Best Louisa Burwood Taylor Podcasts (2024)

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Investing in agrifoodtech since 2017: Astanor's Eric Archambeau reflects 23:54

8M ago23:54

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From the heady days of the dot com boom -- and subsequent bust -- Eric Archambeau cofounded Astanor Ventures with George Coelho in 2017 as an impact venture capital fund for food and agriculture. "We founded it with a vision that the agrifood market was going to go through a deep disruption that was needed to move from a system that was delivering …

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What is the Future of Plant-Based Alternatives in a New Food Order? 1:22:04

1y ago1:22:04

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Plant-based meat and dairy alternatives may have exploded onto the food scene in recent years but the hype is catching up, consumer sales have been lackluster and investors are turning away. Questions have emerged about whether plant-based alternatives are the climate solution they claim to be, or an ethical choice throughout their supply chains. A…

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Moving Beyond Carbon Neutrality in Food & Ag 1:33:56

1+ y ago1:33:56

1:33:56

Hardly a month has gone by in the past two years without a large food or agriculture corporate announcing a pledge to go carbon neutral by some future date. Given the food and agriculture industries contribute over a third of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, these commitments are certainly welcome. But as we increasingly learn about the indust…

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How Might We Better Support Farmers in their Transition to Regenerative Agriculture? 1:28:41

1+ y ago1:28:41

1:28:41

There’s enormous potential for agriculture to help reverse climate change through its potential to sequester carbon from the atmosphere. But are we asking farmers too much? Already laden with debt and the pressure to produce more with less, how might we support already cash-strapped and stressed farmers in their transition to regenerative agricultu…

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Defining and Scaling Regenerative Agriculture 1:27:16

1+ y ago1:27:16

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Regenerative agriculture has become a buzzword in the food world, but there is actually no formal definition of it. Broadly it means a set of practices that aim to improve land while cultivating crops and livestock, instead of depleting it like industrial practices often do. But it means so much more than that to many and is wider-ranging than its …

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What is the Role of Biotech in an Ethical Food System? 1:37:02

1+ y ago1:37:02

1:37:02

New frontiers in biotechnology and fermentation are being deployed to reduce the environmental impact of our animal-based food system. But do developments in cellular agriculture, fermentation, and biotech foods – for the creation of meat and dairy analogues – take ethics into account? In this week’s episode, we speak with four leading thinkers in …

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Revitalizing Pre-Colonial Indigenous Food Systems with Chef Sean Sherman 45:02

1+ y ago45:02

45:02

Do we need to design a US food system without European influences? What can we learn from indigenous peoples to ensure food sovereignty and reverse our climate crisis? This week, we discuss this and more with Oglala Lakota Sioux chef, entrepreneur, author, and speaker Sean Sherman. Sean is the founder of "The Sioux Chef," a catering company and foo…

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Regenerative Product Design with Ethan Soloviev 52:39

1+ y ago52:39

52:39

Regenerative has become a buzzword, with companies big and small making commitments to launch regenerative products. But what does regenerative product design actually look like? And how do we measure the impacts of product design and ingredient choices on people and our planet? This week, we discuss this and more with Ethan Soloviev, farmer and ch…

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Designing Better Plant-Based and Alternative Proteins with Sonalie Figueiras 50:03

1+ y ago50:03

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How might we design plant-based, cultivated meat, and precision fermented alternative proteins in the most people and planet friendly ways? In our second design episode, we speak with Sonalie Figueiras, a Hong Kong-based social entrepreneur and founder and the Editor in Chief of Green Queen, a sustainability and impact media platform that educates …

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Debating Infinite Growth on a Finite Planet with John Fullerton & Manuel Gonzalez 57:46

1+ y ago57:46

57:46

Is exponential growth possible on a finite planet? How might we balance growth and profit with maximum social and ecological benefit? This is a huge topic that we’re just beginning to scratch the surface of. In today’s bonus finance episode, we share two differing viewpoints on growth from regenerative economics pioneer John Fullerton and venture c…

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Investigating Alternative Business Models in Food & Ag 1:25:28

1+ y ago1:25:28

1:25:28

The food and agriculture industries are major contributors to today’s social and environmental crises. Companies across all industries are being forced to rethink the way they do business, and food and agriculture are no exception. Businesses big and small want to do better and become more resilient, but how? In this episode, we take you on a journ…

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Finding New Ways to Finance Planet and People Friendly Food & Ag 1:12:42

1+ y ago1:12:42

1:12:42

How do we re-design financial instruments to have maximum positive impact for people and our planet? Whether it’s a large multi-national and publicly listed corporation, startup or small business, or a family farmer, every business needs financing at one point or another. But the range of financing tools on the market today were not designed with t…

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New Year: New Food Order. 7:44

1+ y ago7:44

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Happy New Year from New Food Order! We are so grateful for this community and each and everyone of you who are joining us on this journey. Here at New Food Order, we are starting the year by reflecting on the season so far and sharing some of the exciting things we’ve got in store for 2023! Be sure to tune in next week for the first of our “deep-di…

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A Musical Gift from New Food Order, with Rodrigo Barberá 9:03

1+ y ago9:03

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Happy Holidays from New Food Order! This week we’re bringing you a holiday gift. So many of you have told us that you love our beautiful podcast theme music, so as a special treat we’re sharing the theme song in full with an added bonus interview with our composer, Rodrigo Barberá. Rodrigo is a Mexico City-based pianist, musician, and composer, who…

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Should Food Delivery be a Public Utility? with Errol Schweizer 29:26

1+ y ago29:26

29:26

This week we have a mini episode featuring snippets from a recent conversation we had with Errol Schweizer, former VP of Grocery at Whole Foods, where we asked him what he sees as the top challenges with the business of food and agriculture. Errol shared many challenges with us, but we are sharing the parts of the conversation we had about short te…

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Designing a Climate-Friendly Food Company, with Julia Collins 47:02

1+ y ago47:02

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What would it look like if we completely re-designed the food system, product by product? In this week’s episode, we speak with Julia Collins, Founder and CEO of Planet FWD, a carbon management platform for consumer companies to bring climate-friendly products to market. Through her work with Planet FWD and more than a decade of experience leading …

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De-Commodifying Carbon and our Industrial Food Systems, with Tom Goldtooth 43:31

1+ y ago43:31

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Carbon markets are emerging as a leading tool for tackling our climate crisis, but are they actually getting to the root of the crisis? In this episode, we speak with Tom Goldtooth (Dine’ and Dakota), executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, an organization of Indigenous Peoples building economically sustainable, environmentally …

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We're at the Beginning of a Food Revolution, with Sam Kass 44:51

1+ y ago44:51

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“We're in the beginnings of a total revolution, and I'm excited about it.” This week’s guest is reflecting on the transformation occurring across the food and agriculture industries. Not since the Green Revolution has the industry seen such change. It hasn’t happened overnight. Over the past decade, entrepreneurs, corporates, activists, investors, …

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Looking to our Indigenous Past for a Regenerative Future, with Nathalie Kelley 1:01:36

1+ y ago1:01:36

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From food and agriculture to fashion and economics, 'regenerative’ has become a buzzword over the last few years. But regeneration is not a new concept at all. It is a paradigm and set of agricultural practices that indigenous peoples have practiced for millenia. This week, Danielle and Louisa speak about looking to our indigenous past for a regene…

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Is the World Better Off with Your Business in it? with Paul Polman 36:36

1+ y ago36:36

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What does it actually mean to build a people and planet-friendly company? In this episode, Danielle and Louisa speak to Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever from 2009 to 2019 and Co-Author of “Net Positive: how courageous companies thrive by giving more than they take.” Paul Polman works to accelerate action by business to achieve the UN Global Goal…

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Introducing: New Food Order 16:17

1+ y ago16:17

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Our current global food system contributes to one-third of greenhouse gas emissions each year. It is a system that has profited hugely at the expense of people and our planet. As the need to tackle our climate crisis becomes ever more urgent, is it time to ask ourselves whether we need a New World Order for food; a ‘New Food Order’? In this brand-n…

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Trailer: New Food Order 3:21

1+ y ago3:21

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Welcome to New Food Order! New Food Order is a podcast investigating the business of tackling our climate and social crises through food and agriculture. Through nuanced conversation and debate, we’re embarking on a learning and unlearning journey to unearth how we might design business and finance to have maximum positive impact for people and our…

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From What’s Your Problem?: The Quest for the Perfect Avocado 25:09

2y ago25:09

25:09

In this preview, Jacob talks with Katherine Sizov, founder of Strella Biotechnology. Her problem: Tons of food is wasted before it ever gets to the consumer. Katherine started working on this problem in 2018, when she was a junior in college. Her idea: imitate the natural world and build a device that detects when fruit is ripening. It worked. Now …

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Soylent's CEO on shift towards middle America and the future of plant-based 35:37

2+ y ago35:37

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A somewhat controversial category, during my hot or not rounds on this podcast, most guests have responded negatively to the concept of replacing meals with a drink - and perhaps Soylent took this on board as in more recent years it's started calling itself a nutrition company with a small but growing number of product lines not just focused on mea…

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How 'cool' fertilizers can sequester carbon and more, with Amy Yoder 30:17

2+ y ago30:17

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Amy Yoder is CEO of Anuvia Plant Nutrients, a company that's converting waste to help crops uptake fertilizers more efficiently, and even help them to sequester carbon in the soil. She is a trailblazer being one of the best-funded women in agtech on record, raising $103 million in Series D earlier this year. For those of you who aren't knowledgeabl…

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Diving deep with Sandhya Sriram on the future of cell-cultured seafood 40:05

3y ago40:05

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Since Sriram co-founded Shiok Meats three years ago, the startup has gone from strength to strength. According to AgFunder's most recent ASEAN Agrifoodtech Investment Report, it was Southeast Asia’s highest-funded startup in the ‘Innovative Food’ category in 2019. It raised $4.6 million for its April 2019 seed round, which saw Y Combinator make its…

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Future Food News Review #5: Food system cyber-attacks, Avoiding alt protein’s unintended consequences, Cashierless checkout's growth 1:20:34

3y ago1:20:34

1:20:34

The Future Food News Review is part of a collaboration between AgFunder and Food+Tech Connect to host meaningful conversations about the future of our food system on Clubhouse and other platforms. The Future Food News Review features leading journalists in foodtech and agtech sharing and discussing their top headlines of the week, hosted on Clubhou…

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Future Food News Review #4: Regenerative agriculture's reckoning, Questions for cell-cultured meat, Right-wing coffee, more 1:35:42

3y ago1:35:42

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The Future Food News Review is part of a collaboration between AgFunder and Food+Tech Connect to host meaningful conversations about the future of our food system on Clubhouse and other platforms. The Future Food News Review features leading journalists in foodtech and agtech sharing and discussing their top headlines of the week, hosted on Clubhou…

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Up, up and away! Irving Fain on building Bowery's biggest vertical farm yet 36:50

3y ago36:50

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Bowery has just launched FarmX, its new vertical farm for R&D that's 300 times larger than the first. It's also building a new, bigger than ever commercial farm in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania which will enable it to sell over 20 million clamshells of leafy greens and produce each year. While that's still the equivalent of just 115 acres of outdoor farm…

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From chemicals to soil microbes: Bayer's former CEO joins AgBiome 48:14

3y ago48:14

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Crop protection is a serious business; each year a farmer battles a range of different pests, weeds and diseases trying to kill their harvest. It's complicated too, with timing and weather other forces to contend with. Since the Second World War and the Green Revolution of the 1960s, the playbook for managing pests, by and large, has revolved aroun…

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How do you make the world's most ambitious cheese? 36:09

3y ago36:09

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The Stockeld Chunk will be the first in a series of cheese products from Stockeld Dreamery this year and I really enjoyed it! Listen in to hear my thoughts about the cheese, why Sorosh Tavakoli, an advertising tech entrepreneur got into foodtech, how to build the most ambitious cheese company in the world (his phrase, not mine), without cows, movin…

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Future Food News Review #3: Amazon's new private label food brand, Unabated meat consumption, SPACs for foodtech 1:31:31

3y ago1:31:31

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The Future Food News Review is part of a collaboration between AgFunder and Food+Tech Connect to host meaningful conversations about the future of our food system on Clubhouse and other platforms. The journalists joining this week are: Ximena Bustillo - POLITICO (https://www.politico.com/newsletters/weekly-agriculture) Sam Silverstein - Grocery Div…

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Future Food News Review #2: Impossible's $10bn IPO, Vegan Cheese, CRISPR Tomatoes 1:15:31

3y ago1:15:31

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The journalists joining us this week were: Joe Fassler - The Counter (https://thecounter.org/agrivoltaics-farmland-solar-panels-clean-energy-crops/) Sarah Mock - freelance (https://sarah-k-mock.medium.com/no-your-great-grandfather-did-not-know-how-to-fix-our-food-system-83775d4f1852) Larissa Zimberoff - Bloomberg and freelance (https://technicallyf…

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Reaching net-zero emissions by 2040 with PepsiCo 30:35

3y ago30:35

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PepsiCo started the year with a bang by pledging to more than double its climate goal, targeting a reduction of absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its value chain by more than 40% by 2030. It also pledged to achieve net-zero emissions by 2040, one decade earlier than called for in the Paris Agreement. But how exactly is the company goin…

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The Future Food News Review with Food Tech's Leading Journalists 1:52:30

3+ y ago1:52:30

1:52:30

We're mixing things up here at Future Food and have partnered with Danielle Gould from Food+Tech Connect to host deep discussions about the future of our food system and we're going to be bringing those conversations to the Future Food podcast. Expect fireside chats, book clubs, and the format for this episode, the Future Food News Review. The week…

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JUST how this startup became the first to serve cell-cultured meat in a restaurant 35:07

3+ y ago35:07

35:07

Topics covered include: how EAT JUST managed to get regulatory approval ahead of other cultivated meat startups from plant-based to cell culturing how investors reached a $1bn valuation for the company new formats in the pipeline advice for entrepreneurs Josh's moonshot ideaBy josh tetrick

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Is this the fastest-growing vertical farming business in the world? 28:07

3+ y ago28:07

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When I returned from maternity leave in January, I reached out to my good friend Henry Gordon-Smith from Agritecture to find out what I'd missed and what sort of traction the highly funded startups were really getting. When thinking about which company was making the greatest strides, Henry highlighted Infarm, the Berlin-based vertical farming grou…

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How can robotics startups respond to the urgent need for automation in the food industry? 48:02

4y ago48:02

48:02

Labor shortages are nothing new to the agriculture industry and COVID-19 has excerbated this already existing problem. Is it sustainable and efficient to import labor from other countries like the US and the UK do? The time for automation in the food and agriculture industry is now. But are the robots ready to be unleashed? Our recent webinar with …

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Foodtech & sustainability in Asia amid food security challenges 50:49

4y ago50:49

50:49

Covid-19 started in Asia, and the region was the first to feel the social and economic impacts of the disease as it spread worldwide. It’s also where businesses, entrepreneurs, investors, and governments have spent the most time dealing with Covid-19 and its effects. Their insights and experience – and the strategies they’ve adopted to ride out the…

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From software to regenerative agriculture, SoilWorks believes the key to better health is in the ground 38:04

4y ago38:04

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In this episode of Future Food, which I co-hosted with my wonderful colleague Lauren Stine, our reporter and resident rancher, we talk to Lew Moorman and Nick Honegger of Soilworks, a newly-created investment group focused on regenerative agriculture. Nick and Lew founded SoilWorks after working together at Scaleworks, the B2B SaaS focused investme…

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Digging into the future and sustainability of protein in our diets 43:43

4y ago43:43

43:43

The importance of protein in our diets is hardly breaking news; demand for high-protein diets is increasing globally. When you combine the developing world’s desire to replace staple grains — that have dominated their diets for centuries — with increasing amounts of animal-based protein, with the over-consumption of meat and protein in the develope…

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How the digitalization of agriculture will increase food's sustainability 32:43

4y ago32:43

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How does an environmentalist become an aerial imagery data analytics and AI 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 b…

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The future of agrifood investing in the wake of Covid-19 46:40

4y ago46:40

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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…

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Oatly co-founder on scaling alt milk and the need for local food production 43:28

4y ago43:28

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In this episode, I speak to Bjorn Oste, who cofounded Oatly, the dairy alternative company that recently saw its flagship oat milk product fly off the shelves during the first weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic due to its shelf-stable nature. Bjorn is such fun and candid and tells a great story of the founding of Oatly with his brother and the fantasti…

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How to clean your house with food waste 28:45

4y ago28:45

28:45

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 yea…

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Digging into dairy sustainability with Danone & Connecterra 34:12

4y ago34:12

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You’re forgiven if you missed Earth Day last week. I’m sure sustainability and climate change are far from many people’s minds right now as you grapple with a new normal that might involve sick loved ones, loss of a job, or serious challenges in your day-to-day life. Of course, our planet continues to face the same environmental challenges it did b…

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Milk from peas? Method co-founder Adam Lowry on making protein and learning from mistakes 24:42

4+ y ago24:42

24:42

Climate scientist, inventor and founder of two sustainable businesses, Adam Lowry is currently CEO of Ripple Foods, a dairy-free milk products company. His first company was Method, the sustainable cleaning products brand that's now a household name. We talk about the contrast between launching a cleaning products business and a food business, why …

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Pork Tech, ASF, Transparency: how are your sausages grown? 28:33

4+ y ago28:33

28:33

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 a…

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Why foodtech and agtech VC? I ask AgFunder's investment team 18:45

4+ y ago18:45

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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!…

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2020 Special: AgFunder's Rob Leclerc on the last decade in ag and foodtech 30:39

4+ y ago30:39

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This episode is perhaps a tad awkward as I interview my boss Rob Leclerc, founding partner of AgFunder, but Rob was as insightful as ever, sharing his thoughts on working in and around the agriculture sector for the past decade. Rob first started working with our other founding partner Michael Dean when they set up an agriculture business in West A…

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