Leonardo DiCaprio Is Investing in the Plant-Based Food Startup Beyond Meat

Beth Kowitt

Beth Kowitt is a senior writer at Fortune Magazine, where she covers food and agriculture, consumer behavior, and sustainability. She also works on Fortune's Most Powerful Women franchise and is a co-chair of the MPW Next Gen conference. She joined Fortune in 2008 and is based in New York.

Beth Kowitt

LATEST STORIES

Retail Leonardo DiCaprio Is Investing in the Plant-Based Food Startup Beyond Meat Meat substitute manufacturer Beyond Meat has announced that Leonardo DiCaprio has become one of its investors. The screen legend joins other investor luminaries who have backed the company’s

MPW Top Tips from the Most Powerful Women in Business on Leading through Turmoil Being a CEO is hard enough, but try doing it when both your company and industry is in flux. Top CEOs in the trenches tackled the issue of leading a transformation at Fortune‘s Most Powerful

MPW Top Athletes Share Their Secret to Crushing Competition at the Office Amelia Boone and Stephanie McMahon compete at the highest levels in both their personal and professional lives. Boone is a corporate attorney at Apple aapl and one of the world’s top obstacle racers,

MPW Sally Yates on Michael Flynn, Trump’s Muslim Ban, and Running for Office Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates believes deeply in public service, having spent 20 years in the Department of Justice. “I fell in love with the mission,” she says. “I’m committed to that

MPW How PepsiCo’s CEO Is Preparing for an Amazon-Dominated Future PepsiCo CEO and chairman Indra Nooyi says that as her industry undergoes tectonic shifts, it’s either the “most exciting time to be the CEO of a food and beverage company, or the

MPW Donald Trump’s Twitter Feed Is One of 2017’s Top Geopolitical Risks, Says Citi Analyst As chief global political analyst for Citigroup c , Tina Fordham tracks the world’s geopolitical hotspots. So when she flagged Donald Trump’s Twitter feed as one of the top risks for 2017, people

Retail Kellogg CEO John Bryant Out as the Big Food Mass CEO Exodus Continues Earlier this month Fortune reported that 17 CEOs of public Big Food manufacturers and retailer had left their perches—or announced their intention to—in the last year and a half. Today that number

Pepsico CEO Indra Nooyi inspects Pete's Fresh Market in Chicago, April 2015

MPW Here Are PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi’s Secrets For Managing Her Hectic Life PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi is known for being candid. And she did not disappoint when Fortune sat down with her at the end of August as part of our Most Powerful Women package. In a wide-ranging

Fortune Most Powerful Women — Roz Brewer

MPW These 10 Powerful Women Are Ones to Watch Fortune is keeping a close eye on these 10 business superstars, all of whom could someday land on our Most Powerful Women list. See who did make the ranking this

FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Dinner New York City

MPW These 8 Execs Dropped Off the 2017 Most Powerful Women List Fortune‘s Most Powerful Women list is missing some familiar faces this year. Xerox’s Ursula Burns and Mondelez’s Irene Rosenfeld both appeared on our ranking more than a dozen times

Most Popular on FORTUNE

Amazon’s Second Headquarters Bidding Process Is Being Hit With Criticism

Amazon’s Second Headquarters Bidding Process Is Being Hit With Criticism

Elon Musk’s Tesla Powerwalls Have Landed in Puerto Rico

Tesla Motors Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk Unveils New Generation Of Batteries

Elon Musk’s Tesla Powerwalls Have Landed in Puerto Rico

This Unexpected City Says It Has Everything Amazon Wants for a New Headquarters

‘Me Too’: How Alyssa Milano’s Two-Word Protest Against Sexual Harassment Went Viral

Television Industry Advocacy Awards - Arrivals

‘Me Too’: How Alyssa Milano’s Two-Word Protest Against Sexual Harassment Went Viral

Donald Trump Has Reportedly Lost Hundreds of Millions This Year

Customer Service Site Map Privacy Policy Advertising Ad Choices Terms of Use Your California Privacy Rights Careers

FORTUNE may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to change without notice.

Quotes delayed at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Interactive Data. ETF and Mutual Fund data provided by Morningstar, Inc. Dow Jones Terms & Conditions: http://www.djindexes.com/mdsidx/html/tandc/indexestandcs.html. S&P Index data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved. Terms & Conditions. Powered and implemented by Interactive Data Managed Solutions