Neeraj Berry (@neerajberry), founder & general partner of Tet Ventures, joins Arman Anaturk (@armananaturk) to discuss his journey from scrappy entrepreneurial kid in silicon valley, to founder of Sprig ($60M raised) to joining the world of VC. He also shares more on how to leverage cold emails to get what you want, the ingredients behind successful founders and a peak into his portfolio and what's next in foodtech.

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In a fast changing industry, it's good to know how to get ahead. The Secret Sauce is a business podcast where host, Arman Anaturk, co-founder of FoodHack, speaks with disruptive entrepreneurs and innovators from across the foodtech industry to learn more about the businesses they’ve built and what's next in foodtech.

Hosted by: Arman Anatürk

Edited by: Annabelle Buckland

Discover how Scottish entrepreneur Ross Mackay, Co-Founder and CEO of Daring Foods is working to remove chicken from our food system with great tasting plant-based alternatives - and how he's picked up . 

In the episode

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿The early days growing as a kid in Glasgow

🏃‍♂️ Going from an out of shape teenager to obsessed by health and fitness

🌱Why he switched to plant-based and how it affects his athletics

👕 His earliest venture - a clothing label based in Dubai

❤️ The need for genuine passion for long term success of a startup

💸How to raise funding for your plant-based startup

🛫Why he moved from Glasgow (Scotland) to LA (USA)

📈A look into hyper growth: From 2 to 30+ people

Host Arman Anaturk (@ArmanAnaturk) has Sorosh Tavakoli (@soroshtavakoli) on the pod this week:

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Today's guest at The Secret Sauce is David Benzaquen, consultant and investor for plant-based food companies. David Benzaquen is one of the world’s leading experts in the plant-based food industry, and the founder of Mission: Plant, a holding company which aims to advance the plant-based foods industry with stratetgc investments and consulting services.

Today's guest at The Secret Sauce is Daniel Skavén Ruben, consultant to the Rockefeller Foundation Food team, advisor and investor to multiple startups across Europe, Africa and the US and writer of the food tech weekly newsletter. We chat about Daniel's unplanned path into the foodtech industry, why he's so excited about the future of this space, his prediction on what's going to be big in 2021 and beyond, as well as his ethos to being an advisor and investor. 

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Today's guest at the Secret Sauce is Leif Langenskiöld, founder & CEO of the vitamin water company Focus Water. 

From bio scientist to pioneer investor and entrepreneur: Interview with Ryan Bethencourt, Founder & CEO, Wild Earth. 

Biologist Turned Serial Entrepreneur: Riana Lynn, Founder & CEO, Journey Foods. Riana has launched, grown, scaled and sold several companies in the food tech space, with a decade of experience in the industry - culminating in her current role as Founder & CEO of Journey foods - better feeding the growing 8 billion population

Today's guest at The Secret Sauce is with Fengru Lin, co-founder of Turtle Tree Labs. Turtle Tree Labs are the first company in the world producing real, whole milk from cell cultivation — which opens the door for safer, healthier and customized dairy products that can be produced with far fewer natural resources and without the need for animals.