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AgFunder

AgFunder's investment marketplace makes investing in agriculture easy and accessible.

Details

Founded: 2013
Employees: 6
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Overview

AgFunder in building modern financial infrastructure to feed the world with an investment marketplace servicing the $6.4T global agriculture industry. We have over 2,300 subscribers, $1.3B in our deal flow pipeline, and we have helped companies raise over $2.35m in capital since February 2014.

Management

CEO

Rob Leclerc, PhD

Rob has been published in the HBR, Financial Post, Seeking Alpha, and twice in Nature journals. He speaks at global conferences on agriculture, technology, and capital raising; he's been featured in Forbes; is a judge for the National Ag Innovation Prize; and is an advisory committee member the world's leading AgTech conference. Rob has five degrees, spanning Phil, CS, and Comp. Biology, including a PhD from Yale University.

Chief Deal Officer

Michael Dean

20+ years of business and management experience in international markets including London, Hong Kong and Sydney. Extensive M&A experience in large-scale and complex development and resource ventures. Extensive diligence expertise gained on large scale deals including Australia’s largest multi-sector property transaction. Founder and CEO of SeedRock Africa (production and manufacturing agribusiness). Masters degree in Law from the U. Sydney

Director of Business Development

Michael Guerin

20 years in financial markets and business development. Investor relations expert, advised on 12 IPOs of emerging markets firms on NYSE, LSE and Frankfurt exchanges. Past analyst for Robert Flemings Securities and Dynegy UK. Advisor on international expansion and market entry, led new market development. MBA from London Business School

Digital Editor

Cori Capik

Journalist, Videographer and Producer of SPEARS. Blogger for the Huffington Post. Research background in Environmental Engineering and Anthropology. 4 Years experience of non-profit for both Federal and private organizations. International work experience in Seoul, South Korea, and Riobamba, Ecuador. Degrees: B.S. Anthropology & M.S. Journalism from Columbia University.

Engineer

Vitaly Leokumovich

Web pioneer and software engineer with over 15 years of experience. Honors include Webby Honoree, Clio FWA, and Flash Forward Nominee Clients have included Reuters, United Nations, Sony, and Xerox. Expertise includes JavaScript, NodeJS, MongoDB, BackBoneJS, SQL, PHP, and Flash

General Counsel

Sara Hanks

CEO and co-founder of CrowdCheck. Former Chief at the SEC’s office of International Corporate Finance. 18 Months as GC for the TARP congressional oversight panel. 30+ years as a corporate and securities lawyer. Former Partner at Clifford Chance. Law degree from Oxford.

Chairman of Advisory Board

Justin Bruch

Justin has managed large-scale farms on four continents. Justin is an Iowa native and 5th generation farmer with over 16 years of experience in large-scale farming in excess of 10,000 hectares. Justin has set up and managed farms in Iowa, Brazil, Africa, and the Ukraine. His work setting up large scale farms for Morgan Stanley has been featured in Bloomberg. Justin has a BSc in Agronomy from Iowa State and an MBA from Cal State University

Senior Advisor

John Simon

Served as US Ambassador to the African Union, Special Assistant to the President, and Executive VP of the Overseas Investment Corp. Ambassador Simon is a founding Partner at Total Impact Advisors which specializes in sourcing and developing global investment opportunities that are socially and financially attractive.

Senior Advisor

Adam Oliver

Equity Partner at Brown & Co, a leading Agribusiness Advisory Firm.Adam Oliver is an Equity Partner with Brown & Co - a leading Agri Business Consulting firm that specializes in providing management consulting and strategic investment advice to large scale agri-business entities and the wider investment community. Adam was a senior executive in the largest farming company IPO to date. He has a BSc in Agriculture from London University.

Advisor

Kevin Ross

Ross serves on the National Corn Growers Association Board of Directors. He also is a past President of the Iowa Corn Growers Association. B.S. in Agricultural Studies and Farm Operations from Iowa State University, and has studied agriculture abroad in Australia, South Korea, China, Panama, Colombia, Japan and Taiwan.

Advisor

Brad Farquar

Brad is Co-Founder of Input Capital and CFO for Canada’s largest farmland fund. Brad Farquhar is an agri-business entrepreneur with a background in public policy and finance. In his work at Assiniboia and Input, Brad has played a key role in raising over $280 million from investors for agriculture and investment projects.

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