AgFunder is one of the most active foodtech and agtech focused venture capital firms globally. We are a new kind of VC firm that leverages our media and research platform of over 65,000 members and subscribers to give us access to the best deal flow and network to support our portfolio companies.

(Acquired for $250m 13 months after our investment) Bear Flag Robotics is developing autonomous driving technology for farm tractors. Currently, we do this by equipping tractors and implements with technology that allows growers to automate many of their most common tasks.

(Greenlight went public in 2022 valued at $1.5b) GreenLight Biosciences is a biotechnology company focused on sustainable production of chemicals and fuels using its patented Cell free bioprocessing technology platform. This revolutionary technology enables the biological conversion of economical, renewable substrates to valuable products with unprecedented flexibility and control.

(RootAI was acquired by $APPHW in 2021) Root AI has developed a harvesting robot for greenhouses.

(Impact Vision was acquired by Apeel Biosceinces in 2020) ImpactVision is a machine learning company applying hyperspectral imaging technology to food supply chains to reduce waste, maximize yields and improve quality

Brightseed believes nutrition is medicine. They combine machine learning and systems biology to discover naturally occurring compounds with proven clinical benefits for health and wellness.

DeHaat is Indias largest agtech firm. They have built a digitial agronomy platform and marketplace connecting institutional sellers and buyers with smallholder farmers in India. DeHaat has over 2.5m farmers on their platform

Verdant Robotics develops state-of-the-art spraying robots. The company was founded by foundational engineers at Waymo, Zoox, and Cruise Automation

Kula Bio energizes nitrogen-fixing microbes to produce organic fertilizer. By rewiring the energy flow from sun to soil, Kula is disrupting synthetic fertilizer to eliminate the division between affordable practices and stewardship.

By reverse-engineering the coffee bean, Atomo has created a naturally-derived and sustainable coffee with the same caffeine you’d expect and no harsh acid or bitterness.

Phylagen is a microbiome data analytics company that harnesses the vast, unseen world of microbes for traceability. Phylagen was founded by Jessica Green, TED fellow and one of the leading scientists on environmental microbes and Harrison Dillon who founded Solazyme, a algae biofuels platform which IPOed for $1B.

Aerobotics is a remote sensing platform for pest control in tree and orchard crops. Aerobotics was founded by an MIT Roboticist and a data scientist from Uber.

Sentera is an integrated remote sensing, analytics and IoT startup for the agriculture industry.

Solinftec applies process automation to the farm. They're one of the largest and fastest growing agtech startups globally.

Oper8r is a curated community building the next generation of institutional VC firms.

SeedRock is a progenitor investor in agriculture and natural resources opportunities, with a particular emphasis on frontier markets. Our esteemed advisory board includes several ex-Presidents of African Countries and a former President of the African Development Bank. My focus is on strategy, research, quantitative and qualitative analysis, modelling, marketing, and investor relations. I'm involved in projects throughout Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, Greenland, and Latin America, spanning agriculture and extractive industries. I've built a strong network in the private banking and private equity industry in Asia and the Nordic regions.

• Conceived and lead the creation of SeedRock’s $150M Progenitor Fund I, a PE fund/incubator fund (and one of the first of its kind), focusing on mineral exploration opportunities in frontier and emerging markets. I created the marketing collateral; authored the Prospectus; fund raising with institutions, SWFs and HNIs throughout Asia (Ongoing).• Through my network in China I established a JV engagement with China's Ministry of Agriculture for our Agriculture business in West Africa (Ongoing)• Co-founder & Managing Director of a Namibian deep-water offshore oil exploration company with licence area conjugate to the Santos Basin in Brazil, which is hosting the largest oil discoveries in the past 30 years. I developed the corporate branding and marketing collateral, developed a technical program and exploration budget with our project geologist and geotechnical service providers, pitched investment banks, and eventually received an MOU for a $10-$20m financing. (Ongoing)• Managing the creation of SeedRock Brazil, a subsidiary of SeedRock, based in Belo Horizonte (The mining capital of Brazil), and negotiating deal terms for the acquisition of various resource assets in the country.

• Strategize and diligence a manifold of agriculture and natural resource opportunities in emerging and frontier markets.• Monitor emerging global trends and build macroeconomic and geopolitical analyses and projections.• Principal author of SeedRock’s MOUs, business plans, PPMs, marketing presentations, financial models, and request letters to government officials (Ministers, Presidents, ex-Presidents).

BabbleFlix is Rosetta Stone language learning software meets NetFlix streaming movies, and uses movies, television and music videos to teach language.I was unable to raise funding for BabbleFlix and had to close it down.

Diligence tech opportunities and made recommendations to the partners.Developed an algorithmic model to evaluate the risk-reward proposition and place valuations on auctioned domain names and identify arbitrage opportunities for undervalued web properties.

• Published two groundbreaking papers in Nature journals. The single author publication has been cited over 47-times and was the journal’s #2nd most downloaded article from Oct 2008 – Feb 2009. • Mentored by Gunter Wagner: a MacArthur Fellow (aka the genius award), universal polymath, and one of the world’s top scientists (Current Fellow at the National Academy of Arts & Sciences). • Taught Yale undergraduate classes (statistics, computer science, and biology disciplines).• Developed ad-hoc distributed compute engine utilizing idle CPUs on campus.