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This list showcases the top Brazil based CEO’ operating in the Agriculture space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Alexandre Borges
CEO of Grão Direto
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About Grão Direto: Grão Direto is a digital commodities trading platform based in Brazil.
Nei Salis Brasil Neto
CEO of VOA
Entrepreneur. Founder since 23 years old. The company become the Latin American leadership in Light Drones for Defense applications. Currently building and delivering solutions for Agribusiness responsible Pests and Deceases Control.
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About VOA: VOA is a market place for pilots and farmers, offering a drone service delivery for biological agents, fertilisers and chemical products.
João Paulo Torres
CEO and Co-Founder of TerraMagna
João Paulo Torres is the CEO and co-founder at TerraMagna.
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About TerraMagna: TerraMagna is a fintech company that focuses on risk mitigation for agribusinesses.

Mariana Vasconcelos
CEO and Co-founder of Agrosmart
Operations Director at Smartapps and Business Administration Student with an addiction to tech. Country girl, owns a bakery and loves to travel and ride horses. She also likes to start new collections and have fun with the little things in life.
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About 4lab, Agrosmart: Agrosmart offers smart farming software that allows remote monitoring of agroeconomic data for managerial automation.

Colin Fain
CEO & Founder of Agronometrics
Colin Fain is a Founder & CEO at Agronometrics.
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About Agronometrics: Agronometrics offers a market intelligence for the agricultural industry.

Rafael Coelho
CEO of Agronow Tecnologia
Result oriented professional and a team player while running several projects over the companies that have worked for. Has worked for Louis Dreyfus Commodities, Infinity Ventures, as well as starting up an internet focused Brazilian VC fund, W7 Venture Capital. Has strong analytical skills developed in a position of commodity market analysis and venture capital portfolio manager. Excellent social networking habits including very active use of new social media.
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About Agronow Tecnologia: Agronow is an agro-environmental platform for online crops and farm monitoring and forecasting.
Luis Moreira
CEO of Boi na Linha
Founder & CEO of Boi na Linha, Brazilian Agtech Marketplace
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About Boi na Linha: Boi na Linha is a livestock cattle marketplace that connects buyers and sellers in a fast, transparent, and secure way.
Boris Rotter
CEO & Cofounder of AgriConnected
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About AgriConnected: AgriConnected is a startup bringing innovation and technology to transform the Brazilian agribusiness.
Rui Pedro Ribeiro
CEO of Elio Technology
Rui Pedro Ribeiro is the CEO at Elio Technology.
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About Elio Technology: Elio Technology offers info-imaging services that delivers visual and geo-localized decision making sensitive information on crops health.
Rui Pedro Ribeiro
CEO of Elio Technology
Rui Pedro Ribeiro is the CEO at Elio Technology.
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About Elio Technology: Elio Technology offers info-imaging services that delivers visual and geo-localized decision making sensitive information on crops health.
Gabriel do Nascimento
CEO and Founder of NONG
Gabriel do Nascimento is the CEO and founder of NONG. He is also the co-founder of Drone360 Produções. Gabriel is a former software engineer at Pactera.
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About NONG: NONG is a Brazilian Agritech startup that provides mapping solutions using drones.
Marcelo Poletti
CEO of Promip
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About Promip: Promip provides biological products and research services for integrated pest management programs.

Pedro Dusso
CEO of Aegro
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About Aegro: Aegro provides SaaS for the agricultural production system encompassing financial, productivity, and commercial management.
Renato Borges
CEO of Agrointeli
Renato Borges is the co-founder and CEO of Agro Inteli. He is also the president of StartupMS. Renato holds a master’s degree in computer science.
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About Agrointeli, StartupMS: Agrointeli is a digital agriculture company that helps farmers make decisions based on real numbers of their crops in a sustainable way.
Gustavo Soares Nascimento
Founder and CEO of PHYGITALL
Gustavo Nascimento is the CEO of Phygitall.
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About PHYGITALL: PHYGITALL brings the digital world for the physical world powered by Internet of Things.

Geraldo Maia
Co-Founder & CEO of Pink Farms
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About Asolum, Pink Farms: Pink Farms creates the perfect environment for growing the most natural and fresh produce you have ever come across.
Pedro Henrique Mannato Coutinho
Founder & CEO of Olho do Dono
Masters in Computer Science. Founder and CEO of the startup Olho do Dono, winner of the 1st TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Latin America (2018), and winner as the best Agtech in Brazil in a specialized cattle event (Intercorte 2018). Former president and former chairman of Líderes do Amanhã Institute, an institute for the development of young entrepreneurs leadership, where he could learn from Ceo´s and Chairman´s from great Brazillian companies.
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About Olho do Dono: Olho do Dono develops a 3D camera to calculate the weight of cattles. Winner of the 1st Techcrunch Startup Battlefield LATAM
Juliane Blainski
Co-founder and CEO of ManejeBem
Juliane Blainski is a co-founder and CEO of ManejeBem.
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About ManejeBem: ManejeBem offers Manejechat, a mobile app that gives access to small farmers to education and technical assistance.
Yuri Gradela
Founder, CEO of Cotton Droplet
Textile Engineer
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About Cotton Droplet: Textile Industry
Igor Luduwichack da Silva
CEO of Agrize
Igor Luduwichack da Silva is the CEO at Agrize.
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About Agrize: Agrize makes solutions for air monitoring, intelligence, and control of agricultural crops.
Carlos Ribeiro
CEO of Sensix
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About Sensix: Sensix uses analytical intelligence and machine learning to consolidate farming data, generating greater profitability for farmers.
Gustavo Saraiva
CEO of Stresscan
Augusto Cesar Silva Cruz is the CEO of Stresscan.
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About Stresscan: Stresscan is an agtech company that offers technological solutions for monitoring operations in agriculture businesses.
Gustavo Saraiva
CEO of Stresscan
Augusto Cesar Silva Cruz is the CEO of Stresscan.
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About Stresscan: Stresscan is an agtech company that offers technological solutions for monitoring operations in agriculture businesses.

Fabrício Hertz
CEO of Horus Aeronaves
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About Horus Aeronaves: Horus Aeronaves develops aerial solutions, with national manufacturing of VANTs for aerial mapping and image processing platform.

Fabrício Hertz
CEO of Horus Aeronaves
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About Horus Aeronaves: Horus Aeronaves develops aerial solutions, with national manufacturing of VANTs for aerial mapping and image processing platform.
Frederico Apollo Brito
CEO of Elysios
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About Elysios: Elysios is an AgriTech company that offers agricultural intelligence solutions for crop control, sensing, and automation.
Igor Chalfoun
CEO of Tbit
Igor Chalfoun is the CEO of Tbit. Prior to that, he worked for Devex Mining as a project manager. Igor has a master’s degree in business management and IT governance and a bachelor’s degree in computer science.
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About Tbit: Tbit is an agTech startup that applies computer vision and artificial intelligence to evolve quality assessment processes in agribusiness.
Matheus G. Spartalis
CEO of MaqFácil
Matheus G. Spartalis is the CEO of MaqFácil.
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About MaqFácil: MaqFácil is a mobile application that optimizes the rental of machines and agricultural implements.