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Tom Adams and the Blackberry That Refused to Behave
The Pairwise CEO spent decades learning how slowly crops change. Now he is betting that the quickest route to public trust runs through a smoother blackberry, a shorter cherry tree, and benefits people can taste.
Mike Zelkind Tried to Take the Weather Out of Farming
He built a farm like a factory, betting that software, sensors and stubborn operational discipline could shorten the distance between a seed and a salad. The experiment scaled across America - and ended by exposing the brutal economics beneath agriculture's most controlled environment.
The Ledger Behind the Label: Laurie Klausner Brings Metrics to the Food Chain
After two decades marketing software that lives behind the scenes, Laurie Klausner has arrived at Trustwell with a visible brief: turn traceability, compliance and recall readiness into a story the food business can act on.
Remo Carbone Is Turning a Butcher’s Eye Into Data
The MEQ Solutions co-founder spent years teaching cameras and probes to read red meat. Now his company is trying to make objective measurement the common language of a global supply chain.
Mike Neal Keeps Asking the Price of Tomorrow
After three analytics companies and decades spent modeling volatile markets, the DecisionNext co-founder still insists the useful forecast is the one that changes a decision.
Giovanni Battistini Is Betting the Next Wearable Breakthrough Starts With an Enzyme
After three decades moving between corporations, startups, and laboratories, the PhenoTap founder has narrowed his work to one stubborn bottleneck: the enzyme inside the sensor.
Thomas Bowman
Thomas Bowman is a James Beard-nominated chef turned food scientist and the co-founder of Eclipse Foods, an Alameda, California company building molecule-for-molecule plant-based replacements for dairy. After cooking and staging at restaurants that together held 16 Michelin stars and leading product development at JUST (formerly Hampton Creek), Bowman set out to recreate the taste and texture of dairy from non-GMO plants like oats, corn, and potatoes. Eclipse launched in 2019 out of Y Combinator, chose ice cream as its flagship, and has raised roughly $96 million to date, reaching retailers, foodservice, and direct-to-consumer channels.
Marty Kolewe
Marty Kolewe is a chemical engineer turned food-tech founder and the CEO of Foodberry, a Boston company that reverse-engineers fruit skin to make edible, plant-based coatings that keep fresh food fresh without plastic. Trained at Johns Hopkins, UMass Amherst, and MIT's Langer Lab, he traded a career in drug delivery for one in snacks, betting that the science behind a peach's peel could reshape how the world packages and eats food. Under his leadership Foodberry has amassed 20-plus patents, closed a $15 million Series A, and lined up partners from a dairy-free ice-cream maker to the global owner of Babybel.