Nearly doubling its size since 2019, the Austin-based venture capital firm secures its new funding round with backing from returning limited partners, family offices, entrepreneurs, and athletes.
This week, join FoodNavigator-USA and stakeholders across the supply chain, including Eat Just, The Hartman Group, Oishii, NotCo, Instacart, NIQ, Consumer Brands Association, FMI – The Food Industry Association, Cargill and more for our three-day Futureproofing the Food System digital summit.
The virtual pitch competition on Nov. 1, 2023 is an opportunity for women founders in the plant-based and animal-free industries to gain more visibility and funding.
To feed a global population of 10bn people by 2050 we need to produce more food in the next 40 years than we have in the past 8,000 years, but as illustrated by the Green Revolution simply increasing available calories isn’t the answer – they need to be nutrient-dense and accessible so as not to contribute to diet-related chronic disease and produced in a way that doesn’t further compromise the health of the planet.
Biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks is boosting its mission of making biology more accessible by partnering with Google to build out its AI capabilities, company representatives told FoodNavigator-USA.