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Rob Trice

Founding Partner Better Food Ventures & The Mixing Bowl

Menlo Park, California

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Founding Partner

    2013

    Better Food Ventures invests in companies harnessing information technology to make a positive impact now in the food and agriculture sector

  • Founder

    2013

    The Mixing Bowl is a forum for thought leadership and exchange to create innovative and scaleable food and agriculture businesses through the application of information technology.

  • Co-founder

    2011

    The Corporate Innovators Huddle is a non-profit forum for innovators at large companies to exchange views on best practices.

  • Founder & CEO Tricicles

    2019

    Tricicles are frozen fruit bars made from fresh, local organic berries and honey from farms around Pescadero, California.

2012 - 2014

  • Venture Partner

    2012 - 2014

    Swisscom Ventures is the VC arm of Switzerland's largest telecom provider. It seeks to acquire minority stakes in companies that operate in promising markets for information, communication and entertainment technologies. We invest in innovative areas that are strategic for Swisscom, in terms of revenue increase (e.g. new broadband services), quality improvements and cost reductions (e.g. network optimisation tools). As a value-creating investor, Swisscom is able to provide companies with the technical know-how and strategic experience of an established telecommunications provider.

  • Sr. Managing Director

    2008 - 2012

    Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, SK Telecom Ventures is a dedicated venture capital fund with US $100m under management that looks to make financial returns on investments through funding internet, mobile, and digital media companies that can leverage the fund's sole limited partner, SK Telecom. SK Telecom has a proven reputation for delivering innovative media, mobile, and internet services in the cutting-edge market of South Korea.

2000 - 2008

  • General Partner

    2004 - 2008

  • Principal

    2000 - 2004

2005 - 2007

  • Vice President

    2005 - 2007

  • Senior Manager

    1996 - 2000

  • Director

    1990 - 1996

    CSIS is a bipartisan policy institute headquartered in Washington, D.C. Since 1962, CSIS staff and large network of affiliated scholars conduct research and analysis and develop policy initiatives that look to the future and anticipate change.