It has been said on this podcast that we are in an unprecedented time of investment in the food tech space. Companies that get funding today make the products you will see in stores tomorrow. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talk with Fazeela Abdul Rashid of...

Funding is perhaps the key element to a successful food tech start-up. Typically, an entrepreneur has an idea and takes it to investors. The Production Board, based in California, has a very different approach. TPB is the entrepreneur, identifying problems and production issues that need to be solved across agriculture...

Anna-Lena Kamenetzky is the Founder and CEO of Touch Capital, a venture/growth investment fund focused on consumer products and services companies. On this episode of ITS, Anna-Lena shares insights from her career in investment banking, large cap investment firms, and private equity to help emerging brands plan for the future...

This app helping eaters locate Black-owned restaurants has 450,000+ downloads and is launching a $2.5 million investment round.

What is the current state of growth and investment in food tech? The industry is coming out of the vacuum of 2020, with flush stock market gains and a sense of urgency about fixing the planet’s vital issues. This all lines up for an unprecedented investment period for food tech...

Our Moderator Emily leads our Weekly Baste Segment with hard-hitting stories of food in the news and a fast paced game of word association. This week we discuss Goatober, London vs. Portland vs. NYC, food memories, Pumpkin Seed Oil, charity involvement and more. Our guests for The Weekly Grill include...

Meriwether Hardie is the chief of staff at Bio-Logical Capital, where her work focuses on developing new models for regenerative agriculture, renewable energy, and climate-positive land use. In this episode, host Lisa Held talks to Hardie about how the company invests in farms and projects that “un-scale” the food system...

Tessa Price leads programming for WeWork Food Labs, which is both a workspace and an accelerator for early stage food entrepreneurs. Previously, she was the Director of Operations and Community for the failed shared kitchen startup, Pilotworks. Tessa and Ali discuss what founders can learn from the breakdown of Pilot...

Agatha Kluk is the co-Founder of Kluk Farber, a boutique law firm that represents entrepreneurs, companies, investors and creatives across a variety of industries including consumer products, tech, and hospitality. On this episode of In the Sauce, Agatha talks Ali through the legal stuff: contracts, fundraising, compliance, trademarks and more...

John Lawson is the Northeast regional grocery buyer at Whole Foods Market. On this episode of In the Sauce, John tells Ali what he's looking for in emerging brands, what mistakes we can avoid, how to work with buyers to maximize sales and why we should see shelf space as...