In 2010 Renaldo Webb graduated from MIT with a B.S. in Physics and knew that as it difficult as it may have been to earn the coveted diploma it’s not what he was going to do.
“I quickly learned I wasn’t going to solve string theory and that I wanted to do something different with my life,” Webb says.
He bounced around several jobs, including being an analyst for McKinsey in LA and a senior associate at a private equity firm in New York. However, it was in 2015 that he finally decided to work in a field he’d always been passionate about: the pet industry. As an owner of a dog, Webb founded PetPlate, a fresh-cooked pet food company which announced earlier this month that it had raised $19 million dollars in Series B funding round led by Pendulum.
Webb got the idea for the company when he worked with pet food companies as a consultant, and was able to realize that the low quality ingredients in the pet food had been the underlying reason for many health issues with the pets, particularly obesity.
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