Integrated solutions for 21st century agriculture
Sustainable Soy for the Cerrado Program (PSSC)
There are twenty-one startups in the portfolio of the Sustainable Soy for the Cerrado Program (PSSC). Selected over four cycles, the companies are all working to mitigate some of the biggest challenges on todays' sustainability agenda. The program is the result of a partnership between the innovation hub AgTech Garage and the Land Innovation Fund, with strategic support from Embrapii. It enables the selected companies to participate in an Experience Day, with access to mentoring, connections with executives, exchange of experiences with entrepreneurs, as well as access to master classes and technical-scientific support from a team of researchers selected for the Cerrado Fellowship Program, and direct connection with ten farmers chosen by the For Farmers Program. During each cycle, upon analysis by an advisory board, outstanding startups can also receive financial support from the Startup Finance Facility to further develop their solutions.
PSSC PORTFOLIO:
Adapta: a systemic solution capable of monitoring, planning, and financing farmers who use regenerative agricultural practices in the soy supply chain.
Agrorobotics: an artificial intelligence platform that uses photonic technology to perform chemical analyses of soil samples using high-energy pulsed laser technology – the same one used by NASA to probe the soil on the planet Mars.
AgTrace: a traceability and quality management company for agricultural products that uses blockchain technology to connect all the links in the production chain and ensure transparency and accuracy of information in the field.
Bioflore: Using artificial intelligence and remote sensing techniques, the startup offers monitoring of carbon stock and biodiversity patterns in areas of native vegetation through a web platform and mobile application with a database of areas for carbon offsetting.
Brain Agriculture: a data automation company with tools that assist agribusiness players to meet ESG commitments and landowners to identify environmental problems.
BrCarbon Serviços Ambientais: created to foster forest conservation and ecological restoration actions, with funding from the carbon market to promote climate solutions.
Busca Terra: a solution to identify environmental services (PES) payment opportunities for farmers, with mechanisms to remunerate or reward conservation and restoration actions on rural landholdings.
Connect Farm: a data intelligence platform to monitor rural landholdings, setting goals to recover degraded or low-yield areas with sustainable solutions that reduce the cost of land use, the risk of fires and erosion.
Forestmatic: using the "Reforestation-as-a-Service (RaaS)" concept, this startup enables reforestation projects that generate income while fighting climate change.
Green Bonds Brasil: the fintech's proposal is to set up a chain of custody for the Brazilian voluntary carbon market, from the hiring of stock estimation studies to the commercialization to companies that wish to offset their emissions, providing transparency and traceability to the process.
Green Bug: a startup that identifies the sounds of the forest, classifies the results, and issues alerts about possible invasions and deforestation, in addition to collecting data about the fauna.
Maneje Bem: an application for integrated data collection and analysis that connects farms with the business sector and helps make sustainable farming decisions.
One and a Half Degrees: integrated intelligence to fight fires in forests and croplands, offering environmental indicators to measure emission reductions through the decrease of lost areas.
Plantem: this high-throughput monitoring system generates data to help quantify and assess the value of environmental conservation.
Preservaland: using a digital platform with satellite images for monitoring potential areas of environmental preservation, the startup creates a database of areas that can be adopted by the private sector, enabling environmental conservation in an efficient, accessible, and scalable way.
Quiron: an artificial-intelligence startup that combines data from satellites and nanosatellites to monitor fire risks, pests, and diseases in field crops, map the soil, and count and analyze the vigor of trees.
Regrow AG: the startup intends to validate the remote sensing, modeling and soil sampling tool for tropical production characteristics and conditions to offer a transparent and robust system for monitoring rural soybean properties in the country - from the productive area to the legal reserve.
Safe Trace: a traceability startup that uses blockchain technology to track food from fields to supermarket shelves.
SciCrop: a startup specializing in analytics and data integration, with on-demand algorithm generation, custom dashboards, data integration and management, knowledge transfer and team training.
Sintrópica Capital Natural: Dedicated to developing end-to-end solutions in Payments for Environmental Services (PES), the company proposes to structure sustainable rural credit chains and provide resources for sustainable management, conservation, and restoration actions in rural properties.
Terras App Solutions: the startup proposes to facilitate access to sustainable rural credit, expand the supply of technical assistance to rural properties, and conduct socio-environmental and production monitoring of the areas participating in the project to ensure increased productivity and socio-environmental compliance.