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BlueCart is a web and mobile platform built to streamline and modernize the wholesale procurement process for buyers and sellers. It offers online and mobile ordering to new and existing customers while boosting sales with the BlueCart marketplace tools. BlueCart was formerly known as Improvonia and is launched in July 2014.

Onfleet is a B2B software company that specializes in last-mile delivery logistics. Onfleet powers millions of deliveries every month for thousands of businesses around the world. Onfleet's customers range from food and beverage delivery services to laundry and dry cleaning, pharmaceutical, retail and e-commerce delivery businesses. The company's product includes a web-based dispatch dashboard for routing, tracking, dispatching, and analytics, intuitive iOS and Android apps for drivers, automated customer notifications and real-time driver tracking, and a robust RESTful API. Onfleet was founded in 2012 by a team of engineers at Stanford University.

Foxtrot is a mobile app that lets customers shop their curated collections of drinks, food, and everyday essentials. The customer's order will be delivered straight to them in under an hour. The company was co-founded by Mike LaVitola with Brian Jaffee and Taylor Bloom in 2013 in Chicago, Illinois.

Smallhold is a farming technology company that provides automated, modular remotely-managed, and subscription-based growing systems. With Smallhold's controlled-environment growing systems, food industry professionals can generate consistent and reliable local produce tailored to their individual business or menu needs independent of climatic changes or outside market pressures.

Kingdom Supercultures create microbial cultures that help food manufacturers to create new foods with boosted benefits. It re-assembles nature's microbes into new combinations, creating plant-based foods that taste like dairy, low-alcohol beverages with full flavor, and natural preservatives that work as well as artificial ones. They work with clients across diverse industries including food, beverage, personal care, beauty, and more. Their technology comprises an expansive biobank of GRAS microbial strains, high-resolution strain characterization, and new algorithms for predicting and assembling microbial communities.

Scout is a company that manufactures and distributes canned seafood. They obtains all of their seafood directly from regional fishing communities. They managed fisheries that prioritize worker and environmental well-being. They offers specialty shops like bakeries, seafood markets and cheese shops.

Meati Foods is a consumer goods company that provides fungi-based meat alternatives to everyone. It focuses on using proprietary, clean technologies to provide nutrient-dense, plant-based meat alternatives that everyone can enjoy and feel good about eating every day. Meati Foods was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boulder, United States.

Good Catch specializes in developing plant-based seafood alternatives. It offers vegetarian shredded tuna, crab cakes, and fish patties made of lentils, chickpeas, fava beans, and other legumes. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Newtown, Pennsylvania.

Gro is a global team of technology, climate, and agriculture experts. We have built an AI-powered platform that helps our customers tackle their most pressing challenges - from forecasting and assuring supply chains to climate change and food security. The Gro Platform was founded on diversity and the knowledge that artificial intelligence is only as powerful as the human intelligence behind it. With offices in New York City and Nairobi, we are cross-functional, collaborative, and multicultural. We believe that agricultural and climate data is a form of infrastructure necessary for societies to thrive. But that data becomes knowledge when it pairs the insight of human intelligence with the scale of artificial intelligence.

good culture produces real-food cultured dairy products and simple ingredients across its growing portfolio of cultured foods. Its products include a range of cottage cheese which is thick, creamy, and low in sugar as well as other dairy products that help consumers to consume dairy without affecting their health.

Bowery is the modern farming company growing the purest produce imaginable. It is on a mission to grow food for a better future by revolutionizing agriculture. By combining the benefits of the best local farms with advances made possible by technology, their indoor farms create the ideal conditions to grow post-organic produce you can feel good about eating. BoweryOS, its proprietary software system, uses vision systems, automation technology, and machine learning to monitor plants and all the variables that drive their growth 24/7. Because they control the entire process from seed to store, Bowery farms use zero pesticides, 95% less water, and are 100+ times more productive on the same footprint of land than traditional agriculture. Its produce is currently available at select Whole Foods and Foragers stores in the Tristate area and featured on the menus of Tom Colicchio’s New York restaurants Craft and Fowler & Wells.

HeatGen offers self-heating technology that turns ordinary food packaging into self-heating packaging. The company's self-heating technology integrates into various forms of consumer packaging and heats prepared food/beverages in a container using a flameless thermal reaction. Its technology is used to heat food/beverage products on the go; in office and outdoor settings, and cars; at schools and sporting events; during emergencies and outdoor recreations; and while traveling. HeatGenie serves the food and food packaging industries. The company was formerly known as Ironbridge Technologies, Inc. HeatGenie was founded in 2007 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Spindrift produces unsweetened sparkling beverages made with real squeezed fruit. They provide sparkling water plus real fruit with different flavors. They also provide drinks including tea brewed with lemon, raspberry lime, and strawberry.

New Barn has quickly grown to become the leading branded organic refrigerated almondmilk range in the natural channel (US) . The company makes and markets Organic almondmilks, as well as a unique non-dairy frozen dessert lineup called AlmondCrème, to thousands of natural, specialty and conventional retailers nationwide. The company's Barista Almondmilk is the current breakout item, giving pro and home baristas for the first time a non-dairy milk that performs like dairy, and giving consumers a luscious drinking experience hot or cold.

Foodstirs' Junk-Free Bakery was founded by parents Galit Laibow, Greg Fleishman, & Sarah Michelle Gellar. Foodstirs Junk-Free Bakery’s mission is to help people connect through the power of better-for-you sweet baked goods reinvented for today’s sweet tooth. Everything they make is lower sugar and USDA organic including baking kits, mixes, and the market's first packaged BFY ready-made donuts, muffins, and brownies.

Sfoglini sources the best American organic semolina flour and unique ingredients from local farms and green markets to create innovative pastas. Traditional bronze dies/plates produce the beautiful rough texture that gives your sauce something to cling to, and they slow-dry their pastas at low temperature to preserve flavor and nutrients.

Nona Lim makes non-GMO, dairy-free, and gluten-free soups, broths, and convenient meals using the freshest local and organic ingredients. Also, Nona Lim offers a variety of prepared meals and noodles that you can customize to make-it-your-own. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Oakland, California.