We passionately believe that IT is the key catalyst to bringing about a better food system and frequently share insights on the Agrifood Tech space from an investor perspective.
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In late 2022, we at Better Food Ventures and The Mixing Bowl published our inaugural market landscape on crop robotics, featuring nearly 250 companies creating robotic solutions for growing food crops. (We recommend reviewing it’s….
Are we finally starting to see the adoption of labor-saving robots in agriculture? The short and unfulfilling summary answer is “It depends”. Undeniably, we are seeing clear signs of progress yet, simultaneously, we see clear signs of more progress needed….
These are odd times for a number of different reasons, full of both the danger and opportunity to which JFK referred. Through our work at The Mixing Bowl and Better Food Ventures we are delving into the themes of opportunity in the agrifoodtech ecosystem in response to underlying dangers…
It seems that 80% of the current effort in Agrifoodtech is Seeing Issues and Seeking Solutions and only 20% is focused on Solving Problems and Scaling Solutions. How can we invert the levels of efforts to focus on solving problems at scale?
Eve-Turow Paul and Rob Trice discuss Eve’s new book, Hungry: Avocado Toast, Instagram Influencers, and Our Search for Connection and Meaning, and how the Digital Age has impacted Millennials and Gen Z and influences their relationship with food.
Better Food Ventures’ Seana Day joins speakers to discuss the future of agricultural investments in several key areas, including new technology, land, commodity, and processing investments.
Better Food Ventures founder, Rob Trice, speaks gives an interview at the Fruit Logistica Conference in February 2020 prior to his keynote remarks.
Our views and advice on investing for the future of food through tech-driven positive impact.
The “new normal” is about change. To thrive in this fluid environment restaurant operators will need to accelerate pre-COVID digital trends, embrace new notions of what constitutes a restaurant, and look to technology to strengthen their brand and relationship with customers.
Three startups. Two judges. Lots of constructive feedback & even more fun. Brita Rosenheim joins Scott Heimendinger and The Spoon’s Michael Wolf for a it’s first Virtual Startup Pitch Workshop
The agtech sector is expanding each year, and with that, the once-niche and all-encompassing term “AgTech” is becoming unmanageably broad. Thus, to recognize the growth in innovation both on the farm and in the supply chain, we decided it was time to bifurcate our AgTech landscape into “FarmTech” (inside the farm gate) and “Food Supply Chain Tech” (post-farm gate).
I want to build off Seana’s recent article and discuss how we will unleash innovation to modernize a massive, brittle food production system and its support structures. Fundamentally, how can we innovate to better match food supply with demand?
Prior to COVID-19, I talked about our monolithic food supply chain with resigned pragmatism. Fundamentally, I believed that slower incremental disruption, together with collaboration among incumbents and start-ups, would be a more likely evolutionary path in the sector. I was wrong.
In collaboration with TechTable, we are sharing an updated 2019 Restaurant Tech EcoSystem map and our thoughts on the emerging themes and trends within the restaurant tech industry for 2020.
Brita Rosenheim, Partner at Better Food Ventures, has released her Food Tech Industry Landscape, and state-of-the-industry analysis, with the goal of helping operators, entrepreneurs and investors in the food system to understand the quickly evolving themes and trends currently impacting the food tech industry.
Chris Taylor and Michael Rose provide a deep-dive analysis of Indoor Agriculture, tracking more than 1,000 companies to capture the technology ecosystem of controlled-environment agriculture: vertical farms, greenhouses, urban farms, plant factories, and container farms.
Seana Day, Partner at Better Food Ventures, releases the updated version of her AgTech Landscape Map. With the release of her 2019 AgTech Landscape, she is now tracking over 1,600 startups.
Better Food Ventures white paper captures our views and advice on investing for the future of food through tech-driven positive impact.
Peter Wren-Hilton moderated a ‘Fireside Chat’ with special guests Rob Trice & Bill Reichert. Bill & Rob provided a sometimes brutal assessment of Kiwi entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. An absolute must-watch for any New Zealand entrepreneur looking to set foot into the US market.