{"id":134654,"date":"2024-10-25T10:10:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T09:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultivated-x.com\/?p=134654"},"modified":"2024-10-25T10:24:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T09:24:44","slug":"investment-climate-podcast-nemailla-bonturi-aio-how-to-get-funded-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/cultivated\/investments-finance\/investment-climate-podcast-nemailla-bonturi-aio-how-to-get-funded-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Investment Climate Podcast: Nemailla Bonturi of \u00c4IO, How to Get Funded in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/people\/alex-shandrovksy\/\" rel=\"noopener\">this podcast series<\/a>, Alex Shandrovsky interviews investors about benchmarks for funding alt proteins in 2024 and uncovers the investment playbooks of successful climate tech CEOs and leading VCs.<\/p>\n<p>Podcast Host Alex Shandrovksy is a strategic advisor to numerous global food tech accelerators and companies, including alternative proteins and cellular agriculture leaders. His focus is on investor relations and post-raise scale for agrifood tech companies.<\/p>\n<h2>Series 2 Episode 3: Nemailla Bonturi of \u00c4IO<\/h2>\n<p><b>Key Facts <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/aio.bio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>\u00c4IO<\/b><\/a><b>:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Goal: to change the way we<a href=\"https:\/\/cultivated-x.com\/fairs-events\/estonia-first-ever-public-novel-food-tasting-aio-gelatex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> produce, consume, and perceive foods<\/a> and other products<\/li>\n<li>Raised \u20ac6.1 Million,<a href=\"https:\/\/cultivated-x.com\/investments-finance\/aio-raise-alt-fats-wood-industry-sidestreams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \u20ac1.8 million grant<\/a> from the Estonian Business Innovation Agency.<\/li>\n<li>Lead Investor is 2C Ventures<\/li>\n<li>Joining the round was Nordic for Tech VC, Voima Ventures, and Smartcap<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Link to Spotify:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: &Auml;IO: Nemailla Bonturi\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/2Elw8RxntiKsgDLPLycLBR?si=358d3365b890454e&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Alex\u2019s Top Findings:<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b>Prioritize shorter commercial regulatory path- cosmetics are usually quicker than food in terms of regulation.<br \/>\n\u201c<\/b>Our investors understand that novel food will take time. We are preparing ourselves. We&#8217;re going to apply in the U.S. but also we are aiming for other verticals such as cosmetics. So we have already started to prepare to be added to this ink list so we can start selling cosmetics. So we have proof that it&#8217;s also very versatile. So you can go to food, you can go to cosmetics, you can go to pet food. It&#8217;s one process, one product, and a very diverse application. And that we are very driven towards the price,\u201d Nemailla highlighted on the podcast.<\/li>\n<li><b>Serendipitous investor connection at a local event<\/b>.<br \/>\nThe company met its lead investor, 2C Ventures, through an unexpected encounter with an LP during a local event in Tallinn.<\/li>\n<li><b>When choosing scale-up partners make sure they speak your business language- in this case, it was Singapore<\/b>.<br \/>\n\u201cI think the first part is finding the partner that has all the capex you need. We work with side streams. It&#8217;s not like rocket science that we need very fancy equipment. But of course, we need to have the right set of equipment, and they need to follow exactly how we tell them. So they have to be flexible towards our know-how.\u00a0 So this is one point. The second point, what made AIO go to Singapore is the speed. They&#8217;re very flexible, they are very good business people,\u201d Nemailla added.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Link to Apple Podcast is <a href=\"https:\/\/podcastsconnect.apple.com\/my-podcasts\/show\/investment-climate\/3967de09-3f6a-4ffa-b213-624bbd5a3687\/episode\/%C3%A4io-nemailla-bonturi\/67a828b4-448e-4973-b23f-a5a38c709bdd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch the full <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/usa\/people\/alex-shandrovksy\/\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast series here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this podcast series, Alex Shandrovsky interviews investors about benchmarks for funding alt proteins in 2024 and uncovers the investment playbooks of successful climate tech CEOs and leading VCs. Podcast Host Alex Shandrovksy is a strategic advisor to numerous global food tech accelerators and companies, including alternative proteins and cellular agriculture leaders. His focus is on investor relations and post-raise scale for agrifood tech companies. Series 2 Episode 3: Nemailla &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Investment Climate Podcast: Nemailla Bonturi of \u00c4IO, How to Get Funded in 2024\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/cultivated\/investments-finance\/investment-climate-podcast-nemailla-bonturi-aio-how-to-get-funded-in-2024\/#more-134654\" aria-label=\"Read more about Investment Climate Podcast: Nemailla Bonturi of \u00c4IO, How to Get Funded in 2024\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":134655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[925],"tags":[],"organisations_and_brands":[1597,2008],"technicaltags":[],"region":[1045],"people":[1827,2007],"class_list":["post-134654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investments-finance","organisations_and_brands-aio","organisations_and_brands-investment-climate-podcast","region-estonia","people-alex-shandrovksy","people-nemailla-bonturi","infinite-scroll-item","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/cultivated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/cultivated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/cultivated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/cultivated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/cultivated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134654"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/cultivated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134662,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/cultivated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134654\/revisions\/134662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/cultivated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/cultivated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/cultivated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/cultivated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134654"},{"taxonomy":"organisations_and_brands","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/cultivated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organisations_and_brands?post=134654"},{"taxonomy":"technicaltags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/cultivated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/technicaltags?post=134654"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/cultivated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=134654"},{"taxonomy":"people","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.vegconom.de\/cultivated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people?post=134654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}