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BNDESPAR (BNDES Participações S.A.), the wholly-owned equity subsidiary of Brazil's national development bank, subscribed a BRL 114 million (~USD 20.5 million) minority stake — 19.9% of capital — in Grupo Santa Clara, a mid-sized (~300 employee) developer, producer and marketer of special fertilizers and bioinputs headquartered in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo. BNDES president Aloizio Mercadante framed the operation as the bank's return to direct equity participation after roughly a decade, explicitly tied to BNDES's ecological-transition and decarbonization agenda: bioinputs reduce reliance on chemical fertilizers and agrochemicals, lowering greenhouse-gas emissions. This was the first operation under BNDESPAR's plan to deploy up to BRL 10 billion in equity participations by end-2025, and preceded BNDESPAR's subsequent equity operations in Eve Air Mobility (August 2025, filed as 2025-08-14-brazil-bndespar-eve-air-mobility-equity-investment) and the "Chamada de Clima" green fund-of-funds call (September 2025, filed as 2025-09-01-brazil-bndespar-chamada-de-clima-green-fund-call).
strategic-industry priority alongside aerospace and green-finance vehicles already in the register under BNDESPAR's reactivated equity strategy.
beyond traditional heavy-industry and infrastructure targets into agtech/biologicals, a sector where Brazil already competes globally.
exposure opened in 2025 under the reactivated direct-investment strategy.
governance rights was not disclosed in available sources.
will draw further BNDES debt or equity tranches, as happened with the parallel Eve Air Mobility equity+loan stack.