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Sofía Ramírez Calvo

AgFunder | Investing in Deep Tech | Food, Ag, Planet

United States

Invests in

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

2019

  • Principal

    2025

    Global venture capital firm investing in bold, early-stage founders using deep tech and deep science to transform the world’s most critical industries. Its investment thesis is grounded in the belief that AI, biotechnology, robotics, new materials, and other forms of deep tech no longer operate in silos—they amplify one another’s potential to drive systemic change in food, agriculture, and planetary health. Currently investing out of its fourth fund, AgF focuses on Seed through Series B, writes $1–5M+ checks, and leads, participates, and follows on

  • Venture Partner

    2021 - 2025

  • Adjunct Partner

    2019 - 2021

  • Investment Associate

    2019 - 2019

2022

  • Mentor

    2022

  • Board Member

    2023

    Deeptech company that develops advanced systems to optimize the transportation and shelf life of fresh perishables through real-time atmospheric control. Their core innovation lies in controlling during long-distance shipping.

  • Steering Committee Member

    2020 - 2024

    As an operating member of Green Super Food’s steering committee, I structured, launched and led its distribution and commercialization arm, as well as its tech and digitalization efforts. The company operates in Brazil, Colombia, and Europe. Green Super Food (~600 employees) is a subsidiary of As. Benjamin, a global investment firm with operations across mining, agriculture, real estate, energy, and technology.

2014 - 2018

  • Chief Commercial Officer

    2017 - 2018

    Led the market introduction, sales and growth of Liventus, a leading tech company providing technology to preserve food.

  • Global Business Development

    2014 - 2017

    From initial trials to global commercialization, I spearheaded Liventus growth from US$0 to US$15M in sales in 3 years. This includes Chile, Mexico, Europe, China, USA, South Africa, Kenya, Colombia, Japan, among others. o Consistently doubled sales in Chile. Liventus closed its first Mexican and Peruvian year with a Market Share of 18%+. - In charge of starting and structuring Liventus Mexico. www.liventusglobal.com

2012 - 2014

  • Head of Strategic Development - Chief of Staff

    2012 - 2014

    InnovaChile-Corfo is the Chilean public entity in charge of fostering entrepreneurship and innovation. Strategic planning and implementation coordinator for the most important match-making subsidies to strengthen entrepreneurial networks, know-how and funding opportunities, as well as fostering R&D and innovation capacity in Chile.

  • Co- Founder "A mí sí me importa"

    2011 - 2014

    Social Entrepreneurship. www.amisimeimporta.cl First peer-to-peer crowd-supporting platform in Latin America. It connects the poorest people with others that can successfully address their material or service’s needs. Create it from scratch and was its Director until March 2012. Now, it has operations all over Chile and is part of Desafio Levantemos Chile.

2013 - 2014

  • Founder

    2013 - 2014

    Pop up Crowdfunding platform for social projects. Create it from scratch in collaboration with a multicultural and diverse team. One of our platforms was www.sumateatirua.cl. In 3 weeks, we collected USD$88.000 for the implementation of a torched Mapuche’s rural school (Mapuche is a Latin-American ethnic minority).

2011 - 2012

  • Collaborator

    2011 - 2012

    First crowdfunding platform in Singapore. I collaborated on its implementation and sales strategy. Was selected and supported by Start-Up Chile.