Meet the Founder Björn Öste - Member in the Founders Alliance FoodTech Group. Founder of Good Idea Drinks and Co-founder of Oatly & Aventure AB.
In April Founders Alliance gathered over 250 large scale founders in Stockholm, Amsterdam and Gothenburg. As a part of the conference in Stockholm 150 founders met up at Ellery Beach House to be inspired by Gustaf Brandbergs Founders Talk with Björn Öste.
Gustaf Brandberg and Björn Öste are both members in the Founders Alliance FoodTech Group. We co-create Founders Talk with our groups, this time the FoodTech Group. Bear with us that the video quality is not top notch: Founders Talk with Björn Öste and Gustaf Brandberg.
Björn Öste lives in San Francisco. He is the founder of Good Idea Drinks, a flavored, carbonated water that will help those with normal blood sugar levels handle the blood sugar spikes following a meal.
He is also the co-founder of Oatly, a Swedish food company that produces alternatives to dairy products from oats. He started Oatly in 1994 along with his brother, Rickard Öste, a food scientist and the inventor of oat milk. In 2021, the company IPOed at a $10 billion valuation.
Gustaf Brandberg lives in Stockholm. He and his brothers run Gullspång Invest and Gullspång Re:food, partnering with entrepreneurs to accelerate planet positive paradigm shifts.
He is the co-founder and former CEO of Citerus. All investments in companies improving the global food system are made through the subsidiary Gullspång Re:food. Investments include Oatly, Färsking, Trine and NICKS.
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