Top 12 investors in Latin America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Agriculture industry over the recent years

Intro

The top 12 investors according to the total money raised in the funding rounds. These are VC funds and corporate investors in Latin America that have invested over the last 3 years. They are actively investing in Agriculture industry.
Agriculture covers everything that is grown for human use. It includes farming and cultivation, hydroponics and agtech, and forestry.

Amount of money raised in Agriculture funding rounds is $294.4M, which is 2.7% of the total amount of money raised in rounds in Latin America over the last 3 years.

Top 12 investors in Latin America with the biggest sum of funding rounds in Agriculture industry over the recent years
data provided by Unicorn Nest

Key takeaways

• Funds Geography – The most common country among top VCs is Brazil which hosts 6 funds. There are also funds from Mexico, Chile and Guatemala. There is an equal amount of VCs in São Paulo and Sao Paulo which host 3 funds each. There are also funds from Santiago and San Nicolás de los Garza. VCs tend to invest in startups from Brazil, but also invest in startups from Mexico, Chile, and Argentina. For the majority of the funds, the country of the funds’ establishment and the country of their most frequent investments coincide.
• Industry Focus – The funds’ most common field for investments is Finance. They also invest in Gamification, Social and Business Development.
• Important Years – The oldest fund in the sample was founded in 1939 and the newest one in 2019. In 2005 the most amount of funds were founded. 2020 holds the most deals for 4 VCs. 2019, 2017 and 2016 were also fruitful.
• Investments – Usually VCs take part in 2 funding rounds per year, sometimes in 2 – 6. The minimum number of funding rounds for VCs in the sample is 1, the maximum is 863. Average number of funding rounds is 113.2 while median is 39.5. Minimum amount of lead investments for funds is 0 and maximum is 76. Average amount of lead investments is 13.5 while median is 8.0. The most common amount of lead investments is 8. Index of difference in percentage points of lead investments from the average is between -18.83 and 29.0 for funds in the sample. The average value for this difference is 9.99 and the median is 12.52. It means that these funds act as lead investors more often than other funds. The most common value is 29.0.
• Typical Rounds – Early and Seed stages are more common for funds in the sample. Grant and Venture stages are less common. VCs usually participate in rounds with 3 – 4 investors. Less often in rounds with 5 – 6 investors. The most common round size for VCs in the sample is less than 100 thousands. Less common range is 100 thousands – 1 million. A Funds’ average multiplicator for portfolio companies at the last known valuation is 0.0 at minimum and 2.06 at maximum. Average value for this multiplicator is 0.5 and median is 0.17. The most common multiplicator value is 0.0.