Victoria Tostado
Co-founder & CEO, Agxes
Conversations
She was a farmer first
How seven years farming tomatoes and limes in Querétaro led to an MIT MBA and an AI platform rebuilding agricultural credit, cutting loan decisions from ninety days to near real time for the people who grow our food.
Transcript →In their words
Financial institutions are under-lending to viable producers and overpricing uncertainty. That is the core of the problem.C·016
Corridor Context
Victoria Tostado is the co-founder and CEO of Agxes, the AI lending infrastructure for agriculture, helping lenders reduce risk, increase profitability, and accelerate loan decisions by up to ninety-five percent. A farmer for seven years in San Juan del Río, Querétaro, growing export tomatoes and limes, she later consulted for a development bank, led a long-term economic development plan for her state, and validated Agxes through MIT's delta v accelerator, an MIT MBA, and a Fulbright.
The arc they moved through
A warm, rapid-fire start. Pride, personality, and the one word in each guest's language that English can't touch.
Where they come from, and how it shaped the way they build, invest, and lead. Terroir over resume.
The real work. The honest business, the hard decisions, the bet they're actually making. Host as peer, not fan.
The jam session. Escalating questions, playful to profound, and one answer the guest can save "pa' la sobremesa."
The same closing question, every guest, forever: who held the door open for you, and whose name goes on the door you're holding open?