Tom Mastrobuoni

Chief Investment Officer, Big Idea Ventures | Generation Food Rural Partners | Global Food Innovation Fund II

📍 Nutley Township, New Jersey, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 10 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2026
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Feb 2026
American Prime combines the power of remote sensing, in-situ observations, and machine learning to provide relevant insights to support data-driven decision-making in agriculture, urban development, and CO2 offset projects. Our agricultural clients in sugarcane, corn, wheat, and soybean are able to reduce their production costs while increasing their revenue. Energy companies and cities using our services can access new geospatial data tailored to their needs to support their decision-making, be weather-ready, and reduce the cost associated to maintain continuous energy and water supply for their customers. CO2 offset projects not only help your company to comply and reduce the carbon footprint, but we ensure that the projects have a strong social impact, contributing to enhancing a positive public view perception of your company and operations. American Prime provides the solutions and a professional team to help your business save costs, increase revenue, and continue growing a strong public image.
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Jun 2024
Supercharger leverages advanced large language models to automate prior art searches, generate invalidity charts, and auto-generate claims from patent applications. Instantly execute searches and create meta tags within our system using our fine tuned models.
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May 2024
Commercializing biological Innovation in Agriculture for healthier plants, people and planet
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Jan 2024
At DisSolves, we believe in making life easier with dissolvable, bio-based packaging that delivers the ultimate convenience, with no mess, no measuring, and no waste.
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Aug 2023
TerraSafe Materials, Inc. is a material science company developing new materials, coatings, and applications for truly sustainable packaging. We specialize in the development of biopolymer compounds to displace traditional petroleum based packaging. As the first company formed within BIV’s Generation Food Rural Partners (GFRP) Fund, TerraSafe Materials licenses intellectual property from multiple universities collaborating to develop novel materials to reduce the amount of plastic waste entering the environment.
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Mar 2019
a fresh take on seafood.®
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Oct 2017
By shifting from animal to plant-based meat, we can positively impact four growing global issues: human health 💪, climate change 🌎, constraints on natural resources 🌱, and animal welfare 🐮. #GoBeyond
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2026
Board Member
Feb 2026
American Prime combines the power of remote sensing, in-situ observations, and machine learning to provide relevant insights to support data-driven decision-making in agriculture, urban development, and CO2 offset projects. Our agricultural clients in sugarcane, corn, wheat, and soybean are able to reduce their production costs while increasing their revenue. Energy companies and cities using our services can access new geospatial data tailored to their needs to support their decision-making, be weather-ready, and reduce the cost associated to maintain continuous energy and water supply for their customers. CO2 offset projects not only help your company to comply and reduce the carbon footprint, but we ensure that the projects have a strong social impact, contributing to enhancing a positive public view perception of your company and operations. American Prime provides the solutions and a professional team to help your business save costs, increase revenue, and continue growing a strong public image.
2024
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Jun 2024
Supercharger leverages advanced large language models to automate prior art searches, generate invalidity charts, and auto-generate claims from patent applications. Instantly execute searches and create meta tags within our system using our fine tuned models.
Board Member
May 2024
Commercializing biological Innovation in Agriculture for healthier plants, people and planet
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