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Finalists were presented during an event on January 30 in Brasilia
The second edition of the so-called Bridges for Innovation, created by Embrapa and Cedro Capital, reaches its final stage with eight agritechs finalists: Agribela, Alluagro, Coimma, Ectare App, Macofren Chemical Technologies, ManejeBem, Shimejito and Sintecsys. The companies presented their business and their technological solutions at the event held at the BioTIC Technology Park in Brasília (DF).
72 companies participated in the call, of which 26 were selected and presented their solutions to the organizing committee in the second phase. At the end of the program, eight companies were selected as finalists.
"In this 2018 edition we had a great diversity of technologies and innovations, with applicability in different sectors and themes related to Agribusiness. We saw in the presentation solutions that go through coffee commercialization, fire monitoring in the field, cattle weight management, system for indoor cultivation, identification of impurities in milk and fuel, biological pest control, rental of agricultural machinery and a specialized social network for crop management ", highlights Alessandro Machado, partner at Cedro Capital.
Pontes para Inovação's objective is to identify Embrapa's partner companies in the adoption and development of technologies for agribusiness, so that they can accelerate their business through the investment of capital from the Investment Fund and, consequently, expand the impact of their technologies in the market. .
For Embrapa's innovation manager, Daniel Trento, the broad interest in the call points to the growing trend of the participation of new companies in the offer of innovative solutions for the agricultural sector, and new possibilities for partnerships between S&T institutions, entrepreneurs and managers of capital funds. “The opportunity to generate new business in the agricultural sector is very great. The startups that manage to insert themselves in this environment have a promising market, because in addition to the sector being one of the engines of the national economy, the potential for scaling their businesses is enormous. Initiatives like this promote the approach of startups with financing funds, private companies and research institutes, fostering the innovation ecosystem ”, emphasizes Trento.
The companies' evaluation considered the adherence of the proposals with the research developed by Embrapa, potential and market opportunities, differential and competitiveness of the business, as well as the degree of maturity of the technologies for adoption by the market and possible social, economic and environmental impacts.
Profile of the selected companies:
Agribela
www.agribela.com.br
Agribela is a company focused on the development of technologies for the biological control of agricultural pests. The company, born in Londrina-PR, offers its customers a complete solution for more efficient and less environmentally predatory pest management. Through capsules developed to shelter and protect natural enemies (Biodrop), they enable mechanization and increase the efficiency of biological control.
Alluagro
www.alluagro.com.br
Alluagro works intelligently in geolocation of agricultural machines and implements. Through a mobile application connects service providers to rural producers with more agility and professionalism. It works with the purpose of eliminating the idleness of agricultural machinery in the Brazilian market, where farmers serve farmers. Alluagro is a marketplace dedicated to minimizing logistics costs to connect agricultural service providers to areas demanded by rural producers, generating savings for the farm.
Coimma - Comércio e Indústria Metalúrgica Madeira São Cristovão Ltda
www.coimma.com.br
Coimma was founded in 1951 as a repair workshop for animal-drawn carts, in the city of Dracena - SP, under the name Oficina São Cristóvão. With the evolution of the region and especially livestock, in 1968 Coimma was created to focus on the market for animal containment scales and logs. Coimma has a wide range of equipment for weighing and containing cattle. The highlight among the containment equipment is the Megatron, a hydraulic containment trunk developed to ensure the safety of the operator and the welfare of the animals, in addition to increasing productivity in the management of the farm. In addition, Coimma has several traditional line containment equipment, with an emphasis on the Robust, Conventional and American trunk. Among the weighing equipment there is BalPass, a precision livestock system that was developed, in partnership with Embrapa, to weigh cattle on pasture, thus avoiding the need to take the herd to the corral.
Ectare App S / A
www.ectare.com.br
E-ctare emerged in October 2017 as an electronic platform that brings coffee producers (sellers) closer to buyers. It works as a free coffee quote application that uses a specific algorithm, with pricing for each coffee attribute, such as, for example, drink, percentage of defects, percentage of sieve, aspect, region, etc. The algorithm is updated instantly by the dollar quotation and the New York quotation, recalculating all individual lots, and posted in the database.
Macofren Chemical Technologies
www.macofren.com
Macofren is a startup that develops disruptive chemical technologies to combat fraud and contamination in different markets, especially those caused by the addition of methanol and formaldehyde. With the proposal to provide fast, robust and low-cost quality tests, Macofren enabled the industry and the final consumer to assess whether their product or raw material are in good quality and usability. Created within the technological incubation program of the University of Brasilia in 2012, the first product was FormFix, a formaldehyde detector reagent in milk, a faster and more practical way of doing this analysis, which many milk producers have approved.
ManejeBem - Sustainable Agriculture Consultancy LTDA,
www.manejebem.com.br
ManejeBem is a SC startup that develops its own application solution to enable the remote agronomic advisory service. Developed a prototype of the social network via the website, it was finalized and has more than 13,500 site users / month and around 3,800 profiles registered on the platform. The ManejeBem team also started remote advisory work focused on organic production through the “Plantix” application developed by the German startup Peat, a partner of the initiative. They are currently developing a pilot project for remote technical assistance focused on qualifying these small producers to serve restaurants and industrial kitchens. There are already more than 45 family production units participating in the project's first nucleus
Shimejito
https://www.shimejito.com
It is an IT company that focuses on the Urban Farming based on internet of things and collaborative economy, following the most modern trends in the technology market, some ongoing abroad. They produce production technology accessible to large, small and new producers, with an extremely accessible barrier to the production of organic food. Shimejito does the whole process from inoculation, blanching to preparing for the moment of cultivation and harvest. We use modern techniques, using Iot, to ensure greater productivity and scalability.
Sintecsys
www.sintecsys.com
The Company started studies in 2015, containing a system for the automatic detection of forest and plantation fires, simultaneously developing several other projects ranging from the soil moisture sensor system, through low-cost online weather stations, starting its activities in November 2016 introducing to the market the turnkey solution for automatic fire detection in forests and plantations with automatic smoke detection with up to 15km radius.
72 companies participated in the call, of which 26 were selected and presented their solutions to the organizing committee in the second phase. At the end of the program, eight companies were selected as finalists.
"In this 2018 edition we had a great diversity of technologies and innovations, with applicability in different sectors and themes related to Agribusiness. We saw in the presentation solutions that go through coffee commercialization, fire monitoring in the field, cattle weight management, system for indoor cultivation, identification of impurities in milk and fuel, biological pest control, rental of agricultural machinery and a specialized social network for crop management ", highlights Alessandro Machado, partner at Cedro Capital.
Pontes para Inovação's objective is to identify Embrapa's partner companies in the adoption and development of technologies for agribusiness, so that they can accelerate their business through the investment of capital from the Investment Fund and, consequently, expand the impact of their technologies in the market. .
For Embrapa's innovation manager, Daniel Trento, the broad interest in the call points to the growing trend of the participation of new companies in the offer of innovative solutions for the agricultural sector, and new possibilities for partnerships between S&T institutions, entrepreneurs and managers of capital funds. “The opportunity to generate new business in the agricultural sector is very great. The startups that manage to insert themselves in this environment have a promising market, because in addition to the sector being one of the engines of the national economy, the potential for scaling their businesses is enormous. Initiatives like this promote the approach of startups with financing funds, private companies and research institutes, fostering the innovation ecosystem ”, emphasizes Trento.
The companies' evaluation considered the adherence of the proposals with the research developed by Embrapa, potential and market opportunities, differential and competitiveness of the business, as well as the degree of maturity of the technologies for adoption by the market and possible social, economic and environmental impacts.
Profile of the selected companies:
Agribela
www.agribela.com.br
Agribela is a company focused on the development of technologies for the biological control of agricultural pests. The company, born in Londrina-PR, offers its customers a complete solution for more efficient and less environmentally predatory pest management. Through capsules developed to shelter and protect natural enemies (Biodrop), they enable mechanization and increase the efficiency of biological control.
Alluagro
www.alluagro.com.br
Alluagro works intelligently in geolocation of agricultural machines and implements. Through a mobile application connects service providers to rural producers with more agility and professionalism. It works with the purpose of eliminating the idleness of agricultural machinery in the Brazilian market, where farmers serve farmers. Alluagro is a marketplace dedicated to minimizing logistics costs to connect agricultural service providers to areas demanded by rural producers, generating savings for the farm.
Coimma - Comércio e Indústria Metalúrgica Madeira São Cristovão Ltda
www.coimma.com.br
Coimma was founded in 1951 as a repair workshop for animal-drawn carts, in the city of Dracena - SP, under the name Oficina São Cristóvão. With the evolution of the region and especially livestock, in 1968 Coimma was created to focus on the market for animal containment scales and logs. Coimma has a wide range of equipment for weighing and containing cattle. The highlight among the containment equipment is the Megatron, a hydraulic containment trunk developed to ensure the safety of the operator and the welfare of the animals, in addition to increasing productivity in the management of the farm. In addition, Coimma has several traditional line containment equipment, with an emphasis on the Robust, Conventional and American trunk. Among the weighing equipment there is BalPass, a precision livestock system that was developed, in partnership with Embrapa, to weigh cattle on pasture, thus avoiding the need to take the herd to the corral.
Ectare App S / A
www.ectare.com.br
E-ctare emerged in October 2017 as an electronic platform that brings coffee producers (sellers) closer to buyers. It works as a free coffee quote application that uses a specific algorithm, with pricing for each coffee attribute, such as, for example, drink, percentage of defects, percentage of sieve, aspect, region, etc. The algorithm is updated instantly by the dollar quotation and the New York quotation, recalculating all individual lots, and posted in the database.
Macofren Chemical Technologies
www.macofren.com
Macofren is a startup that develops disruptive chemical technologies to combat fraud and contamination in different markets, especially those caused by the addition of methanol and formaldehyde. With the proposal to provide fast, robust and low-cost quality tests, Macofren enabled the industry and the final consumer to assess whether their product or raw material are in good quality and usability. Created within the technological incubation program of the University of Brasilia in 2012, the first product was FormFix, a formaldehyde detector reagent in milk, a faster and more practical way of doing this analysis, which many milk producers have approved.
ManejeBem - Sustainable Agriculture Consultancy LTDA,
www.manejebem.com.br
ManejeBem is a SC startup that develops its own application solution to enable the remote agronomic advisory service. Developed a prototype of the social network via the website, it was finalized and has more than 13,500 site users / month and around 3,800 profiles registered on the platform. The ManejeBem team also started remote advisory work focused on organic production through the “Plantix” application developed by the German startup Peat, a partner of the initiative. They are currently developing a pilot project for remote technical assistance focused on qualifying these small producers to serve restaurants and industrial kitchens. There are already more than 45 family production units participating in the project's first nucleus
Shimejito
https://www.shimejito.com
It is an IT company that focuses on the Urban Farming based on internet of things and collaborative economy, following the most modern trends in the technology market, some ongoing abroad. They produce production technology accessible to large, small and new producers, with an extremely accessible barrier to the production of organic food. Shimejito does the whole process from inoculation, blanching to preparing for the moment of cultivation and harvest. We use modern techniques, using Iot, to ensure greater productivity and scalability.
Sintecsys
www.sintecsys.com
The Company started studies in 2015, containing a system for the automatic detection of forest and plantation fires, simultaneously developing several other projects ranging from the soil moisture sensor system, through low-cost online weather stations, starting its activities in November 2016 introducing to the market the turnkey solution for automatic fire detection in forests and plantations with automatic smoke detection with up to 15km radius.
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