Food & Beverage

Beyond Impact is an impact investment firm focused on accelerating the transition to a more sustainable, animal-free economy. Founded in 2017, the firm backs companies developing alternatives to animal-based products across food, materials, pharmaceuticals, and consumer goods. The firm’s mission centers on building a “kinder, cleaner, healthier world” by investing in scalable businesses that reduce environmental damage, eliminate animal suffering, and improve human health. Its portfolio targets high-growth sectors such as plant-based foods, alternative proteins, and next-generation biomaterials.

INOKS Capital is an independent, alternative asset manager authorized by FINMA and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Since 2006, the firm has provided secure and efficient financing for companies primarily in the Agriculture/Food sector through investment vehicles that apply their comprehensive impact framework. The company operates across emerging markets, targeting direct investments in agriculture, energy, and metals sectors with a focus on supporting tangible actors of the real economy. INOKS leverages a two-fold impact strategy combining Responsible Investing (ESG risk mitigation) and Impact Investing (positive impact generation) to channel capital to small and medium-sized companies that struggle to access traditional financing, particularly in emerging economies where they believe tomorrow's leaders will emerge.

The Rockefeller Foundation is a philanthropic foundation with an unchanged mission since 1913: to promote the well-being of humanity throughout the world. The foundation works with grantees and partners to drive innovations, mobilize change-makers, and forge breakthroughs that advance the well-being of people and the planet. Their approach focuses on finding and scaling solutions that advance opportunity and reverse the climate crisis. The foundation operates globally, helping people in the U.S. and around the world to ensure good jobs, good food, good health, and good livelihoods. They use their convening power to bring unlikely partners together and demonstrate that collaboration is the fastest route to impact across energy, food, health, finance, and economic opportunity sectors.