The following charts, generated by GCV Analytics, summarise some of the main points about the Brazilian realm of corporate venture capital and were presented on the second annual Corporate Venture in Brasil conferenced organised jointly by Global Corporate Venturing and the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency – Apex-Brasil.
The Brazilian startup and innovation scene has had plenty to offer, even to the most demanding of corporate venturing investors. GCV Analytics tracked 63 investment deals in Brazil-based emerging enterprises from various sectors involving such investors since 2011.
Brazilian corporate investors, on the other hand, have been also active. The most attractive geographies for those investors were actually in the domestic innovation scene along with a few US deals in which they have been involved. Since 2011, Brazilian corporates were involved in 29 (disclosed) rounds raised by companies, most notably from the services, telecoms, consumer and IT sectors.
One of the highlights of the conference was the increasing interest in the agtech field and Brazil´s place in the realm. To be sure, interest in the agtech space by corporate investors has been on the rise in recent years, as the following bar chart illustrates:
The role of Brazil and other South America-based agtech enterprises is relatively small though not insignificant and with much potential to grow, as shown on the pie chart here.
