Future Food

The importance of protein in our diets is hardly breaking news.

When you combine the developing world’s desire for more meat, with the over-consumption of meat and protein in the developed world, alongside a growing desire in multiple corners of the world to eat fewer animal-based products, there’s clear pressure on the globe’s protein supply.

Sara Eckhouse & Victor Friedberg from FoodShot Global speak about their hopes for a more precise protein industry.

How does an environmentalist become an aerial imagery data analytics and A.I. entrepreneur? Find out in this episode with Al Eisaian, a serial entrepreneur from the mobile apps and software space.

Al's company IntelinAir uses images captured from airplanes to help farmers identify problem areas in their fields and make decisions that can reduce the burden of their activities on the environment, such as reducing pesticide or fertilizer usage. It can also importantly help the bottom line of those farms.

Covid-19 is the first big crisis for agrifood investing, an investment area that largely emerged in the wake of the global financial crisis. How will investors respond and what does it mean for the future of investment across the sector?

This is part of a new series of webinars AgFunder is hosting to navigate the crisis. This first episode features Dave Friedberg, founder of agech's first unicorn, and Blake Stevens, principal at Alexandria Ventures.

Covid-19 is the first big crisis for agrifood investing, an investment area that largely emerged in the wake of the global financial crisis. How will investors respond and what does it mean for the future of investment across the sector?

This is part of a new series of webinars AgFunder is hosting to navigate the crisis. This first episode features Dave Friedberg, founder of agech's first unicorn, and Blake Stevens, principal at Alexandria Ventures.

Oatly co-founder on scaling alt milk and the need for local food production

Amanda Weeks is converting food waste into a natural house cleaner. With her startup Ambrosia, that recently re-branded from Industrial/Organic, Amanda has been recycling food waste for many years and after an initial focus on making fertilizer, almost accidentally came across the byproduct's cleaning properties.

I catch up with Amanda nearly 5 years after we first met to find out more about the re-brand, the new product line Veles, and the challenges she's faced in building this business.

I sat down with yogurt giant Danone and dairy tech startup Connecterra on Earth Day to discuss how they're sustainability initiatives are progressing and how Covid-19 is impacting their business. Covid-19 is having a devastating impact on the dairy industry after food service demand dried up and you may have seen upsetting videos of large amounts of milk being dumped in the countryside. Hollander and Khokhar offer some fascinating insights there. Enjoy!

Climate scientist, inventor and founder of two sustainable businesses, Adam Lowry is currently CEO of Ripple Foods, a dairy alternative products company.

His first company Method is a sustainable cleaning products brand that's now a household name in the US - I use it! But why get into food now? What mistakes did he make at Method? Why pick pea as the key ingredient for his products?

You can hear Adam speak in-person at the Future Food-Tech Summit next month: https://futurefoodtechsf.com/

In a world of African Swine Fever, increasing scrutiny of the meat industry and consumer demand for transparency, the pork industry needs to modernize. But according to Chris Bomgaars, founder of EveryPig, a software platform for pork producers to track pig health, moving away from the pen + paper records that still dominate, many in the industry are reticent to do so. Find out why -- and what they think of the growing number of meat alternatives on the market -- in this episode.

Why work in the foodtech and agtech investment space? Which category of this emerging venture capital industry are most exciting? These are some of the questions I asked two of my teammates Yanniv and Quinten who joined AgFunder in 2019. Also find out who their favorite team member is - hint - it's me!