CESIS

What CESIS does

CESIS (legal name: CESIS Consultoria e Treinamento) is a privately held Brazilian regulatory intelligence consulting firm headquartered in Brasília, Distrito Federal. Founded around 2005–2006, the company specializes in helping agribusiness producers, manufacturers, and distributors navigate the complex regulatory frameworks governing agricultural product registration and commercialization in Brazil and Latin America. Its practice spans compliance with ANVISA, MAPA, and CGen requirements, and the firm is led by a multidisciplinary team drawn from government regulatory bodies, laboratories, and Brazilian industries.

The company's service portfolio is modular and customized to client needs, covering the full regulatory lifecycle for agricultural inputs. Core offerings include strategic regulatory planning, pesticide registration (conventional and low-toxicity), bioinput and biofertilizer registration, environmental risk assessment, transgenic product regulatory support via CTNBio, veterinary product licensing, genetic heritage access advisory, market evaluation, sample import logistics, regulatory auditing (due diligence), and stakeholder connection services for international market entry. The firm also supports company formation and biological material collection authorizations.

CESIS generates revenue through professional services engagements, structured as project-based or retainer fees tailored to client needs, with pricing not publicly disclosed. Its go-to-market is sales-led, relying on a website contact form that routes prospects to a specialist, supplemented by content marketing through its blog and newsletter on topics including bioinsumos, microbiomes, and regulatory updates. The firm is women-led, with co-founder Maria Luiza Castro and consultant Francys Vilella as named team members. In 2022, CESIS was recognized as a Top10 AgTech Solutions Provider in Latin America by AgTech Breakthrough and was featured in Dinheiro Rural magazine. The firm holds an exclusive representative arrangement with Red Latam for bioinput registration in Brazil and Latin America.

Name

CESIS

Legal name

CESIS Consultoria e Treinamento

Website

http://www.cesis.bio.br/en

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CESIS is a Brasília-based regulatory intelligence consultancy that helps agribusiness companies register and commercialize agricultural products in Brazil and Latin America, navigating ANVISA, MAPA, and CGen frameworks across pesticides, bioinputs, veterinary, and transgenic categories.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Regulatory Consulting Services for Agribusiness

NAICS

Environmental Consulting Services (54162), Pesticide and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing (32532), Regulation of Agricultural Marketing and Commodities (926140)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Biosecurity, Pest & Disease Control for CEA (IPM, Screening, Sanitation) (AFAAAHAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) / Vertical Farming (Indoor LED Farms) (AFAGAHAJ), Construction Environmental Management Plans (CEMP) & Permit Compliance Support (EUAHAAAF)

Keywords

• Regulatory consulting services
• Agribusiness compliance
• Pesticide registration
• Bioinput registration
• Environmental risk assessment

Headquarters

HQ city

Brasília

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Regulatory Consulting Services: CESIS offers modular, customized regulatory intelligence services to agribusiness companies seeking to register, position, and commercialize agricultural products in Brazil and Latin America. Services include regulatory planning, environmental risk assessment, market evaluation, stakeholder connection, and support for company formation. Revenue is generated through professional consulting engagements, likely structured as project-based or retainer fees tailored to client needs.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

CESIS is a Brazilian regulatory intelligence consultancy that helps agribusiness companies register, position and commercialize agricultural inputs — including pesticides, bioinputs, biofertilizers, biostimulants, transgenic products and veterinary products — in Brazil and across Latin America. Services are modular and customized, covering strategic regulatory planning, environmental risk assessment, market evaluation, stakeholder connection, genetic heritage access, sample import advisory, and support for company formation.

Product overview

CESIS is a regulatory intelligence consultancy specializing in agricultural input registration and compliance in Brazil. The company operates as a modular service platform offering strategic regulatory planning, product registration, environmental risk assessment, market evaluation, and stakeholder connection services. Core offerings include pesticide registration, bioinput/biofertilizer registration, transgenic product regulatory support, veterinary product registration, and genetic heritage access services. The company is led by a multidisciplinary team with experience in government regulatory agencies, laboratories, and Brazilian industries, serving clients for over 16 years.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Strategic Regulatory Planning (Planejamento regulatório estratégico)
• Pesticide Registration (Registro de agrotóxicos e afins)
• Bioinput Registration (Registro de bioinsumos)
• Biostimulant, Biofertilizer, Substrate and Soil Conditioner Registration
• Environmental Risk Assessment (Avaliação de risco ambiental)
• Sample Import (Importação de amostras)
• Market Evaluation (Avaliação mercadológica)
• Stakeholder Connection (Conexão entre stakeholders)
• Genetic Heritage Access (Acesso ao patrimônio genético)
• Field and Laboratory Studies (Estudos de campo e laboratório)
• Regulatory Audit / Due Diligence (Auditoria regulatória)
• (Bio)Remediators ((Bio) Remediadores)
• Transgenic Products (Produtos transgênicos)
• Licenses and Authorizations (Licenças e autorizações)
• Veterinary Products (Produtos veterinários)
• Company Opening Support (Suporte na abertura de empresas)

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

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App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Red LatamcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerCESIS serves as the representative of Red Latam in Brazil, assisting companies with the registration of bioinputs in Brazil and across Latin America. The partnership promotes bioeconomy and sustainable development by helping companies navigate regulatory frameworks for biological products. The collaboration positions CESIS as Red Latam's exclusive representative for the Brazilian market.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• AllierBrasil: Brazilian agribusiness regulatory and registration consultancy offering similar services to CESIS, including product registration, regulatory affairs, and market entry support for agrochemical, biological, and specialty input companies entering Brazil.
• Agroconsult: Brazilian consulting firm focused on agribusiness strategy, market intelligence, and regulatory support, with overlapping services in ag-input market evaluation and stakeholder advisory comparable to CESIS's offerings.
• DBO Group: Brazil-based regulatory and market consulting firm serving the crop protection and specialty fertilizer industries, providing registration, regulatory affairs, and market entry services comparable to CESIS.

Broad incumbents

• KWS Group Regulatory Services (Latam): Global seed and agricultural company with in-house regulatory affairs teams in Latin America handling product registration and biosafety compliance for transgenic and crop inputs, an incumbent alternative to CESIS for multinational clients.
• Bayer Crop Science (Regulatory Affairs Latam): Multinational agrochemical and seed company with large internal regulatory affairs operations in Brazil covering ANVISA/MAPA registrations, environmental risk, and CTNBio submissions — represents the in-house model CESIS competes against for outsourced work.
• Syngenta (Regulatory Affairs Brazil): Global crop protection and seed company with substantial Brazil-based regulatory and registration teams handling agrochemical, biological, and transgenic product approvals through MAPA/ANVISA/CTNBio.
• Mattos Filho Advogados (Agribusiness Practice): Major Brazilian law firm with a dedicated agribusiness practice handling regulatory matters, environmental licensing, and CTNBio submissions — a higher-end incumbent alternative for clients requiring combined legal and regulatory advisory.

Emerging players

• Aprovame: Brazilian emerging regulatory affairs firm focused on ag-input registration, providing a more technology-enabled alternative to traditional consultancies like CESIS for product registration workflows.
• Bioagri Consulting: Niche Brazilian consulting firm specializing in biological agricultural inputs registration and bioeconomy advisory, with overlapping capabilities to CESIS's bioinsumos registration and biofertilizer service lines.

Others

• Red Latam (parent organization): Latin American bioeconomy network whose exclusive Brazilian representative is CESIS; the partnership itself defines CESIS's positioning for bioinput registration across the region.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cesis

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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