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AKUA lands $3.2M to turn kelp into burgers

TechCrunch LA

In 2019, the company came out with its first product, Kelp Jerky, which comes in four flavors, and was a product Boyd Myers thought would be a good trial run to help people see ocean-farmed kelp in a new way. The company will also hire additional talent and ramp up its sales and marketing efforts.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I had realized that I didn’t have it within me to be as good of a player as many of them did but I had the skills to help as mentor, coach, friend, sparing partner and patient capital provider. In a world when LPs benchmark VC performance on a 3-year time horizon from deploying one’s fund (is your 2019 fund in the top quartile!!??)