Olivier Jerphagnon

Overview

Olivier Jerphagnon is an angel investor and the Chief Executive Officer of AgMonitor, a company that provides farm management software solutions. AgMonitor specializes in enterprise software and agriculture, offering tools like PumpMonitor for water measurement, RanchMonitor for energy cost management, and CropMonitor for irrigation scheduling and field benchmarking. The company has secured a total of $7.8 million in funding across three rounds, with its most recent funding being a $4.5 million Series A round in October 2020. Prior to founding AgMonitor, Jerphagnon was the CEO of Monitoring Division Inc., a company that provided professional services to telecom carriers worldwide using patented data sensing and machine learning technologies. He also served as the CEO at MDI, a spin-out of NICTA, and as Vice President of Europe at Calient. Jerphagnon holds a Master of Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Bachelor of Science from the Grenoble Institute of Technology. Jerphagnon has a background in technology and agriculture, with a focus on applying complex data mining techniques to solve practical infrastructure problems. He has been involved in various projects related to the food-energy-water nexus and has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles. His expertise lies in leveraging machine learning and publicly available data to provide farm management advice, aiming to increase profitability and sustainability for farmers.

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