Afina CEO to Speak at IFT Expo on Global Food System Afina CEO David Godfrey-Thomas will be speaking at the IFT FIRST conference July 10-13, 2022, in Chicago. IFT FIRST (which stands for the Institute of Food Technologists and Food Improved by Research, Science and Technology) will bring together the Read more…
Carbon Negative Bread Served by Sea & Flour at U.N. Ocean Conference One of the highlights of Afina’s attendance at the U.N. Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal was to participate in meetings with Sea & Flour, a Philadelphia-based food and baked goods company whose game changing ‘Carb Positive, Carbon Negative’ Read more…
AFINA CEO ATTENDS U.N. GLOBAL COMPACT DINNER AT THE 2022 U.N. OCEAN CONFERENCE Afina CEO David Godfrey-Thomas attended a spectacular dinner given by the U.N. Global Compact at the United Nations Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. The dinner brought together leaders of government, NGOs, private industry and finance, in a Read more…
Afina at the 2022 U.N. Ocean Conference Afina International CEO David Godfrey-Thomas will join global stakeholders as a Delegate to the United Nations Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal from 27 June to July 1 2022. Co-hosted by the Governments of Kenya and Portugal, the Ocean Conference comes at a critical Read more…
Global beverage conglomerate AB In Bev has invited Afina International to be part of its 100+ Accelerator Cohort 3 Demo Day, hosted in partnership with The Coca-Cola Company, Colgate-Palmolive and Unilever, 3:00-6:00 p.m. EDT today, Thursday, June 9, 2022. This year, 35 start-ups will have the opportunity to pitch their Read more…
Afina is excited to announce its attendance at 3:00 p.m. (EDT) on Thursday, June 9, 2022 for the 100+ Accelerator Cohort 3 Demo Day, organized in partnership with TED by AB In Bev. This year, 35 incredible startups will have the opportunity to pitch their solutions to top executives, corporate Read more…
31 May 2022: Join us for a free virtual event on Wednesday, June 1, 2022 from 8:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. (EDT), where Benjamin Leavenworth, Afina’s Chief Strategy Officer and Chile’s Honorary Consul in Philadelphia, will be on a panel hosted by the Philadelphia-Israel Chamber of Commerce (“PICC”) to honor Read more…
10 May 2022: As Afina International LLC (“Afina”) identifies and invests in companies focused on offering nutritious, tasty, affordable foods at scale, we are pleased to announce stupendous news about one of our portfolio companies, Amara Organic Foods (“Amara”). Business Insider ranked Amara the 5th fastest growing direct to consumer (“D2C”) brand. What’s Read more…
14 February 2022: Lima Peru and Philadelphia PA, USA – CFI, a Lima based, private, family owned, sustainability-focused Latin American investment and business management firm and AFINA, a US based, internationally operating company focused on business solutions for global challenges, are pleased to announce the launch of their general partnership Read more…
David Godfrey-Thomas, Afina’s CEO, comments on an article by Stefan Stern in the Financial Times: “John Lennon and former Congressman Paul Mitchell make strange bedfellows but they both share sentiments to live by…” The article continues: Do not dismiss today’s “vulgar nincompoops”. They are the future. “I fought the war for Read more…