Women in AgTech: Fighting machismo in Latin America
October 9, 2019
“I am woman, hear me roar,” belts Helen Reddy. That bravado reverberates in Chipsafer’s Victoria Alonsoperez & Agrosmart’s Mariana Vasconcelos’ daily lives.
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International Women’s Day: Wisdom from Women in Agtech
March 8, 2018
Female CEOs receive 2.7% of all venture funding and women of color receive just 0.2%. The women quoted below are helping to move those statistics and today, on International Women’s Day, we are sharing some of their advice and experience
Women in Agtech: Serial Foodtech Entrepreneur Jennifer Goggin Ponders a Food Supply Chain Run by Women
February 20, 2018
We caught up with Goggin about working in the supply chain and with legacy grocery stores – both corners of the food system dominated by men.Â
Women in Agtech: Noblegen Cofounder Andressa Lacerda on Taking Charge of her Company’s Narrative
February 6, 2018
Andressa Lacerda, cofounder and CCO of Noblegen, a Canadian biotech startup met her cofounder Adam Noble when he was a teenager and she was in her twenties, just seven years ago. Since they have raised nearly $10 million and built their own fermentation facility.
Women In Agtech: How Miyoko’s Kitchen CEO Deals With Male ‘Guru’ Figures in Plant-Based Food
January 22, 2018
Miyoko Schinner is founder and CEO of Miyoko’s Kitchen, a plant-based food startup specializing in nut and coconut-based cheese and butter alternatives.Â
Women in Agtech: Sonia Lo of FreshBox Farms is a Female CEO in Indoor Ag
January 9, 2018
We caught up with Lo to find out how her experience as an investor informs her role as an entrepreneur, and what she wants from the men in her field.Â
Women in Agtech: Wendy Mosher of New West Genetics on Women in Cannabis
December 19, 2017
We caught up with Mosher to find out what it’s like for a woman in the cannabis industry and how this female CEO handles raising funding for a family business.Â
Women in Agtech: Vinsight CEO Megan Nunes on Selling Predictive Tech While Female
December 13, 2017
We caught up with Nunes to find out what a decade in aerospace taught her about male-dominated spaces, and how she sells tech that can sometimes sound like magic.
Women in Agtech: Amanda Weeks Says Female Founders Have to Jump Through More Hoops to Get Investors Excited
November 29, 2017
We talked to Amanda Weeks of Industrial/Organic about raising her recent round and her future funding plans, how she changes her behavior in front of investors, and her experience as a female founder in the waste industry.
Women in Agtech: Joy Parr Drach of Advanced Animal Diagnostics is Done with Double Standards
November 21, 2017
Advanced Animal Diagnostics CEO Joy Parr Drach tells us how her thinking about the role of gender in business has changed over the years in the latest installment of our Women in Agtech Series.
Women In Agtech: Kuli Kuli CEO Lisa Curtis Is Ready For a Deeper Conversation About Gender and Fundraising
November 15, 2017
Lisa Curtis shares stories of gender discrimination and great mentors in the latest installment of our Women in Agtech Series.
Women In Agtech: CEO and CTO of InPlant Technologies
August 14, 2017
InPlant Technologies CEO and CTO discuss growing a company in a male-dominated field.
Women in Agtech: Saturas Founder Anat Halgoa Solomon
August 9, 2017
In the next in our women in agtech series of interviews with female CEOs and founders working in agtech, AgFunderNews caught up with Solomon to find out more about Saturas and being a female entrepreneur in agtech.
Women in Agtech: From Vietnam to Founding Redmelon Company – Le Vuong
July 27, 2017
The next in our series of interviews with female CEOs and founders working in agtech, AgFunderNews caught up with Vuong to find out more about Redmelon Company and being a minority female entrepreneur in agtech.
Women in Agtech: MicroGen Biotech’s Xuemei Germaine
July 18, 2017
This is the first profile in a special series that spotlights women entrepreneurs in agtech globally and follows on from an earlier feature entitled Where Are All the Women in Agtech?
Where Are All the Women in Agtech?
May 9, 2017
Where are all the women in the agriculture industry, asks Amy Wu?
3 Female Agtech Founders Win FoodBytes! SF During Women’s History Month
March 31, 2017
Three women-led startups won Rabobank’s FoodBytes! 2017 San Francisco event, beating more than 160 startups from 20 countries that applied to pitch at the event.
From precision ag primers to women entrepreneurs, here are our top 10 guest posts of 2023
December 26, 2023
Our top guest articles in 2023 are are a mix of recent thought leadership pieces and several items that date back as far as 2017.
Canada’s The51 Food and AgTech Fund nets $30 million from the National Bank, Alberta Enterprise and other investors
May 4, 2023
The women-led investment firm says this early stage fund will help get new innovations to Canadian producers.
Our list of 701 women in agrifood is growing, but are we making progress?
March 8, 2022
This month marks a year since the Women in Agrifood Directory was launched and it’s been a labor of love. How is it doing?
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