SFV backs early-stage founders building
leading food companies that are:
*Cell-based
*Plant-based
*Recombinant
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Cell-Based
Recombinant
Plant-Based
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Meet the Team
Ryan is the CEO and co-founder of Wild Earth, the leading D2C healthy plant based pet food company in the US. He co-founded Wild Earth in 2017 and raised $20M from Felicis Ventures, Peter Thiel, Founders Fund, At One Ventures, VegInvest, Mars Petcare and closed Mark Cuban on ABC’s Shark Tank.
Ryan also co-founded and was the Program Director & Venture Partner at IndieBio where the companies he funded and supported helped to grow the portfolio's market cap to $3.2B.
In the last eight years Ryan has invested in over 180 early stage food and biotech startups, while being the first investor in Upside Foods, Geltor, The Not Company and Shiok Meats.
At SFV Ryan is the Managing Partner sourcing deal flow and making investment decisions.
Mariliis is the former Head of Food Science of Finless Foods, the pioneering venture back cell-based seafood startup.
She is also the co-founder of Nonfood (FOOD-X 2017 alumni).
Working previously in R&D at Mondelez International (France) and at IFF (Netherlands), Mariliis has experience from the top global food and flavor corporations.
Additionally, Mariliis worked as a food and sensory scientist in two of Europe’s leading research institutes: the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE) and the Center of Food and Fermentation Technologies (CFFT) in Estonia.
At SFV Mariliis is leading scientific diligence and manages day-to-day operations.