# Ryan Teksten

> Ryan Teksten is a seed investor at Leaps by Bayer (Boston) backing Internet and Geospatial. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Leaps by Bayer](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leaps-by-bayer)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tekstenr
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/tekstenr
- Website: http://www.tabardvc.com

Ryan Teksten is a seed investor at Leaps by Bayer in Boston focused on Internet and Geospatial. Ryan Teksten is Director, Venture Investments at Leaps by Bayer.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 1 | 100% |
| Geospatial | 1 | 100% |
| Agriculture | 1 | 100% |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 100% |
| Developer Platform | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TellusLabs | TellusLabs combines decades of satellite imagery with a machine learning platform to answer critical, time-sensitive economic and environmental questions. They focus on high-value sectors where they can reduce their customers’ uncertainty with results that are science-quality, global-scale, and daily-repeat. Their technology allows TellusLabs datascientists to go from concept to a customer-ready signal at an unprecedented pace.Kernel, TellusLabs' flagship product, consistently predicted USDA's final 2016 corn and soy yield report ahead of all publicly available in-season forecasts. | $3.1M | Seed | Jan 17, 2017 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Founder Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founder-collective) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hyperplane](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyperplane-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ia-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Project 11 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/project-11-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Leaps by Bayer

VC Fund · Leverkusen, Germany

Leaps is the strategic impact investment unit of Bayer. By accelerating transformative biotechnologies, we aim to shift key paradigms in life science, changing the world for better.In health, we pursue breakthroughs that could set new standards in medical care, moving from treating symptoms to curing or preventing diseases. In agriculture, wedrive innovations that could nourish a growing population while restoring the planet.It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Leverkusen, Nordrhein-Westfalen.

2 contacts available at Leaps by Bayer.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Juergen Eckhardt | SVP and Head | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/juergen-eckhardt |
| Ryan Teksten | Director, Venture Investments | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-teksten |

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## FAQ

### What does Ryan Teksten invest in?

Ryan Teksten invests primarily in Internet, Geospatial and Agriculture startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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