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Startups and tech entered my life In when I was asked to head up a new business development dept for eFundraising.com. We gained momentum, and we grew to become an Inc Top 10 fastest growing company and acquired for 27MM within 3 years of operation (back then, that was a lot). I caught the entrepreneurial bug, and am the proud CoFounder of Motorleaf - the worlds first (and only) in market AI-powered Yield Prediction service for controlled environment agriculture clients, such as commercial greenhouses. Within 36 months - I went from Idea to: 18 Full-Time staff, millions of dollars in institutional funding from DesJardins Capital, OSRAM (FluxUnit), RealVentures, 500StartUps and Business Development Bank of Canada, and clients in 7 countries. Accolades while at Motorleaf:> Raised over 4MM Dollars in Venture Capital + 1.9MM Dollars in non dilutive funding > One of 6 companies selected (from 400 applicant companies) for FounderFuel Accelerator program, providing investment (pre-seed funding)- ran by RealVentures - Montreal.> Winner Best Pitch - StartUpFest > Winner IBM SmartCamp Montreal (semi-finalist in global competition)> Top 20 StartUp - Fruit Logistica > Top 20 StartUp - FoodBytes - by RaboBank > Speaker TEDx ‘Zero to One’ > Speaker - Indoor AgCon - Vegas > Speaker - AgriTech Summit - Tokyo > Selected by AgFunder as a featured Investment Opportunity Adventures continued with Fermata (2021/2022) as Chief Revenue Officer and then CEO, making it possible to use image data captured from cameras (machine vision) to automate scouting, including early disease identification, pest detection, and monitoring plant growth.
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