Welcome to Day One with Adam Spencer Lauren & Cara from Your Food Collective
Recorded as Co-Founder & CEO, Your Food Collective
With Cara Cooper
About Lauren Branson
Lauren Branson is chief executive of Calyx, an Australian company whose Foodvu platforms give food manufacturers, retailers, foodservice operators and their suppliers product data and ingredient-level analysis of carbon, water, biodiversity and cost. She leads the business with chief operating officer Cara Cooper.
Trained as an ecologist, she studied biodiversity and conservation and completed a master's degree in invertebrate ecology, then worked as an environmental scientist managing threatened and invasive species. In 2017 she co-founded Your Food Collective with Cara Cooper, a Newcastle business that connected households with local farms through pick-up hubs and later expanded into Sydney.
She told the story of Your Food Collective on Welcome to Day One with Adam Spencer in 2020.
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Calyx on Day One
Calyx is a Sydney-based food-tech company whose Foodvu platform gives food companies ingredient-level environmental impact and supplier data across carbon, water…
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