Future Food show

Future Food

Summary: What will you be eating in 2050? How will it get to your table? How we grow, purchase, and eat our food is changing. New technologies and food products are playing a key role in shaping that change. In this podcast, we speak to the people driving that future, from entrepreneurs and venture capital investors, to farmers and food businesses. Welcome to Future Food!

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Podcasts:

 Digging into dairy sustainability with Danone & Connecterra | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 34:13

I sat down with yogurt giant Danone and dairy tech startup Connecterra on Earth Day to discuss how they're sustainability initiatives are progressing and how Covid-19 is impacting their business. Covid-19 is having a devastating impact on the dairy industry after food service demand dried up and you may have seen upsetting videos of large amounts of milk being dumped in the countryside. Hollander and Khokhar offer some fascinating insights there. Enjoy!

 Milk from peas? Method co-founder Adam Lowry on making protein and learning from mistakes | File Type: audio/mp4 | Duration: 24:43

Climate scientist, inventor and founder of two sustainable businesses, Adam Lowry is currently CEO of Ripple Foods, a dairy alternative products company. His first company Method is a sustainable cleaning products brand that's now a household name in the US - I use it! But why get into food now? What mistakes did he make at Method? Why pick pea as the key ingredient for his products? You can hear Adam speak in-person at the Future Food-Tech Summit next month: https://futurefoodtechsf.com/

 Pork Tech, ASF, Transparency: how are your sausages grown? | File Type: audio/mp4 | Duration: 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 are reticent to do so. Find out why -- and what they think of the growing number of meat alternatives on the market -- in this episode.

 Why foodtech and agtech VC? I ask AgFunder's investment team | File Type: audio/mp4 | Duration: 18:46

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!

 2020 Special: AgFunder's Rob Leclerc on the last decade in ag and foodtech | File Type: audio/mp4 | Duration: 30:40

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. We talk about agtech acquisitions, food trends, the impending shift to look at food as medicine, lessons he's learned since starting to invest and who is favorite team member is - hint, it's me!

 Alt proteins: Catching up with GFI's Bruce Friedrich | File Type: audio/mp4 | Duration: 27:19

In this episode, I speak to Bruce Friedrich, the co-founder of the Good Food Institute (GFI), a nonprofit that promotes plant-based alternatives to meat, dairy, and eggs, as well as those using cellular agriculture to produce replicas of animal-based products at the cellular level. We catch-up and go back to questions I asked him back in 2016: https://agfundernews.com/whats-next-for-alternative-proteins-an-interview-with-good-food-institutes-friedrich.html

 Who's responsible for obesity? And why Futurist Jack Bobo is pro-traditions | File Type: audio/mp4 | Duration: 20:04

In this episode I speak to Jack Bobo, founder of Futurity, a consultancy firm for startups and established food brands to consider the future of food and what it means to them.  "I'm very optimistic and excited about what the world will look like in 2050 but I think it is helpful though to think about where we've come from in order to think about where we're going."

 Klaus Kunz tells us how Bayer is cleaning up its act | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:50

In this episode of Future Food, I speak to Klaus Kunz, head of Sustainability and Business Stewardship at German agro-pharma giant Bayer. We talk on many topics including smallholder farmers, biodiversity, and of course pesticides. The company has come under serious fire for its glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup, which is accused of causing cancer and bee deaths. This episode, though heavy, is full of important insights from Klaus, who addresses pertinent issues across agriculture. Don't miss it!

 From the moment we're born, we're going to know exactly what foods we should eat, for what purpose | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:56

Did you know one of our most common drugs was derived from plants, and that just 15 of the 50,000 edible plants on the earth provide 90% of our calories?! In this episode, I speak to Sofia Elizondo, cofounder of Brightseed, a Silicon Valley startup unearthing the bioactive compounds in plants that can have positive impacts on our bodies using artificial intelligence and computational biology. Tips for female founders too! Enjoy! (Disclosure, Brightseed is an AgFunder portfolio company)

 Consumer Signals Influence the Biggest Agtech Startup: Indigo Ag | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 43:13

In this episode of Future Food, I speak to Jennifer Betka, the chief marketing officer of Indigo Agriculture. Jennifer is an expert marketer with a career spanning many different industries, most recently at StubHub, so it's really interesting to hear about her transition into agriculture. "When I look at our brand, I think it's a really curious brand that's asking really important questions. If growers can be incentivized to put carbon back into the soil, do consumers care?" Turns out they do!

 A Moonshot Idea for Avocados? Nadia El Hadery from UK's YFood Shares Her FoodTech Journey | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:32

The UK is the most active ecosystem for foodtech and agtech startups in Europe and Nadia El Hadery has played a role in it from London since 2015. Nadia is founder and CEO of YFood, an event and media company focused on the industry. London FoodTech Week is next week - find out more about the event, Nadia's vision for the future of food -- including drones and personalized food delivery -- her love of avocados, and some of the challenges startups have faced in the UK and beyond.

 How Whole Foods' Walter Robb Thinks about Food Tech and the Future of Grocery | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 47:13

Hear former co-CEO of Whole Foods Walter Robb, a proponent of whole and natural foods, talk about the advent of new technologies from robotic retail to his contrarian views of plant-based meat. He also talks about how Amazon came to acquire Whole Foods and the importance of big data. I hope you enjoy the second installment of Future Food!

 What is the Future of Food? CEO of Agtech's 1st Unicorn David Friedberg Offers His Vision | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:57

For entrepreneurs and investors in the agtech startup space, David Friedberg is a major celebrity. When he sold his startup The Climate Corporation for $1 billion in 2013 - achieving that elusive "unicorn" status - he put the category on the map. David now has an investment company The Production Board. David is a visionary - the insights he offers on what & how we will be eating in the future are inspiring, exciting, if perhaps a little scary. I hope you enjoy this special first edition of Future Food!

 How are Food Corporates Interacting with Startup Innovation and Are We Headed for Margarine 2.0? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 34:46

In this podcast, Louisa talks to Nick Fereday, a consumer foods analyst at Rabobank, about how the large food and agriculture companies are reacting to new innovation and working with startups. They also talk about the acquisition of Whole Foods by Amazon, and consumer trends around natural, simple food as well as alternative meat products.

 Consumer Preferences and the Role of Women in Food & Ag Innovation | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 40:17

Women still make the majority of food decisions in the home -- around 65% according to some estimates but are underrepresented in leading roles at food companies globally. In this week’s podcast, Louisa discusses the impact of this and how tech innovation is adapting to consumer demands with Beth Robertson-Martin from General Mills, Kellee James, founder of Mercaris, an organic commodities trading platform, and Sanjeev Krishnan, partner at S2G Ventures, an agrifood tech venture capital firm.

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