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Yoran Meijers

Organization Committee at F&A Next

Amsterdam, North Holland

Overview 

Yoran Meijers is a Food & Agri Specialist Investor at Anterra Capital, with a background in business planning, team management, and market analysis. He has co-founded and led successful ventures like Nom Nom Nom and has experience working with industry giants like Cargill and H.J. Heinz Company, showcasing a strong track record in entrepreneurship and innovation within the food and agriculture sector.

Work Experience 

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Anterra Capital

  • Investor

    2023 - Current

  • Advisor

    2022 - 2023

  • Investor

    2017 - 2022

    Specialist venture capital investor in technology driven companies across the food and agriculture supply chain.

RT

Rising Tide Collective

  • Co-founder & Member

    2020

    The Rising Tide Collective helps founders who are addressing the greatest challenges of our generation and are striving to make a positive impact on the world.

FN

F&A Next

  • Organization Committee

    2023

NN

Nom Nom Nom

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2022 - 2023

    A new era of health food. Redesigned fast food classics made solely with veggies, fruits, legumes and whole grains. No animal products. No added sugar or sweeteners. No deep-frying. Nothing artificial. We call it fast food as it should be.

FN

F&A Next

  • Organization Committee

    2018 - 2022

    F&A Next is an initiative by Rabobank, Wageningen University & Research, Anterra Capital and StartLife. It brings together startups, investors and corporates in one and a half day of networking, pitching and debating the dynamics in food and agriculture.

LF

La Fourche

  • Board Observer

    2021 - 2022

CU

Columbia University in the City of New York

  • Researcher - Digital Manufacturing of Food

    2017 - 2017

    Research position at the Creative Machines Lab of prof. Hod Lipson - Data Science Institute of Columbia | Engineering. Development of novel cooking techniques for 3D food printing. Pioneering research into the application of laser technology for cooking, baking and preparing foods. The work has been patented and published in several journals, including Nature.

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Cargill

  • Product and Process Developer

    2015 - 2015

    At Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate: Product and Process Development. Successful development of new analysis method to predict cocoa powder color from the raw bean (Rsq>0.97).

Cargill - Global Flavors Business offers fruit and sweet-based preparations to the food industry.

cargill.com
HH

H.J. Heinz Company

  • Process Technologist

    2014 - 2014

    - Development and implementation of measurement systems for quality assurance - Recipe optimization: quality improvement while reducing processing time by 40% - Process improvement: significant energy and labor cost reduction by cutting total production time by 30%

Kraft Heinz is a multinational food and beverage company offering a diverse range of condiments, sauces, snacks, cheese, and frozen foods.

Raised $20,000,000.00.

kraftheinzcompany.com

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