A passionate, experienced, and driven group of investment professionals drawn from venture capital, banking, and asset management.
Our Team
Victor Friedberg
FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER
Victor has been at the forefront of innovation, investment, and sustainability for over 20 years. As co-founder of S2G Ventures he was a principal force in developing the S2G mission, culture, strategy, and team. He pioneered systems investing as a strategy for investing into food and agriculture and applied this approach to building the S2G portfolio. As managing director, Victor led the S2G investments into Beyond Meat and sweetgreen — two sector-defining brands with the most successful IPOs in food in the past decade — and Apeel Science, a groundbreaking biotech company declared a unicorn by Forbes in 2021. Victor is founder and chairman of Foodshot Global, an innovative multi-stakeholder non-profit for food system transformation. He also serves as executive chairman of Tiny Organics, senior strategic advisor of Mori, and on the boards of Kiverdi, Air Protein, and Digestiva.
Rajiv Singh
CO-FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER
As Chief Executive Officer of Rabobank, Rajiv was responsible for the bank’s business and investing activities in North America. He led and built Rabobank’s business segments of corporate finance, private, equity, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, specialized investment products, food and agribusiness research, and capital market activities. Rajiv spearheaded a new business plan, strategy, and vision to refocus the institution on being the key financial link for a better food system. He led the establishment of direct investing across strategies — Private Equity (Arlon Food and Ag Partners), Venture Capital (Rabo Ventures, Anterra, Rabo F&A Innovation Fund), Incubator/Innovation platforms (Terra and FoodBytes), as well as hybrid capital investing through Rabo Global Client Solutions. Additionally, Rajiv was the Chairman of the Board of Rabo Securities Inc., a broker-dealer regulated by FINRA.
Rajiv is an investment partner and founding investor in the Open Prairie Rural Opportunities Fund, an RBIC fund dedicated to connecting growth stage companies in food, agribusiness and rural infrastructure space with capital. He serves as director and interim CEO of Agrivida, an innovative biotechnology company developing a revolutionary and sustainable way to express protein molecules in grain. He is founding partner of Amritam Holdings, Co-Chairman of Foodshot Global, and on the board of directors of SeaAhead.
Anthony H. Stam
PARTNER, EUROPE
Anthony has over 20 years of experience in private equity, venture capital, corporate finance and investment banking. He has worked on sustainability topics including renewable energy, circular economy, food & agri-tech and climate solutions.
As Chief Investment Officer for a Swiss single family office, he restructured and oversaw a diversified private equity portfolio with a focus on the medtech, foodtech, and luxury industries, which saw highly profitable exits in the medical sector and the preparation of other non-core assets for exit.
As part of his long and successful track record, Anthony previously had a 14-year tenure at one of the largest European single family offices and their captive private equity firm, as well as 5 years in corporate finance / M&A, having worked on both buy- and sell-side deals in retail, consumer finance, and renewable energies. He led multiple large debt finance transactions, as well as an initiative to establish a new investment arm focused on sustainable food and agriculture, including extensive market research. He developed a broad industry network and actionable deal pipeline. He serves as senior advisor to Avicella Ventures (life-sciences) and NatureRe Capital (nature-based climate solutions).
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