Strategic Venture Society - SVS

Stressed for midterm season? Join us for an inter-club potluck and unwind over free food! 🍽️🧘‍♀️

Dare we say best Tuesday lineup, ever? CHA CHA MATCHA & MEI LAH WAH see you in KMEC 2-60 😍

From Lab-grown Meats to Ghost Kitchens: Why Foodtech Should Bring Partners to the Table by Jean Park

From lab-grown salmon to ghost kitchens, foodtech isn’t just changing what we eat — it’s changing how food moves from lab to plate. 🍽️

Alternative proteins are racing to meet rising global demand as traditional meat supply declines, while ghost kitchens are redefining restaurant economics in a delivery-first world. But innovation alone isn’t enough. The real differentiator? Partnerships.

From Oatly making “oat the default” through coffee shop collaborations, to UPSIDE Foods raising hundreds of millions for cultivated meat, to cloud kitchen platforms like Kitopi scaling alongside major F&B brands — the startups that win are the ones that build with the right partners at the table.

In foodtech, it’s not just about taste or tech. It’s about who you build with.

Read more on The Venturist Substack. 💻

Join us for a Fireside Chat with Anna Whiteman, Partner at Coefficient Capital!

Coefficient Capital is an early-stage consumer fund, with notable investments including Lemme, Oatly, Gorgie, and Magic Spoon.

Despite advances in AI and mapping, full autonomy will remain city-bound by Frizzo Tobing

By 2045, only robotaxi and freight networks will reliably reach Level 4 autonomy. Personal cars will stall at Level 2+ as tech, legal, and economic limits make full self-driving impractical outside controlled urban zones. The dream of a universal driverless car sounds elegant, but the real world—messy roads, unpredictable human behavior, extreme weather, liability issues, and fragmented regulation—keeps it grounded.

Meanwhile, fleet operators like Waymo, Zoox, and autonomous freight players can amortize massive hardware costs, operate inside geo-fenced areas, and validate their systems on predictable routes. Autonomy will scale, but in cities and trucking corridors, not in your driveway.

Read more on The Venturist Substack. 💻

Name a better way to start off your week…. Join us tomorrow during common hour for our Speaker Series with Joseph Turtel, current VP of Operations at Profound (& ex-PM at Microsoft)!

Raising $35M Series B in August to bring their total funding to $58.5M, Profound helps brands like Ramp, MongoDB, and Docusign use AI insights to understand, monitor, and optimize how they appear in search engines and emerging generative search results.

(P.S. free food as always) ⭐️

Applications are due TONIGHT! Make sure to get it in before 11:59PM 📣📣

No Console? No Problem. Cloud Gaming Is Here by Dimas Aryol

Game file sizes are exploding. 85GB here, 200GB there, and cloud gaming is starting to look like the only solution that scales. After early failures like OnLive and Stadia, new tech (edge compute, AI upscaling, smarter networking) is finally catching up to the dream: instant boot, no downloads, no storage anxiety. And this time, players won’t need $1,500 hardware just to keep up.

From NVIDIA and PlayStation to rising startups like Wavedash, Playruo, Shadow, and Boosteroid, the next wave of cloud gaming is already taking shape — faster, cheaper, and far more accessible than the last generation ever was.

Read more on The Venturist Substack. 💻

Change of plans‼️We will now be doing a program panel for today’s GM. Join us at 12:30PM in KMC 2-60 to hear from VTEAM and Venturist grads about their takeaways, experiences, and more!

Join us for a fireside chat with David Tisch, founder and managing partner of the Box Group! 📣

Box Group is an early stage VC fund that has invested in Clay, Ramp, Cursor, and Stripe. David will talk about his journey in venture and how students can break into the VC world.

Applications for Venture Team and The Venturist are now OPEN! Check our bio for the link! 🎉

Apply by February 13th, 11:59PM.

Join us for Games Night hosted by BAC, Girls Who Code, and SVS! Bring your friends and favorite board game! 🎲