
Beatriz Franco
Managing Partner, Vita Ventures – Early Stage Food Tech Investor
Caring about diversity – Beatriz Franco
“You need to be a little crazy. But, you also need to have a very good idea in the sense that it’s fixing a real need and not just a nice thing to have”
ABOUT
Beatriz Franco is a Managing Partner at Vita Ventures, an early-stage fund supporting innovations across the food industry while reducing demands on our planet.
Beatriz is also a Lead Investor at Portfolia’s Food & AgTech fund, angel Investor, and advisor. In 20+ years of experience, she has held many leadership positions in multinational environments including CEO of an AgTech company, director of investments at Plum Alley Investments, Wall Street investment banker at JPMorgan, as well as corporate lawyer at top law firms in Silicon Valley (Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati), in New York (Simpson Thacher & Bartlett) and Brazil (Pinheiro Neto Advogados).