Agtech Startup Team Slide Examples: 6 Real Pitch Decks
How farming and food-production startups present their team in a pitch deck: farm and supply-chain experience, technical depth.
Agtech Team Slide: Show Someone Has Worked the Farm and Someone Can Build the Tech
Agtech investors back two kinds of knowledge at once. Someone on the team must understand farming or the food supply chain from the inside: how farmers buy, how produce or livestock moves, why margins are thin and seasons are unforgiving. Someone else must be able to build and run the technology. A team slide that shows only one of the two leaves an obvious question. This guide uses team slides from six farming and food-production companies, from a poultry startup whose CEO ran a poultry farm to a livestock software company whose slide shows names and roles but no backgrounds.
TL;DR
Pair named farm or food-industry experience with named technical experience, and say how many years and where. Chick-in's CEO is listed as "Ex CEO CV Poultry Alkahfi Farm" with "4 years experience in Agroindustry" and partnerships with Japfa, Malindo and Charoen Pokphand, while its CTO "Led online system digitization to 384 villages". Farmpadi's CEO "is a farmer" and its COO "is a trained chemist with a deep knowledge of soil science and agriculture". Firmus lists a chairman with "Over 20 years in the dairy industry". iFarm leads with "Distributed team of 40 professionals in 6 countries". Farm Cloud shows four founders and their roles but no farming background at all.
Six agtech team slides
Strongest first, warning example last. Each example quotes the slide and notes what an investor can and cannot learn from it.
Chick-in team slide — slide 14
Indonesian poultry technology company. Slide titled "The Prudent Team".
Chick-in deck, slide 14. Exact stored slide matched to this analysis.
Our analysis: A CEO who ran a poultry farm paired with a CTO who delivered rural technology.
Evidence and limitation: Company claims; read at low resolution.
What a founder can adapt: Add the farm's size or flock count.
Supporting analysis
What the deck claims: CEO Ashab Alkahfi A. P: "Ex CEO CV Poultry Alkahfi Farm"; "4 years experience in Agroindustry"; "Partner at Japfa, Malindo, Charoen Pokphand"; "Founder AmbisiBisnis.id". CTO Ahmad Syaifulloh: "Project Leader Oxioo Technology & AHAD Creative"; "90 Mobile Apps Project handled"; "Led Online system digitization to 384 villages + 120 Public health center"; "IT Consultant, IoT & AI Specialist". CBDO Tubagus Syailendra W: "Consultant at China Electronic Commerce Association"; "KADIN Indonesia International Trade Service (BSD)"; "Young Leaders for Indonesia wave 12 by McKinsey & Co".
Presentation choice: Covers farm knowledge and technical delivery with checkable specifics.
When it does not fit: Listing partners without saying what the partnership was.
Chinese dairy company (deck filed as Ady). Slide titled "Experienced Management Team".
Firmus deck, slide 17. Exact stored slide matched to this analysis.
Our analysis: Years, employers and one dated result per person.
Evidence and limitation: Company claims; read at full size.
What a founder can adapt: Use the same table with two lines per person.
Supporting analysis
What the deck claims: You Bin Leng, Chairman and CEO: "Over 20 years in the dairy industry and ADI Feihe Chairman for more than seven years"; "Bachelor's degree in food engineering from Northeast Agriculture University". Jonathan H. Chou, CFO: "More than 20 years of finance and banking experience in the U.S. and Asia Pacific"; "Former Asia Pacific CFO of Honeywell International". Guilang Zhang: "Former General Manager of Want-Want China Holdings' Want Zai (Hot Kid) business, led the company to become China's number one dairy drinks company by net profits from 2003-2006".
Presentation choice: Shows a team that has run large dairy businesses.
When it does not fit: Copying the length when your team's histories are short.
Nigerian farm technology company with an IoT sensor. Slide titled "Team".
Farmpadi deck, slide 8. Exact stored slide matched to this analysis.
Our analysis: Farming, soil science, hardware and software all covered.
Evidence and limitation: Company claims; read at full size.
What a founder can adapt: Say what the CEO farms and for how long.
Supporting analysis
What the deck claims: CEO Kene Onyemaeme: "He is a farmer, trained economist, serial entrepreneur and tech enthusiast." CTO Esiri Toneh: "He is an IoT Expert … He plays an integral role in the development of the Farmpadi IoT sensor." COO Igwe Stanley: "He is a trained chemist with a deep knowledge of soil science and agriculture." TA Ighor Jesse: "a full-stack web developer and specializes on design and development using Python, Dart and PHP."
Presentation choice: A farmer CEO earns trust with farmer customers.
When it does not fit: "Is a farmer" with no scale.
Indian agricultural supply-chain platform. Slide titled "The team comprises strong leadership with solid domain experience".
Ayekart deck, slide 2. Exact stored slide matched to this analysis.
Our analysis: Agriculture, rural operations and technology covered by named organizations.
Evidence and limitation: Company claims; read at full size.
What a founder can adapt: Lead with the farmer network and rural clients; cut the adjectives.
Supporting analysis
What the deck claims: CEO Dr. Debarshi Dutta: "Two decades of experience in Fintech and Agtech space"; "Co-founded, 'Safal Fasal – The Complete AgriTech Ecosystem'"; "Mastercard Farmer Network with Govt. of AP"; "Hon. Doctorate in Food & Agri supply chain". COO Ashutosh Singh: "Two decades of experience in Rural India. Handled clients like The World Bank, UNDP, DFID, UNIDO, UNFPA." CTO Milind Borgikar: manager at Vodafone, senior software engineer at IBM, software engineer at Tata Consultancy Services.
Presentation choice: Recognizable names make the experience credible.
When it does not fit: Five dense paragraphs of small text.
iFarm deck, slide 7. Exact stored slide matched to this analysis.
Our analysis: Team size and founder track records, but no named farming expertise.
Evidence and limitation: Company claims; read at low resolution.
What a founder can adapt: Name the person who leads plant science or produce sales.
Supporting analysis
What the deck claims: "Distributed team of 40 professionals in 6 countries". Alex Lyskovsky, President: "founder of Alawar and Welltory". Max Chizhov, CEO: "founder at Virtuality.club and IISCI". Kirill Zelenski, VP of iFarm Europe: "NOKIA, Kaspersky, F-Secure". Konstantin Ulianov, COO: "Experienced construction and production manager".
Presentation choice: Size shows capacity to deliver; the COO fits building farms.
When it does not fit: Team size standing in for agricultural knowledge.
Whether each slide shows farm or food experience, technical delivery, and checkable specifics.
Example
Farm or food experience
Technical delivery
Specifics
Chick-in
Ran a poultry farm
384 villages digitized
Years, partners
Firmus
20+ years in dairy
Not the focus
Years, employers, dated result
Farmpadi
Farmer, soil chemist
IoT sensor
No years
Ayekart
Agri supply chain, rural India
Vodafone, IBM, TCS
Named organizations
iFarm
None named
Founders' tech companies
40 staff, 6 countries
Farm Cloud
None
Roles only
None
Key Takeaways
Show farm or food-industry experience by name.
Show who builds the technology.
Give years and employers, not adjectives.
Roles without backgrounds tell investors little.
Team size helps only with who leads it.
Build your agtech team slide
Answer these before you design the slide.
Farm knowledge. Who on the team has farmed, worked in a food company or sold to farmers? Where and for how long?
Technology. Who builds the product, and what have they delivered before?
Specifics. What years, employers or results can you give for each person?
Gaps. Which skill is missing, and who will cover it?
Copyable framework: [Name], [role]: [years] in [farming or food area] at [employer or farm]. [Name], [role]: built [delivered result] at [employer]. Gap: [skill], covered by [advisor or planned hire].
Illustrative example 1 — written by us
Before: Our passionate team combines deep agricultural knowledge with cutting-edge technology.
After: Ana Ruiz, CEO: 9 years managing a 400-hectare citrus farm. Tom Lee, CTO: built irrigation software used on 1,200 farms at AgroSoft. Gap: food-retail sales, covered by advisor (former produce buyer, 12 years).
What improved: Our illustrative rewrite; names and figures are invented for the example. It names farm experience with scale, technical delivery with a result, and the gap.
What this guide adds
The general team slide guide covers any startup. Agtech differs in one important way: the customer is often a farmer, cooperative or food processor whose buying habits, cash cycles and trust networks are hard to learn from outside. Investors have seen many software teams build tools that farmers did not adopt. So they look for proof that someone on the team has run a farm, worked in a food company or sold into agriculture, alongside proof that the technology can actually be delivered. This guide shows how six companies present those two kinds of experience, and where a slide leaves one of them out.
How we read each slide
We read each stored slide image and quote the text on it. Firmus, Ayekart, Farmpadi and Farm Cloud were read at full size; Chick-in and iFarm were legible at low resolution, and key phrases from each were matched in the extracted slide text. We dropped a seventh candidate, Aphea Bio, because its slide is a mission statement rather than a team slide. We have not verified any person's background, employer or title, and we make no claim that any slide affected a fundraising outcome.
Farm experience by name
Chick-in, an Indonesian poultry technology company, titles its slide "The Prudent Team" and shows three leaders. The CEO, Ashab Alkahfi A. P, is listed as "Ex CEO CV Poultry Alkahfi Farm", with "4 years experience in Agroindustry", "Partner at Japfa, Malindo, Charoen Pokphand" and founder of AmbisiBisnis.id. Japfa, Malindo and Charoen Pokphand are large poultry and feed companies, so the line tells an investor that the CEO has sold to or worked with the buyers that matter. The CTO, Ahmad Syaifulloh, brings "90 Mobile Apps project handled" and "Led online system digitization to 384 villages + 120 public health center". The business development lead lists consulting for the China Electronic Commerce Association and KADIN Indonesia International Trade Service.
This is close to the ideal agtech pairing: one founder who has run the kind of farm the product serves, one who has delivered technology to rural users at scale, and one who handles trade relationships. Each claim is specific enough to check.
Farmpadi, a Nigerian farm technology company, makes the same point more briefly. Its CEO, Kene Onyemaeme, "is a farmer, trained economist, serial entrepreneur and tech enthusiast". The CTO, Esiri Toneh, "is an IoT Expert" who "plays an integral role in the development of the Farmpadi IoT sensor". The COO, Igwe Stanley, "is a trained chemist with a deep knowledge of soil science and agriculture". The technical assistant is "a full-stack web developer" in "Python, Dart and PHP".
Farmpadi covers farming, hardware, soil science and software. What it leaves out is scale: how long the CEO has farmed, what crops, how many hectares. "Is a farmer" is a strong claim for credibility with other farmers, and a figure would make it stronger with investors.
Industry track record with dates and results
Firmus, a Chinese dairy company, uses a management table that most agtech teams could copy. For each of five people it gives a title and two or three ticked lines of experience. The chairman, You Bin Leng, has "Over 20 years in the dairy industry and ADI Feihe Chairman for more than seven years" and a "Bachelor's degree in food engineering from Northeast Agriculture University". The special assistant to the chairman, Guilang Zhang, is a "Former General Manager of Want-Want China Holdings' Want Zai (Hot Kid) business" who "led the company to become China's number one dairy drinks company by net profits from 2003-2006". The CFO is a "Former Asia Pacific CFO of Honeywell International".
The table gives years, employers and, in one case, a result with dates. It reads as a team that has run large dairy businesses before. Firmus is an established company rather than an early startup, so a seed-stage team will have shorter histories; the format still applies.
Domain experience across the supply chain
Ayekart, an Indian agricultural supply-chain platform, titles its slide "The team comprises strong leadership with solid domain experience" and gives five bios. The CEO, Dr. Debarshi Dutta, has "Two decades of experience in Fintech and Agtech space", co-founded "Safal Fasal – The Complete AgriTech Ecosystem", built the "Mastercard Farmer Network with Govt. of AP" and holds an honorary doctorate in "Food & Agri supply chain". The COO, Ashutosh Singh, has "Two decades of experience in Rural India" and "Handled clients like The World Bank, UNDP, DFID, UNIDO, UNFPA". The CTO previously worked at Vodafone, IBM and Tata Consultancy Services.
The slide covers agriculture, rural operations, finance and technology, and names organizations investors recognize. Its weakness is density: five paragraphs of small text, and adjectives such as "tech aficionado", "immense knowledge" and "accomplished goal-oriented thought leader" take space that a single result could fill. The CEO's farmer network and the COO's rural clients are the lines that matter; they deserve to lead.
Team size needs leaders' backgrounds to mean anything
iFarm, which builds vertical farms, leads with a headline figure: "Distributed team of 40 professionals in 6 countries", beside a photo of the whole team. It then names four leaders. The president, Alex Lyskovsky, is "founder of Alawar and Welltory"; the CEO, Max Chizhov, is "founder at Virtuality.club and IISCI"; the VP of iFarm Europe, Kirill Zelenski, lists "NOKIA, Kaspersky, F-Secure"; the COO, Konstantin Ulianov, is an "Experienced construction and production manager".
The size figure shows the company can deliver, and the COO's construction background fits a business that builds physical farms. But none of the four leaders lists experience in growing crops, food retail or agriculture. For a vertical farming company, an investor will ask who on the team knows plant science and who has sold produce to grocers. If that person is among the 40, name them on the slide.
Roles without backgrounds
Farm Cloud, a Portuguese livestock monitoring company, titles its slide "core-team, and prospect organizational chart". It shows four founders, Miguel Matos (business development), Miguel Carvalho (platform engineering), Samuel Silva (connectors engineering) and Pedro S. Sarmento (strategy), each with a LinkedIn address, an email and three focus areas such as "Cash balance / flow", "Technology focus" or "Risk management". Below, an organizational chart lays out future functions: sales, product management, operations, software engineering, tech ops, strategy, marketing and admin. A photo shows the team at a trade stand with a sign about livestock controllers.
The chart shows the founders have thought about how the company will grow, which is useful. But the slide gives no background for any founder: no previous employer, no years in livestock or software, no farm. LinkedIn addresses ask the investor to do the research. For a company selling to livestock farmers, one line per founder on where they worked before would do more than the full chart.
What to put on an agtech team slide
Start with the person who knows farming or food from the inside, and say how: what they farmed, for how long, or which food companies they worked with, as Chick-in and Firmus do. Then show who builds the technology, with a delivered result such as apps shipped or villages digitized. Give each person one or two lines with years and named employers rather than adjectives. If you lead with team size, follow with the backgrounds of the people leading it. If a key skill is missing, such as agronomy or food sales, say who you plan to hire or which advisor covers it. Keep links for the appendix.
Common mistakes
No farm knowledge. Name who knows farming or food from the inside.
No technical lead. Name who builds the product and what they delivered.
Adjectives over facts. Replace them with years and employers.
Roles without backgrounds. Give each founder one line of history.
Size in place of skill. Follow team size with leaders' backgrounds.
Hidden gaps. Say who covers a missing skill.
Diagnostic checklist
Farm or food experience named.
Technical lead named with a result.
Years and employers given.
One or two lines per person.
Gaps and planned hires stated.
Links kept for the appendix.
Frequently asked questions
What should an agtech startup's team slide show?
Someone who knows farming or food from the inside, and someone who can build the technology, with years and employers. Chick-in's CEO ran a poultry farm, and its CTO digitized systems in 384 villages.
Do I need a farmer on the founding team?
Not necessarily, but someone must know how farmers or food buyers work. If no founder does, name the advisor or hire who covers it.
Is a large team size enough?
No. iFarm leads with 40 professionals in 6 countries, but none of its four named leaders lists agricultural experience, which leaves that question open.
Should I include an organizational chart?
Only after each founder's background. Farm Cloud shows a full chart of future roles but no experience for any of its four founders.
How we chose these examples
Corpus: published pitch deck teardowns on StartupFundraising.com. Founder-uploaded private decks are excluded.
Selection (2026-10-01): we searched extracted slide text for team and management slides mentioning farming, agriculture, agronomy or crops, kept seven candidates, viewed them, and dropped one that was a mission slide, leaving six slides from six companies.
Review: stored slide images were read on 2026-10-01 against company, deck and slide number; Firmus, Ayekart, Farmpadi and Farm Cloud at full size, Chick-in and iFarm at low resolution (editorial model review). No person has yet completed an editorial review of this page. We did not verify any person's background or title.
