Startup Refresh: Business Entity Formation & Impact

 

Don’t miss this chance to catch Mark White sharing his expertise on business formation on this free Food System 6 webinar!

About this Event

The question of business entity formation is one that we answer repeatedly at FS6, particularly as impact-driven businesses begin to think about taking on professional investment. Does it matter where and how you are incorporated? Do you need to be a Delaware C-Corp? How can you make sure that impact stays central to your business as you grow? What are the options for cooperative or employee-owned business structures? All of these questions (and more) will be addressed in this conversation from a variety of perspectives; each speaker will tell you the pros and cons of various entity types from their experience and will engage around the increasingly pertinent question of how to build impact, resiliency, community, and success into the foundation of your business.

Please note that each webinar will conclude with 15 minutes of Q&A about the FS6 Business Accelerator application process. Webinar attendees who are not applying to the program may sign off at this time.

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About the Series

​​Join Food System 6 for a three-part webinar series to start the new year right! In it, we will cover financial and legal hygiene for fundraising, the importance of mental health and nourishment for founders, as well as important updates on the FS6 2021 Program Season.

This series is designed to explore some of the fundamental elements of building your business for impact, as well as to introduce the FS6 program and application details for Cohort 7, for which we are currently accepting applicants.

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*All episodes will take place at10:00am PT/ 1:00pm ET

About the Series

Mark White is a founding partner of White Summers Caffee & James LLP (formerly White & Lee), and leads the firm’s international practice. Mark represents emerging growth, mid-stage and mezzanine stage companies and investment funds on all matters relating to the formation, financing, growth and liquidity of technology-based enterprises. Over the span of 20 years Mark has represented companies in well over 500+ financings and over 200+ acquisitions. He represents and advises companies on a wide variety of transactional matters, including business and legal issues as they pertain to complex strategic and venture financings, acquisitions, and licensing and distribution arrangements. Mark’s practice principally covers corporate, technology, financing and corporate partnering matters for a wide variety of private and public company clients. He regularly advises companies on strategic positioning, business model and revenue generation issues, the preparation of investment materials and presentations, and the structure of complex corporate reorganizations, joint ventures, divestitures, consolidations and commercial partnerships. Mark also represents investment funds on formation issues and represents investors in making portfolio investments.

Lindsey Lusher Shute is the founder of the Farm Generations Coop, a national initiative to expand the market share and viability of small farmers with fair, farmer-owned technology. The cooperative's first project is GrownBy, an online sales platform now in beta. Before Farm Generations, Lindsey co-founded the National Young Farmers Coalition and led the organization in its first decade. Lindsey grew the organization from a few volunteer farmers to a nationwide network with 40 chapters in 28 states and a grassroots base of over 150,000. Lindsey was recognized as a “Champion of Change” by President Barack Obama and is the recipient of the Glynwood’s "Harvest Award.” EatingWell magazine named Lindsey and “American Food Hero” and she was included among “20 Food Leaders Under 40” by Food Tank.

Renske Lynde has been an advocate for a healthier & more sustainable food system for 20+ years. She is a General Partner of 1st Course Capital, an early stage venture fund in food & agriculture. Renske is also a co-founder of Food System 6 which is a non-profit accelerator based in the SF Bay Area that supports mission-driven entrepreneurs from around the world transforming how we grow, produce and distribute food. Renske began her career in the food system advocating for sustainable agriculture in global trade policy agreements and went on to build direct markets for growers and producers in Philadelphia. She subsequently directed efforts to improve the food stamp and school meal programs for the San Francisco Food Bank. She holds BA degrees from Boston University in Political Science and Psychology and an MPP from UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy.

 
Samantha Gee