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Investor profile

Andrew D Ive

Founder / Managing General Partner, Big Idea Ventures

About

Andrew D Ive is the founder of Big Idea Ventures who brings Procter & Gamble brand management and Harvard Business School training to early-stage food-tech investing, positioning himself as someone who blends big-brand consumer marketing discipline with frontier technologies like cultured meat and precision fermentation. He runs a unique third fund focused on working with top US universities to create future-of-food companies in rural communities, and actively builds full value chains and ecosystems across key markets from New York to Singapore while championing culturally relevant, local alternative proteins rather than generic global solutions. Andrew D Ive is the founder of Big Idea Ventures who brings Procter & Gamble brand management and Harvard Business School training to early-stage food-tech investing, positioning himself as someone who blends big-brand consumer marketing discipline with frontier technologies like cultured meat and precision fermentation. He runs a unique third fund focused on working with top US universities to create future-of-food companies in rural communities, and actively builds full value chains and ecosystems across key markets from New York to Singapore while championing culturally relevant, local alternative proteins rather than generic global solutions.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Sectors
Food
Ag
BioTech
Materials
Climate
CPG / D2C

Investment details

Avg check size$125K
Can lead rounds
No
Geographies
USA
Asia-Pacific
Europe
Africa
LatAm
India
Canada
Israel
ANZ
MENA