Pauline Canteneur

Pauline Canteneur earned a master’s degree in business management from EDHEC Business School in France before accepting a position at the French Embassy in Berlin for the Department of Agriculture. Pauline completed her major in entrepreneurship at FGV EBAPE in Rio de Janeiro. She was born to third-generation farmers in the North-Eastern part of France. For three years, Pauline worked as a strategy analyst for the innovation arm of BNP Paribas, L’Atelier. Spending time between the firms’ Paris and San Francisco offices, Pauline specialized in scouting innovative trends in the AgTech and FoodTech sectors. In 2016, she co-authored a report on Data Driven Agriculture which referenced all U.S. companies leveraging the power of data to optimize farming operations. Currently, Pauline works as a business strategy analyst for FarmWise, a startup whose mission is to bring autonomous sustainable farming at scale. Pauline’s focus at FarmWise is to aid in the firm’s organic and sustainable growth by opening new markets, which include new crops and geographical locations and also to serve as a liaison between the private agricultural sector and research communities.