Shirly Kalush

General Manager

Agrifood Futures

Tel Aviv, Israel

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We generate startups-corporates relations, pilots, co-developments and commercial collaborations. We have teams in Israel and Singapore.

My organisation

Agrifood Futures

Agrifood Futures

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Tel Aviv, Israel

Agrifood Futures is a Global Agrifood and Water Tech Innovation Hub with + 5 years experience working with startups, investors, corporates, universities, governments, and farming groups, in Israel, Singapore, Australia and Spain, to transform the agrifoodtech and watertech ecosystem via innovation and entrepreneurship.  To date, we accelerated +350 agrifoodtech and watertech startups, supported +40 corporates and farming groups in their open innovation endeavors and tech adoption, leading to corporate-startup collaboration and enabled many investments in startups. We also supported +10 government bodies and research institutions.
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About me

Shirly Kalush is the General Manager of Agrifood Futures. Shirly a multilingual (EN, ES, HE, FR PT), cross-border entrepreneur, investor and consultant (lived in USA, France, UK, Israel, Switzerland, Brazil and Argentina), with over 15 years of experience in C-level positions in startups (from seed to UNICORN to IPO) - leading fundraising, M&A, global expansion, partnerships, sales and product diversification. She is also part of NEOME women angel investment club. In the past she worked at Endeavor global accelerator and at various UN Agencies (WTO, ITC, World Bank and OAS), including with food security organizations.

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Skills

  • Business Development
  • Fundraising
  • Corporate innovation
  • Technology Adoption

Interests

  • Agritech
  • Food tech
  • Water tech

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