Nick Cooney is Founder and Managing Partner at Lever VC, whose $80 million USD Fund and target $150 million Fund II (raise in progress) invest broadly across sustainable Food and AgTech, spanning seed and animal genetics, functional ingredients and inputs, machinery, plant-based foods, pet, cultivated and fermentation-derived animal proteins, disease detection, software, feed inputs, service providers, and more. Lever VC invests globally in early-stage companies (pre-seed through Series B), and welcomes pitches at: team@levervc.com .Nick has been working in the sustainable food sector for nearly twenty years. Over the past decade he has led investments in nearly 100 deals and currently serves on the boards of a number of portfolio companies in the space. He is also the Co-Founder and former Board Chair of the Good Food Institute, the world’s largest non-governmental organization working to grow the alternative protein space.