As funding remains difficult to secure and alt-protein companies continue to consolidate, having a team of investors with a good mix of backgrounds and plenty of patient capital is more important than ever.
American actor Troy Donahue and his wife, Valerie Allen, play Monopoly at home in 1967. The game seems to have gotten the best of Donahue.
“Who your investors are is as important as how much and when they invest,” Steven Finn from Siddhi Capital said during a panel discussion during Tufts’ Cellular Agriculture Innovation Day earlier this year.
To illustrate his point, Finn told the story of two now-defunct cultivated meat companies that Siddhi had in its investment portfolio: New Age Eats and SCiFi Foods.
“Both of [these companies] had weird investment stories for totally, totally different reasons…
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