Waste in the food system is an incredibly big challenge. The good news is, there are plenty of startups, and many investors, that are tackling these thorny problems.
We have a lot of conviction that the future of alt-proteins writ large offers a lot of opportunities for conventional protein producers as well. Today's guest, Michael Hampson, CEO of Norco Cooperative Ltd., agrees.
Deep tech companies are often a challenging sell for venture capitalists, but we believe they're also the future of the agri-food system. Today, Komal Patel and J. Matthew Pryor discuss how we think about deep tech investing at Tenacious Ventures.
Today we're speaking with Hunter Swisher, founder, and CEO of Phospholutions, who hopes that his technology promises to enhance phosphorus use efficiency.
Vela shares reflections on her journey of overcoming imposter syndrome, the value she has found in "learning out loud", and a learning tool she developed to explore agricultural emissions.
Vela shares our Theory of Change, and how documenting it has allowed us to codify what we’ve been thinking and doing for the past three years and highlighted how we’ve put intention into practice.
New Zealand and Denmark are global first-movers with proposals to tax agricultural emissions as part of national climate change efforts. While efforts to reduce emissions from agriculture are absolutely needed, there may also be unintended consequences from these policy measures when viewed from a global, systems level.
We fundamentally believe that transitioning toward a climate resilient and decarbonized future of food and agriculture requires transformation of atoms and molecules, not just bits and bytes. Time and again we are asked, “but is investing in deeptech really compatible with venture returns?” We believe the answer is an unequivocal YES.
