Food Tech Investor Panel + Plant Based Foods Market

FOOD TECH INVESTOR PANEL + PLANT BASED FOODS MARKETCome join fellow Food Tech folks for our fun-packed event!ATTENTION: -TO AVOID EVENTBRITE FEES + GET REWARDS POINTS, REGISTER HERE-If you're interested in volunteering, register on Eventbrite. AgFunder: AgFunder is an online Venture Capital Platform based in Silicon Valley. AgFunder invests in exceptional and bold entrepreneurs who are aiming to build the next generation of great agriculture and food technology companies. As a Platform-VC, we've leveraged technology, media and research to build a global ecosystem of over 50,000 members and subscribers, including over 5,000 investors. We build technology to help source, evaluate, and support our portfolio companies and invest at scale. Through special co-investment funds and Special Purpose Vehicles, AgFunder gives investors the opportunity to coinvest with them and other leading VCs. AgFunder has been in Forbes, Bloomberg TV, TechCrunch, CNN Money, Reuters, CNBC, NY Times, WSJ, and the Financial Times. Our CEO was named by Forbes in their 2014 list of "Up and Comers"​ in the agriculture sector. IndieBio: IndieBio is a seed stage biotech accelerator that funds and builds breakthrough biotech companies with the aim of solving some of the world's most intractable problems. We fund and build 30 companies per year that span across all industries, including the future of food, biomedical, consumer bio, computational biology, and more. Some notable alum: Clara Foods, Koniku, Memphis Meats, Synthex Therapeutics, Jungla, TheNotCo, Catalog, Prellis, and Ava Labs. SOSV:  SOSV has >$525M in assets under management and provides seed, venture, and growth-stage funding to startups. Our market-specific accelerator programs are located in the US, Asia, and Europe. The firm has a staff of over 90 worldwide, and 620+ global mentors. SOSV is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey with offices in San Francisco, New York, Cork, Boston, Shenzhen, Shanghai, London and Taipei. Since 2010, SOSV has developed seven key accelerator programs across 3 continents (HAX, IndieBio, RebelBio, Chinaccelerator, FOOD-X, MOX, and dLab). Join Our Meetup Groups: Join the SF Food Tech Meetup Group Join the SF Blockchain + Distributed Ledger Tech Meetup Group  Join the SF AR + CV Meetup Group  Join the SF Blockchain + Distributed Ledger Tech Meetup Group  Join the SF Computer Vision & Deep Learning Meetup Group   Join the SF Machine Learning Meetup Group Volunteer / Request to Demo at our Events  Agenda: 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Registration and Networking7:00pm - 7:05pm: Opening Remarks  7:05pm - 8:00pm: Food Tech Investor Panel Yanniv Dorone, Investor, AgFunder; PhD Candidate, Department of Plant Biology, Stanford University; 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30: Science & Healthcare Europe ListYanniv Dorone is an Investor at AgFunder. As part of the investment team, he is responsible for sourcing foodtech and agtech deals as well as performing due diligence on select investment opportunities. In parallel, he is finishing his PhD at Stanford University, where he studies how seeds sense water during germination. Before that, he worked on multiple research projects spanning different areas of plant biology at Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, and at the Weizmann Institute of Science. His work earned him two prestigious fellowships at Stanford, and he was selected as an American Society of Plant Biologists scholar. In 2019, Yanniv made the Forbes 30 Under 30: Science and Healthcare Europe list.Yanniv holds a B.S. and M.S. in Biology from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, to which he was admitted with the highly competitive “Normalien” fellowship. He was also part of Stanford’s accelerator program, Cardinal Ventures, and was selected to participate in the Ignite program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.  Alex Kopelyan - Program Director & Partner, IndieBio/SOSV; Mentor, TERRA Food & Ag Accelerator; Entrepreneurship Advisor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University; PharmD, University of Iowa. Alex is Program Director and Partner at IndieBio, where they fund scientific entrepreneurs working to solve global problems with biology. Companies span the future of food and ag, therapeutics and healthcare, consumer bio, computational bio, regenerative medicine, neurotech, and more. Anna Cho, Moderator - Founder, CEO, Posterity Foods. Investor, Ostara Capital. BA, Stanford University.Anna Cho is Founder and CEO of Posterity Foods, focused on future generation food products. Prior to Posterity Foods and her forays in other frontier tech (AR, CV/AI, Blockchain), she was a professional investor in the capital markets. She founded Ostara Capital, a blended value/growth hedge fund with a special emphasis on mid-cap publicly traded companies. She started her career in investment banking and private equity after graduating from Stanford. 8:00pm - 9:00pm: Networking + Plant Based Food Market SUPER[U] - plant protein + superfood spread [airy] - cbd (0 thc) food/non-food products Coloridoh -  the first colorful, playful, edible Gluten free /Vegan cookie dough ------ Venue: UC Berkeley Extension - SAN FRANCISCO CAMPUS160 Spear St., Floor 5 (Room 505), San Francisco, CA 94105 Notice of Photo/Video Consent: Video footage (including 360 Video) and/or photos may be taken during this event, which may or may not include your recognizable image. 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