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Shubhang Shankar

Managing Director at Syngenta Group Ventures

Basel, Basel

Overview 

Shubhang Shankar is the Managing Director at Syngenta Group Ventures and a Kauffman Fellow, with a background in management consulting and business transformation. His career highlights include leading investments in companies like Greeneye Technology and Jai Kisan, focusing on sectors such as Robotics and AgTech. Shubhang's current role involves overseeing investments at Syngenta Group Ventures and leveraging his expertise in strategy and market entry to drive growth strategies for innovative companies in the AgTech sector.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Director, Syngenta Group Ventures

    2019 - Current

  • Fellow

    2021

    https://www.kauffmanfellows.org/fellowsdirectory?fellow=recqLd5kFCwXF6sYz

Co-investment VC firm supporting the mission of the Kauffman Fellows

  • Investor

    2021

  • Board Observer

    2020

    Tarfin is an Agri-Fintech startup that provides farmers real time, point of sale credit financing for the purchase of Agricultural inputs. The company currently has operations in Turkey, Europe's largest inputs market and is looking to expand in the region

  • Board Observer

    2019

    Syngenta Ventures representative on the Board of Greeneye Technologies, an Israel based startup applying AI / ML based image recognition technology to allow precision spraying of chemicals at scale

  • Investor

    2020

Eavision offers develops and manufactures autonomous industrial drones and machines.

  • Board Observer

    2018

  • Board Observer

    2018 - 2022

  • Advisory Board Member

    2019 - 2020

    Syngenta Ventures representative on Advisory board of Precision Hawk

  • Investor

    2019 - 2020

    Syngenta Ventures representative

Planet is an aerospace and data analytics company that builds small satellites and delivers information about the changing planet.

Raised $573,898,658.00 from Google, Koch Strategic Platforms, BlackRock and Time Ventures.

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