Miguel Jordao
Agrifood Startup Mentor at StartLife
Miguel Jordao
Agrifood Startup Mentor at StartLife
United Kingdom
Overview
Work Experience
Head of Strategy & Finance
2021 - Current
Developing Gardin’s business strategy (business model, GTM, pricing, metrics) and optimising resource allocation (FP&A, fundraising, special projects). Part of the Executive Leadership Team.
Agrifood Startup Mentor
2023
StartLife (www.Start-life.nl) is Europe's longest running and leading agrifood accelerator. Its mission is to accelerate food and agtech startups shaping a sustainable food system. As a startup mentor I support in business strategy, scaling up and funding.
Founder
2022
Newland is a group of 60+ operators investing in pan-European Food & AgTech companies at early stages.
Member of The Supervisory Board
2023
I support APF's management team with strategic planning and execution of a welfare conscious, circular business model. The company IPO'd in the NASDAQ Baltics (Nov 2023).
Visiting Growth Equity Investor
2021 - 2021
During my MBA, I was a visiting investor at LeadX - a firm making growth equity investments in European B2B companies that provide digital solutions to consumer-facing retail businesses.
Team Leader Business Development / Investment Specialist
2016 - 2020
Spearheaded the firm's growth strategy; managed team of 10 FTE's; Led due diligence processes for multiple tier one institutional mandates; AUM grew to all-time high (>$1Bn)
Analyst
2014 - 2016
Multi Asset Sales & Trading covering Pan European Family Offices, Foundations, Asset Managers and UHNWI
Analyst
2013 - 2014
Fund Distribution Strategy and Business Analysis
Education
MBA
2020 - 2022
Bachelor's degree
2007 - 2011
MSc
2011 - 2012