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RutgersX, the food accelerator of the Rutgers Food Innovation Center, today announced the speakers and panelists for the RutgersX Accelerating Food Entrepreneurs Conference, which will be held on Monday, November 16, at the Rutgers University College Avenue Student Center in New Brunswick, NJ… “We have assembled panels of leading national and international investors from the venture, angel, and strategic investment communities as well as leaders in the food industry for our first-ever RutgersX Accelerator Conference,” said Lou Cooperhouse, founder of RutgersX and director of the Rutgers Food Innovation Center… The Rutgers Food Innovation Center (FIC), based in Bridgeton, NJ, is a food business incubation and economic development accelerator program of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and has been named as “Incubator of the Year” by the International Business Innovation Association (InBIA) and an “Agricultural Innovation Center Demonstration Program” by the USDA.

Food innovation is the next course in the storied US-Israel partnership. Rutgers University’s Food Innovation Center and Tel-Hai College in Israel’s northern Galilee region recently announced the New Jersey-Israel Healthy, Functional, and Medical Food Alliance, a venture that will create synergies between start-ups and more established food businesses in America’s so-called “Garden State” and the Jewish state… The key players are Member of Knesset Erel Margalit (Labor), founder of the Jerusalem Venture Partners venture capital firm, and Lou Cooperhouse, director of the Rutgers Food Innovation Center and president of the New Jersey Business Incubation Network… “The Office of the Chief Scientist of the State of Israel is arguably why Israel has developed so much technology and is called the “start-up nation,” something that neither U.S. state governments nor the American federal government do to the same degree, Cooperhouse tells JNS.org.

Food innovation is the next course in the storied U.S.-Israel partnership. Rutgers University’s Food Innovation Center and Tel-Hai College in Israel’s northern Galilee region recently announced the New Jersey-Israel Healthy, Functional, and Medical Food Alliance, a venture that will create synergies between start-ups and more established food businesses in America’s so-called “Garden State” and the Jewish state… The key players are Member of Knesset Erel Margalit (Labor), founder of the Jerusalem Venture Partners venture capital firm, and Lou Cooperhouse, director of the Rutgers Food Innovation Center and president of the New Jersey Business Incubation Network… For students and faculty, a memo of understanding signed by Rutgers and Tel-Hai on Sept. 18 supports research collaboration, entrepreneurship education, exchange programs, and experiential learning. Israeli businesses will get access to incubation opportunities at the Rutgers Food Innovation Center and assistance in finding partners for joint ventures.

RutgersX, the food accelerator at the Rutgers Food Innovation Center (FIC), announced today their 2015 cohort of participating companies. Each of these food companies will make a pitch presentation in front of an audience of potential funders, strategic partners, customers and fellow food entrepreneurs at the RutgersX – Accelerating Food Entrepreneurs Conference on November 16, 2015. In addition to the pitching sessions, the conference agenda will also include panel discussions with food industry leaders, conversations with successful entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, and remarks from state and national government leaders… This year’s participating companies are all current or former clients of Rutgers Food Innovation Center and/or clients affiliated with their International Soft Landings Programs. The inaugural cohort includes nine companies… “We’re excited to present such a talented group of entrepreneurs as our first cohort of companies,” said Lou Cooperhouse, founder of RutgersX and director of the Rutgers Food Innovation Center.

Rutgers University is honing in on “amazing” agricultural technology in Israel with an agreement on the advancement of healthy food products created between Tel Hai College, a college located in Northern Israel, according to The Times of Israel… The New Jersey and Israel Healthy, Functional, and Medical Foods Alliance was formed and focuses on scientific research, technology commercialization, business incubation and education in order to make healthier foods, according to rutgers.edu&… “Israel and New Jersey have a common interest, to produce healthier foods and research how the food industry is evolving,” said Lou Cooperhouse, director of Rutgers Food Innovation Center and President of New Jersey Business Incubation Network… Forming the alliance with Israel has the highest potential for success because of Israel’s strong interest and advancement in agricultural technology, Klein said.

For those who dare to imagine something different, something extraordinary, the inaugural RutgersX Accelerator Conference scheduled for Nov. 16 in New Brunswick promises an opportunity to learn from entrepreneurs in the food industry who will pitch their products to an audience of angel investors and potential strategic partners… “Attendees will have an opportunity to learn directly from investors the nuances of what they are looking for in a product and the person leading the business, as well as the team, and it will most likely prove to be very eye-opening,” said Lou Cooperhouse, director, Rutgers Food Innovation Center, and president, NJ Business Incubation Network, who is spearheading the RutgersX initiative. The daylong event will also include: panel discussions with food industry leaders and conversations with successful entrepreneurs and venture capitalists… Throughout the RutgersX, entrepreneurs working in the food industry, whose products are already on the market, will be pitching the value of their product and their vision to a range of investors with the goal of acquiring additional funding needed to take their businesses to the next level.

On Friday, Representatives from Rutgers, Israel’s Tel-Hai College and its Economic Development Taskforce, Choose NJ and the New Jersey state government gathered at the new facility for Rutgers’ New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition & Health… A…

The Rutgers Food Innovation Center recently launched RutgersX, the first business accelerator program at the university… Business accelerators provide a cohort of entrepreneurial companies with a mentoring team that brings professional expertise and a venue in which they can “pitch” their business to a community of angel and venture investors, strategic partners, and retail and food-service customers. The first cohort of companies will be pitch presenters at the RutgersX Accelerating Food Entrepreneurs Conference on Nov. 16 at the Rutgers College Avenue Student Center in New Brunswick… “Given the tremendous interest we have in RutgersX, and our New Brunswick location that makes this an easy commute from the tristate area, we are confident that our 2015 conference will be a sold-out event, and will be continued in 2016 and beyond,” said Lou Cooperhouse, founder of RutgersX and director of the Rutgers Food Innovation Center in a news release. “We are already making plans to expand our program and include other industry sectors in future years.”