Guest Melanie Morrison, Founder & CEO of Canadian startup BetterCart Analytics, joins host Megan Thomas to talk about how her firm is using its AI platform to provide valuable business insights, like retail pricing and supply chain data, to both the underserved Canadian market and emerging brands looking to understand the marketplace.

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Guest Julia Streuli, Co-Founder & CEO of FUL Foods, joins host Megan Thomas to discuss how her firm is using their unique approach to processing spirulina to meet the emerging demand for natural dyes in food, beverage, and even pharmaceutical products. Plus, hear about how Streuli and her team used a consumer product, BLUwater, to both deliver revenue and glean valuable learning about product performance as their startup scales.

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Francisco Martin-Rayo, Co-Founder and CEO of AgTech startup Helios joins host Megan Thomas to discuss how his firm uses AI and large data sets to predict field, country, and global production of agricultural crops. This episode will break down how the team at Helios has built its tech stack, how it delivers meaningful insights, including predicted future pricing, to customers, and the surprising ways it is building buy-in with seasoned buyers and traders.

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EAS Co-founder and performance nutrition pioneer Anthony Almada joins host Megan Thomas to discuss how EAS used clinical studies and consumer outreach to build a successful performance nutrition company before its acquisition by Abbott Nutrition. He also delves into how the field of performance nutrition has evolved, and what he has learned on his 35 year+ journey in the industry. 

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Helaina Founder & CEO Laura Katz joins host Megan Thomas to discuss how her company is managing its evolution from being an R&D organization to a commercial one, as it brings its first human lactoferrin product to the food and supplement markets. Katz delves into how her firm partners with customers and uses clinical rigor to back its products, as well as the important role that culture plays in her scaling startup.

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This episode with guest Patrick Griffin, Founder & CEO of Marine Biologics, goes deep into the intersection between emerging technology and biomanufacturing. The conversation with host Megan Thomas talks about the opportunities and challenges of building a global seaweed-based business.

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Kara Leong, Executive Director of the Integrative Center for Alternative Meat and Protein at UC Davis joins host Megan Thomas to discuss how a college campus is the perfect place to develop and test new novel foods, as well as how UC Davis blends its academic leadership in plant genetics and viticulture with both the region's ag heritage and its proximity to Silicon Valley to create an integrated FoodTech ecosystem.

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Chris Bryson, CEO of Canada-based New School Foods talks about the ups and downs of developing plant-based salmon that chefs want to cook with and consumers want to eat. Bryson talks with host Megan Thomas about how he applies his experience from a prior tech startup to developing food products, building partnerships, and preparing to sell across the border into the U.S.

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Guest Kelly Bristow, Global Nutrition Lead for Bayer, joins host Megan Thomas to talk about the intersection of nutrition, farming, and food security. Bristow shares how her unique background, from sampling nonfat cheese for a dairy council to counseling patients to designing nutritious meal programs for students, informs her work crafting nutrition policy for a major agriculture company. 

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What does it take to connect investors and startups? Guest Hunter Young, Head of Capital at the Center for Entrepreneurial Development, joins host Megan Thomas to discuss how the Research Triangle Park (RTP) region is answering this question. From his view on emerging sectors in the area, to how his organization connects startups and investors, to the role that Raleigh-Durham's major research universities play in driving investible innovation, this episode breaks down how an ecosystem player can effectively attract capital and create value.

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