What I've been up to recently...

2021-2022 - Fermata - (AI powered automated Pest & Disease detection for controlled environment crops) invited me to lead the transformation their company needed, prior to a Seed Extension Funding round.  I was invited to join the company by its founding CEO, initially to prepare the company for future venture capital as Chief Revenue Officer by reorganizing the company strategy, team and technology. Within four months I was asked to act as interim CEO, and successfully negotiated Two Million Euro’s in Venture Capital, while hitting all milestones related to reorganizing the company.

2019-2021: Priva (the Dutch leader in Energy & Water Management/Control Systems for 7000+ greenhouses worldwide) asked me to join them in leading the Digital Transformation they required.  A 60 year old hardware company, with 800+ employees had to change in a big way...
You can read how things went here: Ref Letter
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2016-2019 - Motorleaf - Founder/CEO

TEDx - Montreal HEC 2017

The story of my first start up - Motorleaf
(now CarbonBook).

Going from an idea, to millions of dollars in funding.

In the time since this talk was recorded: 
       
> Early investors saw a 300+ % increase in their investment 

​>Motorleaf raised another 3 million in funding

> doubled its team
 
> pivoted away form hardware 

> become the worlds leading provider of AI powered yield prediction solutions for controlled environment agriculture (greenhouses) - and then broke into the Carbon Scoring vertical. 
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> has clients worldwide.

Accolades:

  • ​One of 6 companies selected (from 400 applicant companies) for FounderFuel Accelerator program, providing pre-seed funding - ran by RealVentures - Montreal.
  • Winner Best Pitch - StartUpFest
  • Winner IBM SmartCamp Montreal (semi finalist in global competition)
  • Top 20 StartUp - Fruit Logistica
  • Top 20 StartUp - FoodBytes - by RaboBank
  • Speaker TEDx ‘Zero to One’
  • C2 - up and coming entrepreneur - North America​
  • Speaker - Indoor AgCon - Vegas
  • Speaker - AgriTech Summit - Tokyo
  • Selected by AgFunder as a featured Investment Opportunity
Julien Smith, Co-Founder + CEO of Breather

“While working with Alastair, I grew to appreciate his understanding of how both media and the sales process is evolving in our changing business world.

He sees new ways to communicate with existing customers and takes steps to develop relationships with them." 

Note: Breather has raised over 200MM and is valued at over a Billion Dollars.