From Physical Complexity to Actionable Intelligence
SpaceTime Labs is a Brazilian deeptech company that builds and scales ventures to transform natural resource industries.
Founded in 2014, we work at the intersection of science, artificial intelligence, engineering, and design—turning complex physical systems into actionable intelligence and breakthrough technologies.
Our ventures address some of the most consequential challenges across agriculture, materials, climate risk, and computational biology.
Built in Brazil. Designed to Scale Globally.
Brazil is one of the world’s richest environments for natural resource innovation.
Its agricultural scale, mineral resources, biodiversity, industrial base, and exposure to climate complexity create a unique environment to develop and validate technologies for some of the world’s most fundamental systems.
We use Brazil as an innovation lab—working with leading industry and research partners to develop solutions in real-world conditions before scaling them globally.
A history of turning complex problems into real-world innovation.
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2009–2011
Planetary Intelligence
SpaceTime Labs’ founders establish the Planetary Skin Institute (PSI), a Silicon Valley R&D organization co-founded with NASA.
PSI is recognized by TIME as one of the top innovations of 2009 and helps co-design Brazil’s National Early Warning System for Natural Disasters, CEMADEN.
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2014–2015
SpaceTime Labs
SpaceTime Labs is founded in Brazil.
A five-year AI innovation partnership with Raízen begins, applying advanced intelligence to one of the world’s largest bioenergy operations.
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2016–2018
From Artificial to Biological Intelligence
SpaceTime Labs partners with the World Economic Forum and global genomics leaders to help launch the Earth Bank of Codes and Earth BioGenome Project.
New collaborations with Bayer CropScience, Swiss Re, Yara, and other industry leaders expand our work across agriculture, risk, and natural resource systems.
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2019
Climate & Systemic Risk
SpaceTime Labs and VanderSat win the EU–FINEP EUREKA competition to develop an AI platform for energy risk management.
We also lead a global science and engineering consortium exploring an Amazon-wide early warning system for zoonotic spillover.
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2020
Per Plant Farming
A strategic innovation partnership with SLC Agrícola begins to develop, test, and scale technologies for Per Plant Farming.
This collaboration establishes the real-world foundation for what would become Moray.
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2021–2023
From Technologies to Ventures
SpaceTime Labs begins translating years of R&D into dedicated ventures across agriculture and materials.
Moray emerges around Per Plant Farming and agricultural autonomy, while Ubiratã applies digital twins and AI to complex material systems.
A new FINEP grant supports advances in artificial intelligence and robotics for agriculture.
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Today
Building the Next Generation of Deeptech Ventures
Our portfolio now spans agriculture, computational biology, climate risk, industrial systems, and critical mineral exploration.
Across these domains, one principle connects our work: understand complex physical systems, turn that understanding into intelligence, and translate intelligence into action.
Our R&D Ecosystem
Breakthrough innovation is a collaborative endeavor
We work with leading scientific institutions, universities, public innovation agencies, and industry partners to combine frontier research with real-world experimentation.
Built for Experimentation
Science, engineering, and venture building under one roof
Our teams work across artificial intelligence, software engineering, computational science, agronomy, geoscience, and advanced robotics.
Our R&D environments are designed for rapid iteration—from computational modeling and software development to prototyping and testing physical systems.
HQ
Alto de Pinheiros — São Paulo, Brazil
R&D Center
Pinheiros — São Paulo, Brazil
Leadership
SpaceTime Labs brings together scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and industry specialists with experience translating frontier technologies into real-world systems and ventures.
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Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio
Executive Chairman
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Fabiano Adegas
Group CTO and Head of Material & Energy Industries
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Fabio Vessoni
Finance & Operations
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Fabio Faria
Agriculture & Biomass Industries
Join Us
Work on problems that matter
We’re looking for scientists, engineers, designers, and problem-solvers who are curious about how the world works—and ambitious about how it could work better.
If you want to apply frontier science and technology to some of the most complex challenges across agriculture, materials, climate, and biodiversity, we’d like to hear from you.