Double Mixed: Thoughts from a two-year old
This week I ran across our blog post “Mixed Up for One Year Now” that I wrote around this time in 2015 when the Mixing Bowl turned one. Now, having…
HACKING IN DAVIS FOR FOOD, AG & HEALTH SOLUTIONS
Last week the Mixing Bowl– in conjunction with Apps for Ag and the UC Davis World Food Center and Innovation Institute for Food & Health — held a multi-day event…
Nine Billion Food Events by 2050?
California may very well be leading the way to achieving the goal of nine billion for events by 2050! Just last week, we had the Latino Farmer Conference, the California Food &…
12/2-3 UC Davis Solutions Summit: Bridging Ideas to Action
We at the Mixing Bowl have made a sizable time investment over the last couple months helping UC Davis launch new initiatives that move more of its academic research and…
The Coming Sag in Agtech
Last month’s stock market turmoil is adding to an already difficult market situation in agriculture. We should not fool ourselves that this might not have ripple effects in the adoption…
Congratulations to Wellntel, the 2015 Blender Champion!
This year, 12 impressive teams from around the U.S.–and beyond–competed in Silicon Valley’s signature ag and food business pitch competition, The Blender, at the 2015 FOOD IT Conference at Stanford…
And I'll Take a Side Order of Carbon Emission
Last week, The Mixing Bowl and Stanford’s FEED Collaborative hosted our second FOOD IT event on Stanford’s campus. We had an energetic crowd of nearly 500 people and great food…
Agtech Startups @ AgriVest Israel
On April 27th, 12 Israeli companies pitched a crowd from 20 countries at the Agrivest 2015 Conference in Israel. The event was hosted on by GreenSoil Investments, Trendlines AgTech, and Invest…
Make My iPhone Measure Soil Carbon
Recently at a talk from Peter Donovan of the Soil Carbon Coalition at Pie Ranch, Peter shared the old anecdote, “Think of a cat looking at a milk bowl on top…
Sustainable seafood market moving from creating demand to scaling supply
I was asked to serve as a judge at the Academies of Social Entrepreneurship‘s Sustainable Fisheries Social Enterprise Business Plan Competition on April 23rd in San Francisco. Five sustainable fish-related start-ups…
Food & Ag Geeks Travel: Silicon Valley/SF
These were four different Food & Agriculture events scheduled between the dates of June 21-26. Ticket options included any combination of these events and a “Whole Week” option. Food…
Getting Food Funded
Feedback from participating start-up at FOOD FUNDED, the Bay Area’s food and entrepreneurship investor fair. “Thanks for the opportunity to present at FOOD FUNDED. While I was really pleased with…