What CDTEC does

CDTEC is a Chilean precision agriculture technology and agronomic services company headquartered in Paine, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It combines hardware sensors and telemetry — branded as the Dropcontrol telemetry system — with a software platform, CDTEC IF (app.cdtecif.cl), that visualizes real-time data on soil, water, plant, and climate parameters. The company's stated differentiator is the translation of this telemetry into actionable irrigation strategies and crop-management improvements by a multidisciplinary team of agrónomos, técnicos, and data analysts, supported by per-field historical databases and season-over-season comparative reports. CDTEC was founded around 1999 and has accumulated more than 25 years of presence in the Chilean market, with disclosed scale metrics of over 1,900 active fields and over 30,000 hectares under continuous monitoring.

The commercial offering is organized around three service tiers — Consultoría Integral CDTEC (full-service consulting with sensors, installation, calibration, and agronomic advisory), Monitoreo por Suscripción (subscription access with equipment provided vía arriendo, eliminating high upfront investment), and Tecnología a tu Medida (customized solutions and integration with existing irrigation-control platforms) — supplemented by direct equipment sales through a product catálogo (sensors, telemetry, and control products). Pricing is quote-based, structured in Chilean peso tiers ranging from under 5M CLP to over 30M CLP per engagement, with annual or multi-year billing cadences depending on the tier. The named cliente base spans wine and vineyard operators (Emiliana, Almaviva, Santa Cruz), agricultural producers and farms (Agrícola Andrea, Atacama, Beta, Corpora, GH, LFP, Ocoa, San José Farms, Verfrtu), and AgTech-adjacent partners (Bayer, Cibus).

The go-to-market is sales-led and primarily domestic (Chile), executed via direct sales with personalized proposals, WhatsApp-based quoting, and on-site field diagnosis, with a 24–48 hour proposal turnaround commitment. CDTEC also operates ecosystem linkages with Chile's Dirección General de Aguas (DGA) and the Chilean AgTech platform Agryd, and runs a Freshdesk-based post-sale support portal (soporte.cdtec.cl). The company is privately held with no disclosed equity funding rounds, parent entity, or institutional investors, leaving ownership and capitalization opaque to external observers.

Name

CDTEC

Legal name

CDTEC

Website

https://cdtec.cl

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CDTEC is a Chilean precision agriculture company providing soil, water, plant, and climate sensor monitoring with its CDTEC IF platform and agronomic advisory services to agricultural producers across Chile, including vineyards, crop farms, and large agribusinesses.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paine

HQ country

Chile

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Consultoría Integral (Full-Service Consulting): Comprehensive service including sensors, equipment, continuous support, and personalized advisory for producers seeking proven results. Includes installation, calibration, and agronomic analysis.
2. Monitoreo por Suscripción (Subscription Monitoring): Access to modern technology without high initial investment. Includes equipment rental, maintenance, updates, and agronomic support throughout the season.
3. Tecnología a tu Medida (Custom Technology Solutions): Personalized solutions for soil, water, plant, and climate monitoring, with integration to existing platforms and adapted irrigation control.
4. Equipment Sales and Support: Sensors, telemetry, and control products for precise irrigation, climate, and plant management. Direct sales of hardware through catalog.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

CDTEC provides precision agriculture monitoring and irrigation management services to crop producers in Chile. It installs and maintains field-calibrated soil, water, plant, and climate sensors and streams the data into the proprietary CDTEC IF platform, supported by the Dropcontrol telemetry system and continuous agronomic interpretation. Customers contract through three service tiers: Consultoría Integral (sensors, equipment, and full advisory), Monitoreo por Suscripción (subscription-based equipment rental and monitoring), and Tecnología a tu Medida (custom monitoring and irrigation-control integrations).

Product overview

CDTEC offers a unified platform-plus-services architecture centered on the CDTEC IF monitoring platform, complemented by the Dropcontrol telemetry configuration tool. Their portfolio includes three service models: Consultoría Integral (full consulting with sensors and equipment), Monitoreo por Suscripción (subscription-based access), and Tecnología a tu Medida (custom solutions). The CDTEC IF platform integrates soil, plant, climate, and irrigation monitoring with agronomic interpretation, while Dropcontrol handles sensor and telemetry equipment configuration. Together, they enable precision agriculture through continuous monitoring, expert analysis, and actionable irrigation recommendations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CDTEC IF: Digital platform for real-time irrigation decision support, featuring monitoring dashboards, intelligent alerts, and agronomic team analysis for soil, plant, climate, and irrigation data.
• Dropcontrol

Products and services

• CDTEC IF A real-time irrigation decision platform that transforms continuous field data into updated graphs, intelligent alerts, and agronomic team analysis for precise irrigation management. It monitors soil, plant, climate, and irrigation parameters for agricultural producers seeking data-driven water and productivity decisions.
• Dropcontrol Telemetry equipment configuration platform used for managing sensor networks, battery nodes, and field equipment that feed CDTEC's irrigation monitoring service. Supports calibration, battery recovery, and ongoing maintenance of deployed telemetry hardware.
• Consultoría Integral CDTEC Full-service consulting model for agricultural producers seeking verifiable results. Includes provision of sensors and equipment, installation, calibration, continuous agronomic support, and personalized advisory throughout the season.
• Monitoreo por Suscripción Subscription-based monitoring service that provides agricultural producers access to precision irrigation technology without high upfront investment. Includes equipment rental, maintenance, updates, and continuous agronomic support throughout the season.
• Tecnología a tu Medida Customized precision agriculture solution for monitoring soil, water, plant, and climate variables, with integration into existing platforms and irrigation control adapted to the producer's specific operational needs.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 1,900 active fields managed
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• DGA (Dirección General de Aguas)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Chile's General Water Directorate (DGA), a government agency under the Ministry of Public Works (MOP) responsible for water resource management. CDTEC is linked on their website, suggesting collaboration or integration with national water management systems.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Semios: Semios is a precision agriculture platform for tree crops and vineyards combining sensors, climate monitoring, and agronomic recommendations — directly comparable to CDTEC's vineyard and crop customer base in Chile.
• CropX: CropX offers a precision agriculture platform combining soil sensors, irrigation analytics, and agronomic decision support. Its soil-moisture and irrigation focus closely mirrors CDTEC's integrated sensor + agronomist model.
• Hortau: Hortau provides precision irrigation management using soil tension sensors and a cloud platform with agronomic support — a nearly identical business model to CDTEC's soil, plant, water, and climate monitoring service.
• Tule Technologies: Tule delivers field-level water stress and irrigation analytics for specialty crops. It competes in the same precision irrigation monitoring category as CDTEC, with sensor hardware and decision-support software for growers.
• AquaSpy: AquaSpy produces soil moisture profiling sensors and decision-support tools for irrigation management. Its sensor-led approach to water-use efficiency is comparable to CDTEC's soil and water monitoring stack.
• Meter Group: Meter Group builds soil and environmental sensors used in agricultural research and irrigation decisions. Its sensor products compete with CDTEC's field instrumentation in the precision soil-water-climate monitoring category.
• Arable: Arable builds an integrated weather, soil, and plant sensing platform for crop decision support. Its hardware-plus-software stack and analytics services overlap with CDTEC IF's monitoring and agronomic interpretation offering.
• Davis Instruments: Davis Instruments manufactures ag-weather stations and environmental sensors used by growers for irrigation and crop decisions. Its hardware-driven monitoring approach overlaps with CDTEC's field sensor and telemetry infrastructure.
• Pessl Instruments (METOS): Pessl Instruments manufactures ag weather stations and soil-moisture sensors marketed under the METOS brand, with field-monitoring software. It competes with CDTEC on irrigation telemetry hardware and field-data visualization.
• WiseConn: WiseConn provides IoT-based irrigation control and field monitoring for agriculture, combining telemetry hardware with cloud analytics. It targets the same precision irrigation use case as CDTEC, especially for fruit and row crops.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cdtecspa

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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