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
42
Investments since inceptions organized in platforms
+8400
Number of people employed by Aqua-managed funds portfolio companies
+$4.0bn
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
One of the largest and most experienced private equity Ag & Food-dedicated teams globally

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’s Fund III announces an investment in Solubio, the leader in the on-farm biological solutions segment in Brazil
Aqua Capital’s Fund III announces an investment in Solubio, the leader in the on-farm biological solutions segment in Brazil Aqua Capital is delighted to announce that Aqua Capital Fund III has entered into a binding agreement for the acquisition of a relevant stake in Solubio Tecnologias Agrícolas S.A. (“Solubio”). Solubio [...]
Aqua Capital announces the full sale of Puravida to Nestlé Health Science
Aqua Capital announces the full sale of Puravida to Nestlé Health Science Agribusiness Latin America Management LLC (“Aqua Capital”), as general partner of Agribusiness Latin America Fund II LP and its parallel funds (the "Funds"), is delighted to announce that it has entered into a binding agreement for the sale [...]
Our Commitment to Drive Positive Impact
Aqua Capital has become a signatory to the Operating Principles for Impact Management, and is also proud to announce its support for the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures Since its founding, Aqua Capital has been at the front and center of the evolution from a more traditional view [...]