Rob Leclerc
AgFunder
CEO & Co-founder
Rob is the cofounder of AgFunder, an online venture capital platform investing in agtech and foodtech. Rob is a Forbes contributor and has also been published in TechCrunch, Harvard Business Review, Financial Post, and twice in Nature journals. Rob has been invited to chair, speak, and keynote at dozens of global conferences on food & agriculture, technology, and fintech and in 2014, Forbes named Rob to their list of 'Up-And-Comers'. Rob has been interviewed by Bloomberg TV, CNBC, Forbes, LA Times, Entrepreneur, FastCompany, and Reuters. He has five degrees, spanning Philosophy, Computer Science, and Computational Biology, including a PhD from Yale University.
Japan has an international reputation for both food and technology and is uniquely positioned to take a leading role in the agritech revolution.
