Crowdfunding platform & incubator team to give startups early leg-up

02-Feb-2016 Last updated on 18-Mar-2017 at 04:56 GMT

An unconventional partnership between the crowdfunding website Barnraiser and KRAVE Jerky founder Jon Sebastiani’s new incubator and venture fund Sonoma Brands will create a new paradigm for fundraising and marketing that promises earlier, more sustained growth potential.

ReGrained repurposes spent beer grain into a baking ingredient to cut food waste

22-Dec-2015

By Elizabeth Crawford

The old adage that one person’s trash is another’s treasure is the foundation of San Francisco-based startup ReGrained, which makes snack bars from grains used to brew beer and eventually hopes to connect other manufacturers with a steady supply of the...

KRAVE Jerky founder to depart Hershey in New Year and launch incubator to foster new CPG brands

10-Dec-2015

By Elaine Watson

KRAVE Jerky founder Jon Sebastiani - who sold his business to Hershey in January – is going back to his entrepreneurial roots next year with the launch of a CPG incubator he hopes can recreate the magic he felt in KRAVE’s early days with groundbreaking...

CircleUp may be better suited for food, beverage companies than other crowdfunding websites

04-Feb-2015

By Elizabeth Crawford

As the only crowdfunding website in the U.S. focused exclusively on consumer goods, CircleUp may be better positioned than other more broadly focused fundraising websites to help food and beverage companies reach appropriate investors who can take them...