ICYMI 🚨 Check out Green Queen Media's exclusive on AQUA Cultured Foods, "Exclusive: Aqua Cultured Foods Earns US Regulatory Approval for Fish-Free Fermentation-Based Seafood" In this feature, Aqua Cultured Foods touches on a few topics including how Aqua makes seafood from cellulose, exploring upcycled and zero-waste processes, and why investment in fermentation is outpacing plant-based and cultivated meat alternatives this year.. AQUA Cultured Foods co-founder and CEO Brittany Chibe, emphasizes Aqua's “clean-label with minimal ingredients" by creating a "cost-effective production process, leveraging learnings and equipment from other industries that use fermentation...Aqua’s mission is to feed our growing planet while protecting the oceans. Once consumers understand not only the dire state of our oceans but the potential health risks of consuming seafood through its current sourcing methods, seafood becomes much less attractive.” Check out the full feature linked below! 🔗
Supply Change Capital
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Los Angeles, CA 5,024 followers
Early stage venture capital firm investing at the intersection of food, culture, and technology.
About us
Supply Change Capital believes in a future of food that is sustainability mindful, supply chain efficient, better for you, and culture rich. We invest at the intersection of food, culture, and technology to catalyze early stage sustainable businesses that modernize the food system. The firm is led by two GPs who combine food domain expertise with tech and investing experience. Noramay Cadena is an aerospace engineer turned investor. She previously launched an early stage fund that invested in over 20 manufacturing and supply chain companies. Shayna Harris brings an insider's eye to the industry, from architecting the 21st-century chocolate supply chain at Mars to building the groundbreaking food tech company Farmer’s Fridge. She advises Fortune 100 companies and startups on navigating the fast-changing food terrain, and writes for Forbes. The duo have 40 investments between them and 2 investments in the Supply Change portfolio. The firm is based in Chicago and Los Angeles.
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http://supplychange.fund/
External link for Supply Change Capital
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles, CA
- Type
- Partnership
- Founded
- 2020
- Specialties
- Food Tech, Ag Tech, Supply Chain, Sustainable Supply Chains, CPG, Ingredients, Sustainable Ingredients, Food AI, Ag AI, Data, Food, Specialty Ingredients, Diverse Founders, Women in VC, and Latinix VC
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Los Angeles, CA, US
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Chicago, IL, US
Employees at Supply Change Capital
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Juliana Medina
Managing Director M&A Advisory Food and Ag at ING
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Rachel Stinebaugh
investing in the future of food + ag @ Supply Change Capital
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Sushmita Mukherjee
Market Transformation Volunteer at The Nature Conservancy
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Nisha Patel
MBA Candidate at MIT Sloan School of Management | Climate at BCG
Updates
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Supply Change Capital is a proud Angeles Estrellas Award honoree this year once again. The award highlights top funders and venture capital firms investing in the Hispanic and Latino/a-led companies. At Supply Change Capital, we believe that great investment opportunities can come from a diversity of talent and we cast a wide net to find talented founders and investment opportunities. Cheers to fellow honorees (too many to name) and to the amazing work of the Angeles team!
Estrellas Awardees 2024
http://angelesinvestors.com
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A number of our portfolio companies gathered, attended, and/or presented at IFT FIRST in Chicago. The event brought together thousands of industry leaders and visionaries to explore the latest advancements in food science and technology. Some highlights: michroma, a pioneer in natural color creation through biotech, shared their vibrant and sustainable color solutions at IFT, showcasing how nature-inspired colors can transform the food and beverage landscape. PartnerSlate hosted the inaugural Co-Manufacturer Pavilion at IFT’s invitation. Hundreds of brands, formulators, and suppliers visited the booth looking to connect with co-manufacturers. AQUA Cultured Foods showcased their fish-free tuna at Rabobank’s industry happy hour. Attendees included the investor community, corporate partners, and food tech start-ups. What is Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)? Since 1939, the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) has been a forum for passionate science of food professionals and technologists to collaborate, learn, and contribute all with the goal of inspiring and transforming collective scientific knowledge into innovative solutions for the benefit of all people around the world. As a scientific community grounded in purpose, IFT feeds the minds that feed the world. Learn more on their website at www.iftevent.org/ 🔗
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ICYMI 🚨AQUA Cultured Foods was highlighted on VegNews's "Food of The Week" for their fish-free seafood! "Aqua’s seafood alternatives replicate the texture and appearance of traditional seafood. The scallops are made from water, cellulose, and plant-derived flavors, while the tuna includes a beet-derived color to mimic ahi or bluefin. Both products are vegan, allergen-free, and have a shelf life of six weeks." Check out the full list of Food of The Week, linked below
Food News of the Week: Caviar Croissants, Travis Barker’s Mushroom Gummies, and Target Kicks Off Pumpkin Spice Season
vegnews.com
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ICYMI 🚨 Minus: A Compound Foods Company, was highlighted on Just Drink's "Beanless coffee: will big coffee players allow innovation to brew? A clutch of start-ups developing coffee alternatives have attracted investor interest amid the growing vulnerability of coffee." In this article, Maricel Saenz, founder of Minus, touches on the company's alliance to coffee companies "that are going to be struggling on the supply side of things, to access some of their existing production farms, where [Minus] can become an alternative in that piece. That’s where [she] see[s] collaboration with larger manufacturers is a key piece of [Minus'] strategy.” Read more on the topic linked below!
Beanless coffee: will big coffee players allow innovation to brew?
just-drinks.com
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Supply Change Capital summer Fellows Alan Cortez and Nisha Patel volunteered for a beach cleanup during the LA Tech Day of Service. Organized by Fika Ventures and SVB in support of the The Surfrider Foundation, they participated in a beach clean-up alongside investors and founders in the LA tech community. The group collected and sorted over 40 pounds of trash from the Santa Monica beach in support of local environmental preservation efforts.
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We recently announced our lead investment in Terrantic, a SaaS platform that takes complicated, analog silos of existing data and leverages AI to generate actionable insights for customers across the agricultural value chain. Supply Change Capital partner Noramay Cadena shared in Yahoo Finance, "An optimized and data-informed supply chain is critical to enabling a sustainable food system. Operational efficiency and data insights within the supply chain - from food processing to agriculture to process manufacturing - are the keys. We are proud to be investing in Terrantic, whose technology will modernize operations for the industry and improve food system sustainability." Terrantic’s first customers are packhouse operators. The company addresses key problems for produce packhouses: optimizing labor, reducing waste, and maximizing profit by better matching supply with demand. Supply Change led Terrantic’s recent Seed round with participation from York IE, VITALIZE Venture Capital, and Array Ventures. Read more linked below
Terrantic Closes $3.5M Seed Round to Help Food Processors Extend Shelf Life and Increase Production Yields
finance.yahoo.com
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Host Brooking Gatewood sits down with Manuela Zoninsein, the CEO & Founder of Kadeya and the winner of the Most Innovative Company in the Food and Beverage category for the 2024 Reusies. Learn the secret to Kadeya’s 99% bottle return rate, and how their patented closed-loop beverage system can eliminate single-use bottles forever while saving GHGs, eliminating threats from microplastics and unstable supply chains, and increasing worker hydration. Check out the full podcast linked below 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gstXiewq
The 2.0 of bottled H2O
https://spotify.com
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The future of chocolate is in question as the global cocoa market faces unprecedented strain. With cocoa prices at an all-time high, the industry is at an inflection point; novel alternatives like cell-based and fermentation-based cocoa present a promising risk management strategy for this climate-threatened commodity. In our latest Substack post, learn how these innovative approaches could alleviate supply pressures to meet a growing chocolate demand while addressing environmental and ethical concerns. We outline the landscape of novel cocoa alternatives and present an evaluation framework to understand which solutions could be positioned to win, and which market may be next. Read more - linked below. https://lnkd.in/gVrAVjM9
The Rise of Novel Cocoa Alternatives
supplychangecapital.substack.com
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We are excited to announce our latest investment in Terrantic. Terrantic is a SaaS platform that takes complicated, analog silos of existing data and leverages AI to generate actionable insights for customers across the agricultural value chain. Terrantic’s first customers are packhouse operators. The company addresses key problems for produce packhouses: optimizing labor, reducing waste, and maximizing profit by better matching supply with demand. Supply Change led Terrantic’s recent Seed round with participation from York IE, VITALIZE Venture Capital, and Array Ventures. Read more about it in Geekwire.
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