FoodFutureCo

FoodFutureCo, founded in 2015 and based in New York, operates as a Scale-Up Accelerator targeting established small businesses poised to exceed $1 million in annual revenue. The organization emphasizes sectors such as consumer products, agriculture, food hubs, agriculture technology, supply chain, food technology, and information technology. Through a five-month cohort program, FoodFutureCo supports selected companies by providing consulting, global distribution, financing, and operational scaling assistance. Each cohort, consisting of four to eight companies, receives an initial investment of up to $10,000, with opportunities for additional funding. The accelerator collaborates with advisors and mentors who contribute expertise and foster impactful, trend-setting initiatives in the food system.

Shen Tong Ph.D

Founder and Managing Partner

39 past transactions

Peelon

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Peelon is a biodegradable packaging solution that can triple the shelf life of fresh produce, addressing the issues of food waste and plastic pollution in the fresh produce supply chain. Our proprietary blend of natural materials creates a microclimate around the produce, preserving its freshness and quality for longer. This reduces food waste and the need for frequent transportation and storage, resulting in a smaller carbon footprint. Peelon is also completely biodegradable and compostable, addressing the problem of plastic pollution.

4P Foods

Seed Round in 2021
4P Foods operates an online marketplace and food distribution service aimed at creating a just and equitable food system in the United States. The company sources fresh, healthy food from environmentally responsible family farmers in the Washington DC foodshed, ensuring that the food is grown using sustainable and humane practices. Their mission extends beyond profit, as they emphasize accountability for social and environmental impacts, advocating for fair wages for food producers. For every ten bags of food delivered, 4P Foods donates one bag to community partners, including food banks and local organizations, reinforcing their commitment to supporting those in need. The platform offers a diverse and traceable supply of quality products, providing customers with a convenient and seamless purchasing experience that emphasizes accessibility to farm-fresh food.

Seal the Seasons

Series A in 2020
Seal the Seasons, Inc. processes, freezes, markets, and distributes fruits and vegetables to consumers and institutional customers. It offers frozen products, including blueberries, broccoli, and spinach; and Fruit Medley that includes blueberries, strawberries, and blackberries. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Yoconut Dairy Free

Seed Round in 2020
Yoconut Dairy Free is a food innovation start-up that sells yogurt that has natural electrolytes, no added sugar, and made from coconuts. The big 8 most common food allergens can be found in their foods. Its products also are high in calcium and fiber, and with live and active cultures. It was founded in 2016 and is located in San Francisco, California.

Joy 4 Greens

Seed Round in 2020
Developer of plant based food products intended to provide a healthy alternative to industrial food. The company's products are distributed by leveraging data collection technology and is available in organic, vegan and ready to eat options, enabling consumers to get access to products of high nutritional value and free of preservatives.

Hire My Farmer

Seed Round in 2020
Hardware & IoT

Ouma

Seed Round in 2020
Ouma Foods is a family-owned company that specializes in creating healthy and hygienic snack items inspired by global childhood favorites, healthy recipes, and authentic street food. Committed to providing adventurous flavors, Ouma’s products are designed to be shareable and appealing to a broad audience. The company ensures that its offerings are baked, sugar-free, hydrogenated oil-free, cholesterol-free, and non-GMO, containing no artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives. Ouma sources natural ingredients like rice, grain, wheat, milk, egg, soybean, and rye to craft its snacks. Over the past two years, Ouma has successfully made its products available in independent stores and supermarkets across the United States, fostering connections among friends and families through its diverse food options.

Sons & Daughters

Seed Round in 2020
Operator of a self-sustainable farm and winery intended to offer beverages. The company's regenerative farm grows and composts bioregional appropriate subtropical crops to maximize the fertility of the soil, enabling small organic farmers to be promoted and giving a modern, low-alcohol option for adults.

Lil Mixins

Seed Round in 2019
Lil Mixins, LLC, founded by Meenal Lele in 2017 and based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, develops and produces baby food allergens designed to simplify the early introduction of potential allergens to infants. The company offers a range of products, including peanut powder, tree nut powder, and egg powder, which are made from 100% whole foods. These powders are specially prepared to mix easily into breast milk, formula, or baby foods, allowing parents to follow pediatric recommendations for reducing the risk of food allergies without the guesswork or additional costs. By providing organic and powder-based options, Lil Mixins aims to help parents safely introduce common allergens like peanuts, tree nuts, and eggs into their baby's diet.

Yoconut Dairy Free

Seed Round in 2019
Yoconut Dairy Free is a food innovation start-up that sells yogurt that has natural electrolytes, no added sugar, and made from coconuts. The big 8 most common food allergens can be found in their foods. Its products also are high in calcium and fiber, and with live and active cultures. It was founded in 2016 and is located in San Francisco, California.

Eat Nice

Seed Round in 2019
Eat Nice is a Philadelphia-based company that specializes in plant-based, vegan, and dairy-free comfort food. Founded in 2016 by Paul Cantagallo and Nell McBride, the company aims to make plant-based eating accessible and enjoyable by offering a range of delicious frozen filled pastas. These products are designed to evoke nostalgia for traditional comfort foods while introducing unique flavors crafted from clean and simple ingredients. Eat Nice emphasizes sustainability in its production processes, avoiding chemical additives to ensure that its offerings are not only tasty but also healthy for consumers.

Farm Fare

Seed Round in 2019
Developer of software management platform intended to connect small-scale producers and food hubs. The company's platform specializes to serves as a one-stop shop for buyers, wholesale, and households alike, offering a single point of contact to access a number of different producers, enabling farmers and food hubs to more widely and easily access wholesale channels across an entire region.

Sasya Foods

Seed Round in 2019
Sasya was born out of a passion for nutritious, flavorful and sustainable food in an easy and convenient way. We believe in empowering and enriching everyone in their pursuit of healthy and active lifestyle by offering amazing products. Whatever you’re in the mood for, Sasya creates a world of possibilities for your taste buds. Work up a sweat or lounge with friends, snack time never felt better with punchy and bold Indian snacks handcrafted to be delicious and nutritious for foodies and fitness folks alike.

ToMarket

Seed Round in 2019
To Market is a platform that connects purveyors of local edible goods directly to restaurants and chefs that need them the most. The company serves as a simple online marketplace for sourcing and selling the highest quality local goods. For farmers, the company allows them to track their inventory online and it automatically becomes available to local Chefs for easy online ordering. Meanwhile for the chefs, they can have and order the finest products from the local farms, just a click away with easy online ordering and tracking.

PowerGrow

Seed Round in 2019
We design, finance, build own and operate our renewable powered commercial greenhouses and lease them to produce growers around the world. Our facilities conserve natural resources, reduce carbon emissions, create permanent local jobs, increase grower profits and preserve natural habitats.

Harvest Returns

Seed Round in 2019
Harvest Returns is an equity crowdfunding platform founded in 2016, based in Fort Worth, Texas, that aims to transform the agriculture finance sector. The platform addresses the financing needs of specialty farmers and ranchers who often find themselves underserved by traditional agricultural banks. Led by a team of military veterans with diverse management backgrounds in agriculture, commercial real estate, information technology, and international development, Harvest Returns has successfully facilitated over $10 million in equity and debt funding for farmers and ranchers globally. The company operates profitably, providing valuable financial support to those in the agricultural community.

Fire Ox

Seed Round in 2019
Producer of plant-based foods intended to help people eat well. The company's plant-based foods are made from clean, simple ingredients for busy, health-conscious millennials, enabling customers to avail of easy-to-eat delicious, nourishing, plant-based foods made from clean, simple ingredients, enabling people to people rediscover vegetables.

4P Foods

Convertible Note in 2018
4P Foods operates an online marketplace and food distribution service aimed at creating a just and equitable food system in the United States. The company sources fresh, healthy food from environmentally responsible family farmers in the Washington DC foodshed, ensuring that the food is grown using sustainable and humane practices. Their mission extends beyond profit, as they emphasize accountability for social and environmental impacts, advocating for fair wages for food producers. For every ten bags of food delivered, 4P Foods donates one bag to community partners, including food banks and local organizations, reinforcing their commitment to supporting those in need. The platform offers a diverse and traceable supply of quality products, providing customers with a convenient and seamless purchasing experience that emphasizes accessibility to farm-fresh food.

Zoni Foods

Seed Round in 2018
Zoni Foods, Inc., formerly known as Kitchen Table Inc., produces frozen plant-based meal kits and provides its products in stores. The company's products include Coconut Curry Noodles, Sweet Potato Spirals and Zesty Peanut Noodles. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New Haven, Connecticut.

Jewels of the Forest

Seed Round in 2018
Jewels Of The Forest’s mission is to feed the world one mushroom at a time.

Metabrew

Seed Round in 2018
Consciously Caffeinated Superfood Drinks made out of Plant-Based Ingredients

Unify Water

Seed Round in 2017
Unify Water is a water bottling company located in Lexington, Kentucky, specializing in the production of drinking water sourced from natural springs and aquifers in the Appalachian Mountains. The company utilizes natural filtration methods to ensure that its water maintains an optimal pH level, catering to consumers seeking high-quality drinking water. Unify Water distinguishes itself in the bottled water industry by committing to a promise that aims to improve global access to clean drinking water, addressing the needs of communities lacking this essential resource. This initiative represents a significant step towards creating a lasting impact on the availability of safe drinking water worldwide.

FreshKids

Seed Round in 2017
FreshKids is an independent food company dedicated to transforming children's snacking habits by offering healthy and tasty options. The company focuses on creating snacks made from real foods and simple ingredients, aiming to promote a positive and creative approach to eating. Their product range includes items such as dippers, pretzel stix trays, popcorn, corn and rice puffs, and veggie straws. By prioritizing health and flavor, FreshKids enables parents to provide nutritious snacks that contribute to their children's well-being.

Ozuké

Seed Round in 2017
Ozuké is a provider of fermented food products used to offer raw, cultured vegetables and beverages. It offers probiotic pickles, kimchi, and kraut products from a range of vegetables, including kale, calendula, beets, dulse, and juniper that enable clients to get nutritional foods that improve digestion, provide probiotics, increase nutrient absorption, restore bacterial balance in the gut, and increase immunity.

Seal the Seasons

Seed Round in 2017
Seal the Seasons, Inc. processes, freezes, markets, and distributes fruits and vegetables to consumers and institutional customers. It offers frozen products, including blueberries, broccoli, and spinach; and Fruit Medley that includes blueberries, strawberries, and blackberries. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

4P Foods

Seed Round in 2016
4P Foods operates an online marketplace and food distribution service aimed at creating a just and equitable food system in the United States. The company sources fresh, healthy food from environmentally responsible family farmers in the Washington DC foodshed, ensuring that the food is grown using sustainable and humane practices. Their mission extends beyond profit, as they emphasize accountability for social and environmental impacts, advocating for fair wages for food producers. For every ten bags of food delivered, 4P Foods donates one bag to community partners, including food banks and local organizations, reinforcing their commitment to supporting those in need. The platform offers a diverse and traceable supply of quality products, providing customers with a convenient and seamless purchasing experience that emphasizes accessibility to farm-fresh food.

Traverse Food

Seed Round in 2016
TRAVERSE FOOD is a vehicle for holding and managing the equity of synergistic companies operating in local good food systems, offering the transparency, quality, and experience that the market is demanding. Through strategic portfolio construction and common ownership of a unique, multi-faceted business model comprising of retail/technology/distribution, they can leverage proprietary technology platforms and economies of scale to bring locally and responsibly sourced products to individuals and businesses who demand it via authentic brands and small footprint brick and mortar locations. This benefits the entire value chain and its surrounding economies from harvest to plate. Their current market focus is NYC and the Tri-State area, a market with over 20,000,000 residents.

EFowl

Seed Round in 2016
eFowl is your marketplace for pasture raised poultry.They connect with the the hatcheries, farms, and supplies you need to be successful.They do not sell anything directly, but rather bring you to the best sources that they have worked with over the years.

Wanshi Keji

Venture Round in 2005
Wanshi Keji

Digital Convergence Factor

Venture Round in 2004
Digital Convergence Factor

VFinity

Venture Round in 2004
VFinity creates and sells web-based enterprise systems for digital asset management.

Wan Net Technology

Seed Round in 2002
Wan Net Technology

B&B Media

Venture Round in 2001
B&B Media is a media and production company.

GA Media

Venture Round in 1999
GA Media
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