# Jayce Hafner

> Jayce Hafner is the co-founder and CEO of FarmRaise, a farm financial software startup that turns the maze of USDA paperwork and cash-flow tracking into something a farmer can finish on a phone in minutes. A cattle farmer's daughter from Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, she spent years in environmental policy - lobbying Congress, organizing UN climate delegations, and working on Apple's sustainability team - before deciding that real change in agriculture would come from tools, not talk. She holds an MS in agriculture and an MBA, both from Stanford, and has grown FarmRaise past 20,000 farmers on a mission to make farming more profitable, resilient, and equitable.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at FarmRaise
- **Organizations:** FarmRaise, Apple (former), SLM Partners (former)
- **From:** Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BA, International Relations and Sustainable Communities, Hendrix College, MS, Agriculture and Land Use, Stanford University (School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences), MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- **Known for:** Co-founded and scaled FarmRaise to more than 20,000 active farmers with a 4.9/5 app rating, Compressed lengthy USDA conservation funding applications into a roughly 15-minute digital process, Raised $7.2M in seed funding for FarmRaise

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Environmental policy advisor in Washington, DC, organizing delegations to UN Climate Change negotiations
- **—** — Led policy coalitions at several UN COP climate negotiations; founded a conservation coalition that mobilized 100,000 citizens to advocate for the Arctic Refuge
- **—** — Fulbright Fellowship in Trinidad and Tobago
- **—** — Agriculture investing with SLM Partners (organic farmland)
- **—** — Worked on Apple's Environment, Policy & Social Initiatives team
- **—** — Earned MS in Agriculture and MBA at Stanford; met co-founder Sami in the agriculture program
- **2020** — Co-founded FarmRaise (March 2020) with Sami and Albert; went through Pear VC
- **2022** — Raised seed funding ($7.2M total funding to date)
- **2024** — Launched FSA Educational Hub hosted by FarmRaise with USDA Farm Service Agency
- **2026** — Announced partnership with Avalo to advance AI-driven cotton innovation

## Achievements

- Co-founded and scaled FarmRaise to more than 20,000 active farmers with a 4.9/5 app rating
- Compressed lengthy USDA conservation funding applications into a roughly 15-minute digital process
- Raised $7.2M in seed funding for FarmRaise
- Partnered with the USDA Farm Service Agency to host an official FSA Educational Hub
- Founded a conservation coalition that mobilized 100,000 citizens for the Arctic Refuge
- Fulbright Fellow

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — FarmRaise announced a partnership with Avalo to advance AI-driven cotton innovation at scale.
- **2024-12** — Launched the FSA Educational Hub hosted by FarmRaise in collaboration with the USDA Farm Service Agency.

## Links

- Website: https://farmraise.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jayce-hafner
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/farm_raise
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FarmRaise/

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Last updated: 2026-07-01