Viktor Falkengren Email & Phone Number

Berlin, De

Tel Aviv District, Israel

Berlin, Germany

➤ Europe's leading venture studio and early-stage investor for food, climate, health, and sustainability startups.Helping scientists and entrepreneurial minds to transform their ideas into world-changing companies by connecting them with FoodLabs for Pre-Seed & Seed financing.

Berlin, Germany

Worked as a part of the Studio team, using my scientific background to identify exciting future trends and technologies within Climate, BioTech & FoodTech, build innovative and impactful businesses from ideation to commercialization and support mission-driven entrepreneurs in their venture development.

Berlin, Germany

• 660 hour full-time intensive coding bootcamp over 3 months• Learned Data Science with Python; Data Analytics with SQL, BigQuery, Pandas, NumPy, and Matplotlib; Machine Learning with Scikit-learn, Deep Learning with TensorFlow Keras• Pitched and led project developing a web app that applies CNN AI image segmentation models on real-time satellite data to track deforestation in the Amazon (https://github.com/vikfalk/forestvision)

Berlin, Germany

➤ Applying AI and novel plant sensors to make greenhouses more climate resilient and resource efficient.• Led the development of hardware-enabled B2B SaaS products together with hardware, software, UX, and plant science teams• Strategy, go-to-market, business development, and strategic partnerships• Ran sales and fundraising campaigns• UX/UI design for products & marketing material• Data extraction and processing for computer vision application using Python, InfluxDB, & Google Cloud

Berlin, Germany

➤ AgTech startup designing and supplying energy-efficient B2B and B2C vertical farming solutions.• Worked directly alongside the founders as a part of a small team to scale the business and expand commercial operations• Managed the operation of 11+ vertical farms across Berlin

Berlin, Germany

➤ Europe's first vertical farming unicorn – locally growing crops using cutting-edge agricultural, engineering, and data science technologies.• Designed and executed R&D projects of 8+ crops to optimize lighting-use-efficiency in ACRE farming systems.• Gathered and processed crop trial data in R & Python to provide data driven analyses to stakeholders.

Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands

Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands

• Facilitated the transition of a company (details confidential) into the vertical farming industry as part of a 6 person team. • Solved challenges and developed innovative solutions to provide a detailed action plan.• Identified market gaps through desk research as interviews with companies, experts, and stakeholders.

Master Of Science - Msc, Plant Sciences, 8.22/10 (4.0 Gpa Equivalent)

Thesis: Spectral effects of LED lighting on the photosynthesis and morphology of greenhouse tomato (Grade: 8.5/10) Relevant.

Bsc Hons, Marine And Freshwater Biology, First Class Honours (4.0 Gpa Equivalent)

Awarded the Edinburgh Napier University Medal on graduation for achieving the highest overall mark of my year. Followed a 4-year Honours.

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (Ibdp)