Food Technology Companies Urged to Apply to Present at the Premier Food Technology Investor Forum

As many of you know, a few years ago I founded a group that conducts an angel and venture capital forum for the food industry. Each year we select approximately 25 promising food companies to make a ten minute presentation to investors interested in the food space. To the best of our knowledge, this is the only investor forum focused exclusively on the food industry in the United States.

What we are particularly interested in are companies with transformative technologies in food production, processing, safety or distribution.

These technologies should significantly impact the industry in one of five ways:
• increase food production on same number of acres;
• significantly increase the nutritional value of basic foods to the world at the same or lower cost;
• significantly increase the safety of the world food supply;
• allow for the production, processing of our global food needs with significantly less environmental impact and/or energy consumption, or;
• logistic solutions that improve the safe deliver of nutritional foods to the worlds remote areas that are most critically in need.

The conference is held in Iowa in the fall of each year but as anyone who has been involved in event planning knows, the process is continual. We are beginning the process right now of soliciting companies wishing to present to the potential investors. The conference is aptly named the American Food Venture Forum because it is truly Pan American. In the past two years we have had company applications from Canada, Bolivia, Paraguay and twenty-one U.S. States. Last year’s conference featured presenting companies from as far away as Montreal, San Francisco and New York. Investors have been well represented as well from eight different states, including New York and California.

If you are interested in presenting, or know of companies that might be interested please contact me at entrepreneurialadvisor@live.com or go to our website www.foodventureforum.com. This is a juried event where applicants are evaluated relative to others applying. Last year approximately 50% of those applying were invited to make presentations. Thank you.