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Katrin Burt

Managing Partner, Grosvenor Food & AgTech

United Kingdom

Overview 

Katrin Burt is the Managing Partner at Grosvenor Food & AgTech, with a background in strategic partnerships, corporate development, and private equity. Highlights of her career include serving as the Managing Director at Syngenta Ventures and holding board positions at Gousto, Meati, and TemperPack.

Work Experience 

  • Board Member

    2023 - Current

  • Managing Partner

    2019

  • Board Member

    2022

  • Board Member

    2020

  • Board Member

    2020 - 2022

  • Advisory Board Member

    2017 - 2019

    Precision Hawk is a drone and data company offering aerial data collection and data processing services to commercial clients in the agriculture, energy, insurance and construction industries. The company's technology platform spans drone hardware, software, sensors, analytics, tracking and services.

  • Board Director

    2015 - 2019

    AgWorld provides a farm management software platform that allows agronomists and their growers to track on-farm activities and manage their relationships and data digitally.

  • Managing Director, Syngenta Ventures

    2015 - 2019

    As the venture capital arm of Syngenta, one of the world's leading agribusiness companies, Syngenta Ventures seeks to identify early stage companies with a strong technology base or new business model. Our team of investment professionals, together with the support of our 27,000 colleagues across the world, can help build valuable businesses benefitting both Syngenta and the investee company stakeholders.

  • Managing Director, Syngenta Ventures

    2014 - 2015

    As the venture capital arm of Syngenta, one of the world's leading agribusiness companies, Syngenta Ventures seeks to identify early stage companies with a strong technology base or new business model. Our team of investment professionals, together with the support of our 27,000 colleagues across the world, can help build valuable businesses benefitting both Syngenta and the investee company stakeholders.

Agricultural biotech research institution for Syngenta

  • Investor

    2014 - 2019

    Planet operates the world's largest constellation of earth-imaging satellites, providing medium and high resolution imaging of the entire planet.

Planet is an aerospace and data analytics company that builds small satellites and delivers information about the changing planet.

Raised $573,898,658.00 from Google, Koch Strategic Platforms, BlackRock and Time Ventures.

  • Board Observer

    2014 - 2019

    AgBiome has a plant microbiome discovery platform for the research and development of new agricultural traits and biological products.

AgBiome - The GENESIS Platform Business is a provider of microbial collection to develop sustainably sourced ingredients.

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