Hi, we’re Finches.
Finches helps companies that buy agricultural raw materials see what is happening at the source early enough to act.
The drought that started Finches.
In Uruguay I look after 500 pecan trees and a rain gauge. In a dry year you can see the loss coming months ahead, and what you do in those months decides how much of the crop makes it. Almost none of that early knowledge reaches the people who buy the harvest. Closing that gap between knowing and acting is why we started Finches.
- 120interviews on how sourcing decisions are made today, before we built anything
- 2025the year we founded Finches GmbH
- Wörthseenear Munich, where Finches GmbH is registered
We envision a world where volatility no longer threatens our food systems, and where sourcing decisions are adaptive, anticipatory and fair.
Sourcing intelligence for agricultural raw materials.
Early warning at the source
Finches reads what is happening where your crops grow: weather forecasts, satellite imagery, soil data, crop science, local news, trade rules and your own lab results. Your team sees which origin needs attention while there is still time to change the plan.
Connected to what you buy
Finches connects every signal to your suppliers, crops, varieties and specifications, and tells your team where to act and what to do next.
Built with the people who use it
We build Finches with sourcing, quality and agronomy teams at food manufacturers. They help decide what we build next.
Meet the team
We’re a remote-first team.
From leftAlex, Mega, Adnan, Dilara, Helin, Pratik, Catharina, Abdullah, Steffi
Catharina van Delden
Catharina started innosabi at 23 out of TU Munich, built it into the European market leader in innovation management software and sold it in 2021. She also runs her family’s pecan farm in Uruguay.
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Dr. Stefanie Glenn
Steffi leads product and engineering. Most recently she led Google’s Data and AI engineering team in Germany, after heading Data Analytics at BMW. She holds a PhD in genetics from Cambridge and spent her Silicon Valley years at Stanford, a health-tech startup and Palantir, which later brought her back to Germany.
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Alexandra Vázquez Bea
Alex runs finance and operations. She was CFO and COO at Oetker Digital and, as CFO, took the plant-based food company Veganz Group AG through its IPO. She holds an LL.M. in commercial and insolvency law and has extensive experience in corporate banking and in restructuring advisory at FTI Andersch.
LinkedInThe investors behind Finches
These are the investors in our €2 million pre-seed round, announced in October 2026.
High-Tech Gründerfonds
Vanagon Ventures
Bayern Kapital
UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators
Angels from the food industry and tech
“Early bottleneck signals are actually visible months ahead of time; they’re just trapped in disconnected weather data, field reports, lab results, and market data.”
Finches is an official spin-off of the Technical University of Munich.
Contact us
Interested in working together? Tell us what you are working on and we’ll get back to you.
- Book a callPick a time in Catharina’s calendar
- Emailsmile@finches.ai
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