MJ

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

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