In the first half of the year, U.S. alternative meat, egg, and dairy companies raised 14% more—more than $850 million—than they had raised in the entirety of 2019, which was also a record-breaking year, according to the Good Food Institute, an organization that tracks the industry. “Cultivated” or “cell-based” meat companies, growing food from animal […]
The hashtag #BlackLivesMatter went viral in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. The brutal murder of George Floyd on May 25th, 2020, by a white police officer in Minneapolis, MN, sparked mass protests across the United States in the middle of a virulent pandemic. The sheer scale of the protest that […]
Christoph Langwallner, the Co-Founder and CEO of WhatIF Foods, is a serial entrepreneur with outreach in Austria, the UK, Russia, India, China, Singapore, and the APAC region. He is obsessed with impactful disruptions that make our foods nutritious while protecting our planet's scarce resources. We produce enough calories for 10 billion people, yet every second, […]
Learn how one of the world's leading open-source integration technology companies, WSO2 has grown from 0 into $50M in annual revenue in a relatively short period of time. Pandemic Punditry will speak with Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarna, CEO & Founder, Devaka Randeniya, SVP Sales and our very own Lavindra de Silva (former Head of Global Sales […]
Increasing digitalization, a growing millennial workforce, and shorter product lifecycles have severely constrained the output and effectiveness of salespeople across the globe. Outdated and outmoded sales playbooks further limit the repertoire of tools and techniques deployed by salespeople attempting to sell to increasingly better informed and sophisticated buyers. That was before the global pandemic! The […]
Across Africa, a growing number of plant-based restaurants have opened in response to health, lifestyle, and environmental challenges. Happy Cow, an app that helps vegetarians and vegans find places to eat around the world, lists more than 900 restaurants with vegan options across Africa. More than half of these added in the past two years. […]
More than 4 out of 5 moms have to stop breastfeeding before the recommended six months. That means the vast majority of them are turning to dairy-based formula. And that means many of them face serious trade-offs, as infant formula lacks the critical nutrients of breastmilk and carries a heavy environmental burden. By culturing mammary […]
2020 has created a brave new world, a challenge for everyone, and especially so for companies trying to engage with and gain the trust of an ever-evolving and diverse customer base — a situation that demands courage. The power of branding is more than just packaging a product together for sale, it is everything about […]
