Radicle Growth, an acceleration fund, announced that Claudia Roessler, the Director of Agriculture at Microsoft, has joined its team as its newest Venture Partner.
“Claudia is incredibly knowledgeable about the intersection between digital and ag and she’s great at helping startups think through their strategy. We’ve collaborated with Claudia several times in the past, most recently when she served as a judge for our Nutrien-Radicle Challenge Canada. She helped us to select the agtech innovator with the most promise from our pool of applicants from across Canada,” said Kirk Haney, CEO and Managing Partner, Radicle Growth. “We look forward to working more closely with Claudia and leveraging her extensive experience in technology and specifically digital, cloud and edge, and their applications with agriculture and food to help our companies reach key milestones, and future funding rounds.”
In her more than two decades at Microsoft, Claudia’s roles have spanned business development and strategy, marketing, industry solutions direction for agriculture and chemicals and strategic partnerships around digital innovation and ag tech solutions within the agriculture ecosystem.
“Radicle works with early-stage agtech innovators, which offers an exciting opportunity to provide what is generally their first round of funding in the pre-seed stages, and the expertise and network needed to take a company in its infancy and set them up to have what they need to be a viable business with the capacity to re-shape the future of food,” said Claudia Roessler. “I saw firsthand the impact that Radicle makes on young companies at the Nutrien-Radicle Challenge, and the unique Challenge concept they have pioneered to give young entrepreneurs the level of funding they need to be successful, and I am thrilled to have joined the team to mentor and guide innovators at the phase where they need it most.”
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