MEET MELODY VIOLTON: FROM BANKING TO ALTERNATIVE PROTEIN INVESTING
What was your first job and what is your actual job? First job: Sales Advisor at a luxury boutique on the Champs-Élysées Actual job: Senior Investment Associate at CPT Capital Do you believe entrepreneurs are born with innate qualities or made through experiences and learning? 👶🏻 Born 🏋️♀️ Made I don’t think the answer is entirely black […]
MEET JULIETTE RAOUL-FORTÉSA: A TASTE FOR INNOVATION IN AGTECH AND FOODTECH
What was your first job and what is your actual job? First job: My first professional experience was a one-month internship at a sheep farm near the village of Carcassonne during my first year at university. I was studying the economics of this small-sized farm, and this hands-on experience allowed me to apply my academic […]
MEET SHARON CITTONE: RESHAPING THE GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM
What was your first job and what is your actual job? First job:PR and marketing for an Italian fashion house in NYC. Actual job: CEO of Edible Planet Ventures. Do you believe entrepreneurs are born with innate qualities or made through experiences and learning? 👶🏻 Born 🏋️♀️ Made In the classic debate, which came first for you: […]
EIC SCALING CLUB WELCOMES EUROPE’S TOP DEEPTECH SCALE-UPS TO AN EXCLUSIVE COMMUNITY
What is the EIC Scaling Club? Funded by the EIC and orchestrated in collaboration with esteemed partners like Tech Tour, Bpifrance (EuroQuity), Hello Tomorrow, Tech.eu (Webrazzi), EurA, and IESE Business School, the EIC Scaling Club aims to nurture the development of Europe’s best deep tech scale-ups. These companies span a range of markets, from Agri […]
MEET EMILIE ABRAMS: A PASSIONATE ADVOCATE FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRI-FOOD CHANGE
What was your first job and what is your actual job? First job: Working for a social enterprise during university in Philadelphia. Actual job: Investment Associate at Yield Lab Europe and a Principal at Yield Lab Latam. Do you believe entrepreneurs are born with innate qualities or made through experiences and learning? Both! I believe […]
MEET LUCIE KRIEGSHAUSER: BRIDGING SCIENCE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP TO TRANSFORM THE FUTURE OF CROPS
What was your first job and what is your actual job? First job: Working in a public library Actual job: Founder and CTO at Amatera Biosciences. Do you believe entrepreneurs are born with innate qualities or made through experiences and learning? 👶🏻 Born 🏋️♀️ Made In the classic debate, which came first for you: the […]
WORLD LIVING SOILS FORUM CONCLUDES SECOND EDITION WITH CALL FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION TO PROTECT LIVING SOILS
Key figures from this edition: More than 500 participants in Arles and 100 in the satellite events in China and the United States Over 70 sessions including roundtables, conferences, keynotes, workshops, pitches, etc. 164 speakers from all over the world and 20 moderators More than 20 solutions, including one “Coup de cœur” award. “Living soils are at the heart of our agricultural and winegrowing activities and our sustainable […]
MEET DANIEL SKAVÉN RUBEN, THE ONE AND ONLY FUTURE OF FOOD CATALYST AND SUPERCONNECTOR
What was your first job and what is your actual job? First job: Could have been as a paperboy, mowing the neighbors’ lawn, or assembling cell phone antennas (!) in the 90s back when Sweden had a cell phone manufacturing industry. Actual job: Hard to say; I wear many hats. I invest, advise, mentor, speak, […]
FOOD + TECH EVENTS IN OCTOBER IN FRANCE
Here are a few must-attend events in France for anyone in the agrifood, climate and tech ecosystem: 📅 1-2/10 NutrEvent, 10th edition of the congress in Lille https://www.nutrevent.com/ 📅 3/10 ☕ Climate Coffee Paris chez Techstars Sustainability Paris https://lu.ma/f5uzlkr4 📅 8-9/10 World Living Soils Forum returns to Arles-en-Provence by Moët Hennessy co-organized with ChangeNOW https://lnkd.in/eAPRefuh […]
MEET ANTOINE DAVY, FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE ONE ROCK AT A TIME
What was your first job and what is your actual job? First job: my very first job, I was 14 years old. To earn a bit of pocket money, I worked for a few weeks during the summer with a farmer near where I grew up, helping with the harvest of corn and shallot crops. […]