Founder/Managing General Partner at Big Idea Ventures
View Live Interactive Profile →Andrew D. Ive is the founder of Big Idea Ventures and is titled Founder/Managing General Partner on the firm's team page. The firm's own material says he "created Big Idea Ventures to solve the world's biggest challenges by supporting the world's best entrepreneurs" and that investors in New Protein Fund I include Tyson Foods and Temasek. SEC Form D filings name him as an executive officer and promoter of New Protein Fund I LP and of Global Food Innovation Fund II LP, in each case as managing member of the fund's general partner (Big Idea Ventures GP I LLC and Big Idea Ventures GP II LLC respectively), and as a director of Generation Food Rural Partners I, LP. The firm's team page states he serves on the Advisory Board for the Tufts Nutrition Council and is a Friedman School Entrepreneurship Advisor, and that he previously served on the Small Business Council Board of the UK Department of Trade and Industry advising the UK Government on entrepreneurship and high growth companies; these are advisory roles rather than board of directors seats, so boardSeats is empty. He is described by the firm as a Harvard Business School graduate and Procter & Gamble brand management trained. He is the person quoted in almost every Big Idea Ventures investment announcement.