SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 450: 14 Ag Companies Raise $32M Using AgFunder.com with CEO Rob Leclerc
17 Oct 2016
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is The Top, where I interview entrepreneurs who are number one or number two in their industry in terms of revenue or customer base.
Chapter 2: What percentage of global GDP does agriculture represent?
You'll learn how much revenue they're making, what their marketing funnel looks like, and how many customers they have.
Chapter 3: How does AgFunder aim to revolutionize agricultural investments?
I'm now at $20,000 per top.
Chapter 4: What role does technology play in AgFunder's business model?
Five and six million. He is hell-bent on global domination.
Chapter 5: How does AgFunder generate revenue from its marketplace?
We just broke our 100,000-unit soul mark.
Chapter 6: What challenges did AgFunder face in its first year of operation?
And I'm your host, Nathan Latka. Okay, Top Tribe, this week's winner of the 100 bucks is none other than Derek Rodenbeck.
Chapter 7: How many investors and companies are currently active on AgFunder's platform?
He is an artist and he's looking to increase his revenue. If you want your chance to enter and to win 100 bucks each Monday on the show, simply subscribe to the podcast on iTunes now and then text the word Nathan to 33444 to prove that you did it.
Chapter 8: What is the significance of the $32 million raised by AgFunder?
Again, text the word Nathan to 33444. Okay, many of you heard I made a big league acquisition of a company called SendLater. And I'm a greedy business guy. I didn't want to give away equity to a technical co-founder. So I found my coders on a website called TopTal at NathanLatka.com forward slash T-O-P-T-A-L.
I paid over $12,000 to the site to a guy named He Sheming in China, who I've never met, but we're going to build a big business together. I'm taking SendLater public by the time I turn 30. I'll tell you more about TopTal later on in this episode. Nathan Latke here. Coming up tomorrow morning, you're going to learn from Jerry Wilmick.
He sold 5,000 smart jewelry units and raised $5.1 million with his company, Wisewear, based in San Antonio.
top chive nathan lackey here good morning our guest today is robert leclerc he's the founder of ag funder an online investment marketplace for the 7.8 trillion dollar global agriculture industry he's a forbes contributor and has also been published in tech crunch harvard business review and online investment and again he's co-founder of ag funder an online investment marketplace for the same industry he's a forbes
contributor. And as mentioned, he's been on many, many outside journals. He's has five degrees, including a PhD from Yale. Rob, are you ready to take us to the top? Yeah, man. Thanks, Nathan. Good. Hey, I'm glad you're here. This is a big industry, but it's unsexy. So nobody ever talks about it.
Exactly. Exactly. 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. So it's kind of like commercial real estate in the 1960s where just no one invested in it.
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.
This is like AngelList for agriculture.
Yeah, very much. And specifically, food and agriculture is obviously a big sector. And what's going to drive a lot of the change over the next 10, to 20 years is innovation and technology. And really this industry is a textbook case for disruptive innovation. In fact, one of my co-founders was talking to one of the venture partners at Mars Ventures, the big food company.
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