Christophe F. Maire is the Founder and Managing Partner of the Early Stage VC Atlantic Labs and FoodLabs, based in Berlin.
With FoodLabs, Christophe focuses on investments in food, health, and climate, backing the most ambitious, purpose-driven entrepreneurs, committed to planetary and human health. FoodLabs has been an early investor in some of the most seminal, fastest-growing European startups including Infinite Roots, Formo, Meatable, and Klim.
With Atlantic Labs, Christophe invests in early stage tech companies in Digital Health, Future of Work, Applied Machine Learning, Fintech, Mobility, FoodTech, AgTech and ClimateTech. He has backed companies that are global category leaders today, including SoundCloud, GetYourGuide, Choco, Clue, Omio & Medwing.
Christophe started out as an entrepreneur in the early 2000s, founding Gate5 and Plazes.com, which were both acquired by Nokia, and developed into mapping platform here.com which now belongs to BMW, Audi, Bosch and Intel. Over the past 15 years, Christophe has become a renowned investor in the German venture ecosystem. Having been named best „European Seed Investor'' by Techcrunch for 2 consecutive years, his early investments include Brands4Friends (eBay), Readmill (Dropbox), and StudiVZ.
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A lot of cutting-edge food technologies are rising, from precision fermentation to vertical farming, from AI-powered recipe creation to hyper-personalized dietary analysis - these can all be game-changers that will redefine the industry. With the wave of the technological revolution upon us, food companies face the crucial question: how to navigate through these advancements? FoodLab, successfully investing in Meatable, Infinite Roots, and Formo, Europe's fast-growing food-tech companies, is poised to unveil the most promising technologies in the food industry.
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Imagine you are savouring a piece of delicious, nutritious meat, but it has come from a laboratory "petri dish". Food tech is transforming unattainable science fiction concepts into table fare. How do we realise the commercial potential of new technologies and take them from the lab to the table of millions of families?
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Regenerative agriculture technology, bio-synthetic materials, and biodegradable packaging significantly conserve the environmental resources required for food production. As the "primary productive force," how does technology inject new vitality into sustainable food production? From production to processing, and then to packaging and transportation, how can each link in the food production chain leverage the limitless potential of technology to form a green industrial value chain? Let's explore the sustainable models of the food industry driven by technology together.