Rob Leclerc Ph.D

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Biography

Dr. Rob Leclerc is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at AgFunder. He is a leading expert on food & agtech with a Ph.D. from Yale University. He is a founding partner of AgFunder with over 15 years of qualitative and quantitative experience as a scientist and engineer. He is a Forbes contributor and has also been published in TechCrunch, Harvard Business Review, Financial Post, and twice in Nature journals (>500 citations across both publications). He has been invited to a chair, speak, and keynote at dozens of global conferences on food & agriculture, technology, and fintech. Forbes Magazine and Progressive Farming named him to their list of 'Up-And-Comers' lists, and the White House has extended special invitations to White House-sponsored events. He's a judge for the National Ag Innovation Prize, Verizon's $6M IoT Award for 2015, and sits on the advisory committee of the Ag Innovation Showcase, the world's first and longest-running AgTech conference. He has been interviewed by Bloomberg TV, CNBC (TV), Wall Street Journal, Forbes, LA Times, Entrepreneur, FastCompany, and Reuters. He has five degrees, spanning Philosophy, Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence & Virtual Robotics), and Computational Biology, including a Ph.D. from Yale University.