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January 6, 2020
In 2013, Ricardo Lopez founded Bellwether Coffee with a lofty goal: transform the way coffee is roasted, distributed, and sold. His pitch convinced investors to fork over $10 million in August 2018 for a […]
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A California start-up wants to “redesign the entire end-of-life experience.” The answer to “eternity management”? Forests. SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Death comes for all of us, but Silicon Valley has, […]
Read More →Secretary will meet with growers and address 4,000 attendees in Omaha
BusinessWire
By Farmers Business Network Inc
November 25, 2019
November 25, 2019 08:00 AM Eastern Standard Time SIOUX FALLS, S.D.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Farmers Business NetworkSM(FBN), the independent farmer-to-farmer network, today announced that Sonny Perdue, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, will address the […]
When Faced With Times Like These, Turn to Impact Investing
Silicon Valley Leadership Group
By Nancy Pfund, Managing Partner, DBL Partners
October 30, 2019
At present, in a time when truth and transparency seem ever-elusive, when divisiveness appears a way of life, and social and environmental threats loom large, a bright spot has emerged. […]
Former SolarCity CEO to join the board at Bellwether Coffee, whose all-electric bean roaster has VCs abuzz.
Green Tech Media
By Julian Spector
September 19, 2019
If they can decaffeinate coffee, why not decarbonize it, too? Berkeley-based Bellwether Coffee proposed to do just that by building a fully electric micro-roaster. The product replaces conventional gas-burning machines […]
