
According to Project Drawdown, these categories have the combined potential of reducing and sequestering GHGs by 20% of Drawdown’s estimation of 1000 gigatons.
Nano Gold
Nano Gold™ advances wellness with gold nanoparticle technology that enhances longevity, reduces inflammation, and supports cellular regeneration. Addressing stress, sleep, immunity, and aging, it offers unmatched bioavailability—up to 100 times higher than competitors—while safely crossing the blood-brain barrier. Combining science, sustainability, and innovation, Nano Gold™ delivers eco-conscious solutions for better health and longevity.
Seal the Seasons
Currently local produce is only available 4-6 weeks a year. Seal the Seasons partners with family farms to make locally grown frozen food available 365 days a year, helping to bridge the gap of consumers seeking locally grown food. The Seal the Seasons brand creates a new frozen market for rural farms, reduces food miles and carbon emissions, and provides transparency for consumers on where their food comes from. With over $500k in revenues within its first year, 550+ doors and an additional 350+ locations coming online in July 2017, STS will have a footprint
Molinos de la Especia
Molinos de la Especia Inc is an omnichannel, DTC (Direct to Consumer) manufacturer of dried spices, herbs, and mixes located in Cebu, Philippines. Our products are sourced from partners we trust throughout Asia and beyond—from the chalky saffron fields of Kashmir, the Cardamom hills of Kerala, to the mountainous regions of Japan.
Peelon
Peelon is a B2B startup that closes the gaps of food and energy waste in the global food supply chain industry by using a patent-pending, 100% plant-based protective coating technology that is applied onto fruits and vegetables and extends shelf life by 3x. This easy application is 100% invisible, odorless, tasteless, and safe to consume. This protective coating ensures that freshness and taste remain intact, shelf life is increased, ripening is delayed, and microbial growth is prevented. This translates to having less food waste, less carbon emissions released from spoilage and energy systems, and less use of conventional plastic.
Our mission is to counter the problems of food waste, environmental decay, world hunger by implementing Peelon into the global food supply chain and impacting PEOPLE, PLANET, and PROFIT through the innovation of nature. Our planet and future generations deserve to have a healthy and sustainable future.
Lil Mixins
Lil Mixins is creating a future of fearless eating through its line of 100% natural powdered infant foods. Eating peanuts, eggs, and tree nuts early and often as part of a healthy, diverse diet, has been proven to reduce the rate of food allergies in infants. Lil Mixins' safe, convenient products make protecting babies easy for parents.
Sunday Supper
Sunday Supper is on a mission to give back to the community and the animals with delicious, plant-based Italian food. Featured in VEGNEWS, learn how founder Richard Klein dedicate to building community around delicious frozen meals. Sunday Supper is part of the FoodFutureCo Cohort 10.
Hire My Farmer
Hire My Farmer is a connective platform that allows retailers and food business entities to order directly from farmers, enabling agricultural production planning without middlemen intervention. Through leveraging Hire My Farmer’s geospatial data, farmers can also showcase their productive capacity and attract individual investors, allowing for the recognition of shared returns and Indian agricultural empowerment.
Jar Goods
Jar Goods makes ultra-premium tomato sauces that truly stand out in a massive but stagnant category of foods. Compared to all other sauces, Jar Goods contain more tomatoes, more olive oil, and are thicker, richer, and more flavorful. Not to mention, they are the ultimate in versatility! Jar Goods’ products are completely natural and made with fresh ingredients. Wherever possible the sauces are non-GMO Verified, Kosher, gluten free, and contain little to no added sugar.
Hummii
At Hummii, they are making the healthy & yummy plant-powered snack universe of the future! Their first core product line is Tiny Tuffins: vegan & gluten free mini-muffins launching this fall via a Kickstarter campaign - featuring fit & delicious flavors like Banana Birthday Bash, Blueberry Tuffin & Double Chocolate Champion. The Hummii team is led by Bethany Costello, Michelin-starred pastry chef/Chief Yum Officer, and Tyler Phillips, young entrepreneur/Chief Edible Officer!
Farmers Grove
Farmer’s Grove Inc is a botanical fruit drink with a low sugar content and a high nutritional value. Farmer’s Grove offers a high quality beverage at a reasonable price, bringing the gifts of agriculture to the beverage industry.
Harvest Returns
Harvest Returns is an online equity crowdfunding platform designed specifically for investing in the agriculture industry. The platform provides investors with streamlined access to attractive, low-risk private investment opportunities & minimizes barriers to entry. It offers a new way to raise capital for farmers, ranchers, and landowners
Lobster Made Easy
Lobster Made Easy is a revolutionary first to market product that provides a convenient no smell/no mess/nutritious gourmet Lobster experience from freezer to plate in 7 minutes no matter the consumer's geographic location or culinary skill level. The company produces through partnerships with fishermen's cooperatives and sources lobster from the pristine waters of Nova Scotia where it supports the hard work of local fishermen.
ToMarket
ToMarket is the ordering platform that connects purveyors of local edible goods directly to restaurants and chefs that need them the most. ToMarket is a simple online network for sourcing and selling the highest quality edible goods.
TwoSpoons Ice Cream
Two Spoons, a proud LGBTQ-owned business with founders Gabe Zichermann & Rich Ferreira, are redefining the frozen dessert experience with its sugar and gluten-free indulgent ice creams. Their commitment to flavor and sustainability has positioned them as a leader in the rapidly growing clean-label, frozen food market.
EMKAO Foods
A seed-stage cocoa beans processing company focused on the production of single-source chocolate bars, sugar-free chocolate chips, ceremonial cacao, cocoa butter, cocoa powder, and related products. Located in British Columbia. EMKAO Foods processes those organic cocoa beans transparently sourced from Cameroon, Africa.
Ozuké
Ozuké was founded in 2012 in Boulder, Colorado by Mara and Willow King. The founders bring the passion of a world traveling chef and the savvy of a marketing maven to this expanding probiotic food and beverage company. They have achieved 60% average growth year over year in a fast growing category, 50% margins across all SKUs and are currently distributed in 600 doors nationally. Retailers include Whole Foods, Natural Grocers and Kroger with distribution through UNFI, KeHE and DPI. In 2018, they will launch a sparkling probiotic beverage with all the benefits found in other functional popular beverages such as kombucha and kefir, but without the added sugar. With the launch of the beverages and continued growth of the core product line, Ozuké will be poised to capture its' share of the $9Bn probiotic market opportunity.
Sons & Daughters
Sons & Daughters Farm and Winery crafts delicious, low ABV wines from their farm grown, organic, and climate-resilient crops. Located in South Florida, Sons & Daughters is a vertical, regenerative farm that grows (and composts) bioregionally appropriate subtropical crops to maximize the fertility of their soil. Each beverage sold by Sons & Daughters promotes small organic farmers, environmentally sound agriculture, and provides a modern, low alcohol option for adults.
Nutrimentos Maybo SRL
Nutrimentos Maybo SRL makes nutrition easy, delicious and accessible. The Bolivia-based company offers processed, primarily ready-to-eat superfoods based on quinoa, amaranth and chia. Its mission is to generate positive impacts at each stage of the supply chain and improve the lives of suppliers and consumers alike.