Who We Are
We are 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.
The Yield Lab Latam is part of The Yield Lab, a global network of Venture Capital funds, which initiated activities in 2014 in St. Louis, Missouri. Now has regional operations across North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific.
What We Do
We invest in early stage high potential startups based in Latin America that address the multiple challenges faced by the agri-food industry.
We generate support programs for our portfolio companies, ranging from governance, talent, commercial strategy, scaling, fundraising, among others.
We built close relationships with our investors, providing trend visibility, industry knowledge, access to opportunities and financial returns.
How We Do It
Our commitment is to connect investors, startups, corporates, farmers, public sector and research communities to promote the sustainable transformation of this critical industry.
We attract and empower talent and ecosystems in Latin America. We are committed to more efficient, resilient, healthy and sustainable food production. The development of AgriFoodTech ecosystems are key to ensuring that areas such as the production of cereals, seeds, animal protein, forestry sector, bioenergies, among others, maintain their production and supply the world.
Investment thesis & downselect process:
Technological innovation in the AgriFoodTech space is a major driver to make the food and agriculture production system more efficient, resilient, healthier and sustainable, with multiple areas ripe for disruption.
We are focused on high-impact startups in the AgriFoodTech space, investing in opportunities from Seed to Series B rounds with tickets from USD 100k to USD 1M+.
We are looking for:
- Teams: with talent and commitment
- Companies with commercial traction
- Scalable business models
- Significant innovation across the value chain
- Impact on Sustainability