US (NV): Serial entrepreneur Pam Marrone to speak on Indoor Ag-Con panel

It’s no great secret that women entrepreneurs raise less venture capital than their male counterparts. As if we needed further proof, a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study currently doing the rounds found that pitches made by men, and especially attractive men, are far more likely to be selected by investors than those made by women. The anomaly held even when the men were making identical pitches to the women.

A lesser known fact is that few startup founders are at the helm of their company by the time that it lists on a stock exchange. Fewer than 25% of founders occupy CEO positions during IPO, and four out of five founder-CEOs were forced to step down«.

Meanwhile, only around a third of ventures are founded by serial entrepreneurs, according to Wayne Stewart, associate professor of management at Clemson University.

Combined, these statistics make Dr. Pam Marrone, CEO and founder of Davis, CA-based Marrone Bio Innovations, a rarity indeed. Marrone Bio Innovations is her third startup, and she has led it from inception to an IPO in 2013, gathering numerous venture capital and angel investors along the way.

Pam Marrone is a role model not only to all of us in the sustainable agriculture, organics and bio industries, but to women founders everywhere, who are driving their companies toward the public markets.

Indoor Ag-COn is thrilled to welcome her to the ‘Future of Indoor Agriculture Industry’ panel at 9.30am on Wednesday May 14. She is joined by fellow entrepreneurs Chris Higgins, founder of Hort Americas, LLC and owner of UrbanAgProducts.com and BigBadflower.com, and Colin Archipley, founder of Archi’s Acres. The panel will be moderated by Robert Puro, co-founder of sustainable agriculture media and event social venture, Seedstock LLC.

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