Lunch with Ian Reilly - commercialising a revolutionary idea

Passion, patience and perseverance are qualities required in the fast-paced world of startups, according to Ian Reilly, who has changed livestock farming forever, using agtech.

Australian agriculture is expected to become a $100 billion industry by 2030 but these ambitions cannot be achieved without further agtech investment.

Ian Reilly is passionate about growing agricultural opportunities in Australia, with experience scaling a team from 7 - 70, and believes that investment in hardware, a corporate mindset and partnering with companies like Tenacious Ventures will create the necessary acceleration for agtech startups.

More about Ian: Entrepreneur who launched a disruptive IoT agricultural technology set to revolutionise livestock farming globally.

An experienced professional engineer, company director and consultant with a proven international track record developing and launching award winning biomedical, agricultural consumer and industrial products for global markets.

A leader who empowers teams to achieve extraordinary goals through coaching, collaboration and communication.

This session will be facilitated by Vela Georgiev, 

Vela is an engineer and experienced operations leader, Vela has a strong track record of supporting global businesses to achieve scalable operations. Her portfolio of responsibility has encompassed manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, operations and logistics, quality and risk management. Vela brings extensive experience in agtech, having worked with several agtech companies to scale their operations and manufacturing across a range of hardware and software products.

With a passion for enabling entrepreneurs to scale, Vela Vela is an active member of the Australian startup ecosystem, with a focus leading initiatives to support hardware innovators.

Recently Vela pivot from engineering to venture capital, joining Tenacious Ventures as their COO & Operating Partner

About Tenacious
Tenacious is Australia’s first and only specialist agrifood tech VC firm. It supports early stage startups with tech-enabled new business models that are helping
agriculture transition to a carbon neutral and climate change resilient future.

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