Rob Leclerc
Founding Partner @ AgFunder
San Francisco, United States
Rob Leclerc is a seed investor at AgFunder in San Francisco focused on Robotics and Software. Rob is the cofounder of AgFunder, a venture capital platform investing in agtech and foodtech. Rob is a Forbes contributor and has also been published in TechCrunch, Harvard Business Review, Financial Post, and twice in Nature journals (>400 citations across both publications). Rob has been invited to chair, speak, and keynote at dozens ofglobal conferences on food & agriculture, technology, and fintech. In 2014, Forbes Magazine named Rob to their list of 'Up-And-Comers', and the White House has extended special invitations to White House sponsored events. He's a judge for the National Ag Innovation Prize, the Verizon's $6M IoT Award for 2015, and sits on the advisory committee of the Ag Innovation Showcase, the world's first and longest-running AgTech conference. Rob has been interviewed by Bloomberg TV, CNBC (TV), Wall Street Journal, Forbes, LA Times, Entrepreneur, FastCompany, and Reuters. He has five degrees, spanning Philosophy, Computer Science (AI/Virtual Robotics), and Computational Biology, including a PhD from Yale University.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
Last updated:
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Industries Rob Leclerc invests in
Stages Rob Leclerc invests in
Countries Rob Leclerc invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Robotics 2 (29%)
- Software 2 (29%)
- Agriculture 2 (29%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (29%)
- AgTech 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (57%)
- Series A 2 (29%)
Country
- United States 3 (43%)
- Japan 1 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Lumi AI
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Lumi AI develops software that leverages leading large language models and a proprietary context model to instantly answer operational questions written in plain language, eliminating the need for technical data resources to manually gather, analyze, and manipulate data using coding languages like SQL or Python. | $3.7M / Seed / Mar 25, 2025 | |
Atomo Coffee
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Atomo Coffee is a developer of molecular coffee. Atomo has reverse-engineered the coffee bean to create a smooth cup of coffee, made of naturally derived ingredients, and more sustainable than current commercial coffee. | $41.6M / Series A / Jun 28, 2022 | |
Integriculture
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Integriculture makes cellular agriculture products to improve sustainability, food security, and reduce public health problems. The company offers a developed patented general-purpose large-scale cell culture system that can culture wide range of cells without external addition of expensive growth factors and provide consumers with affordable cleanmeat.Founded in 2015, Integriculture is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. | $7M / Series A / Jan 19, 2022 | |
Bear Flag Robotics
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Bear Flag Robotics is an ag-tech company developing autonomous technology for farm tractors to increase productivity and improve safety.The solution gathers data on field patterns to provide predictive analytics that helps growers better plan each season. It can be controlled and commanded from a central mission control who gets real-timeinformation about everything happening on a tractor that enables farmers to reduce input and increase production yield easily.Co-Founders Igino Cafiero and Aubrey Donnellan founded the company in 2017 in Newark, California. | $7.9M / Seed / Jan 21, 2021 | |
Root AI
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Root AI is a research company aiming to create intelligent robots that will help growers build the farms of the future. The company was founded in 2018 by Josh Lessing and Ryan Knopf and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts, United States. | $7.2M / Seed / Aug 13, 2020 | |
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Atomo Coffee
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Atomo Coffee is a developer of molecular coffee. Atomo has reverse-engineered the coffee bean to create a smooth cup of coffee, made of naturally derived ingredients, and more sustainable than current commercial coffee. | $9M / Seed / Aug 11, 2020 | |
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Integriculture
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Integriculture makes cellular agriculture products to improve sustainability, food security, and reduce public health problems. The company offers a developed patented general-purpose large-scale cell culture system that can culture wide range of cells without external addition of expensive growth factors and provide consumers with affordable cleanmeat.Founded in 2015, Integriculture is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. | $7.4M / Series A / May 25, 2020 |
Co-Investors
About AgFunder
AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world's food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers.
AgFunder Contacts
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Jack Ellis
Media & Research Lead, Asia Pacific
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Manuel Gonzalez
General Partner
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Michael Dean
Founding Partner
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Rob Leclerc
Founding Partner
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Angela Tay
Senior Investment Associate
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FAQ
What does Rob Leclerc invest in?
Rob Leclerc invests primarily in Robotics, Software and Agriculture startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Rob Leclerc last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Rob Leclerc closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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