Marissa Bronfman is a business advisor to food and foodtech founders, and impact investors

Business Advisor

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Marissa is a serial entrepreneur, trusted startup advisor and ecosystem leader, with over 15 years of global experience building businesses, creating impact initiatives, and supporting founders and investors through world-class venture and accelerator programs. In her executive advisory work, she has helped steward more than $50M in strategic government capital and assisted companies in raising more than $100M. Marissa has been a mentor, coach and advisor for Spring Impact Capital, Spring Collective, the MaRS Women in Cleantech Accelerator, Dalhousie University's Lab2Market, Startup Canada, Canada's Ocean Supercluster, and others. 

As Founder and Executive Director of Future Ocean Foods, the world's first and only alternative seafood and seaweed association, she united over 50 companies in 17 countries, and is currently leading the nonprofit through a strategic acquisition.

Marissa has been featured in WSJ, Vogue, The Globe and Mail, and dozens of other publications, media outlets and podcasts. She speaks about women in business, food innovation, impact investing, as well as AI and the future of work. She is gold-level certified in AI-assisted programming and recently debuted her keynote, The Power of the Pivot, designed to inspire people to embrace non-linear career paths in the age of AI.

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RECENT INTERVIEWS, PRESS + PODCASTS

“Want To Support Women? Fund Their Businesses” | The Globe and Mail

‘Women are building businesses that are good for people, good for the planet. Women think about the impact their products or services have, so when we fund women – and the numbers support this – they use their funds better, they’re hiring other women, and we also see that those products and services perform better and are more inclusive. In every country in the world, when we give money to women, [their businesses] perform better. It’s not up for discussion, we know it from the numbers. We’re just trying to close that huge, huge [funding] gap.’

Why Women Should Invest: Why Investing is Different For Women and 5 Tips For Getting Started | Buzzfeed

Your values play a key role in how you manage your finances as well as how you invest. "It's important that you feel passionate about where your money is going,"  says Bronfman. "Find an intersection between where your values meet high returns because we can invest in people and the planet, while also building wealth for ourselves." 

How To Fund Your Business | Startup Women Podcast

‘One of the exciting things about this emerging industry that we call ‘impact investing’ is that hopefully, in a few years, all investing will be impact investing. We shouldn’t have to talk about impact investing versus traditional investing, just like we shouldn’t have to talk about underrepresented founder versus founder. But unfortunately, we do still see less than 3% of venture capital go to women founders all over the world and that less than 7% of partners at venture cap firms are women.’

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  • She has a wealth of knowledge in investor positioning and corporate communications, and supported our fundraising plans. She offered practical advice and solutions. Marissa was instrumental in helping me land my pitch and prepare for investor meetings. Her sustainable values and high integrity inspired me to keep fighting to create a business that supports profit, planet and people.

    Samantha Reyner

  • We spoke super early into my founder journey and I still view this conversation as the most useful per minute advising session I have ever had. If you get a chance to talk with Marissa, don't miss the chance, you will learn, think and grow.

    Nicole Gordon

  • “Working with Marissa helps me greatly to keep track of my own development as a CEO and keep the focus on what’s important. She adds a lot of value and has offered concrete fixes for specific problems that helped us overcome obstacles and become more effective. She is a very valuable advisor for key decision making.”

    Moritz Mueller