BRINGING NEW FOOD IDEAS & NEW CAPITAL TO THE PLATE.
February 25, 2015
Bluxome Street Winery, SF
2:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Demos
On the Menu
FoodBytes! is dedicated to helping investors in the food industry meet new companies that are disrupting and/or innovating in food-related software and applications, distribution, manufacturing, production and more.
FoodBytes! attendees - investors, technologists, media, and others - will see live demonstrations from rising stars who are innovating and disrupting in the food industry, participate in conversations with food industry leaders, and network with food industry peers and opinion leaders, among many others.
Of course, delicious wine and food will be served.
Fireside Chat
Partners
The Investor's Den
Nick Fereday
Executive Director, Senior Analyst - Food & Consumer Trends at Rabobank
Deven Clemens
Managing Partner, White Road Investments
Myles Weissleder
Founder, SF New Tech
Jip Weijts
Associate, Wholesale Clients West Coast Region at Rabobank
Your Hosts
Lisa Curtis
Founder & CEO
Introducing a new superfood, moringa, to the US market. In doing so, we're disrupting a global food system that has left nearly a billion people hungry and another billion obese.
Our drinks capitalize on the collision of the rise of probiotics and new awareness around sugary soda.
Shawn Patrick
CEO
Sit down with Nick Fereday, Executive Director, Senior Analyst - Food & Consumer Trends at Rabobank and Deven Clemens, Managing Partner at White Road Investments, for a spirited conversation on the intersection of food and technology.
Bitty Foods makes delicious baked goods powered by cricket flour.
Megan Miller
Co-Founder
See and hear from some of the hottest and most promising startups that are disrupting the food industry.
From consumer goods (food and beverages) to AgTech and software, these companies are innovating for a more sustainable and healthy future.
The Algae Factory addresses the need of alternatives to animal proteins and soy based products.
Pierluigi Santoro
Co-Founder
RapidBio Systems is developing a fast (~10 minute) food borne bacteria pathogen detection system.
John Erickson
President & CEO
Developers of industry-leading technologies that are redefining data acquisition, analysis, and translation for growers of fruit bearing trees and vines.
Thomas McPeek
CEO
Cherrysh Inc is creating an all-natural, ZERO sugar added and bubbly drink that tastes good without giving you a sense of guilt!
Bhushan Surve
COO
BagIQ helps you make better informed decisions on purchases that impact your health, budget and lifestyle. We'd like to tell our story to inspire developers and companies to create the next wave of custom, personal apps by harnessing the power of passive purchase data connected to active and enhanced product data.
Matthew Stanfield
CEO
We want make fresh food more accessible!
Talia Soffer
Head of Business Development
Beer that makes you smart!
Ulrik Lehrskov-Schmidt
CEO
FarmX is solving problems in Food, Water, Education, Poverty and the Environment. By deploying FarmMap Soil we are creating an IT infrastructure for outdoor industrial farms. This network uses artificial intelligence and computational biology powered by low cost distributed computing to save resources going directly into farms and the environment, allowing more food to be produced with a lower resource demand.
Sanjay Rajpoot
Co-Founder & CEO
During the FoodBytes! Summit, join us inside the most important room in the world for food startups.
As an enhanced feature of the summit, the Investor’s Den — a secluded tasting room inside the Bluxome Winery — will be dedicated to providing investors and food entrepreneurs a comfortable environment to get to know each other.
Investors: if you are interested having your firm listed here and wish to be present in the Investor’s Den, please email myles@sfnewtech.com for more information.
Rabobank is the world's premier bank to the food, agribusiness and beverage industry.
SF New Tech is San Francisco's largest and longest-running tech showcase event.
Produce Pay is a payment platform that connects Farmers, Distributors and Banks to ensure faster cash turnover and provide necessary financing throughout the supply chain.
Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck
Founder & CEO
Manuel Gonzalez
Managing Director, Head Wholesale Clients West Coast Region at Rabobank
