What will it take for cultivated meat to succeed? CEO Eric Jenkusky, of cultivated meat scaffoliding biotech company Matrix F.T. , is on The Plantbased Business Hour. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com. Connect with Elysabeth on Linked in here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elysabeth-alfano-8b370b7/ For more PBH, visit ElysabethAlfa...
Apr 28, 2022•54 min
CEO of Boosh Plant-based Brand s, Jim Pakulis discusses if plant-based consumption will catch up with skyrocketing plant-based investing on this edition of The Plantbased Business Hour. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com. Connect with Elysabeth on Linked in here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elysabeth-alfano-8b370b7/ For more PBH, ...
Apr 14, 2022•35 min
Live! A guided tour of The Better Meat Co. with Paul Shapiro on The Plantbased Business Hour. After the tour, it is a taste test of bacon, burgers, sausages and more! Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com. Connect with Elysabeth on Linked in here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elysabeth-alfano-8b370b7/ For more PBH, visit ElysabethAlfa...
Apr 07, 2022•48 min
LIVE FROM FUTURE FOOD TECH: Anuj Maheshwari, Head of Agri-Food Investing at Temasek discusses their strategy for plant-based innovation and alternative proteins throughout the supply chain. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com. Connect with Elysabeth on Linked in here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elysabeth-alfano-8b370b7/ Archive on...
Mar 31, 2022•33 min
Beyond Meat's Head of Communication, Shira Zackai Discusses Beyond's nutritional and planetary impact on The Plantbased Business Hour. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com. Connect with Elysabeth on Linked in here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elysabeth-alfano-8b370b7/ Archive only. VegTech™ LLC ceased providing investment‑advisory s...
Mar 29, 2022•25 min
Nil Zacharias of Plantega is creating plant-based deli menus for bodegas across New York. What has the field marketing taught this Co-Founder about plant-based consumption, repeat purchases and the adoption curve? Subscribe now to never miss an episode. For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com. Connect with Elysabeth on Linked in here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elysabeth-alfano-8b3...
Mar 24, 2022•1 hr 13 min
LIVE from Ingredion's Expo West Booth: Matt Olsofsky, Founder of Take Two Milk, Jorge Azevedo, Chief Growth Officer of Planter, Beth Tormey, VP and General Manager Systems and Ingredient Solutions, Ingredion and Karen E. Constanza, Marketing Manager, Meat Alternatives, Ingredion. They all answer the same question: will alt protein persist through what the FT calls the Trough of Disillusionment? Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public s...
Mar 17, 2022•54 min
Author Dick Munson (Tech To Table) discusses if blockchain technology will transform the food supply system on The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com. Connect with Elysabeth on Linked in here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elysabeth-alfano-8b370b7/ For more PBH, visit ElysabethAlfano.c...
Mar 13, 2022•1 hr 1 min
CEO of Wicked Kitchen and Former General Mills Exec, Pete Speranza, talks plant-based business trends on The Plant-based Business Hou r. Start-ups and investors take note! This interview will discuss the burgeoning secular trend of plant-based innovation and how to take part in the industry growth. Archive only. VegTech™ LLC ceased providing investment‑advisory services, and the EATV ETF was liquidated on May 7 2025. No investment advice is offered....
Feb 23, 2022•1 hr 2 min
nvestor and Author of Moo's Law: The Investor's Guide to the New Agrarian Revolution, Jim Mellon, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss his vision for the global shifting food supply chain. Tune in to hear this billionaire's predictions and top investment picks! Subscribe! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com. Archive only. VegTech™ LLC ceased providing investment‑a...
Feb 16, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Jeremy Coller, Managing Partner of Coller Capital, Preeminent Food Tech Investor and Funder of Farm Animal Investment Risk and Return (FAIRR) joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the risks of investing in animal agriculture and the growing number of investors (representing $47T in capital) pushing for higher standards and change. Subscribe now to The Plantbased Business Hour. Archive only. VegTech™ LLC ceased providing investment‑advisory services, and the EATV ETF was liquidated ...
Feb 10, 2022•49 min
CEO of EatWell Group, Marc Aneed, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss investing up and down the plant-based supply chain. Tune in to learn about the structural growth of this secular trends. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com. Connect with Elysabeth on Linked in here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elysabeth-alfano-8b...
Jan 19, 2022•55 min
Head of Global Marketing of Eat JUST inc, (Eat JUST and GOOD Meat), Tom Rossmeissl, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss branding in a flexitarian and increasingly competitive world. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com. Connect with Elysabeth on Linked in here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elysabeth-alfano-8b370b7/ Fo...
Jan 11, 2022•54 min
Head of Global Marketing of Eat JUST inc, (Eat JUST and GOOD Meat), Tom Rossmeissl, joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss branding in a flexitarian and increasingly competitive world. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com. Connect with Elysabeth on Linked in here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elysabeth-alfano-8b370b7/ Fo...
Jan 06, 2022•54 min
Climate Change, Animal Agriculture and What The Heck? Middlebury Professor Jason Scorse is on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the Masters of Art in International Environmental Policy and Environmental Justice program, The Center for the Blue Economy and what you can do now to have a positive impact on climate change. Tune in. Things will get heated. We are talking Climate Change after all. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and publi...
Dec 15, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Macy Marriott of GlassWall Syndicate and Elaine Siu of Material Innovation Initiative join me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss if Alt Materials will be as strong as Alt Protein in the marketplace. Hear about the latest investments and innovations in the next big sector. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com. Connect with El...
Dec 08, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Raphael Podselver of ProVeg International, Lasse Bruun of 50by40 and Carrie Varoquiers of Cool Planet Food discuss their experiences at COP26 and why animal agriculture wasn't on the agenda for impacting climate change. Join us to learn what YOU can do on The Plantbased Business Hour. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com....
Dec 03, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Miller Tran, VP of Research and Development and Founding Member of Triton Algae Innovations, and I discuss heme made from non-GMO algae and if it can replace animal heme, given the latter's negative health implications. It's the Plantbased Business Hour. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com. Connect with Elysabeth on Linked in here:...
Nov 24, 2021•48 min
Aqua Cultured Foods Co-Founders Anne Palermo and Brittany Chibe are on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss seafood from fungi, the food revolution and their big capital raise. Tune in and join us to hear about the alternative seafood market! Subscribe right now to never miss PBH! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com. Connect with Elysabeth on Linked in here: https://www.linke...
Nov 17, 2021•51 min
Disrupting Pizza: Founder of NXT LVL PZA Fabio Matticoli takes on Domino's with his accidentally vegan pizza on The Plantbased Business Hour. The brand launched in London this week. Fabio discusses the global pizza market, the future of vegan pizza, what he wish he knew before he started and raising pizza capital. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit E...
Nov 10, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Daniel Kennedy, Global Business Development Director, Plantbased Protein at Ingredion, Scott Cowger, VP National Sales Manager of CII Foods, Brett Featherston, VP Global Sales of Evanesce, and Andy Sharpe CEO/President, North America of Buhler join me live from Buhler North American HQ to discuss the lifecycle of plant protein, the newest innovations and more on The Plantbased Business Hour. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public spea...
Oct 28, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Hooray Foods! Sri Artham, Founder and CEO of Hooray Foods has some big news. We are talking plant-based bacon, prosciutto and more on today's Plantbased Business Hour. Subscribe right now to never miss this podcast! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com. Connect with Elysabeth on Linked in here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elysabeth-alfano-8b370b7/ For more PBH, visit ElysabethAlf...
Oct 26, 2021•46 min
BREAKING! Mike Woliansky and Sadrah Schadel, Founders of No Evil Foods, tell their story and share the progress they have made over the last turbulent 18 months during a difficult period that often played itself out in the media. Abby Lyall and Tom Mastrobuoni of Big Idea Ventures join the interview to share details about the new bridge loan and tips for entrepreneurs. This episode is for every entrepreneur who has ever struggled, wondered if they could still keep going and have had to dig deep ...
Oct 20, 2021•1 hr
CEO and Co-Founder of Melibio, Darko Mandich joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss making honey without the bees and why this is mission critical. Listen in to learn about the secret life of bees and plant-based and fermented protein honey - yes, it's a thing.
Oct 13, 2021•56 min
Kelp, algae and the state of our oceans...CEO and Founder of Akua, Courtney Boyd-Myers and I discuss all this and more on The Plantbased Business Hour. The Plantbased Business Hour is live every Tuesday at 1p PT on my Linkedin profile page. Subscribe! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
Oct 06, 2021•44 min
Kartik Dixit of Evo Foods explains India's move towards clean protein and what it is going to take to get there on The Plantbased Business Hour. We discuss the company's plant-based egg products and India's view of plant-based eating. Subscribe. For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr
Maiko Van Der Meer, Co-Founder of Novish, joins me on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the state of plant-based seafood-growing 23%- and the Novish launch in the U.S. Subscribe! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
Sep 24, 2021•54 min
Mycoprotein: what is it and why? I chat with Paul Shapiro AND take a tour of the new mycoprotein plant recently opened by The Better Meat Co. We'll learn how the superfood Rhiza is changing the alt protein landscape. Join us and dive into the details of fungi and what it means for meat production. Subscribe!...
Sep 15, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Can food be the solution to many of the world's problems? Founder of Upton's Naturals, Daniel Stackmann, along with company VP, Nicole Sopko think so. Listen into this rare interview from the WGN Radio studios with Nicole and Daniel who are in the small group of entrepreneurs who have never taken outside funding. Subscribe! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com....
Sep 09, 2021•58 min
Tasneem Karodia and Absie Pantshwa of Mzansi Meat join Elysabeth Alfano on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss food insecurity and a growing middle class in Africa, and the cultivated meat that will feed them. Subscribe! For plant-based media/branding consulting and public speaking, reach out at elysabeth@elysabethalfano.com. For more information, visit ElysabethAlfano.com.
Sep 01, 2021•52 min
