Public Activities

Date(s): 2023-06-13

Andrés spoke at the live event in Guatemala, about global and regional trends in food tech. He shared the stage with Rebeca Bravo of Cultivo, Guillermo Medina and Christopher Safie.

Date(s): 01-06-2023

Gonzalo participates on a Panel discussion about fundraising with startups from Incubadora ProVeg, in Mexico. On the panel was also Catalina Valencia of KM Zero, Jaime Betech of Good Seed Ventures, and Fernando Lago of Liquid.

Date(s): 31-05-2023

Andres was in Warsaw to participate in the event and on a Main Stage panel about food waste along with Peter Schmetz of Vorwerk Ventures, Rob Genieser of ETF Partners and Sébastien Pellion of Glovo.

Date(s): 30-05-2023

Gonzalo led a PitchLab pitch training session with startups from Innovatech’s acceleration program. With the help of Sparkassenstiftung Alemana, the program is helping companies bring more financial solutions to rural areas of Latin America.

Date(s): 2023-04-25

Gonzalo participated in sessions with this student-run accelerator program at University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The program is currently hosting 35 young visionaries from LatAm with innovative business ideas.

Date(s): 2023-04-20

Gonzalo participated as a Mentor in the Food Waste: Reshaping Consumer Behavior session with various startups from the ecosystem including: Botanitec, CurubaTech, Listo para Comer, NanoFreeze, ORIGINO, POW! Foods, TuPlaza and Urban Farmers Pro.

Date(s): 2023-03-15

Aaron attended the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in San Francisco and met with some of the finalists of the THRIVE and APEX Brasil Immersion Program as part of the Investment & Business Roundtable.

Date(s): 2023-01-16

Andres took part in the Judging Panel to select the top startups for this investment and business acceleration program. It aims to support Brazilian Agtech companies, that are developing cutting edge solutions for the global agtech value chain, and accelerate their access to investment, partnerships, networks and business opportunities in the U.S and North America.

Date(s): 2022-11-02

Andres spoke to founders about venture capital, how it works, who the key players are and how it compares to corporate VC. He also presented current global and local trends in financing innovation.

Date(s): 2022-10-11

Gonzalo participated in the initial evaluation of startups, to chose the top 10 of each category that will pitch at the 2023 edition of the Food Tech Congress in Poland.

Date(s): 2022-09-23 to 12-08

Andrés participated in a Techstars mentoring session focused on accelerating founders’ efforts in finding product-market fit, fundraising, and recruiting.

Date(s): 2022-09-11 to 12

The year’s edition of Volcano Innovation Summit in Guatemala took place on September 10-12 in Guatemala. Andrés led the panel discussion “Foodtech and Sustainability: The Case for Food Waste” along with Mauricio Kremer from Kigüi.

Date(s): 2022-09-01 to 02

The first edition of ftalks for Latin America took place on September 1-2 in Mexico City. Gonzalo moderated a fireside chat with Mauricio Kremer from Kigüi, Esteban Paredez from Frescoo and René Candia from Yema. Watch the 30min session here.

Date(s): 2022-05-25 to 26

Gonzalo participated as part of the pitching event judge, at Liquid Venture Studio’s Food and Beverage Bootcamp. The event included 11 companies from various countries in Latin America that had passed through the program.

Date(s): 2022-04-18 to 10-27

Gonzalo was invited for this year’s version of agro.connect in Mexico, a program aimed at helping fin-tech startups and the financial sector work together to bring tech based solutions to small farmers and growers in Mexico.

Date(s): 2022-04-14

Gonzalo participated in this online interactive event, alongside Marie Brueser of Thought For Food, Mark Leinemann of Crowdfoods.com, Yasemin Sharityar of Swiss Food & Nutrition Valley, Laine Clark of The Good Food Institute, and Laura Forsman of Viikki Food Design Factory, to outline resources and provide tips on how to build a startup in Food Ecosystems.

Date(s): 2022-03-04

Gonzalo participated in BioIncuba’s startup evaluation process, along with other investors from the ecosystem. The companies were bio-tech and/or food related startups from Peru.

Date(s): 2022-03-02

Representation from the state of Bayern for South América, PromPerú and PECAP organized Startup for Industry, an acceleration and tech immersion program for industry-tech in South America, including AgTech.

Gonzalo participated as part of the judging panel along other members of PECAP.

Date(s): 2022-02-28 to 2023-05

Gonzalo will be participating as a mentor and evaluator in this year’s Innovatech program that looks to support ag-tech and fin-tech startups that can adapt their digital solutions to the needs of small growers in Bolivia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico and Haiti.

Date(s): 2022-02-08 to 04-19

Gonzalo participated as a startup mentor in LATAM AGRIPAD, a 10-week program that addresses Mexico’s and Colombia’s most pressing agricultural challenges with Israeli AgTech solutions.

Participating Israeli startups included Saillog, AgriTask, yieldsApp, Saturas, Rapid Farm, TieUp Farming, PickApp Farming, Crops Guard, hiSky SCS and Agrorim.