Meet the global food giants: Tyson Foods / Tyson Ventures
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With more than $40 billion in annual revenues and 113,000 employees, Tyson Foods is one of the world's largest food companies.
Tyson recently launched its venture investment arm Tyson Ventures. With a capital of $150M Tyson Ventures had already made 3 FoodTech investments in: Beyond Meat, Memphis Meats and Tovala.
We are honored to host Reese Schroeder, Managing Director of Tyson Ventures.
Our schedule:
18:30 - Networking
19:00 - Tyson Ventures Overview - Reese Schroeder
19:45 - More networking
About Reese:
Reese Schroeder currently serves as Managing Director of Tyson Ventures. He is responsible for building and managing the opportunity pipeline, as well as executing investment transactions. Prior to joining Tyson Foods, Reese was with Motorola for 28 years serving as Managing Director for Motorola Ventures/Motorola Solutions Venture Capital from 2004 until 2017. Prior to joining Motorola Ventures, Reese was a Director in Motorola’s Corporate Development and Strategic Transactions Group responsible for a wide variety of M&A activity.
In 1981, Reese graduated from North Central College in Naperville, Illinois in with a B.A. majoring in Political Science. He also received his J.D. from John Marshall Law School in 1984.
About Tyson Ventures:
As part of Tyson’s commitment to grow bolder through innovation and achieve our mission of raising the world’s expectations for how much good food can do, Tyson Foods, Inc. launched a venture capital fund in the Fall of 2016. Tyson Ventures will invest in companies developing breakthrough technologies, business models and products to sustainably feed the growing world population.
Tyson Ventures was established with a $150 million commitment from Tyson Foods and will focus on two key investment pillars:
- Sustainability, including companies that focus on eliminating food waste, ensuring food security, addressing food deserts and alternative proteins.
- The Internet of Foods, which includes companies that focus on leveraging big-data enabled technologies to support precision and predictive decision making in food supply chain logistics. Direct-to-consumer food focused businesses and ecommerce platforms fall into this category as well.
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