Ida Posner, Founder & Managing Partner of Hawthorne Food Ventures and Strategic Advisor to the Posner Foundation, joins us to explore how venture capital and philanthropy can work in tandem to solve one of the food system’s biggest challenges: food waste.

She shares Hawthorne’s investment thesis and the foundation’s strategy, showing how different forms of capital can unlock scalable solutions across the food loss and waste spectrum.

From farm-level tech to consumer innovations, Ida highlights where progress is accelerating—and why food waste reduction is a powerful lever for climate, health, and economic impact.