Podcasts about sos ventures

This amazing episode is with Ryan Bethencourt, Founder and CEO of Wild Earth, but this guy invests, mentors and influences and has had such an impact in the alt-meat and biotech community. If you’re in the plant-based community and don’t know Ryan, get to know him, follow him on LinkedIn, he is one of the lynchpins in this innovative field and shares a ton of amazing content. So what has Ryan done so far?  Well, started a company? Several. Invested in innovative technology? Scientist? Yep. Been on Shark Tank? Got an investment on Shark Tank! This guy has done everything! A big takeaway from this episode is that Ryan was told no all the time. Why? Because he had dyslexia as a kid but after reading some science fiction and then busting his butt working really hard, he kept on breaking expectations and is now a literal limitless human being and has leveraged his weakness into his greatest strength. I know Ryan personally, and I never knew this story! You’ll learn a bit more about his personal life such as why he moved out of Silicon Valley to Research Triangle Park in North Carolina and set up an awesome sustainable food fund with his wife. Based on the length of the episode and the quality of today’s guest, I don’t have to tell you that you will learn a lot and be inspired in this interview. The best takeaway in this episode is that even if people say you can’t, you can. Show Notes Mark Cuban Shark Tank Deal What do you call yourself when you talk to people?: If it’s simple I say I run a dog food company I also have invested in/helped build 130 startups I cofounded Indiebio and I cofounded Wild Earth The first investor in Memphis Meats, Not Co, Geltor, Clara Foods Arvind and Po’s Book Silicon Valley actually has a biotech ecosystem but it was hard to break in. Once the recession hits, we bought biotech equipment and put them into our garage SOS Ventures backe dour company called IndieBio and we would provide a lab to scientists Y-combinator NotCo in the US Wait, are you an investor and a CEO?: Yes, I’m an AND person. I do both Sustainable Food Ventures What Are You?: I’m many things, but you and I have done the “and”. Give yourself permission to do both and it’s ok to fail and don’t listen to the people who say no I was dyslexic as a child and really had a handicap in school. My parents always believed in me and introduced me to science fiction Science fiction told me about what is possible and taught me to work harder to make these goals happen Once I found that computers helped me work faster, I leveraged technology to do great job. Eventually, after I looked up from the grindstone, I became more knowledgable people GATTACA – the swimming part Book: Three Body Problem Series – Chinese Fiction - Three part series What other cultures can do science fiction well? Each culture can give us a different lense into science fiction Silicon Valley – The Rome of Technology Ryan was always looking at multiple hubs to leave Silicon Valley Steve Case – AOL Focus on the Rise of the Rest Research Triangle Hub Marilis Holme, my wife and I created a new future of food fund in the triangle called Sustainable Food Ventures It is harder to set up a fund in undeveloped projects but it’s worth it What is your strategy in developing cities? Big Idea Ventures Veggie Victory – Rise of Plant-based Meat in Nigeria Plant-based Meat is supposed to be 1% of the meat market right now How do people get money from startups?: Just ask us. We help Book: Zero to One Golden Beef- Real Beef but slaughtered free Tufts University Golden Rice Better Meat Co Motif Foodworks Why did you start Wild Earth?: Funny enough, no one wanted me to make this company and they wouldn’t want to invest in me on dog food Dogs eat everything We are actually getting some interesting data on dogs eating a plant-based diet. We are funding future research For Wild Earth, it’s not just that we’re plant-based, but we care about our pet’s nutrition We want Wild Earth to be the leader of plant-based dog food and make an impact with giant companies. The more we can convince large pet food companies join us, the more impactful you can be Book: Hyper Competition – Managing Dynamics of Strategic Maneuvering Porter’s 5 Laws are Wrong. They only matter in a  static system, not a dynamic system The true barrier is constant innovation Telsa is an example of a constantly innovating product Book: Elon Musk Biography by Ashley Lance Moonshots – Elon needs our help to bring the future of food to feed people in Mars Book: The Future is Faster Than You Think Peter Diamandas from X-prize My Food Job Rocks: I get to feed my dog an amazing product that was once an idea and now is a product Venture Capitalists: generally are risk adverse Softbank and WeWork How do we kick people in the pants about climate change?: I believe in humanity in the long term. I believe we can solve a lot of problems. The Tech investors in the West coast might have awoken to the sheer issue with the climate situation Book: Wizard and the Prophet How do you inspire scientists to take risks to start businesses to save the world?: Scientists want to make science for the love of it. It’s hard for them to take risks. Give yourself permission to try. If you have a  good idea, email me at ryan@sustainablefoodventures.com SustainableFoodVentures.com – We love to fund idea stage companies

Bill Liao was one of Australia's original tech entrepreneurs. Today he's a Partner at SOS Ventures in Ireland where it manages their investments in life science startups. He's also a passionate social entrepreneur who has founded a number of important charities. We invited him on to chat about how a VC values a tech startup.

We tend to focus on the fact that in the year 2050 we will have to feed 10 billion human beings on this planet but we won’t be the only species we have to worry about. We are currently witnessing an unprecedented loss of biodiversity as climate change makes this planet inhospitable for all species. We need to find a way to feed not just ourselves but also ensure other species thrive on Earth without being too extractive from nature. It is clear that biotech is going to be key to this transformation, and will rule the world just as software did for the last few decades. And there are a few people building the future of food at the vanguard of this development.Our guest this week is one of the most prolific investors, and early stage funders of numerous biotech companies in the alternative protein space. Ryan Bethencourt is the CEO of Wild Earth that makes pet food from fermentation-based protein. He is also a partner at Babel Ventures, an early stage consumer biotech venture capital fund. As the co-founder, and CEO of incubators, and seed funds like IndieBio (an SOS Ventures backed accelerator, and early stage seed fund), Berkeley Bio Labs, a startup incubator, and sector builder, as well as the head of life sciences at the XPRIZE foundation, Ryan has funded well over a 100 companies. The list includes notable alternative protein companies like Shiok Meats, Memphis Meats, New Wave Foods, Clara Foods, Finless Foods as well as Mumbai’s plant-based egg company, Evo Foods. Ryan’s aim overlaps with ours at GFI India - we want to positively impact the lives of billions of people, and animals!NOTES:Companies Mentioned:Wild EarthIndieBioBabel VenturesBerkeley Bio LabsXPrize FoundationBibliography:Why Wild Earth Cofounder Ryan Bethencourt Is Applying The Science Of 'Vegan Biohacking' To Pet Food, Forbes.Eat For The Planet #71 - Ryan Bethencourt: Reinventing Pet Food and Building the Post-Animal Bio Economy, EFTP.This biotech startup is growing protein-rich vegan pet food in a lab, FastCompanyShiok Meats takes the cultured meat revolution to the seafood aisle with plans for cultured shrimp, TechCrunch.Tour the San Francisco lab that’s growing meat in a petri dish, CNBCA foodtech EVO-lution: this startup is set to disrupt India’s plant-based food market with its ‘clean’ egg substitute, YourStoryFor Further Reading:Ryan Bethencourt’s writing on Medium.Ryan’s videos on the Singularity University page.What does it take to create a conducive environment for scale-up of new protein companies? Future of Protein Summit, YouTube Channel.

“Soy una persona fiel al destino y creo que uno puede no entender porque las cosas pasan hoy día, pero que, con la perspectiva del futuro se podrán entender por qué estas ocurrieron.  Y eso me da paz y tranquilidad, porque sé que lo que pasa hoy, lo voy a entender mañana”.  Extracto de la entrevista realizada a Carolina Rossi, donde relata cómo ella se para ante la vida y enfrenta el futuro. Caro es una mujer que toma riesgos, que lleva la bandera global desde su nacimiento y que se nota que tiene cancha. En esta entrevista nos relata cómo se está reinventando, trazando un plan de transformación personal y profesional, que tiene pensado transitar por los próximos 10 años. La Caro es Senior Partner de la consultora Moon Advisors que actualmente opera desde Europa y Co-fundadora del medio InnovaRock. Lleva una década ligada al ecosistema de Innovación de América Latina, liderando escalamiento de empresas y organizaciones y no en vano es, además, parte del Directorio Global de los World Summit Awards (Salzburgo, Austria) y Presidenta del Directorio de Kieron (Empresa de ingeniería en temas tecnológicos) y parte del consejo asesor de Laboratoria. A Caro le encanta la historia y por ende dedico dos años de su vida a ese saber, por otro lado posee un Bachiller en comunicación social, Especialización en Comunicación Estratégica y el título de Periodista. Además posee un diploma en Gestión y Management de Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile y Administración y Gestión de Empresas en la Universitá Degli Studi Roma Tre.  Y! Actualmente, está ad portas de partir a realizar su MBA a la prestigiosa escuela de Negocios de Roma, Luiss- dentro de las TOP 1% del mundo- Ya que fue becada con la beca AdVentures para Emprendedores Globales. Se ha desarrollado durante la última década como consultora donde ha trabajado con El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo siendo la Editora de la Guía del Emprendimiento de la Alianza del Pacífico, ha trabajado para el Banco Mundial, el Ministerio de Transporte de Chile, StartUpGrind, Campus Party y Santiago Innova en temas de innovación, además de ser una activa contribuyente desde el contenido a temáticas de emprendimiento.  Es Coautora del libro “Comunicación Estratégica: Siete casos para la reflexión” (2012).  Ha sido columnista en América Economía, Ciper Chile y de Harvard Women in Business.  Elegida Joven Líder de El Mercurio y miembro de primer equipo que creó y administró la reconocida política pública de Start-Up Chile.   Fue fundadora de la primera startup de carpooling chilena, con la cual levantó fondo de los Inversionistas de Netflix y consiguió entrar a la prestigiosa red de Alumnis de SOS Ventures.   Ha recibido diversos premios, entre ellos el Social Venture Challenge de la Universidad de Harvard (EE.UU.) 2009, seis veces la becas de honor y diploma al mérito de la Universidad Finis Terrae del 2007 al 2010 y diploma por el aporte a la promoción de emprendimiento de Western Michigan University y en 2014 fue seleccionada como una de las profesionales para ser parte del programa internacional Stanford Ignite, de la Universidad de Stanford" el 2014. En este apasionante episodio, veremos en que está la Caro, su proceso transformacional personal y profesional, escucharemos por que la Caro cree que ‘todos estamos aquí por algo’; que cree que no se puede ser mentor de emprendedores si no se ha emprendido alguna vez, que se considera cero dogmática y que nada es tan absurdo, fan rockera de los años 60 y de cómo este género musical ha logrado influir a generaciones y provocar un verdadero impacto cultural en el mundo, que está viviendo un proceso de cierre respecto de su último emprendimiento y de la apertura a un nuevo desafío que es profundizar sus estudios con un MBA en Roma – Italia, que quiere radicarse en Europa pero sin olvidarse y siempre mirando a Chile y que hará su propio podcast.  De impronta Multicultural, su visión de lo que son los medios tradicionales y la irrupción de los nuevos medios digitales como el podcasting.  Escuchemos a esta mujer, con una mirada conjunta tanto latina y como Europa de lo que es el emprendimiento.  Su conocimiento de la realidad en Suecia, Italia, Estonia, Irlanda, Brasil y Chile.  Hola, soy Pancho Vergara https://www.linkedin.com/in/francisco-vergara/, creador de ¡Ahoy! PodCast y hoy les presento esta ‘long range conversation’, entrevista grabada con 6 horas de diferencia con la Caro en Estocolmo, 3 am de Chile y 9 am en Suecia, en plena pandemia 2020, con cuarentena y por Skype, de esta mujer soñadora, pero estructurada, emprendedora elegida como una de las 100 Chilean National Leaders Under 35, Premio Joven Líder de El Mercurio (2014), ciudadana del mundo y que hoy nos deja con esta entrevista llena de contenido sobre lo que es ser emprendedor.  Vamos con el episodio.  ¡AHOY!  Caro Rossi: http://www.carolinarossi.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinarossip/ https://www.moon-advisors.com/ https://www.innovarock.cl/

A serial entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, diplomat, and author; Bill founded not one but two unicorn companies in the 80s and 90s. His ambitions are now always driven by the purpose of creating a 'world that works for all life'. His work includes: - CoderDojo, a volunteer-driven community which teaches coding to kids in 107 countries -WeForest, which aims to combat climate change and support communities through forest restoration and has already planted 20 million trees. He is also a General Partner at SOS Ventures and founded the world's first biotech accelerator, RebelBio. He lives on a small farm in Cork, Ireland where he lives as sustainably as possible and has not set foot on a plane for 10 years. He is a charismatic speaker and regularly hosts masterclasses in persuasion. It's hardly surprising then that we found this conversation inspiring.

Benjamin Joffe, partner of HAX from SOS Ventures joined us in a conversation about the evolution of their hardware startup accelerator and discuss what Mike Moritz from Sequoia Capital got wrong and right about China's technology startup ecosystem. We discussed the intention of Moritz's article to Silicon Valley and how the Chinese startups will pose a challenge to them globally.

We speak to Bill Liao, Co-Founder of CoderDojo and General Partner of SOS Ventures. He tells us of his journey in entrpreneurship and his latest focus on the RebelBio Biotech lab in Cork. We talk CoderDojo, Leadership, Education, BioTech, Ai, Singularity and much more. Nils Rehmann is CEO and Founder of Canuevo, a Cannabinoid Pharma approach to healthcare. Nils team has a unique approach to accessing Cannabis for health for Epilepsy, Insomnia and Pain relief.

In our second SXSW themed podcast, Ronan talks to Helix Works co-founders Nimesh Chandra and Sachin Chalapati just before they headed off to SXSW to pitch at it. Helix Works is in the IndieBio EU program run by SOS Ventures and they focus on DNA data storage as they are a DNA factory that synthesises DNA. Nimesh and Sachin talk about the help they got from Enterprise Ireland and the local enterprise office in Cork and IndieBio program they are involved. Nimesh and Sachin also talk about how they ended up going to SXSW and what the future holds for Helix Works including being able to store a terabyte on a USB stick.

William Bao Bean, partner of SOS Ventures and Chinaccelerator, joined us on Analyse Asia to discuss how their accelerator and venture fund spurred the entrepreneurial ecosystem in China. We discussed the interesting companies under his portfolio, how they are working on growth hacks in Wechat and also why media is an exciting category in China. The post Episode 44: The China Ecosystem with William Bao Bean of SOS Ventures appeared first on Analyse Asia.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney This programme was recorded at the 2015 annual conference of the Computer Education Society of Ireland which took place at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology on 27 and 27 February 2015. The first interview featured here is with Kelly Kirkpatrick from SOS Ventures and Martina Sexton from St. Peter's Primary School in Bray about Mathletes. The second is with the opening keynote speaker of the conference, Tim Rylands.

Fresh out of The Dragons Den, I speak with Noel Joyce of Breezy Gardening who on Sunday 29th April 2012, secured a €33,000 investment for 33% of his company with Sean of Sullivan of SOS Ventures. The angle on this may be slightly different coming in, but what a corker of a garden radio show it is this week. Interesting story. Interesting product. That, an absolute gentleman, a great Irish gardening product and a nice success story. more on: http://blog.doneganlandscaping.com/2012/05/03/the-sodshow-meets-breezy-gardening/