bigideaventures
  • Accelerator
  • Funds
  • Portfolio
  • Team
  • Events
  • Media
  • Careers
  • Contact
  • Apply
Select Page

RU taking part in Big Idea Ventures’ Generation Food Rural Partners fund

by Olivia Chavassieu | Jun 21, 2022 | Press | 0 comments

Big Idea Ventures, an investor in early-stage alternative protein and food technology, is collaborating with several higher education institutions, including Rutgers University, for its Generation Food Rural Partners fund.

Rutgers is one of five new universities added to the list.

“When we designed this investment platform, our goal was to get five universities to collaborate with us. To have secured collaboration commitments from 15 world class research universities is an incredible vote of confidence and a testament to the power of innovation at the university level,” said Tom Mastrobuoni, chief investment officer for Big Idea Ventures.

Innovation Ventures, the technology transfer office within the Rutgers Office for Research, partners with the Rutgers community to encourage deliberate innovation, protect and leverage Rutgers intellectual property, foster collaboration with industry, and enable entrepreneurship. In 2021, Rutgers’ received $907.9 million in funding from federal and state agencies, corporations, and foundations for its research; generated $47 million in licensing revenue; and increased its number of active startups to 87.

The GFRP fund team will evaluate intellectual property developed at Rutgers and other collaborating universities to identify new developments with the strongest commercialization potential. The fund will then invest in new companies formed around research that comes out of the institutions, and the companies will be headquartered in rural communities nearby.

“The GFRP Fund will ignite research innovation at our partner universities in agriculture, food and protein sciences which will create new companies located in rural America,” said Frank Klemens, managing director of the GFRP Fund at BIV. “Rural America has always been the center for innovation in food and agriculture production and this partnership between these world class Universities and GFRP Fund will create the next generational growth in rural America.”

Recent Posts

  • Meet the All Women-Led Advisory Board Leading Agri-Food Tech Development through BIV’s GFRP Fund
  • Que Font Les Fonds? Le portrait de Big Idea Ventures
  • Jellatech Debuts Cell-Based Human Collagen As Investigation Links Industry to Deforestation
  • BIV Named #1 Agri Food Tech Investor Globally in AgFunder Investment Report
  • Nanocellulose Material, Our Petroleum-based Packaging Savior?

Categories

  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Portfolio
  • Press
  • Research Paper
  • Uncategorized
Apply to join our New Protein Fund accelerator program

.

Apply to join a GFRP NewCo Management team
  • Contact
  • Funds
  • Investing
  • Partners
  • Portfolio
  • Media Kit
  • Research
  • Terms
  • Anti Spam
  • Copyright
  • DMCA
  • FTC
  • Privacy
  • Social Media
New York

88 Pine St., 14th Floor
New York, NY 10005

Singapore

28a Keong Saik Road,
SG 089135

Paris

Station F, 5 Parv. Alan Turing 75013 Paris, France 

Newsletter
Stay on top of our latest news.
Loading
Don’t worry, we won’t spam you.
© 2020 Big Idea Ventures. All Rights Reserved
  • Follow
  • Follow
  • Follow
  • Follow
 
Required 'Candidate' login to applying this job. Click here to logout And try again
 

Login to your account

  • Forgot Password?

Reset Password

  • Already have an account? Login

Enter the username or e-mail you used in your profile. A password reset link will be sent to you by email.

Close
 

Answers

 

Account Activation

Before you can login, you must active your account with the code sent to your email address. If you did not receive this email, please check your junk/spam folder. Click here to resend the activation email. If you entered an incorrect email address, you will need to re-register with the correct email address.