Podcast appearances and mentions of amy novogratz

Amy Novogratz is Co-Founder of AquaSpark, a global investment fund based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. AquaSpark is a holding company of innovative, novel solutions to some of aquaculture's biggest challenges, investing in companies developing a sustainable, optimal food system all along the aquaculture value chain.Amy's career as a change agent has focused on building collaborative solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges. Her early career highlights include helping set up SPAN, the Social Policy Action Network; developing and producing ‘Chat the Planet', a web and television entity that bridged young people globally; later she served as Director of the TED Conference's annual TED Prize for almost a decade, leading more than 20 global collaborations across a broad spectrum of sectors, including healthcare, education, science, technology, conservation, art, and activism.Notable projects during Amy's time at TED include: Jamie Oliver's Food revolution, JR's Inside Out Project, Bono's One.org and Sylvia Earle's Mission Blue.  It was on an expedition with marine biologist Sylvia Earle to the Galapagos Islands that Amy met Mike Velings, with whom she developed a shared vision to transform the aquaculture fish farming sector into a more sustainable industry, leading to the launch of AquaSpark – the first global investment fund dedicated to sustainable aquaculture – in 2013.Amy serves on the boards of eFishery, Energaia, and Xpert Sea.In today's episode, we discuss the aquaculture industry and the need for its transition into a more sustainable food supply.  A natural-born change agent, Amy recounts her odyssey journey starting out early in her career in activist theater which she soon felt was too indulgent. She then did an about-face and worked at a series of jobs, first with a think tank, and moving later to co-found the Social Policy Action Network with the objective of impacting culture. This ultimately led to a number of television-related media projects and eventually landing at the TED conferences.Amy explains the challenges that the sustainable aquaculture sector faces and the increasing role of technology in finding sustainable aquaculture solutions.  We discuss Aqua-Spark's theory of change and the eight components they use to measure their sustainability. She speaks about AquaSpark's ecosystem approach to portfolio management, how they select their investments, their due diligence process, examples of investments they've made and much more.Show notes: https://sri360.com/podcast/amy-novogratzAbout the SRI 360° Podcast: The SRI 360° Podcast is focused exclusively on sustainable & responsible investing. In each episode, Scott Arnell interviews a world-class investor who is an accomplished practitioner from all asset classes. In my interviews, I cover everything from their early personal journeys—and what motivated and attracted them to commit their life energy to SRI—to insights on how they developed and executed their investment strategies and what challenges they face today. Each episode is a chance to go way below the surface with these impressive people and gain additional insights and useful lessons from professional investors. Connect with SRI 360°: Sign up for the free weekly email update: https://sri360.com/newsletter/ Visit the SRI 360° PODCAST: https://sri360.com/podcast/ Visit the SRI 360° WEBSITE: https://sri360.com/ Follow SRI 360° on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/SRI360Growth/Follow SRI 360° on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/SRI360Growth/

Amy Novogratz is the co-founder of Aqua-Spark - a global investment firm focused on aquaculture. They invest in companies and founders throughout the supply chain, helping to make sustainable seafood available for everyone.In the highlight Amy and Vonheim discuss:How to find your journey and enjoy life to the fullest. Follow Vonheim on Twitter and YouTube:YouTube: Christopher VonheimTwitter: @chrisvonheimThe Frantzen Vonheim LetterJoin our letter to receive first hand insights from us: eepurl.com/htJXsT See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Amy Novogratz is the co-founder of Aqua-Spark - a global investment firm focused on aquaculture. They invest in companies and founders throughout the supply chain, helping to make sustainable seafood available for everyone.In this episode Amy and Vonheim discuss:Amy's upbringing in New York, and the environment growing up with 6 other siblings.Why her health issues gave the foundation and attitude of going big. Her passion for aquaculture, and Aqua Sparks priorities going forward.Amy's best advice for people wanting to create an interesting life and career.PartnerQuartr is the new way of doing company research. Their first mission is to enable access to conference calls, investor presentations, transcripts and earnings reports as frictionless as possible – straight to your pocket. Their second mission is to create a completely new way for companies to reach their investors, and vice versa - to change the way people look at Investor Relations. Our initial core product is now available for both iOS and Android, and stay tuned for additional features during the coming year. Quartr is 100% free, include companies from 12 markets today, and plan to add more during the year. Download the app here: https://quartr.se and follow them on twitter here.Follow Vonheim on Twitter and YouTube:YouTube: Christopher VonheimTwitter: @chrisvonheimThe Frantzen Vonheim LetterJoin our letter to receive first hand insights from us: eepurl.com/htJXsT See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, we interviewed Amy Novogratz, who is one of AquaSpark's founders that invests in the future of sustainable aquaculture. She is one of the go to women experts in our industry.  Amy brings almost two decades of experience in fostering collaborative solutions to some of the world's big challenges. From helping to start the Social Policy Action Network, bringing together policy makers, academics, journalists and grassroots organizations to tackle pressing social policy issues, to developing and producing Chat the Planet, a web and television entity that bridged young people globally and to serving as director of the TED Conference's annual TED Prize for almost a decade, leading more than twenty global collaborations across a broad spectrum of sectors, including healthcare, education, science, technology, conservation, art, and activism. With TED, her list of notable projects include: Sylvia Earle's Mission Blue, Jamie Oliver's Food revolution, JR's Inside Out Project, and Bono's One.org among others. Amy met her partner Mike through ocean conservation work connected to Sylvia Earle's Mission Blue and together built Aqua-Spark to invest in the right types of aquaculture solutions to provide access to healthy, affordable protein and take pressure off of the ocean. With Aqua-Spark Amy serves on the boards of eFishery, Energaia and Xpert Sea.

CHANGE MAKER Was the documentary, Seaspiracy, calling for consumers to stop eating fish, really representative of fish farming v’s caught from the sea? With fish making up 17% of animal protein, aquaculture is the fastest growing food sector in the world, yet with depleted wild-caught fish stocks and consumer’s demand for more sustainable fish farms there is a lot of work to invest in. For information on Aqua-Spark who invest globally in sustainable aquaculture, visit,  https://www.aqua-spark.nl/ Subscribe to Sarah’s Country on the podcast and if you love us, please leave a review! Contact the show: sarah@sarahscountry.com Follow Sarah’s Country on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarahscountry  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahscountry

Amy Novogratz, Founder & Managing Partner of AquaSpark, fervidly details her vision to disrupt the fastest growing food industry in the world, aquaculture. She talks about the need for clarity around where our food comes from, especially in the aquaculture industry where, currently, the whole sector is out of sight. Amy seeks to realize the greatest potential in an industry that can be revolutionary to our food systems if care and transparency are embedded in every layer of production from feed and disease to technology.  Amy's passion, innovation, and creativity are at the core of her efforts to restore and reinvigorate an industry that has been long overlooked.In this episode, Amy talks about:  Why the ocean & the urgency [2:40] Digging deeper into aquaculture to find an industry in need of transformation at all levels [7:00] What investing in aquaculture looks like from disease management to feed to technology [9:23] Utilizing data to transform the industry where little to no data existed before [12:25] The food chain: what are you eating when you eat farmed fish [17:02] Limited benchmarks in understanding the relationship between climate change and aquaculture [22:50] Bridging the gap of “disconnect” with the ocean [29:21] Resource Links AquaSpark developing an optimal aquaculture food system by investing in companies all along the aquaculture value chain working to solve industry challenges eFishery an aquaculture intelligence company 

Co-host Erin Allweiss talks with Amy Novogratz about her work in aquaculture. Amy discusses how her investment fund, Aqua-Spark, fosters collaborative solutions to fixing our oceans, the nuances between farmed fish and wild caught, and why she is optimistic about the future of aquaculture. The Enough. newsletter inaugural issue comes out tomorrow! For more on our guest, No. 29, and the Enough. newsletter, visit: Amy Novogratz Arctic Char on FreshDirect No. 29 Enough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The ocean is in jeopardy! Scientists say if we continue to pollute and plunder the seven seas, they'll be fully depleted by 2050. In other words, there will be no fish left for us to eat. What can be done to solve this crisis? Amy Novogratz has an answer. She's the founder and managing director of Aquaspark — a fund that invests in aquaculture... namely fish farms. That's right. Seafood, a go-to source of protein for most Americans, can be grown and cultivated in a sustainable way... just like the heirloom tomatoes you pick up at the local market. Unlike tomatoes, however, seafood is growing scarce, and the marine life we depend on is in dire straits. "The amount of fish that we're catching now is really at its limit," Amy tells us. Thankfully, there are more sustainable supply chains -- all made possible by Aquaspark, a firm that invests in companies that are mutually supportive of each other. Whether they're building farms or creating feed, each "Aquaspark" portfolio company is synergistic. They depend on each other to grow, thrive and -- as a result -- benefit the overall ecosystem. Just like THE OCEAN. No more water metaphors; we promise. Take the plunge (we lied) with co-hosts Lex and Tony. This is one deep dive (we lied again) you'll not want to miss (no lie)!

Live from the IntraFish Seafood Investor Forum in NYC on May 23, we brought together an expert panel to talk about the opportunities and challenges of investing in the seafood, aquaculture and fisheries industries. Joining us was Amy Novogratz of Aqua-Spark, Robert Orr of Cuna del Mar, Kristoffer Jordheim of Pareto Securities and Thor Talseth of Amerra Capital Management. Enjoy!

The coming year will be a pivotal one for the ocean. United Nations delegates will begin negotiations to draft an international treaty to protect the biodiversity of the high seas – the 60 percent of the ocean beyond national jurisdiction Meanwhile, the International Maritime Organization is expected to issue greenhouse-gas reduction goals for shipping, a global industry not subject to the Paris climate agreement. And the movement toward sustainable aquaculture will accelerate as demand for seafood as a healthy source of protein to feed a growing world population rises, even as populations of wild fish decline. Jessica Leber, Ocean Deeply’s deputy managing editor, speaks with Peggy Kalas, director of the High Seas Alliance, Kathy Metcalf, president and chief executive of the Chamber of Shipping of America and Amy Novogratz, managing partner of the aquaculture-focused investment firm Aqua-Spark.

The coming year will be a pivotal one for the ocean. United Nations delegates will begin negotiations to draft an international treaty to protect the biodiversity of the high seas – the 60 percent of the ocean beyond national jurisdiction Meanwhile, the International Maritime Organization is expected to issue greenhouse-gas reduction goals for shipping, a global industry not subject to the Paris climate agreement. And the movement toward sustainable aquaculture will accelerate as demand for seafood as a healthy source of protein to feed a growing world population rises, even as populations of wild fish decline. Jessica Leber, Ocean Deeply’s deputy managing editor, speaks with Peggy Kalas, director of the High Seas Alliance, Kathy Metcalf, president and chief executive of the Chamber of Shipping of America and Amy Novogratz, managing partner of the aquaculture-focused investment firm Aqua-Spark.

Feeding future generations simply won’t work without addressing the food we get from our oceans. Oceans serve as our main source of animal protein, with over 2.6 billion people depending on it every day. How we’ll be able to continue sourcing from our oceans however is the million-dollar question. Overfishing has plundered our oceans, pushing fish stocks and other marine life to the brink of collapse. Seafood farming—also known as aquaculture— is one alternative. It’s the fastest growing food production system in the world. Yet it continues to be shunned by some as part of the problem, not the solution. In this episode, I talk with Mike Velings and Amy Novogratz about how sustainable, smart practices in aquaculture – adopted by local businesses around the world – provides the most promising solution to meeting the demands of a growing word population. Mike and Amy are the Founder and Managing Partners of Aqua-spark, a global investment fund that supports sustainable aquaculture businesses around the world.   Links: Aqua-spark Website, Twitter, Facebook Mike Velings TED Talk: The case for fish farming Love the Wild fish company The Fish Site The World Fish Center Fishing for a Future

Amy Novogratz is a Managing Partner of AquaSpark - the world's first aquaculture-only venture investment fund.  Founded in 2013, AquaSpark invests with a focus on sustainable aquaculture businesses around the world. The small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) they invest in are working toward the production of safe, accessible aquatic life - such as fish, shellfish and plants, as well as innovations in fish feed and technical systems; all which operate in ways that do not harm the planet's oceans. The funds investors value the fact that each investment aims to create triple impact—specifically, each investment is chosen for its potential to generate significant financial returns while also activating positive environmental and social outcomes. Specifically, Aquaspark chooses SMEs that meet the following three principles of sustainability; Economic sustainability—the business generates enough cash to be able to reinvest in its own growth and provide an equitable return to its stakeholders; Environmental sustainability—the business sets high standards of environmental management and seeks to maintain or enhance ecosystem services; and Social sustainability—the business creates jobs, reduces poverty, empowers the underserved, and helps to strengthen communities*; Their investments start at $250,000, and the fund purposely does not seek controlling stakes in thier investments. The team at AquaSpark prefers to be a minority investor holding between 20-49%, alongside other investors. Every business they invest in is a reflection of their trust in the entrepreneur to lead their companies' development and growth in the most effective way. Prior to AquaSpark, Amy was the Director of the TED prize for 8 years, leading more than twenty global collaborations across a broad spectrum of sectors, including healthcare, education, science, technology, conservation, art, and activism. On top of her work at AquaSpark, Amy is also working alongside Sylvia Earle and her project “Mission Blue.” The project aims to educate the world on the importance of ocean conservation and how much we depend on the marine ecosystems and how important they are to our planet's survival. As well, the overarching goal of the Mission Blue project is to establish a global network of protected areas in the ocean - Hope Spots – special places that are vital to the health of the ocean – through the creation of a global network of marine protected areas to safeguard 20% of the ocean by 2020.” As some of you may have figured out by now, I'm wildly bullish on aquaculture. In the past it has been associated with environmental harm rather than doing good, but as our climate changes, our fisheries are subject to the "tragedy of the commons," and our resources decline - aquaculture is becoming a necessary solution and one that can have many positive impacts while limiting the negative. It is projected that we will need to increase our food production by 60% by 2050 to feed a world population of 9.5 Billion people. Current agriculture methods aren't going to - and can't - make it happen. We're going to have to start looking to the ocean. This mean conservation, strict regulation, and innovative ways to grow and harvest aquaculture related products such as kelp, shellfish, sea cucumbers and fin fish.  If you are an early stage investor or interested in investing in food systems or environmentally conscience companies - aquaculture is an area I would look long and hard at. Facebook: The Impact Investing Podcast Twitter: @impinvpodcast www.aqua-apark.nl