Meet a Maker

Learn how a health scare pushed this founder to innovate and bring better-for-you, dietician-backed products to life.

This founder's background in design, along with other CPG endeavors, primed him to create an innovative, better-for-you snack brand fueled by cauliflower.

With a seasoned career in CPG, this founder is taking his family's Swiss roots and experience in the food & beverage industry to create a new type of snack bar.

This female founder took her Italian heritage and love for home cooking to create a brand centered around convenient (and delicious) sauces and broths.

College BFFs-turned business partners, this duo is bringing plant-based options (with a hint of nostalgia) to the snack aisle.

After moving to Denver and working a series of odd jobs, this founder made the decision to go all in on ice cream.

This queer influencer and former head of social for a major media company is going all in on gay with a disruptive line of canned vodka sodas.

In this interview we sit down with Amazi Foods' founder and CEO Renee Dunn to talk about what she's eben up to since our last Meet a Maker.

This fitness enthusiast and father of two took his entrepreneurial background to start a ~winning~ protein-forward brand.

This female founder partnered with her husband to bring lupini snacks stateside and she's got big plans for the future.

The sisters behind this innovative upstart took thier childhood experience growing up in the Amazon Rainforest and their passion for health & sustainability to bring ethically-sourced, single-origin, nutritious superfoods to the masses.

These founders took thier interest in health, and winnigns from school pitch competitions, to start a brand that is redefining the supplement industry with unBEElievably delicious honeys.

This founder took her background in venture capital and her family's health crisis to start a brand that is spicing up the food & beverage industry.

The brainchild of a world-renowned speaker, researcher and artist, this herbal tea brand is on a mission to bring a sense of calm to your everyday (and beyond).

From swimming with the Sharks to securing seed funding, this San Francisco-based founder wants you to drink more weird water.

This founder's family history of cancer inspired her to start a vegan food brand serving up cheesy sauces that are free from dairy (and nuts).

This food & beverage founder is upgrading the morning coffee ritual with a line of organic syrups, and giving back to other women-owned businesses.

A background in marketing for food & beverage brands prepared this founder to branch out on his own and create the perfect soda.

This food & beverage founder is bringing Colombian fruits and flavors to the forefront.

This female founder turned a life-long fascination with ice cream into a plant-based dessert brand that is tOATally out of this world.

In the middle of the pandemic, these seasoned techpreneurs turned to food with their reinvention of the cheesecake.

From running a digital marketing agency to founding a predominantly DTC-driven CPG company, this entrepreneur is building your new favorite snack brand.

With a degree in food science from Cornell University in hand, this founder dove into the world of plant-based snacks.

The influencer and founder behind this food startup is OATally rad.

College pals turned business partners, learn the story behind this upstart snackfood company.

This New York-based founder is reinventing the classic frozen pot pie with her aunt's famous recipe.

The brother-sister team behind Saucy Lips Foods share how they are bringing authentic Mexican cuisine to America.

Paula spoke with Foodboro about how she got started with entrepreneurship and the challenges of starting a business.

LOKI is an entirely new type of drink. Made with the cannabinoid extract Delta-8.

Being a fearless entrepreneur, Chase and his wife Jamie, a creative innovator and fitness enthusiast, opened LIFEbar in 2010, pioneering holistic superfood nutrition in a place most famous for fried chicken.

Cocacao was started in a home kitchen by Jeff Davis over a decade ago after a search for an anti-inflammatory treat that actually tasted good.

Plant-based, gluten free and keto-friendly, GRIT’s line of products are made using anti-inflammatory ingredients + high-quality protein.

Ashely Kohn, co-founder of PREVAIL Jerky, spoke with Foodboro about her philosophy that food is medicine.

Savorista is on a quest to redefine the coffee category with their caffeine-conscious blends.

UNiTE Food founder, Clara Paye, spoke with Foodboro about the challenges of launching during COVID.

Xiao Chi Jie and Caleb Wang, spoke to Foodboro about what inspired them to start selling, their delicious dumplings nationwide.

Killer Creamery caters to the growing market of low carb, keto enthusiasts.

Lesser Evil offers a variety of organic, vegan, paleo, keto, gluten, dairy and grain free snacks, checking all the boxes today’s health-conscious consumers are looking for.

Daily Crunch’s line of sprouted snacks are organic, vegan, paleo, keto, gluten, dairy and grain free.

Saucy Lips Foods, has bravely been taking on another sales channel in the past year—live digital shopping.

You Again Foods founder Priya Mulvihill is making the whole idea of “food as medicine” a whole lot more delicious with her line of good-for-you, plant-based baking mixes inspired by Ayurveda medicine (an alternative medicine practice that is based upon the philosophy that wellness is dependent on a balanced mind, body and spirt).

Peekaboo Organics is on a mission to make sweet treats with hidden benefits a norm.

As we move into 2021 and continue to grapple with the pandemic, wellness has gone to the next level for everyone.

Cereal is the ultimate comfort food but it has so little nutritional value. So how to make it a better-for-you product? Make it from egg whites? Sounds kind of impossible. Yet that’s exactly what Kumar Arora, CEO of Trust Foods has done.

After experimenting with different blends and mixes Andree, was inspired to share her superfood concoction with the world!

Chef Iesha Williams of The Salty Heifer combines her Michelin Star-training with good old-fashioned love of cooking to churn out cakes, cookies (including the famous The OG cookie), bars, pies and tarts. Below she shares her journey on how she went from working on a line to working on her own line…of treats.

Chi Yan, the maker behind Walt’s Waffles on how he’s making his recipe mix available to all.

When Myles Powell began selling his 8 Myles homemade mac and cheese dishes, he was seeking to fill a hole in the frozen foods market.

Learn more about Oomph’s story in PDX Pipeline, The Dyrt, and on their website.

Amazi Foods is on a mission to change the category while disrupting the traditional supply chain. Renee Dunn started Amazi in 2016 after studying abroad in Uganda and seeing the need to offer work opportunities to its people.

Appleton's Market gives us the low-down on how she developed her Power Veggie Bites.

No freezer? No problem! Leave the mess of that melting ice cream cone in the past.

Move over boozy sparkling water. Here comes canned cocktails.

Re:THINK is keto-friendly, diabetic-friendly and contains no sugar alcohol.

Foodboro spoke with Ithaca founder Chris Kirby on his background in the restaurant industry, what led him to entrepreneurship, his advice for other food & beverage makers, and what we can expect next from his company.

Patter set out to make a snack for her children with ingredients she could trust.

Malibu Mylk is a dairy-free milk alternative that uses clean, simple ingredients.

After leaving an extensive career in the fashion industry, Ryan Fortwendel knew he wanted to do something more.

For Jess Price the path to food entrepreneurship began with stints inside CPG giants. The Quaker and Snapple veteran was inspired to start Maker Oats by her search for a healthy, no-fuss breakfast that worked with mornings that veered between hectic and crazy.

From bread baker to (healthy) chocolate maker: This Portland-based foodpreneur took a lifelong devotion to health and community, and paired it with her craft for making delicious goods to found and scale a pioneering wellness-focused snack brand, Honey Mama’s, while learning to be vulnerable and ask for help along the way.

This college-athlete-turned-foodpreneur took a recipe inspired by her grandma and created. Superior Switchel.

Evolving consumer palettes and the fact that we all are moving around more than ever have people yearning for globally-inspired foods.

Like many, Jennifer Wiese’s road to starting a food business is an unlikely one.

Cy Cain and Casey Richwine were cocktail obsessives. Now they're the proud owner of Straightaway, a bottled cocktail company making a big splash.

CBD nut company A Boring Life is anything but boring. In fact, they're risk-takers with big plans to dominate the world of CBD products.

Sometimes, it takes just the right person to start a food business.

Brendan Schaefer may not have all the answers about how to run a food brand, but he has plenty of inspiration.

How does a CPG veteran approach launching his own natural products brand?

How does a couple with no food experience end up with a fast-growing cookie dough business?

John and Jess Waller are a husband-and-wife team building a brand-new product in an age-old category.

The phrase "influencer-founded food business" inspires many responses. But Ali Bonar, founder of granola butter company Kween & Co., isn't what you think.

Kheedim Oh didn't set out to start a business. But ten years later, Mama O's Kimchi is a nationally-distributed brand.

Learn how a pastry chef started a plant-based energy bite business in our interview.

Even among oat milks, Blue Crate Oat Milk is unconventional.

Ames Russell founded AR's Hot Southern Honey in 2016, and now he's in 270 stores while running the business by himself. Here's how.

This craft soda brand has a cult following in Vermont, Montreal, and beyond.

Port City Pretzels founder Suzanne Foley never dreamed that her business would be this big. Here's what she's learned from selling product across the U.S.

Auzerais Bellamy was a pastry chef for Michelin-starred restaurants before starting her blondie business, Blondery. Read on for her story!

It's not easy to build a sparkling coffee company.

We chatted with Nadine Habayeb of Bohana about the challenges of building a product and a category.

Maddie Purcell is an award-winning owner of an experiential food business in Portland, Maine.

Hear from Madison Gouzie of The Marshmallow Cart.