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Beth Zotter is the cofounder and CEO of Umaro Foods, a company unlocking the potential of ocean farmed seaweeds to make delicious and affordable plant-based protein. She is also the leader of an ambitious ocean farming project, TROFX, backed by ARPA-E and top 60 Milestone Finalist in the $100M Carbon Removal XPRIZE. Before Umaro Foods, Beth was a staff member of Activate, where she developed tools to help entrepreneurs develop economic models to assess the potential of their new technologies. Beth got her start in a seaweed biofuels startup, and has interdisciplinary science and policy degrees from Harvard and UC Berkeley.