Advertising

JT MEGA

A food advertising agency.

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Advisory CPA

Banking

J.P. Morgan

We love success stories. Let us help build yours.

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Branding & Design

Unpack'd

Good Strategy + Good Design + Good Product = Excitement

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Brandarella

Brandarella is a branding and packaging studio in Austin, TX. We’re a nimble crew of director-level consultants: brand strategists, writers, designers and production artists who live and breathe food and CPG. We’ve made a deliberate choice to partner exclusively with growing food and drink companies to create lovable, delicious branding. Listening to the marketplace, consumers, and our brands’ founders, we shape stories that mean something and are rooted in insights. It’s important to stand out, but we also go for connection.

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Commence Studio

Commence Studio builds brands that evoke emotions. Experiences that capture
imaginations. Designs that move your audience to meaningful
action. Because being seen is a start, sure. But being sought out is where the real growth lies.

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Nice Day: A Creative Studio

Building relationships between humans and brands through strategy, design and execution.

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Pivot & Pilot

Pivot and Pilot is a creative agency that launches iconic brands and epic packaging for food, beverage and beauty products.

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Digital Marketing

The Ads Tutor

Digital Marketing Tutoring To Grow Your Business

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Sample Distribution

The consumer opt-in sampling program that is measurable, scaleable with a built-in feedback loop.

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Distributors

Snackmagic

Distributing thousands of build your own snackboxes, trays, cases to B2B2C customers worldwide.

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P10 Foods

P10 is a specialty distributor in the South. P10’s roots are in the craft food, providing them with ther relationships and support they need.

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Ecommerce

Upscribe

Upscribe gives you the out-of-the-box tools that you need to build, grow or scale your Shopify subscription and retention business. Fast growing brands like Athletic Greens and RYZE Coffee leverage Uspcribe to deploy a beautiful customer experience in minutes that treats subscribers like royalty and drives brand loyalty.

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Charmac

We simplify selling on Amazon.

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Marketplace

The largest DTC marketplace for emerging CPG.

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Enterprise Resource Planning

DSWi

Helping your business grow… That’s our business.

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Employee Recruitment

HireBetter

Unlock success with the power of talent.

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Forcebrands

How consumer brands recruit the brightest talent.

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Simera

Simera is helping companies scale up, with the talent and skill set they need in specific roles and departments. Please consider this new, streamlined talent provider that is identifying strong candidates in Latin America (great educational backgrounds, relevant competencies, time zone similarities, cost advantage) for remote roles in the US.

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Finance

Forecastr

Forecastr is an online platform that helps founders build great financial models so they can impress investors & run their businesses better.

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Propeller Industries

We’re builders and entrepreneurs. Fast and efficient but also exacting and meticulous.

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Financing Options

Assembled Brands

Invest in growth for your brand by leveraging your AR and inventory on hand, Free brand specific advice for any SKU member around financing options, including referral to an option we think works best for
your brand.

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CSC Leasing

CSC Leasing maintains a successful 35-year track record working with emerging brands, providing a low-cost, non-dilutive form of capital for procuring equipment. We have designed our processes and trained our team to offer an effortless lending experience. Our equipment leases compliment funding from venture and private equity sources, preserving investment capital for mission critical growth and other operating initiatives—not depreciating assets. With over $1 billion in transactions financed, CSC offers an agile and flexible approach with the transparency, speed and service of a family-owned business.

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Clearco

Clearco is the world’s largest ecommerce investor and growth platform, giving founders the financial tools, capital and network they need to grow.

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Flavors & Extracts

Prova US

The expert in sweet brown flavorings since 1946.

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Food Service

Elohi

The foodservice industry experts.

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Human Resources

Marsh & McLennan Agency

Marsh & McLennan Agency (MMA) is a full-service insurance, retirement, and risk management firm that specializes in providing proprietary solutions to small and middle market organizations dealing with the complexity of employee benefits and commercial insurance. As a subsidiary of Marsh, the world’s largest broker and risk advisor, we provide clients with unparalleled access to local service, regional expertise and global resources.

For additional information, contact Andrew Burt. employee health & benefits consultant

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TriNet

HR Solutions, Payroll, and HR Outsourcing.

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Insurance

Marsh & McLennan Agency

Marsh & McLennan Agency (MMA) is a full-service insurance, retirement, and risk management firm that specializes in providing proprietary solutions to small and middle market organizations dealing with the complexity of employee benefits and commercial insurance. As a subsidiary of Marsh, the world’s largest broker and risk advisor, we provide clients with unparalleled access to local service, regional expertise and global resources.

For information, contact John Naughtin, risk consultant.

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Legal

Haynes and Boone

Haynes and Boone is an international corporate law firm.

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Michael Best

Michael Best is dedicated to client success. It is a full-ser vice law firm with more than 350 lawyers and technical professionals who work in collaborative, interdisciplinary practices to serve clients around the world.

This holistic approach has earned us many loyal clients, from small start-ups to global Fortune 500 companies. We work with companies in all kinds of industries, as well as trade associations, nonprofits, educational institutions, governments, family trusts, and high-net-worth individuals.

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Foster Garvey

Foster Garvey’s Food & Beverage team focuses on helping clients identify and navigate the myriad business and legal issues within the food and beverage industry, allowing these brands and investors to focus on growth opportunities and maximize business potential.

Foster Garvey’s Food & Beverage team advises natural, organic, better-for-you, plant-based, vegan, and cultivated/cell-based/cultured meat food and beverage clients and food tech innovators on a wide range of legal matters, including financing; supplier and co-manufacturer/co-packer arrangements; sales and distribution; IP registration, protection and licensing; marketing and advertising; regulatory counseling; real estate; alcoholic beverage licensing and regulation; cannabis and CBD regulations and compliance; and labor and employment.

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Logistics/Shipping

UPS

UPS small business offers finance solutions, expert advice and discounts on shipping and services to help save your company time and money.

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Enterprise Purchasing Group

As the world’s leading GPO for logistics procurement and supply chain optimization, EPG leverages billions in purchasing volume to negotiate best-in-class savings with a network of reliable and trusted suppliers. Our GPO contracts reduce procurement costs while creating supply chain efficiencies for sustainable savings.EPG is providing SKU participants a free consultation to identify the most impactful and addressable spend categories for each unique company.

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Market Research

1Q

1Q is a mobile research platform that arms brands with candid consumer feedback and real-time insights for just $1 per response.

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CPGPulse

First-party consumer feedback, competitive analysis, and digestible insights…all in one place.

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Marketing

Goods & Services

We make things better by making better things.

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Wonderkind

Wonderkind is a marketing, design and photography studio built specifically for consumer brands!

Wonderkind is obsessed with brands and the experiences they give their consumers. The agency specializes in social media, photography and design. They have worked with brands like Jot, Bulletproof, sunscoop, MOSH, Better Brand, Harper Collins, Minimalist Baker, Byte, and 200 more!

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Nice Day: A Creative Studio

Building relationships between humans and brands through strategy, design and execution.

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Packaging

ePac Flexibles

Helping brands of all sizes grow with great packaging.

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Inland Packaging

Inland is a third-generation family-owned and operated label and packaging supplier. Inland started as a small commercial print shop in La Crosse, WI, over 78 years ago, specializing in cut and stack beer labels. It has since expanded its product offerings into other markets such as food, beverage, consumer goods, cannabis, health and beauty, etc. Inland offers cut and stack, pressure sensitive, shrink sleeve, in-mold labels, and flexible packaging. We’re here to collaborate and share what solutions are best for your product’s label and packaging needs. Let’s Talk.

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American Carton

Your packaging challenges. Our packaging solutions.

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Product Photography

Soona

Home of the Real-Time Photoshoot

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Public Relations

The Rind

A PR agency for consumer packaged goods.

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Trade Spend

Vividly

Vividly is a trade promotion management (TPM) software built by and for the consumer-packaged-goods industry (CPG). From campaign creation to deductions management and promotion measurement, we help brands like Perfect Snacks, Liquid Death, Quinn, and Hint Water manage every element of trade spend. We are designed to fit the quintessential business model of small to midsize CPG companies. With our easy-to-use platform and industry-leading experience, we pride ourselves on our ability to bring businesses to the next level..

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Video Production

Mishnoon

Headed by two award-winning filmmakers, brothers NIck and Josh Holden, Mishnoon is a full-service film and video production house based in Austin. Mishnoon specializes in writing, producing, directing and editing – whether it it’s a commercial or or web series. They can help write a script, come up with script or execute an existing script you have ready to go.

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