Full Stack Food

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Full Stack Food is a podcast about food and innovation. We cover topics ranging from plant-based meat to robot-operated vertical farms, and the impact of COVID on the startup scene. You’ll hear interviews with entrepreneurs developing new ways to produce, distribute, and consume food. We also showcase cool startups looking to change the world, and discuss some of the buzzworthy topics in food innovation. Join journalist, Aditi Roy and investor, Brett Brohl to navigate the exciting world of food tech.

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Does Storytelling Matter in Food? A Special Episode with Reuters Events "Transform Food 2023"

Oct 20 2023 67 mins

This summer, Reuters Events launched Transform Food 2023, a event accelerating innovation and collaboration within the global food and agriculture industry. As a precursor to the main event in Fall, 2023, Reuters Events teamed up with Full Stack Food's Aditi Roy, who moderated a panel discussion addressing the issue, "How Must We Rethink Emotional Resonance in New Food Categories."

Can You Make (Good) Chocolate Without Cocoa and Coffee Without Beans? A Conversation with Adam Maxwell and Kelsey Tenney, Voyage Foods

Mar 23 2023 44 mins

Adam Maxwell and Kelsey Tenney are almost polar opposites. What makes them such a formidable pair of co-founders is the one thing they do have in common. They are both downright obsessed with the science behind food. That mind meld led the pair to launch Voyage Foods, which makes your favorite staples with alternative ingredients to produce food more sustainably. The Oakland-based

When Will Fake Meat Taste Like Real Meat (Part 2)? A Conversation with Tyler Huggins, CEO/Co-Founder, Meati

Mar 17 2023 43 mins

Tyler Huggins is not a man of many surprises. Rather, he is a study of consistency. The things that matter to him most today are the same things he cared about as a child, as a teenager, and as a young adult. For one, he loves nature. And second, he wants to devote his life to preserving it. Tyler feels a kinship with land, trees, air, and water that feels core to who he is and it

Can Data Fix Food? A Conversation with Kellee James, Founder/CEO, Mercaris

Mar 09 2023 40 mins

Markets and data transparency may sound like dry subjects, until you hear Kellee James talk about her life’s work. Kellee is the CEO and founder of Mercaris, a market data service, and trading platform for organic agricultural products. Over the course of her life, Kellee saw the power of exchanges in addressing social or climate issues. One example is, how cap and trade programs

What's Stopping New Foods from Getting to Market? A Conversation with Riana Lynn, Founder/CEO, Journey Foods

Mar 02 2023 36 mins

Riana Lynn’s company, Journey Foods, applies data to the world’s biggest food supply chains to help bring plant-based foods to market faster and more cost efficiently. That may sound like a big undertaking, but it’s just one of Riana’s many superpowers. From her days as an elite athlete and pre-med student to her early entrepreneurial experiences as the founder of a massive

Is The Future of Food Vegan (and Female)? A Conversation with Jennifer Stojkovic, Founder, Vegan Women Summit

Feb 16 2023 36 mins

We’ve interviewed many founders for Full Stack Food, but Jennifer Stojkovic is truly one–of-a kind. She created The Vegan Women Summit, which brings together more than a thousand women to help make our food systems more sustainable, accessible, and equitable. She's also an investor, founder, and author of "The Future of Food is Female." Stojkovic is devoted to increasing repres

Does Dairy Need A Reset? A Conversation with Jon King and Rob Forsythe, Co-Founders, Milk Moovement

Feb 02 2023 35 mins

You may have never heard the names Jon King and Rob Forsythe, but there’s a good chance the work they are doing will someday impact something in your fridge. The pair launched Milk Moovement, which is a digital platform which tracks everything along the dairy supply chain, from production to delivery. The work they are doing is wildly disruptive - before they started their compan

Is Product-Market Fit All That Really Matters? A Conversation with Jorge Heraud, Co-Founder, Blue River Technology and VP, Automation and Autonomy, John Deere

Jan 26 2023 43 mins

It’s not often that a company comes along and develops a product so game-changing, that it not only disrupts an entire industry, but sets the bar for any other company innovating in that area. Blue River Technology is that company. The startup was launched by Jorge Heraud and Lee Redden when they were Stanford grad students. Their mission was to help farmers take on some of their

Will Cannabis Go Big or Go Bust? An Interview with Kyla Sirni, Dispense

Jan 19 2023 31 mins

Cannabis has arrived, and it’s spreading fast, far, and deep. Marijuana is legal for recreational use in nearly two dozen states. Gwyneth Paltrow, Jay-Z, Joe Montana, and Martha Stewart are just some of the A-listers backing cannabis companies. As a result, many entrepreneurs are switching from other industries into cannabis. One of them is Kyla Sirni. She started out in software

Do Rocket Scientists Make Better Pizza? An Interview With Benson Tsai, Stellar Pizza

Jan 12 2023 35 mins

Benson Tsai is the CEO and co-founder of Stellar Pizza, a pizza-making truck operation that Tsai calls a “spaceship on wheels.” Why? Because inside the truck, the chef making the pies is actually…a robot. The spaceship analogy is particularly apt because Tsai is a rocket scientist who left his job as a battery engineer at SpaceEx to launch Stellar. His co-founders and nearly

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