is based in the Brazil´s most prosperous IT & Telecom ecosystem - Campinas. I represent our venture fund in the Board of Directors.
2018
Board Member
2018
Founded by two Endeavor entrepreneurs, Agrofy is the early winner in the LATAM agribusiness marketplace race.
2014 - 2021
Board Member
2014 - 2021
Concil is a leader in the young Brazilian Fintech Industry. The company brings a sophisticated data mining and processing technology to enable businesses to decipher their operating results e forecasts despite the reality in growing payment complexity. Business sold to PagSeguro - one if the largest payment platforms in Brazil
2012 - 2015
Board Member
2012 - 2015
Wenovate is the premiere open innovation think tank in Latin America. The center´s priority is to encourage local firms into leveraging their R&D capabilities by adopting a borderless innovation culture. This consists in partnering up with government, university, suppliers, clients and employees in search of incremental and disruptive innovation. We are firm believers in the concept of “innovate or die”. A new generation of managers is promoting a cultural revolution in corporations, which will change forever the speed of scientific progress on earth. I represent the Brazilian Venture Capital community, an essential stakeholder in the innovation value chain, at wenovate´s advisory board.
2012 - 2013
Board Member
2012 - 2013
Company founded by former JPL (Nasa Jet Propulsion Lab) and Caltech researcher, specialized in novel technology in artificial diamond growth for industrial, drilling and health applications. I represent our Venture Fund (Criatec Shareholders) in the Board of Directors.