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I’m so excited to share that I'll be speaking at Supply Change Capital’s Food Tech House @ SXSW event on Sat, March 9th. Join me in the conversation around the future of food. Register here: https://lnkd.in/ePFpbsuG Thanks Noramay and Shayna for including me!

📣 Announcing the Finalists: Vevolution Pitch & Plant 2023 We are super excited to announce the startups that will be pitching during our final pitch event of the year: Pitch & Plant 2023! Many investors are already registered for our final demo day of the year on Thursday, December 7th. Accredited angels, family offices, and investment funds request access now to join: https://lnkd.in/eHkSa7qv The pitches: Genuine Taste - Emily Farrar - Cultivated Animal Fat:  Seed startup creating customizable cultivated fat as a tasty and texturizing ingredient for alternative meat products. Seed to Surf - Alex Bergquist - Plant-based Seafood:  Woman-founded and led plant-based seafood company that uses whole vegetables to recreate the seafood experience. Livestock Labs - Andrew Sayles - Cellular Agriculture:  Creating customized cell lines for cultivated meat companies to remove many of the cost, time, and uncertainty burdens that they currently face. Mi Terro® - Robert Luo - Syn Bio Materials:  Advanced material company that powers big data to create compostable, fossil-fuel alternative biomaterials made from plant-based agricultural waste. Esencia Foods - Hendrik Kaye - Mycelium Biotech:  Vegan (sea)food using mycelium biotechnology, starting with white fish, through our unique solid state fermentation. Alcheme Bio - Clair Purcell - Cellular Agriculture:  Making sustainable foods Delicious by Design through ML-driven compositional analytics and Flavor Media Supplements. -------- 👉 Investors MUST verify to access the event: https://lnkd.in/eHkSa7qv Don't miss out on this key event contributing to a kinder future! 🌱 #biotech #biomaterials #plantbasedseafood #pitchevent #vevolution #pitch #cultivated #startups

Thanks Green Queen Media for including my POV in this article and for reminding us that there is room for more than one opinion in the VC model. While Steve Molino and I both believe that reducing and eventually eliminating animal product consumption is imperative to creating a sustainable future, we clearly have a difference of opinion about how cultivated and blended meat will shape that future. Steve and I have known each other for a number of years, he’s a smart guy and we are co-investors in a number of companies. This (friendly) disagreement highlights that venture capital investing is not ‘one size fits all’ and that there are opportunities for disagreement even in a relatively small market like alternative protein. https://lnkd.in/eUMjUtHD

This July, we launched our debut chicken product to consumers, and now we're ready to take things to the next level at UPSIDE Foods ! 🚀 I'm thrilled to announce that we've chosen the greater Chicagoland region as the home for our first large-scale, commercial production plant for cultivated meat. We've named it "Rubicon" to symbolize the point of no return for the history of meat production.🍴 Located in Glenview, Illinois, Rubicon will not only enable us to scale up production but also serve as a blueprint for future growth. This facility will be unlike anything the world has seen before. 🏰 Our journey at UPSIDE has been defined by resilience and an unwavering commitment to our mission: making our favorite foods a force for good. We've turned every challenge into an opportunity, crossing rivers of doubt and uncertainty to help build a more humane and sustainable future. 🌱 And guess what? Our journey doesn't stop here. There will be more skepticism and challenges, but I've never been more confident in our ability to overcome them. The road to transformative change is tough, but it's undeniably worthwhile. 🌟🌏 #UPSIDEFoods #CultivatedMeat #FoodInnovation   👉 Yahoo Finance https://lnkd.in/g-P3T4X9 👉 Chicago Tribune https://lnkd.in/gGDi-y4b