The Ledger
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.
why aren't all 8 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Wenzel: Startups Alone Cannot Disrupt the Food System
“Because you can't just have only startups, because they just won't be able to disrupt the system, right? So you need everybody else on board as well.”
EIT Impact Fund invests €500K to €1.5M in EIT Food companies
“We do have, for example, our own, we call it EIT impact fund basically operates as a VC and they invest in companies that are part of EIT food. So that's a prerequisite and they invest Anything up to 1.5 million euros per company, usually starting with about 5…”
Wenzel: Scaling Founders Must Transition to CEOs or Risk Failing
“Also you as a founder, right? You're not a founder anymore. You're basically becoming a leader, a CEO. That's a switch that people also just have to do. And sometimes, yeah, sometimes miss to do correctly.”
Wenzel: RisingFoodStars supports later-stage scale-ups aligned with EIT Food missions
“And so also within Rising Food Stars, it is our scale-up It is one actually of three of our flagship entrepreneurship programs. We work with the latest stage companies, and so any of our companies that we support in that program has to basically fulfill one of…”
Wenzel: EIT Is Europe's Largest Network of Food System Actors
“EIT is actually the largest network of food system actors in Europe.”
Wenzel: RisingFoodStars onboards only 15 new companies annually
“We onboard only 15 new companies each year, but companies can stay with us for up to three years.”