Aqua Capital
Aqua Capital is a private equity firm investing in innovative, sustainable businesses across the Agribusiness and Food value chain.
We aim to be the preferred partner for mid-sized, high-potential companies in our sector.
We support the transition of family-owned companies and management teams combining operational expertise with an entrepreneurial approach.
Aqua Capital is a private equity firm investing in innovative, sustainable businesses across the Agribusiness and Food value chain.
We aim to be the preferred partner for mid-sized, high-potential companies in our sector.
We support the transition of family-owned companies and management teams combining operational expertise with an entrepreneurial approach.
Our goal is to achieve top quartile returns by buying, growing, and transforming sustainable world-class businesses able to provide high quality food globally
Aqua Capital is committed to offering exposure to companies playing in the intersection of four macrotrends that, in our view, are redefining the future of Agriculture & Food in the foreseeable future and creating highly compelling opportunities:
- The need to produce more food, more efficiently, to feed 10 billion people by 2050.
- The urgent demand to address sustainability and climate change across Ag & Food productions chains.
- The growing demand of food as foundation of health and wellness systems.
- The transformational value creation opportunities created by the coming of age of technological disruption in Ag & Food systems.
Aqua Capital Highlights
39
Investments since inceptions organized in platforms
+7000
Number of people employed by Aqua-managed funds portfolio companies
+$2.0bn
Combined portfolio companies’ revenues – Brazil’s top 40 Ag & Food
Diversified
Portfolio access to upstreem, downstream and services in Ag & Food
Innovative
Portfolio providing Access to Ag & Food tech and innovation through a sustainable investment approach and positive-impact themes
Experienced
Portfolio providing access to Ag & Food tech and innovation through a sustainable investment approach and positive-impact themes
Aqua Approach to Value Creation
Professionalize
Closes the gap in relation to top-tier international governance / public market standards. Create “managerial alpha” building high performance, great place to work organizations.
Grow
Driving sustained, high quality top and bottom-line growth through commercial and operational excellence while, in most cases, executing accretive add-on acquisitions.
Transform
Improving business models through innovation, digitalization, cross-border expansion, or new product/service lines.
Impact
Embed opportunities in value-creation plan through objective-driven initiatives, improvement of key ESG yardsticks and de-risking companies.
Our Companies
News & Insights
Aqua Capital Secures Investment by GIC
GIC to acquire a significant minority interest in Biotrop Solutions Biológicas, a portfolio company of Aqua Capital's Fund II
AgroGalaxy Announces the Acquisition of Agrocat
With the recent acquisitions of Boa Vista and Ferrari Zagatto, AgroGalaxy continues its expansion and consolidation as one of the largest retail platforms for agricultural inputs
AgroGalaxy Certified by WOB
AgroGalaxy Is The First Agribusiness Company To Be Certified by Women On Board “WOB” In Brazil