Beatriz Zanforlin

Hi, I'm Beatriz, working on anything technology-related that can improve human-human or human-nature interactions.

Founder of Coral
Lemann Scholar at Harvard
Chief of Staff / Head of Product at Gaivota (Vertical SaaS, acquired 2023)
BS in Marine Engineering, MS in Mechanical and Process Engineering, EdM Learning Design

Interests: human augmentation conversation analytics AI animal behavior evolutionary biology birdwatching farming social psychology

Thoughts

1992: Born in São Paulo, Brazil. Undergrad in Marine Engineering at the University of São Paulo.
2014: Sponsored by the Brazilian government, moved to Germany for a Master's Program on Process Engineering at the TU Darmstadt. Research at the Fraunhofer Institut for Wind Energy.
2016: Moved back to Brazil and joined Endeavor, a global NGO supporting entrepreneurship around the globe. First product experience at Único ID Tech.
2019: Joined the founders of Gaivota, founded in Stanford's Sustainable Systems Lab. Developed a sales enablement solution for the agribusiness industry and created crop identification geospatial AI models with exceptional accuracy and scale. Managed the product and design team.
2020: Co-founded Folio, a joint initiative with Brazil's largest organic egg producer. It later spun-off from Gaivota and is now independent. Folio is researching new ways to transforming large scale grain farming practices into regenerative and organic. Awarded MIT Solve prize for Resilient Ecosystem solutions.
2021: Became Gaivota's Chief of Staff.
2023: Gaivota is acquired by Seedz. By the end of the year, I leave Seedz and became a technology advisor to one of our previous clients.
2024: Moved to the US as a Harvard Lemann Fellow, researching human interaction, development of social skills and behavioral science at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.
2025: Started Coral