Future Food

Louisa Burwood-Taylor
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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!

  1. 11/09/2023

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

    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 cheap calories, to a system that would be able to deliver affordable nutrients," Archambeau tells AgFunderNews on a new episode of the Future Food podcast. Fast forward to today and the European firm has made around 40 investments across the suppy chain and recently announced the closing of its second fund on €360 million. Hear Eric talk about when and where exits will come to the industry -- something so many of us are wondering! How agrifoodtech fits into the impact investing world, and much more!

    24 min

  2. 05/26/2022

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

    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 some of the biggest apple and pear packers in America use her device. You can hear more from What’s Your Problem? at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/wypfuture.

    25 min

  3. 10/22/2021

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

    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 meal replacement but all made from plants. Demir has been the CEO for nearly two years now and it's been a bit of a turnaround story as the company turned profitable in mid-2020. With a background in food and media, and having worked at one of the first almond milk companies out there, I jumped at the chance to chat to Demir about the future of plant-based foods as well. Enjoy!

    36 min

  4. 10/15/2021

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

    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 knowledgeable about the fertilizer industry, Amy gives a great description. Enjoy this episode with a powerhouse of agtech, Amy Yoder.

    30 min

  5. 06/25/2021

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

    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 first-ever investment in a ‘clean meat’ company. Last year, Shiok Meats netted $3 million in bridge funding from investors including UK firms Agronomics and Impact Venture, US trust VegInvest, and UAE-based Mindshift Capital, before closing a $12.6 million Series A round led by Dutch aquaculture-focused fund Aqua-Spark.

    40 min

  6. 06/24/2021

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

    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 Clubhouse. See below for a list of participating journalists and the articles they introduced; some of them joined purely for the discussion and debate.  We always strive for diverse voices on Future Food News Review, so if you're a journalist covering food systems, agtech or foodtech, or know someone who is that would make a great edition, please reach out to danielle@foodtechconnect.com or louisa@agfunder.com. Sonalie Figueiras - Green Queen Media Article: Food System Change: ‘Who’s Making Decisions, Who’s Benefiting, Who’s Gaining The Wealth?’ Errol Schweizer’s Got QuestionsErrol Schweizer - Forbes/TheCheckOut  Article: How New York City Delivery Workers Are Rewriting The Rules Of Gig WorkArticle: Not Just Junk: Why We Need To Re-Think Food ProcessingLouisa Burwood-Taylor - AFN Article: Bowery bags ‘biggest-ever’ vertical farming raise with $300m Series CPodcast: Up, up and away! Irving Fain on building Bowery's biggest vertical farm yetChloe Sorvino - Forbes Article: JBS Cyberattack Shines A Spotlight On The Biggest Risk To Big Meat: ConsolidationJenn Marston - The Spoon Article: Tesla May Soon Open Its Own RestaurantSam Silverstein - Grocery Dive Article: Amazon to open its first Fresh supermarket with checkout-free technologyKristen Hawley - Eater Article: Delivery Apps Are Making Concessions to Restaurants. But Who Pays?Thin Lei Win - ThinInk

    1h 21m

  7. 05/19/2021

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

    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 Clubhouse. See below for a list of participating journalists and the articles they introduced; some of them joined purely for the discussion and debate.  We always strive for diverse voices on Future Food News Review, so if you're a journalist covering food systems, agtech or foodtech, or know someone who is that would make a great edition, please reach out to danielle@foodtechconnect.com or louisa@agfunder.com. Esther Honig - The Nation Article: The Story Behind Your Salad: Farmworkers, Covid-19, and a Dangerous CommuteSonalie Figueiras - Green Queen Media Article: Cell-Cultured Meat Pioneer Memphis Meats Is Now UPSIDE Foods, First Chicken Product To Launch This Year Pending Reg. ApprovalErrol Schweizer - Forbes/TheCheckOut  Article: What Questions Should We Be Asking about Cultured Meats?Article: How Fast Food Workers Are Finally Getting $15 an HourElaine Watson - Food NavigatorUSA Article: Brave New Animal Free WorldJoe Fassler - The Counter Article: Regenerative Agriculture Needs a Reckoning Luke Winkie - Vox Article: Right-wing coffee companies want to make coffee great againLouisa Burwood-Taylor - AFN Article: Ginkgo Bioworks to go public at $15bn valuation as agrifood SPAC frenzy continuesChloe Sorvino - Forbes Bettina Makalintal - VICE

    1h 36m

  8. 05/18/2021

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

    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 farmland, it's certainly a turning point and year-over-year growth is significant; since January 2020, the company has increased its brick-and-mortar grocery sales by 750%. Challenges lie ahead. Energy efficiency and costs are still battles to contend with and other vertical farming groups have struggled to live up to their promises of international expansion. But Bowery founder and CEO Irving Fain has an answer for everything. If you're a vertical farming enthusiast, or a newbie keen to learn about this exciting industry, this episode will take you on a journey of Bowery's founding, why they decided to build all their technology in-house, their growth plans, how they're breaking into new crops and digging into crop genetics to do so, and the overall mission and hopes for the industry at-large.  Enjoy!

    37 min
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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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  • Creator
    Louisa Burwood-Taylor
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2023
  • Episodes
    42
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    Future Food