Food & Agriculture Innovators
Discover untold stories about how companies have been built, technologies on the horizon, where investors are seeing opportunities, and the challenges and opportunities abundant today as we work to feed the growing population.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 62 minutes
- Episodes
- 7
- Years Active
- 2017
7: Less Sugar, More Protein Using Mushroom Technology - Alan Hahn of MycoTechnology
Alan Hahn is the co-founder and CEO of MycoTechnology, a food ingredient technology company. The company creates fungi-based powders using a proprietary fermentation process. Their product line today…
6: Making Healthier Sugars Tagatose and Allulose - Ed Rogers of Bonumose
Ed Rogers is the co-founder and CEO of Bonumose, a food ingredient technology company. The company’s patented process was invented by co-founder Dr. Dan Wichelecki and utilizes combinations of natura…
5: Climate Change Fighting Fungi and Empowering Smallholder Farmers - Rusty Rodriguez of Adaptive Symbiotic Technologies
Dr. Rusty Rodriguez is the CEO of Adaptive Symbiotic Technologies (AST), an ag biotech company that has developed microbial solutions that enable plants to battle climate and environmental stress, in…
4: Ranching in the Ocean with Phil Cruver of Catalina Sea Ranch, a shellfish aquaculture company
Phil Cruver is the Founder and CEO of Catalina Sea Ranch (CSR), which owns the first offshore aquaculture facility in U.S. federal waters. This was a fascinating conversation as Phil tells the story …
3: Predicting Crop Yields, Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning with David Potere of TellusLabs
David Potere is Co-founder and CEO of TellusLabs, a company that combines decades of satellite imagery with machine learning to predict crop yields and help its customers, which range from farmer to …
2: Investing in Brazilian AgTech with Francisco Jardim of SP Ventures
Francisco Jardim is Co-founder and Managing Director of venture capital firm, SP Ventures. In the interview we discuss how his firm is capitalizing on the opportunity of agriculture technology inve…
1: Farming Flies and Business Building in the Sustainability Revolution with Jason Drew of AgriProtein
Jason Drew is the Co-founder and CEO of AgriProtein based in Cape Town, South Africa. In the interview we go back to the early years and career of Jason, how he got started on his path to farming fli…