Dr. Balaji Vasudevan

Loading Fund
USA

Abstract Title:

Agrifoodtech Investment Landscape and Innovations to Combat Climate Change and Global Food Insecurit

Biography:

Dr. Balaji Vasudevan is currently Venture Partner at Loading Fund based in India and USA. He is a globally recognized agtech thought leader. With over 20 years of agtech experience in industry academia, non-profits and investments combined, he is driven by a desire to help companies bring break-through agri-food technologies to market that create a better food and agriculture eco-system. At Loading Fund, he applies his academic and industry synthetic biology/agtech/agri-foodtech background, experience, global network of over 30K agtech/agrifoodtech connections in multiple agri-foodtech sectors to identify, source and support exceptional technology-focused future food and agtech start-ups. He is also an advisor/science consultant/SAB member for global agtech companies