I’ve been fortunate to spend most of my life in the startup world as both an entrepreneur and investor. Right now, I spend my days investing in and working with early stage founders as the founder and Managing Partner of The Syndicate Fund and the Managing Director of Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator. As an investor, I’m interested in startups with great founders that I want to work with until they are done entrepreneuring. My core focus is companies solving problems throughout the world’s food system from robotics to kitchen tech to biotech to supply chain. I also like retail tech, marketing tech and founders that have big visions in the midwest. Prior to investing, I was an entrepreneur who built both venture backed and bootstrapped startups. I’ve led companies to acquisition and to failure.