Introduction:
Bioeconomy has been gaining traction across various production and research sectors worldwide. The preservation and conservation of biodiversity is increasingly being driven by entrepreneurship focused on sustainable innovation.
Aligned with these principles, the 2025 edition of the Bioeconomy Amazon Summit (BAS), organized by the UN Global Compact – Brazil Network in partnership with venture capital firm KPTL, underscores a renewed commitment to strengthening the bioeconomy in the Amazon region. The summit brings together startups, companies, investors, and public sector leaders to foster dialogue and business opportunities in the sector. This year’s event is scheduled to take place in Manaus at the end of July.
In the context of sustainability, our team visited a food products company based in the Amazonian capital that specializes in bioactive ingredients—derived from native fruits and developed through scientific research for their high nutritional value.
The company is now working to expand its reach into both national and international markets.
Stay tuned for our special report.

Interviews:
Emerson Lima, Founder of Terramazonia Superplants
Danilo Zelinski, Head of Nature and Climate Investments – KPTL

Executive Production:
Juliana Fontes

Intern:
Fernanda Soares

Editing and Post-production:
Alexandre Almeida

Production:
AMAZON AGENCY

Website: amazonagency.news

Duration: 08'39"
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**Script**
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- Emerson Lima, Founder of Terramazonia Superplants
"I’m a pharmacist and a researcher in the field of bioactives here in the Amazon region. We work with the main regional production chains, especially fruit-based ones, such as açaí, camu-camu, cupuaçu, guaraná, and Brazil nuts (also known as Pará nuts), which are products grown at some scale in the state, but in their raw form have low added value and often face challenges leaving the region. Our goal is to add value to these products using technology—such as fruit concentration or dehydration—to produce healthy, natural foods, within the growing trend of enhancing diets with functional bioactives of high nutritional value."

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"We make a point of working with these products in their organic form. We process all this material to generate raw ingredients, and once those are stabilized and quality-controlled, they are either sold as ingredients to other industries or used in our own end products for consumers."

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"We've already received support from PPBio (Biodiversity Research Program), and that has been fundamental for maintaining our structure.
PPBio helps both in product development and business structuring, as well as in marketing and sales processes outside the region."

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"And investment—for companies like ours or others in the sector, such as cosmetics, food, pharmaceuticals, herbal medicines—is essential. They need that initial investment to prove their product in the market. I’d say it’s critical for companies like ours to move beyond the initial stage and reach the market."

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- Danilo Zelinski. Head of Nature and Climate Investments – KPTL
"Entrepreneurs in the region have evolved a lot. That’s very positive, and important to us. We bring not only capital but also knowledge. We’ve been investing in startups and innovative companies in Brazil for over 20 years. One of our strengths is not just providing money, but bringing this know-how. What does a company need to grow? How do you build a team? We support the entrepreneur through this journey full of challenges—but also very rewarding."

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- Emerson Lima, Terramazonia Superplants
"It’s very important to understand that the Amazon will not be a mere supplier of commodities. It will always produce something more unique, with more added value. And for companies born here to grow, they need to aim for national and even global markets."

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- Danilo Zelinski, Head – KPTL
"This year we’re launching the *Amazon Regenerate Fund*, a fund specifically focused on businesses that can generate economic development while keeping the forest standing in the Amazon. We want to explore how forest-based economic activities can bring benefits. We’ve also realized that for bio-pharmaceuticals to succeed, the industry and supply chain are necessary too. We take a systemic approach to the Amazon. We’ll invest in innovative companies in pharma, biopharma, biocosmetics, and biomaterials—but also in companies that may be less innovative but still part of this chain and help scale the bioeconomy. This drives economic and social transformation and incentivizes preserving the Amazon."

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- Emerson Lima, Terramazonia Superplants
"We’ve started taking steps toward internationalization. Today, we’re in advanced talks with distributors to sell our products outside the region and Brazil—in places like the United Arab Emirates, Dubai, China, and the United States. In the U.S., we’re launching our online store to sell directly. So we’ve already begun expanding the reach of Amazonian products to international markets."

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- Danilo Zelinski, Head of Nature and Climate Investments – KPTL
"We know the ecosystem needs development. We must connect entrepreneurs in pharma, biopharma, and industry with companies—they need customers. We need to better connect academia with entrepreneurs, science with business. That’s why, around our funds, we partnered with the UN Global Impact to launch the *BAS – Bioeconomy Amazon Summit*. It will take place at the end of July in Manaus, July 30–31. The idea is to put the entrepreneur at the center of the event—surrounded by corporations, investors, academia, government, local communities, and Indigenous peoples. All of this creates the robustness an entrepreneur needs to succeed—and to develop businesses that generate more added value and income in the region."

- Emerson Lima, Founder of Terramazonia Superplants
"This event is extremely important to promote the bioeconomy concept—especially in the Amazon region—and to show the world what we’re doing here: generating technology, adding value to Amazonian products, bringing relatively new products to market, and serving as a key case in our sector, which is natural foods and local economy-based product development."

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- Danilo Zelinski, Head – KPTL
"We need Brazilians to better understand the Amazon. We need Brazilian and foreign companies to better understand it. And I believe that this matchmaking—this connection that BAS offers—can yield great results. We’ll have panels with key people, media exposure, exposure to investors, clients, and academia. We’re partnering with universities—is there a university that can help with product development? It’s a unique opportunity for entrepreneurs to meet various stakeholders and potential partners to boost their business. So I think it’s a fantastic opportunity for entrepreneurs. KPTL is going not just as an organizer, but also as an investor."

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- Emerson Lima, Terramazonia Superplants
"Our business is fundamentally tied to preserving the Amazon. When I develop products like these, I help maintain the livelihoods of the people who live in these collection or sustainable planting areas. And that helps protect the biome—because the ones who protect the Amazon are the people who live there. So this type of business is very important for the broader concept of keeping the forest standing."

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