Future Food
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!
- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 42
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2023
How the digitalization of agriculture will increase food's sustainability
How does an environmentalist become an aerial imagery data analytics and AI entrepreneur? Find out in this episode with Al Eisaian, a serial entrepreneur from the mobile apps and software space.
Al's …
The future of agrifood investing in the wake of Covid-19
Covid-19 is the first big crisis for agrifood investing, an investment area that largely emerged in the wake of the global financial crisis. How will investors respond and what does it mean for the f…
Oatly co-founder on scaling alt milk and the need for local food production
In this episode, I speak to Bjorn Oste, who cofounded Oatly, the dairy alternative company that recently saw its flagship oat milk product fly off the shelves during the first weeks of the Covid-19 p…
How to clean your house with food waste
Amanda Weeks is converting food waste into a natural house cleaner. With her startup Ambrosia, that recently re-branded from Industrial/Organic, Amanda has been recycling food waste for many years an…
Digging into dairy sustainability with Danone & Connecterra
You’re forgiven if you missed Earth Day last week. I’m sure sustainability and climate change are far from many people’s minds right now as you grapple with a new normal that might involve sick loved…
Milk from peas? Method co-founder Adam Lowry on making protein and learning from mistakes
Climate scientist, inventor and founder of two sustainable businesses, Adam Lowry is currently CEO of Ripple Foods, a dairy-free milk products company. His first company was Method, the sustainable c…
Pork Tech, ASF, Transparency: how are your sausages grown?
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 Ev…
Why foodtech and agtech VC? I ask AgFunder's investment team
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 an…
2020 Special: AgFunder's Rob Leclerc on the last decade in ag and foodtech
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 agricultur…
Alt proteins: Catching up with GFI's Bruce Friedrich
In this episode, I speak to Bruce Friedrich, the executive director and co-founder of the Good Food Institute (GFI), a nonprofit that promotes plant-based alternatives to meat, dairy, and eggs, as we…
Who's responsible for obesity? And why Futurist Jack Bobo is pro-traditions
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 …
Klaus Kunz tells us how Bayer is cleaning up its act
In this episode of Future Food, I speak to Klaus Kunz, head of Sustainability and Business Stewardship at German agro-pharma giant Bayer on the sidelines of the Seed & Chips Innovation Summit in Mila…
From the moment we're born, we're going to know exactly what foods we should eat, for what purpose
Sofia Elizondo started her career as a management consultant in New York and after attending Stanford business school, discovered the world of food tech. She cofounded Brightseed in Silicon Valley to…
Consumer Signals Influence the Biggest Agtech Startup: Indigo Ag
In this episode of Future Food, I speak to Jennifer Betka, the chief marketing officer of Indigo Agriculture, the Boston-based agtech startup that's one of the highest valued in the industry today.
J…
A Moonshot Idea for Avocados? Nadia El Hadery from UK's YFood Shares Her FoodTech Journey
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 2013. Nadia is founder and CEO of YFood, an event and medi…
How Whole Foods' Walter Robb Thinks about Food Tech and the Future of Grocery
There's perhaps no deal more representative of the changes taking place in the food system, and the meeting of technology and food, than Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods in 2017.
Walter Robb, the…
What is the Future of Food? CEO of Agtech's 1st Unicorn David Friedberg Offers His Vision
For entrepreneurs and investors in the agtech startup space, David Friedberg is a major celebrity. When he sold his weather data startup The Climate Corporation to Monsanto for $1 billion in 2013 - a…
How are Food Corporates Interacting with Startup Innovation and Are We Headed for Margarine 2.0?
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 …
Consumer Preferences and the Role of Women in Food & Ag Innovation
Women still make the majority of food decisions in the home -- around 65% according to some estimates. While this has fallen from over 95% 20 years ago, women are still underrepresented in leading ro…
How an Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Startup Got Acquired by John Deere
Blue River Technology is a Silicon Valley startup bringing robotics to the farm. In August 2017, Blue River was acquired by John Deere, the world’s largest tractor company, for $305 million. This was…