BFF Lunch with Kim Anderson | Corridor 9/495 | December 3, 2024

Kim Anderson was the featured guest speaker at the December 2024 Business Forward Female luncheon sponsored by the Corridor 9/495 Chamber of MetroWest.
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"Kim Anderson has been a successful retailer and business leader for more than 35 years. In 2019, she created and co-founded PLANT CITY, the world’s first and largest plant-based food hall with celebrity chef Matthew Kenney, as an impact investment to show that food systems can be sustainable and delicious.
Anderson has been recognized by Inc. Magazine, Fortune and Entrepreneur, and honored as “Entrepreneur of the Year” by the Small Business Association and “Citizen of the Year” by the Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce. With her family, she is an impact investor against climate crisis, specifically with an interest in alternative proteins. She is a member of the Advisory Board for PlantPure Companies and a co-founder of EverHope Capital, a venture capital fund providing Seed, Bridge and Series A capital to firms creating innovative food technologies and alternatives to animal-based products. She also serves on the board of Social Enterprise Greenhouse, Lincoln School, and the Collis Family Foundation, and as a judge for Rhode Island Business Competition. She was recently selected to be fifth Rhode Islander to be entered into RI Entrepreneur Hall of Fame by the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center (MET) School."