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Manuel Gonzalez

General Partner at AgFunder

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Manuel Gonzalez is a General Partner at AgFunder in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a background in banking, corporate finance, and investment strategies. Notable highlights include founding the Global RIFF (Revolution in Food Fund) and leading the startup innovation initiatives at Rabobank, along with investing in companies like KEY Energy Drink From Ketones and Atinary. His career achievements include founding and managing successful funds, leading startup innovation programs, and making strategic investments in promising companies, showcasing a strong expertise in finance, banking, and agribusiness sectors.

Work Experience 

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AgFunder

  • General Partner

    2020 - Current

  • Advisory Board Member

    2017

AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world's food system.

Raised $2,250,000.00 from PULSAR.

agfunder.com
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Global RIFF (Revolution in Food Fund)

  • Founder & Managing Partner of Global RIFF (Revolution in Food Fund)

    2018

    An integrated platform that discovers, selects, invests and develops founders leading the revolution in food and fuels the growth of their ideas. We’re looking for: Investors, food innovators with big ideas, and companies small and large to join us on our mission. If you'd like to connect to learn more, please reach out.

RIFF Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in entrepreneurs who are changing the face of food.

riffventures.com
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ReGrained

  • Advisory Board Member

    2018

ReGrained is a producer of snacks intended to upcycle crunchy puffs from nutritious food.

Raised $3,244,256.00 from Connor Doherty.

regrained.com
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Sugarlogix

  • Advisory Board Member

    2018

NAMUH is an infant nutrition company.

Raised $225,000.00 from National Science Foundation.

wearenamuh.com
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FoodBytes! by Rabobank

  • Global Head of B4F Start-up Innovation

    2015 - 2018

    Founder of FoodBytes! Started in 2015 in San Francisco and expanded globally by 2018. Founder of TERRA, the F&A accelerator that redefined the idea of pilots at scale. Uniting the most innovative corporations in the F&A space with the entrepreneurs who want to feed the world sustainably.

FoodBytes! by Rabobank is a next-generation pitch competition that brings together game-changing startups, investors and industry leaders.

foodbytesworld.com
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Rabobank

  • Global Head B4F Start-up Innovation

    2017 - 2018

    Created the Food & Agriculture (“F&A”) Startup Innovation Group and the new global platform and impactful brands (FoodBytes! and TERRA) that brought the F&A innovation ecosystem to Rabobank.

  • Nort America Head Start-up Innovation

    2016 - 2017

  • Managing Director, Head Corporate Clients West Coast Region / Founder FoodBytes!

    2012 - 2016

BANCO FINTERRA

  • Executive Board Member

    2007 - 2013

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Rabobank

  • Country Head, Mexico

    2008 - 2012

  • Head of Risk and Legal, Mexico

    2003 - 2008

  • VP Corporate Finance

    2000 - 2003

  • Senior Project Manager, Agri-Project Finance

    1996 - 2000

Gonzalez Guzman Alimentos S.A de C.V.

  • Founder and CEO

    1987 - 1995

Electrodiversiones de Jalisco S.A. (Video game machines), México

  • Co-Founder and Head of Business Development

    1988 - 1994

Education 

Investments 

KEY Energy Drink From Ketones

Seed

Total funding: $4M

Atinary

Seed

Total funding: $5M

Bite Ninja

Pre Seed

Total funding: $4.7M

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