Scaling for Impact: How AgTech Startups Are Reaching New Markets and Investors

November 3, 2025
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After months of intensive support to refine business plans, strengthen procurement, and ensure quality implementation, Incofin Foundation’s portfolio of agtech grantees is entering an exciting new phase — scaling for impact.

In the second half of the Advancing Digital Innovation for Smallholder Farmers in Latin America program, the focus has shifted from building and testing to growth and investment readiness. Supported by partners such as The Yield Lab Latam and Nesters Tech, grantees are refining their marketing strategies, learning to leverage data for decision-making, and engaging with investors through dedicated Demo Days.

Early results are already visible:

  • Terra Kaape (Honduras) expanded from a single-crop (coffee) to a multi-crop model and secured new funding from impact investors to serve 40,000 smallholder farmers.
  • Hola Tractor (Bolivia) strengthened its business model and was selected for Startup Perú Plug, opening new market opportunities while advancing mechanization and reducing carbon footprint.

These stories illustrate how targeted technical assistance can help agtech innovators move from idea to scale — delivering impact for smallholder farmers and the environment.


Download our new insights pieceLessons from Incofin’s AgTech Portfolio, Part II – to explore how impact-driven startups are turning innovation into opportunity across Latin America.

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This Project is financed under the project “Innovation in Ag Tech and Digital Agriculture for Small Farmers” funded by the Inter-American Development Bank, as administrator of the Multilateral Investment Fund (IDB Lab)”. This Project is also financed under the Smallholder Sustainability Upscaling Programme (“SSNUP”) funded by the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of Luxembourg, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (“SDC”) and the Liechtenstein Development Service (“LED”) and is coordinated by Appui au développement autonome a.s.b.l. (“ADA”)”. 

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