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The Man Who Turned Corn Fields Into a $1.85 Billion Asset Class
Perry Vieth left a $7 billion bond desk to buy dirt. Eighteen years later, corn and soybean acres he leases to family farmers are worth $1.85 billion - and Wall Street finally wants in.
Rian Mc Donnell
Rian Mc Donnell is the founder and CEO of FloVision Solutions, an AI company putting cameras and sensors on meat-processing lines so beef and poultry plants can see exactly where yield and quality slip away. He grew up around beef processing in rural Ireland, studied mechanical and manufacturing engineering at Trinity College Dublin (with a year at UC Berkeley), and built the company out of a Trinity student project before moving it to the United States via Notre Dame's ESTEEM program and SOSV's IndieBio. Now headquartered in South Bend, Indiana, FloVision has analyzed more than 23 million kilograms of food and raised an $8.7M Series A led by Insight Partners in 2025.