Francesca D’Cruz

Francesca D’Cruz is Chief of Staff at Fall Line Capital to the co-founding partner.
Francesca joined Fall Line from Arcadia Biosciences, where she was an associate involved in bringing better-for-you foods to market.
Previously, Francesca worked as a consultant for The March Fund, an early-late stage food-tech venture capital focused on transformative technology solutions.
Francesca was a Pathways Agricultural Statistician at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) where she reviewed and contributed to the California Agricultural Statistics Review 2019.
Specifically for fruit and nut crops and grape crush.
In 2019, she co-authored an article published in the American Institute of Chemical Engineering CEP Food Engineering Edition, Challenges and Opportunities in a Legacy Sector.
She received a BS in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems and University Honors Program Honors from the University of California, Davis.