PowerPlant Ventures

Dan Gluck on Accelerating the Plant-Based Food Revolution

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About Dan Gluck

Dan Gluck is a Managing Partner at PowerPlant Ventures (“PPV”) and current Board Member of PPV portfolio companies, Your Super, Rebbl, Thistle and Jot Coffee. PowerPlant Ventures is a growth equity fund investing in emerging consumer food, beverage, foodservice and food-tech companies. PPV provides capital, strategic guidance and operating expertise to visionary teams leading disruptive plant-centric brands. Notable portfolio companies include breakout brands such as Beyond Meat, Ripple Foods, Thrive Market, and Apeel Sciences. PPV is currently investing out of its second, $165M fund.

Prior to venture investing, Dan was the Co-Founder and Board Chairman of Health Warrior, a plant-based superfood company.  Within the first year of launching, Health Warrior’s Chia Bar was the #1 best-selling new bar in the natural channel. Today, Health Warrior is a nationally recognized brand and is on a mission to make radically convenient, real food and positively influence the health habits of Western civilization. Health Warrior successfully exited to Pepsi in 2018.

About this episode

In this episode Nil Zacharias chats with Dan Gluck about entrepreneurship, investing, the plant-based food industry, and the short and long-term impacts of COVID-19 on the retail and food service channels of the industry, including which COVID-19 consumption trends are here to stay. If you are interested in the present and future of the food industry and how investors like Dan are driving the growth of innovative new companies, this episode has a lot of incredible insights.