Cafe music, a quiet meeting room and the buzz of a restaurant are all common background noises when founders and VCs meet to talk about potential business. But for Federica Moreno, founder of Berlin-based sustainable marketplace UpHavin, there was a very different soundtrack when she took a call from an interested investor: the commotion of a calf being slaughtered in the background.
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