145: Founding the World’s First Autonomous and Electric Tractor Company with Bakur Kvezereli, CEO of Ztractor

November 10, 2020 Tyler Nuss AgTech, Entrepreneurship Comments Off on 145: Founding the World’s First Autonomous and Electric Tractor Company with Bakur Kvezereli, CEO of Ztractor
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Bakur Kvezereli is the founder and CEO of Ztractor, a startup that develops Autonomous Electric Tractors (AETs) to increase farming efficiency, productivity, safety on the field while reducing production cost and environmental footprint. Ztractor has 3 models under development BearCub 24, Mars 45, and Superpolit 125. The first model BeraCub 24 is available for online pre-orders.

Prior to entrepreneurship Bakur was Senior Investment Officer at $1.5 Billion Sovereign Wealth Fund, focusing on investments in Ag Tech. Between 2008-2011 he was the delegate to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).  Bakur joins us to talk about what led him to start Ztractor, the challenges of growth, the timing of the industry, and where they are going from here. Tune in!

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