
Stephan Dolezalek
Managing Partner,
GROSVENOR FOOD & AGTECH
Stephan is a highly experienced investor, entrepreneur, board member and counsel across the food & agriculture, clean energy, biotechnology, communications and software sectors. He is currently a Managing Partner of Grosvenor Food & AgTech Limited, a private investment arm of the Grosvenor Estate ' the family office of the Grosvenor family. Grosvenor Food & AgTech invests in and helps to scale businesses in the food and agriculture sectors. It actively manages a portfolio of more than 25 companies with one of the most experienced investment teams in the ag-tech venture investment space. The firm was established in 2012 with the ambition of building a global business of significance to diversify, beyond property and land, the business activities of the Grosvenor Estate. Stephan has been investing in and working actively with venture-backed technology companies for 40 years. He is currently on the Boards of AeroFarms, Benson Hill and Nuritas. He has co-founded three companies, been a board member of numerous venture-backed and publicly traded companies and has personally led more than two dozen private equity investments. He has built a strong investment track record across the software, biotechnology, clean energy and agricultural sectors. He founded and led a $1Bn Clean Energy Investment Fund and has acted as a Managing Director of a series of funds with more than $5Bn in AUM.