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Silicon Valley Community Foundation

444 Castro Street, Suite 140, Mountain View, CA, 94041, United States

Overview

Silicon Valley Community Foundation partners with families, individuals, and corporations to manage and facilitate their philanthropy. The company connects donors’ interests to the most pressing needs, whether in Silicon Valley or around the globe. SVCF shapes critical public policy issues, partners with nonprofit groups and institutions advancing the best ideas, and directs resources swiftly and strategically toward unforeseen needs. It was founded in 2007 and based in Mountain View, California.

Total investments
1
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
7

Sector focus

  • Charity
  • Communities
  • Non Profit
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Investment portfolio

  • BlueNalu

    Participated · Convertible Note · Jan 2021

    Founded in 2018, San Diego-based BlueNalu produces premium seafood directly from fish cells, eliminating the need to harvest wild fish. Its first commercial product is cell-cultivated bluefin tuna toro, which the company aims to launch through premium food-service partners once regulatory approvals are secured. The firm collaborates closely with regulators, chefs, distributors and strategic partners worldwide to build a scalable, responsible cultivated-seafood supply chain. Proceeds from the latest financing will fund U.S. and international regulatory engagement, initial commercial-launch activities and manufacturing-process optimization. BlueNalu also plans to deepen strategic partnerships across the value chain to support disciplined commercialization. Agronomics’ investment lifts its fully diluted ownership to 12.96%, giving BlueNalu a committed long-term backer with deep cellular-agriculture expertise. Although revenue figures are not yet disclosed, management positions the company as a leader in the emerging cultivated-seafood category.

Team

  • Katie Hsieh

    Chief Executive Officer

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  • Nicole Taylor

    President & CEO

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  • Sue McAllister

    Vice President, Marketing and Communications

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  • Michael Chertok

    Vice President, Donor Experience and Engagement

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