Trusted Authorities in Meat Packaging and Processing

Our co-presidents, Ashli Blumenfeld and Ben Rosenthal, sat down with the hosts of the “AgTech So What” podcast to discuss the duo’s approach to growing a multi-generational food company. Tune in to learn how they have maintained the heart of Standard Meat while evolving with the modern market to remain a prominent industry leader.

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From AgTech:

"Innovation in the protein space has most recently seen a lot of hype around “alternative” proteins, from high tech microbe engineering to proprietary science that makes plants into something magically similar to juicy burgers or satisfying nuggets. But innovation in protein is a much deeper field. And when it comes to actually getting products to customers, protein innovations are just as likely to happen on the production floor as the lab bench.

Today, we’re talking about how protein companies are thinking about innovation. We talk to Ashli Blumenfeld and Ben Rosenthal, Co-Presidents at Standard Meat Company, a family owned meat company founded in the 1930’s. Ashli and Ben chat about how they’re future-proofing their business, from how they make decisions about products and partnerships, to how they invest in innovations that might come to define the protein space.

Ashli and Ben also speak about:
What they look for when evaluating new partnership and investment opportunities
How the realities of a family business affect their internal innovation processes
Why they decided to partner with alternative protein company Nowadays (a Tenacious Ventures portfolio company)"