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Rob Leclerc

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139 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc

So globally, agriculture represents about 10% of global GDP, but only about 0.3% of the world's investable assets are allocated to this space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc

So it's kind of like

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc

commercial real estate in the 1960s where just no one invested in it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc

And the idea with AgFunder is we wanted to create an online investment platform that made this space mainstream and basically allowed investors to allocate a portion of their portfolio to food and agriculture.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc

Yeah, very much.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc

And specifically, food and agriculture is obviously a big sector.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc

And what's going to drive a lot of the change over the next 10,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc

to 20 years is innovation and technology.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc

And really this industry is a textbook case for disruptive innovation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc

In fact, one of my co-founders was talking to one of the venture partners at Mars Ventures, the big food company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc

And he thought that over the next decade or so that eight of the 10 largest food and agriculture companies would cease to exist.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc

And so our focus today with AgFunders is on food technology and agriculture technology that will transform this industry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc

Eventually, we will be offering farmland.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc

Eventually, we'll be offering sort of more traditional agribusiness opportunities, emerging markets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc

But to get that to make that those sort of sectors investable, you really need the technology base to centralize management, to mitigate risk, to scale those opportunities.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc

And so this is sort of the tech piece is really the toehold of a larger market here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc

No, we're not.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc

No, we're not.

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