About FoodBytes!
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Who We Are
Rabobank Group is a global financial services leader providing wholesale and retail banking, leasing, and real estate services in more than 40 countries worldwide. Rabobank is one of the world’s largest banks with over $750 billion in assets. In the Americas, Rabobank is a premier bank to the food, agribusiness and beverage industry, providing sector expertise, strategic counsel and tailored financial solutions to clients across the entire food value chain. We know that sustainability and innovation are critical in promoting a thriving food and ag industry that will feed growing global populations for years to come, which is a key focus of our Banking for Food strategy.
Rabobank believes that it is crucial to encourage, support, and promote an ecosystem full of different business models and viewpoints that will drive innovative solutions. We believe our key role in supporting this type of ecosystem is to promote and facilitate connections throughout the entire food and agriculture value chain
Our Vision
One of the initiatives developed by Rabobank, that seeks to promote and facilitate these connections, is FoodBytes!, a series of transformational events in the food, agribusiness, and technology space. These events are designed to connect food industry leaders and investors with startup companies that are innovating and disrupting the food chain with groundbreaking ideas in food, agribusiness and technology. Rabobank has been investing in the food and agriculture industries for over 100 years, and new challenges are arising from increased demand for food, changing consumer preferences and the need for sustainable food production. We want to help spur the leaders and technology solutions that will help address the world’s food challenges. Through FoodBytes!, we can leverage our experience and knowledge to connect innovators with investors, and create a platform to turn today’s new ideas and technologies into tomorrow’s solutions.
We intend to continue working to develop this ecosystem around the four dimensions of food security and to make sure that the knowledge, networks and access to finance that will come from this will help create the technological changes that will solve the future food challenge of more food, for more people, with the same resources in a sustainable way
Dimensions of food security
Our History
One of the initiatives developed by Rabobank, that seeks to promote and facilitate these connections, is FoodBytes!, a series of transformational events in the food, agribusiness, and technology space. These events are designed to connect food industry leaders and investors with startup companies that are innovating and disrupting the food chain with groundbreaking ideas in food, agribusiness and technology. Rabobank has been investing in the food and agriculture industries for over 100 years, and new challenges are arising from increased demand for food, changing consumer preferences and the need for sustainable food production. We want to help spur the leaders and technology solutions that will help address the world’s food challenges. Through FoodBytes!, we can leverage our experience and knowledge to connect innovators with investors, and create a platform to turn today’s new ideas and technologies into tomorrow’s solutions.
We intend to continue working to develop this ecosystem around the four dimensions of food security and to make sure that the knowledge, networks and access to finance that will come from this will help create the technological changes that will solve the future food challenge of more food, for more people, with the same resources in a sustainable way
Meet Our Team
We are the dot connectors, programmers, marketers, thinkers and doers who bring the FoodBytes! platform to life. Get to know our fantastic team below and feel free to reach out with questions or comments.
Managing Director, Global Head – F&A Startup Innovation
Executive Director – Head of Innovation, Knowledge and Networks
Executive Director – Corporate Engagement
Vice President – Startup Platform Manager
Global Head of Programming
Vice President - Senior Marketing & Communications Manager
Vice President – Partnerships Manager
Assistant Vice President – Digital Marketing Manager
Assistant Vice President – Startup Relationship Manager
Associate - Data Intelligence
Associate – Corporate Engagement
