“The most valuable thing that founders have, in the beginning, is there time.“
Our guest this week is Evan Cohen – Accelerator Manager for SVG Ventures | THRIVE – a leading agtech accelerator and venture investor based in Los Angeles, California.
After barely making it to his infantry unit before deploying to Iraq in 2008, Evan returned safely and was accepted as an intern with the Obama Administration, working in the Office of Legislative Affairs in the White House. He was eventually offered a full-time position in the department where he spent the next 2.5 years working on all manner of military and legislative affairs, including the use of force authorization plans for Syria.
He then spent another two years at the Department of Energy working on clean tech and renewable energy, where he moved back to California and was picked up by a Canadian Accelerator, also heavily focused on capital raising for clean tech. It was a culmination of these experiences that landed a job as the Accelerator Manager at THRIVE earlier this year.
Have listen as Evan pieces together this story and shares some of his perspectives in ag from a multidate of vantage points – corporate innovation, start-up accelerator, and venture investor. He shares an announcement about next year’s accelerator program you won’t want to miss.
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