BIV Mentor Deep Dive: On the importance of relationships with chef and entrepreneur Ricardo Cordero

Tell us about yourself! What's your origin story? I was born in Brooklyn, New York and I come from generations of artists, businessmen & chefs. By the time I was 4

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An Industry in Transition: COVID-19’s Impact on Plant-Based Protein

Anjali Agarwal The world reckoned with COVID-19 over the last several months as lockdowns were instituted, and as people globally experienced drastic changes to their daily lives, consumers’ spending habits changed

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Save Your Equity: Using Alternative Capital to Build Your “Big Idea”

By Patrick Woloveck In today’s rapidly changing startup capital landscape, it is challenging for early stage entrepreneurs to structure the most efficient capital stack. Since I started focusing my career on

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BIV Mentor Deep Dive: Food Regulation & Social Justice with Brian Sylvester

Tell us about yourself! What's your origin story? I am a first generation American from New York City. Born to working class parents from the Caribbean islands of Grenada and Jamaica,

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Leveraging Technical Fundamentals for a Fundraising Advantage

Greg Wiseman The marketplace and the consumer have changed – forever. COVID-19 has brought structural changes to where we eat, what we eat, and who we eat it with. For those entrepreneurs

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A Future Without Conventional Farming

By Caroline Souroujon Most of us don’t really consider where the meat on our plate comes from. Or if we do, we tend to picture an idyllic family farm where animals

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The Duty Of Businesses

Alicia Grayeb You hear conversations starting with: “Once everything goes back to normal... “, “I cannot wait to retake my normal life”, and “When are we going back to normal?”. The truth

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PSA for Food Startups: Know your Value and How to Protect it!

By David Postolski from Gearhart Law As sophisticated science makes it possible to produce new products that taste even better than the foods we’ve come to love, alternative protein startups are

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Navigating the New Normal: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Food Supply Chain

By Mia Medicus, Program Manager at Big Idea Ventures We’ve all felt the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on our lives and our economy. While no one can say with certainty

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Cohort 1- Recap and Milestones

We have exciting news! The past month marks the end of our first cohort in both Singapore and New York. The cohort was made up of 12 different plant-based and

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