Bruce Shaw
About Bruce Shaw
Skilled entrepreneur, investor, and business leader with excellent interpersonal skills, a deep knowledge of business development, and a thorough understanding of food trends and the food economy. I'm the co-founder of The Food Loft, a coworking community for food and foodtech startups and small companies based in Boston that is a model for helping new businesses grow in a collaborative environment. My goal with The Food Loft is to develop a leading innovation hub that provides access to mentorship, networking and strategic assistance for food and foodtech startups. I've been an active investor in this arena for almost 10 years, and bring the skills and expertise I've acquired in that time to all of my conversations with entrepreneurs. I travel frequently to meet with entrepreneurs and investors in this rapidly growing market and to get to know the inner workings of the innovative companies poised to become leaders in the foodtech revolution. Through The Food Loft, I remain active as an investor in foodtech. To date, I've made a number of investments in foodtech startups, including Yummly, an intelligent recipe search engine that learns your taste preferences the more you use it, Caviar, a curated restaurant-delivery service, Crowdly, a social brand management platform that works with large food companies and others to help them better engage their customers via social media, and Alchemista, a corporate foodservice delivery provider that works with large clients. Square acquired Caviar in 2014. I was previously President and Publisher of The Harvard Common Press, a Boston-based publisher of award-winning cookbooks, which was acquired by Quarto Publishing Group USA in 2016. I’m interested in meeting food entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone who works food. Specialties: Business building, investing, entrepreneurship, food innovation, book publishing