Food & beverage entrepreneurs to watch: From KonaRed and SexyPop to Beyond Meat

By Elaine WATSON

29-Apr-2014 - Last updated on 30-Apr-2014 at 01:17 GMT

Food & beverage entrepreneurs to watch: From KonaRed and SexyPop to Beyond Meat

ETHAN BROWN & BRENT TAYLOR, co-founders, Beyond Meat: ‘What can you do about climate change? Change your diet…’

NICOLE DAWES, founder & CEO, Late July: ‘You can’t take your eyes off the ball for one minute’

PHIL LAPP, co-founder, Neat Foods: ‘Even the Superbowl had vegetarian options this year’

ALEX PORTIN, CMO, Frava: ‘People that don’t drink ‘energy drinks’ are buying Frava’

MATT MCKEE & MELISSA REED, co-founders, Caliwater Cactus water: ‘We’re seeing consumers resist things that are high in sugar content’

ROBERT EHRLICH, CEO, SexyPop: ‘Popcorn used to be a cheap snack you ate at the movies… Then all of a sudden the culinary side came into it’

SHARELLE KLAUS, founder & CEO, DRY Soda: ‘I saw a unique opportunity and I took it’

JANIE HOFFMAN, founder & CEO, Mamma Chia: ‘They just took off like a rocket ship’

BRADFORD HARRIS, co-founder, CEO, Xumma Cola: ‘People are just fed up with how poorly formulated most traditional sodas are’

PAT CROWLEY, founder, Chapul: ‘Most surprising to me was the protein content of the crickets’

SHAUN ROBERTS, CEO, KonaRed: ‘Coffee fruit is the king of the superfruits’

KEVIN SHERMAN, CMO, True Drinks (AquaBall): ‘Getting this kind of distribution in less than a year is almost unheard of in the beverage industry’

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