BoosterAgro
Easy-to-use data-driven farming platform serving over 12M HA in South America.
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BoosterAgro, founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2015 by Marcos Alvarado and Sebastián Galdeano, established itself as a significant player in the South American AgTech market before its acquisition by the Brazilian company Agrosmart on April 15, 2021. The firm was created to address the need for accessible digitalization in the agricultural sector, a vision driven by its founders: Marcos Alvarado, with a degree in business administration and family roots in the agribusiness, and Sebastián Galdeano, a systems engineer.
The company operates a cloud-based platform and mobile application that provides hyper-local weather data and agronomic insights to farmers. Its core service consolidates information from various sources, including global weather models, satellite imagery, and weather stations, to deliver real-time data on precipitation, wind, temperature, and crop health through vegetation indices. This enables farmers to make more informed decisions regarding their operations. The business model is centered on a freemium approach, offering a suite of free digital tools and content, which successfully built a digital community of over 100,000 active users across Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia.
The acquisition by Agrosmart was a strategic move to merge BoosterAgro's large user base with Agrosmart's robust technological capabilities, including its high-resolution forecasting. This integration aims to create a more comprehensive digital hub for farmers, expanding the services to include environmental and financial intelligence. Following the acquisition, the combined entity serves over 48 million hectares across nine countries, with the entire BoosterAgro team transitioning to Agrosmart to bolster its mobile technology and accelerate new product development.
Keywords: AgTech, digital farming, farm management, weather forecasting, crop monitoring, satellite imagery, agricultural data, precision agriculture, South America AgTech, farmer community, hyper-local weather, Agrosmart, agroclimatic data, sustainable agriculture, digital tools for farmers, farm efficiency, agronomic insights, vegetation index, real-time farm data, crop health