![]() Mike: Our prior landlord wanted to raise our rent and we had quickly outgrown our space, so we looked at over 30 spaces in Brooklyn, Bronx, Jersey City and Queens areas. Pete: We wrote an operating agreement that defines roles and responsibilities, and we structured as an LLC. Jeff: How did you formalize how your partnership is set up? I figured I should put my money where my mouth is, and I should be making something healthy while also promoting other healthy eating oriented businesses through the incubator structure. Talking to so many students, you realize how awful a lot of the food in the American food chain is. A lot of my interests had to do with teaching nutrition at ICE. I worked in restaurants for a long time and started teaching at ICE about 12 years ago as a career culinary instructor. Mike Schwartz: I have a culinary degree and attended the CIA. Jeff: Mike, besides teaching with Kathryn and I at ICE, what is your background? We shared a small space (a third of a kitchen) with 2 other companies and our rent was $3000 a month plus utilities…we had to make a move. At the time, the market for kombucha was growing so fast we never went back to the sodas! We started in Hell’s Kitchen in an expensive, shared commissary-catering kitchen for the first year. We wanted to make a healthy soda that was tasty and good for you, and after a number of experiments we realized we could get a consistent culture with kombucha. About 3 years ago, Mike and I decided to start BAO. ![]() Mike: Mike Brady and I went to college together, and he has an IT/ marketing background. A lot of my current work is business management, contract negotiation and some of the sales and marketing for the permanent clients and the daily use clients of the incubator. We wanted to have a business that provided good jobs to people, and offer healthy products to consumers. I was looking to do something more interesting, and had been in touch with Mike Brady (the third partner), who I went to high school with. A lot of my past work was in management and development of businesses around the world on behalf of banks. Pete: My background is in investment banking and finance. Kathryn: So you just gave us a great tour of this 12,000 square foot organic, Kosher facility can you tell us how you got started? Name of business: BAO (Bad Ass Organics) and Organic Food Incubator ![]() Online ordering not available? See restaurants that only accept phone orders and use our first-of-its-kind feature to have them call you.Interview with Pete Herman and Mike Schwartz by Jeff Yoskowitz, Kathryn Gordon and Jessie Riley Pick the food you want and click to be teleported directly to where you can order it - even compare incentives from different sites to get the best deal. The result is a highly visual food ordering search and discovery engine. Tkout USA Private tkout (pronounced 'tak?out/) is an online food ordering aggregator pulling restaurant listings from online ordering sites like GrubHub, Seamless, EatStreet, Eat24 with reviews from Yelp and imagery from Instagram and FoodSpotting. The process is highly scalable and fits perfectly within the existing network of spray drying contract manufacturers used today by all of the major flavor houses. Our core strength is the ingredient label – brown rice flour – leveraged within our minimal processing encapsulation approach. Paragon Pure manufactures high performance encapsulated food ingredients for consumer packaged-goods. Paragon Pure USA Private Enabling the creation of natural food products via proprietary clean label drying technology for flavors, natural colors and nutraceuticals. Crowd-Feeding enables food drives to raise healthy food: perishable food like fresh fruits and vegetables, organic food, whole meals and lots of other healthy food.īraendler Engineering Australia n/a Automated seal inspection for the food industry Crowd-Feeding ensures that every donation counts. LoveMade Denmark Private Development, marketing and sale of healthy baby food.Īmp Your Good USA Private We developed a new type of food drive called Crowd-Feeding to address those limitations. VentureRadar Research / Company WebsiteĪssociated sectors: Food Website archive shows the site was first archived on 2013.Ģ Sisters Food Group United Kingdom Private 2 Sisters Food Group is a privately owned Birmingham, England -based food manufacturing company. We are dedicated to providing products and services that holistically address our customers needs and exceed their expectations. ![]() We also deploy our filtration technology to help companies manufacturing clarified or concentrated food and beverage products. We specialize in filtering and treating high solids wastewaters and process streams to help our customers reduce wastewater disposal costs, reclaim clean water for reuse, and produce valuable co-products.
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