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.
The Cracker King
The Cracker King is dedicated to offering healthy, on-the-go snacks. In a world filled with preservatives, artificial flavors, and heavily processed foods, it’s a responsibility to provide the public with a wholesome alternative.Crafted in small batches to ensure every product meets the high standards for taste and quality. The Cracker King is proudly black-owned business that has grown from Farmers Markets in Portland, Oregon to selling an award-winning gluten free crackers nation-wide.
Kitchen OS
Revolutionizing back-of-house operations with IoT-driven solutions for food safety, efficiency, and waste reduction. Serving global hospitality and food service sectors with scalable, subscription-based tech.
et Oliva
A Mediterranean food brand dedicated to bringing True Aegean flavors to your table. Inspired by mezze dining, they create artisan products that celebrate the rich culinary traditions of the Mediterranean. Proudly NGLCC certified LGBT-owned and passionate about food security and social justice
Jewels of the Forest
Jewels Of The Forest’s mission is to feed the world one mushroom at a time. Their united passion for promoting mushrooms as a medicine, food source and environmental rebuilder drives the company forward. Jewels Of The Forest currently produce the first vegan mushroom jerky to hit the shelves, which in turn is creating a whole new market industry in the vegan jerky sector. Jewels Of The Forest is proud to control all means of production. They are currently in the process of opening a new production facility and retail store in a high traffic complex in Sebastopol, CA.
Yoconut Dairy Free
Bonnie Lau is a food-loving runner turned entrepreneur. She created Yoconut Dairy Free to change gut health in American and the way people stay hydrated. She believes food is the one thing that helps humans achieve the impossible and want to give every person mighty nutrition with spoonfuls of pure indulgence.
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.
Quo Agro Justo
Quo Agro is changing the status quo of the food chain, as they deliver sustainable fruits and vegetables from a network of small farmers in Colombia, based on fair trade and responsible consumption with the use of technology to eliminate intermediation and reduce waste and environmental impact.
Hemp Way Foods
Hemp Way Foods is a plant-powered company handcrafted with ancient superfoods and wholesome ingredients for an indulgent taste but yet guilt-free. From freezer to ready in under 10 minutes, the company’s products are loaded with essential minerals, fiber, plant-protein and zero fillers. Think outside the norm and easily incorporate more plant-based protein and flavor into your chilis, burritos, pastas, and sandwiches. Whatever your dietary lifestyle, our versatile products aim to nourish and impress.
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!
Click Chefs
ClickChefs is a Culinary Creators Marketplace designed to create social connections between Families and their favorite local Chefs. The ClickChefs model is based on planned production and delivery which brings kitchen efficiencies and market scale while improving the experience for Consumers.
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.
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Butter Baked Cake Co
A family-owned bakery on a mission to ensure everyone can enjoy delicious treats. Serving KETO delights that are sugar-free, low-carb, gluten-free, grain-free, artificial food coloring-free, and soy-free.
Dolce Brooklyn
Crafting artisanal gelato and sorbetto with fresh milk from the Hudson Valley and seasonal fruits from local farmers.
Smart Eats
Providing unique solutions for iron deficiency with iron-fortified protein and electrolyte powders. Built on decades of experience in nutrition-based therapies, their team of doctors promises to deliver safe, delicious, and easily tolerated nutrition for your lifelong health.
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.
Sasya Foods
Sasya Foods makes Indian food less intimidating by removing the primary barrier of extensive preparation and make it fun and easy to consume. Their core mission is to bring the richness and versatility of Indian flavors to everyday snacks: sustainably and responsibly.
Farm Fare
Farm Fare is a business management and data analytics platform that is making small farms more efficient and local food more accessible for high-volume buyers and processors. We do this in partnership with our core customers, food hubs, who together through sharing inventory and resources are able to achieve "economies of collaboration" as a means to compete strategically against economies of scale.
Eat Nice
Eat Nice is an ethical food brand based in Philadelphia that's committed to big flavors, simple ingredients, compassionate eating, and sustainable production. Their products are 100% plant-powered and solar-powered. They launched with two vegan ravioli products and aim to update and upgrade traditional pastas and meals with plant-based ingredients.
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mama gaia
Mama Gaia builds self-service Smart Fridges that are stocked daily with the freshest locally-sourced grab-and-go food. Customers can simply unlock, grab and go - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no onsite staff needed. They're proud to partner with local Colorado food vendors to bring customers nourishing, farm-to-fridge food, without taking a step out of their day.
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.
Joy 4 Greens
Joy 4 Greens leverages data collection tech to distribute their fresh, plant based food products to New York City grocery stores and restaurants. With organic, vegan and ready to eat options, Joy 4 Greens provides your favorite foods, preservative-free.
Fire Ox Foods
Fire Ox Foods was started to provide and nourishing and delicious food from the Earth. Their food celebrates and explores exceptional, vegetable-centered cuisine through plant-based frozen meals, from Braised Ethiopian Greens to Chipotle Red Bean Pozo. Their vision is to make it easy for people across the country to eat delicious, plant-based foods made from clean simple ingredients.
Pizootz
Flavor-Infused peanuts PIZOOTZ were invented using a patented, unique infusing process with just water, pressure and steam that puts flavors inside the nut. As healthy as they are delicious, the nuts are all natural, non GMO, Kosher, gluten-free, and low-sodium - they contain nothing artificial and they are powder-free. So no more messy hands! The branding may be playful but the nuts are seriously delicious.
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.