FoodHack Tel Aviv: From Mimicking to Product Innovation
From Mimicking to Product Innovation
Join us for an enlightening evening with food tech leaders Nadav Berger, Founding General Partner at PeakBridge Ventures, Jasmin Ravid, Co-Founder & CEO at Kinoko-Tech, Anat Natan, Co-Founder & CEO at ANINA Culinary Art, and Ofek Ron, Co-Founder & CEO at Oshi. Hear their perspectives on creating novel food experiences, rather than replicating traditional ones, to drive the transition toward a sustainable food system.
This is Ofek's last FoodHack event in Israel before he moves to the US - this is your chance to touch base before he goes!
The event is free, but registration is required.
At the meetup, network with entrepreneurs, professionals, investors, and food enthusiasts. Whether you're just starting your food business, looking to connect with startups to invest in, or want to network with other like-minded professionals - this event is for you.
During our 30-second pitch session, members of the audience are invited to participate in 30-second pitches of their own projects, startups, or themselves. This is the perfect opportunity for job-seekers, entrepreneurs, or anyone else looking for connections in the crowd!
This event is sponsored by EBN - Erdinast, Ben Nathan, Toledano! EBN is a premier full-service law firm and one of Israel's most prominent and fastest growing law firms. The firm is consistently ranked as a top-tier firm by the international and local ranking guides, such as Chambers Global, Legal 500 and IFLR. EBN is recognized as an Israeli “go-to firm” for a client roster across the spectrum of many sectors, ranging from multinational corporations and businesses, private and public companies listed on domestic and international stock exchanges, high-profile entrepreneurs and investors, Israel’s leading real estate companies, hi-tech companies in all stages of growth, financial institutions, private equity, venture capital and many more.
Guest Speakers :
Nadav Berger, Founding General Partner at Peakbridge Ventures
Nadav Berger has deep, decades-long roots in the food industry. A third-generation food industrialist, he shifted to entrepreneurship, actively building a number of companies specializing in food applications, marketing, and distribution. In 2008, he co-founded the food applications hub FoodLab, focused on the innovation and development of our food systems. The innovations there led to his founding FoodLab Capital, a premier seed fund and a pioneer in FoodTech investing. The fund’s success helped pave the way to establishing PeakBridge in 2018. Today, Nadav is a board member of InsideTracker and Neolithics, and serves as an observer of BE WTR and Tastewise. He holds a B.A in economics and political science from Tel Aviv University and an EMBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Jasmin Ravid, Co-Founder & CEO at Kinoko-Tech
Jasmin is a dedicated scientist with an unyielding passion for biology and nature. Fueled by her profound love for plant sciences, she earned my B.Sc. in nutritional sciences and a Ph.D. from The Hebrew University, where she delved deep into the world of metabolic engineering in plants. At Kinoko-Tech, she is tackling the hurdles faced by the plant-based category, where people struggle to find healthy, affordable, and tasty alternatives to traditional proteins. By cultivating fungi mycelium on legumes and grains, they've unlocked the potential to create groundbreaking fermentation products.
Anat Natan, Co-Founder & CEO at ANINA Culinary Art
Anat has led marketing efforts in management roles across multiple industries, including the food sector at Nestlé and Tnuva. Now at Anina, she is on a mission to simplify healthy eating by offering a unique culinary experience focused on sustainable consumption. The company has developed an innovative technology that produces ready-to-cook capsules from food waste, which preserve the nutrients and freshness of food, delivering healthy, flavorful meals that remain shelf-stable for up to a year.
Ofek Ron, Founder & CEO at Oshi
Ofek is a passionate entrepreneur who oversees, creates, and runs high-scale ventures, and is an animal rights activist. Prior to Oshi, Ofek was the VP of Business Development at Vegan-Friendly, an international non-profit organization that aims to end animal suffering and by changing meat consumption towards plant-based food. Ofek founded Oshi in 2021 with the mission to eliminate sea pollution and overfishing by crafting the world's tastiest premium whole-cut seafood fillets made exclusively from plants. The startup is now transforming restaurant menus selling plant-based salmon fillets across foodservice in the US.
Event Details:
Date: November 6, 2024
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Venue: EBN Law, Berkovitch St 4, 17th Floor, Tel Aviv
Language: English
Agenda:
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Networking and Snacks sponsored by EBN - Erdinast, Ben Nathan, Toledano
7:00 PM - 7:10 PM: EBN
7:10 PM - 7:25 PM: 30-second Pitches
7:25 PM - 8:10 PM: Speaker Panel
Nadav Berger, Founding General Partner at Peakbridge Ventures
Jasmin Ravid, Co-Founder & CEO at Kinoko-Tech
Anat Natan, Co-Founder & CEO at ANINA Culinary Art
Moderated by Ofek Ron, Founder & CEO at Oshi
8:10 PM - 9:00 PM: More Networking
Your Hosts:
Ido Eliashar, Ofek Ron, Nadav Zifroni, and Sophia Retchin
About the Organizer:
FoodHack is a community-driven platform that inspires, highlights, and connects food entrepreneurs and innovators. With meetups across the globe, a weekly food industry newsletter, a membership program, and an annual summit, FoodHack is at the forefront of food industry innovation.
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Make sure to reserve your spot in advance and inform us if you need to cancel. We look forward to seeing you there!