xFarm Technologies has bought Sibium Analytics, folding a Brazilian specialist in sugarcane and bioenergy data into its agricultural platform.
That makes six acquisitions worldwide for the Milan-based group, and the second in Brazil in twelve months. Checkplant came first; Sibium adds 8 million hectares of tracked land. New and returning investors, among them a fresh partnership with BlackRock, backed the transaction.
Scale is the obvious reason. No country grows more soybeans, sugarcane or coffee than Brazil, which farms up to 80 million hectares and draws over a quarter of its GDP from agribusiness. Brazilian cane also anchors the country’s low-carbon economy. Ethanol output alone runs to 36.8 billion litres a year, while bioelectricity drawn off the same crop reaches 21,218 GWh.
Sibium’s customers, mainly cane mills and biofuel processors, get the wider xFarm toolkit: weather stations tuned to the field, in-ground sensors and decision-support software that sharpens planning and forecasting. Taking the other direction, xFarm absorbs Sigma Digital, Sibium’s remote-sensing platform, and Ambium Digital, its ESG and traceability tool, and pushes both out from sugarcane to corn, soy, cotton, coffee, citrus and grapes.
Chief executive Matteo Vanotti said the combination puts geospatial intelligence and ESG auditing alongside xFarm’s existing products for sugarcane growers, creating what he called an unprecedented data-driven platform for farmers and processors.
Sibium director Ronaldo Marani called joining the group a natural step, saying the two aim to set a new standard for agribusiness intelligence. The enlarged business now reaches more than 600,000 farms across 24 million hectares, with Partech, Mouro Capital and United Ventures among its backers.
