Fellows mentioned in this story: Keoni Lee, Cohort V

From Pacific Inno:

Local impact investing nonprofit Hawai‘i Investment Ready, or HIR, has launched a new Hawai‘i Food Systems Accelerator program, officials with the nonprofit announced Wednesday.

The HIR Hawai‘i Food Systems Accelerator is made up of two complementary cohorts, including the Enterprise Cohort and the Funder Cohort. The cohorts will represent "high-potential innovators" across the food system value chain, as well as funders from government, philanthropic, and private sectors.

“Covid changed the landscape and made us rethink how we can best serve Hawai‘i in its urgent and necessary economic transformation,” said Keoni Lee, Hawai‘i Investment Ready CEO, in a statement. “Typically, accelerators aim to strengthen and scale the individual enterprises that participate in their programs, but this new approach takes it a step further to strengthen and resource the system as a whole.”

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