AgriStrategies LLC was founded by Steve Kluemper to assist agricultural producers, processors and suppliers with improving their cash flow, profitability and financial management by helping them communicate their vision for their company’s future, manage their business and especially their finances, facilitate discussions with lenders, vendors and investors, analyze decisions that need to be made, and use independent perspectives to run their business. One critical need for every agribusiness is their source of funding. For some, it’s the funding for an idea that needs to be pitched in the right way to the right investors and/or lenders. For others, it’s improving the internal funding and profitability to get the most out of the assets they are managing. Often, these all require working together with key stakeholders in a coordinated approach that result in mutual success. These also require time and expertise that aren’t always available for the agribusiness management team.Whether your needs require improving your business model, finding new strategic partners, managing your business better, gaining new perspectives, or making tough decisions, AgriStrategies LLC can help! Let's get started today!

Accelerate and expand the understanding of potential value and commercialization options for new MSU technologies (especially in the agriculture sector) by making connections with key industry resources (organizations, individuals, and information), including potential customers, that may help assess technology value, reduce investment risk and identify new high-value applications.Identify and minimize key market risks, including gating and critical path items, develop overall business model and investment/funding thesis where appropriate, perform customer discovery for the technologies and accumulate industry feedback, make connections with key start-up resources when technology assessment suggests that as a viable path to market, and improve effectiveness of early-stage translation and commercialization decisions by assisting with assessing technology and market potential, recommending target applications, industries, licensees, etc., participating in discussions related to potential funding strategies for technology, translation and commercialization, identifying opportunities for researchers to access gap-funding resources (e.g.,MTRAC, ADVANCE, TSGTD, etc), assisting the effective employment of funding by finding talent or other resources required for execution on translational research projects, measuring, monitoring and reporting on progress in the use of gap funds, and providing MIR support for the needs of the member universities of the Tech Transfer Talent Network (T3N) program.

LifeLab is a new intelligent, fully-integrated indoor vertical farming system that has been in development over the past 3+ years. LifeLab is now looking for funding and off-take agreements to launch its mass-market-ready B2B technology, and its initial North American commercial-scale pilot “farm” as a live showcase of the latest version of its systems. Soon after, LifeLab will start to pursue orders nationally from companies and groups looking to grow crops with their own serviced LifeLab systems. This system is superior to current indoor, container, and greenhouse approaches, and provides a more controllable environment that can be scaled to meet the initial and future needs of urban and rural commercial growers. We would like to send the pitch deck out to you or others that might be interested in this opportunity. I hope you will take the time to request and review this presentation as we welcome your feedback and interest.

Credit Risk Management Leader

Commercial Lending Relationship Manager and Underwriter for Agribusiness clients

Commercial Lending Relationship Manager and Underwriter for Agribusiness clients

Capital Markets Lending Relationship Manager for all types of agricultural input, production and processing, as well as energy and communications industries in the U.S.

Asset-based Lending Relationship Manager and Underwriter for Agribusiness clients

Commercial and Asset-based Lending Relationship Manager, Underwriter & Examiner for Agribusiness clients

Retail and Agricultural Community Banking