Dr. Balaji Vasudevan
Dr. Balaji Vasudevan is a startup hatcher and nurser, technology/innovation scout, venture & ecosystem developer, venture builder/support, and a global networker in the food & agriculture sector. He is a globally recognized agtech & agrifoodtech thought leader. With over 20 years of combined experience in global startups, VC firm, Venture Studio, Consulting, Synthetic Biology/BiotechAgtech/Agrifoodtech industries, Universities (Cornell, Tel Aviv), Non-profit research institute (Noble Research Institute), he is driven by a desire and passion to help and support companies bring break-through agri-food technologies to market that create a better food and agriculture ecosystem. His passion and objective is to serve and help founders to establish and grow agri-foodtech startups, bring agri-foodtech industry closer and open the gate for innovative minds and founders to take risks and solve challenges presented by the global food insecurity, production, supply and sustainability.His profile is - AgTech | Agri-FoodTech | Synth Bio | Venture Capital | Climate Ag | Regen Ag | Venture & Tech Scout | Deal Flow | Impact Invest | Startup Hatcher & Nurser | Venture Builder Support | Mentor | Advisor | Climate & Regen Ag | SAB Member | R&D | BD | Fund Raise | Innovation Scout | Venture & Ag Ecosystem Developer | Global Networker | Panelist | Moderator | Keynote Speaker | Judge | Grant Reviewer | Journal Peer Reviewer | Talent Builder | Food & Ag Coach |Scaling & Commercialization Partner/Service Provider | Infrastructure/Lab setup | IP/Technology Licensing Help from Partners | Regulatory | scientific conference OCM member | Blog | White Paper | Market Analysis | Technical & Competitive Intelligence.
AgTech/Agri-FoodTech Domain Subject Matter Expertise & Experience
Agrobacterium Biology | Agrobacterium-Plant Interactions | Crop Transformation/GMO | Genome Editing | Cell Biology | Plant Tissue Culture Synthetic Biology | Disease Diagnostics | Phytopathogen/Plant-Microbial Assay Development | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions | Plant Pathology | Plant Disease Resistance | Plant Molecular Biology | Gene Silencing via HIGS/VIGS/SIGS| RNAi | Alt. Proteins | RNA-mediated crop protection| RNA Biopesticides | AgBiologicals | Plant Molecular Farming for Stable and Transient Expression of Value Added Proteins in Plants as Bioreactors
AgTech/Agri-FoodTech StartUp & Venture Capital Experience
Agtech Innovations Scouting | Agtech Business Market Following | Competitive intelligence | AgTech Consulting | AgTech SAB advisor | Venture Investments | Startup Operations | Fund Raise | Venture Builder Support | Social Media Promotion | Agri-foodtech Business Development | Startup Seed Round Fundraising | Impact Investing | AgTech Global Community Helper | StartUp Builder
AgTech/Agri-FoodTech Sector Contributor & Collateral Development
White Paper | Blogs | Editor | Scientific Journal & Grant Reviewer | Judge in Agri-FoodTech Challenge Awards | Science Communications | Mentor | Panelist | Keynote Speaker | OCM Member | Moderator | Scientific & Technical Due-Diligence | Global Networking | Regulatory | Market & Competitive Research | Science Pitch Deck | Licensing IP & Technology | Product Development | Technology | Sourcing & Commercialization