VC Founder’s Market: The Future of Products for People & Planet
A high-touch, high-taste event for early-stage brands shaping sustainable consumption.
Join Alumni Ventures, Braze, and Myca Collective during Climate Tech Week for their annual interactive showcase of early-stage startups reimagining how we eat, live, and sustain—through taste, touch, and technology. The VC Founder’s Market is a high-touch, high-taste marketplace designed for Climate Tech Week—where investors, founders, and ecosystem builders can experience the future of sustainable consumption firsthand.
What to Expect:
Interactive booths for sampling, demos, and engaging directly with founders
Breakthrough innovations that span food, packaging, materials, and consumer systems—built with AI, automation, food science, and climate-first design
A cross-sector community of VCs, angels, operators, and climate-tech enablers exploring how tangible products drive systems change
Exhibitor Sneak Peek:
HeyWell: Sparkling Water With Adaptogens, Herbs and Caffeine
Juan, Please: Tequila, Lemonade, Tea
50 Cut: Mushroom root products for enhancing meat and flavor
Gambit Robotics: AI-powered kitchen assistant that uses voice and vision to guide—and eventually automate—the entire cooking experience. Just pick a recipe (URL) or an ingredient (like steak)—Gambit sees everything and guides you through every step.
Journey Foods: AI software to help you discover, monitor, and access better ingredients.
HUMAN-I-TEES: Every tee funds high‑impact climate orgs (10% of profits) and sparks more conversations than a plastic straw ban ever did.
S'NOODS: The first chef-driven, globally-inspired noodle chip, founded by Lauryn Bodden after winning Netflix’s Snack vs. Chef. Flipping nostalgic noodle dishes into unapologetically bold, craveable chips—gluten-free, vegan, and kosher—we’re on a mission to spark curiosity and satisfy cravings with bold, inclusive snacks that reflect today’s evolving culinary landscape.
Pastazerts creates innovative chocolate ravioli desserts, combining premium chocolate pasta with nostalgic sweet fillings like Strawberry Cheesecake, PB&J, and Cannoli. We're revolutionizing the dessert category by bringing together two beloved foods - chocolate and pasta - into an experience that surprises and delights dessert lovers.
AMIATA is an innovative perfume and scent-education brand that seeks to reconnect us to our natural environment—and to one another—by harnessing the power of smell. Crafted by poet-scholar and artist Susan Barbour, these fragrances are scent-poems designed to anchor the soul in the present moment.
Kaffa: European caffeine pouches built for the modern worker. Energy and focus without liquids or the crash.
SOND (Stealth Labs) makes Dreambuds — an AI-powered, phone-free sleep wearable (ANC earbuds + app) that personalizes sleep coaching, immersive soundscapes, and biometric sleep tracking to help users fall asleep faster and improve sleep quality. Sign up for the waitlist!
HOL Health Club: We quit our jobs in finance to make this protein bar. But not just any protein bar…the only bar that has 20g of protein and is actually clean (not even using a protein powder). All natural, whole food-based, ingredients you recognize, no nonsense.
NOON is a next-gen cognitive wellness company pioneering tools for your best mind & mood. We blend the power of neuroscience with functional mushrooms, adaptogens and nootropics into tasty delights made for a new wave of social wellness. Our ultimate mission is to help you live your fullest by nurturing your most precious asset— the mind.
Beeyond Snacks is launching a new line of irresistible sesame butter spreads, blending velvety tahini with playful, flavor-packed twists like Cinnamon Honey, Chocolate Strawberry, Pineapple Coconut, and PB&J. Sweetened only with pure honey and drizzly enough to eat straight from the jar, we’re putting sesame seeds in the spotlight: bold in flavor, fun to eat, and endlessly versatile for modern day snackers.
Ziba combines centuries-old Persian skincare rituals with modern science to create indulgent formulas that deliver visible results. Harnessing generations of ancestral wisdom, our products help reveal radiant, healthy-looking skin.
About the Hosts:
Alumni Ventures (AV) is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that provides accredited investors with access to a diversified venture capital portfolio. AV invests pre-seed through pre-IPO, leveraging its 700K+ network to support companies at every stage in their growth. With a portfolio of over 1,600 companies, AV is known for investing in consumer products like Aleph Farms, Endless West, BistroCat, Gooder Foods (Goodles), Yumi, MeliBio, NewCulture, Oobli, Oshi, PetPlate, Prime Roots, Quince, Thistle, and more!
Braze is the leading customer engagement platform that empowers brands to Be Absolutely Engaging.™ Braze allows any marketer to collect and take action on any amount of data from any source, so they can creatively engage with customers in real time, across channels from one platform. From cross-channel messaging and journey orchestration to Al-powered experimentation and optimization, Braze enables companies to build and maintain absolutely engaging relationships with their customers that foster growth and loyalty. The company has been recognized as a 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Companies to Work For, 2024 Best Small & Medium Workplaces in Europe by Great Place to Work®, 2024 Fortune Best Workplaces for Women™ by Great Place to Work® and was named a Leader by Gartner® in the 2024 Magic Quadrant™ for Multichannel Marketing Hubs and a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Email Marketing Service Providers, Q3 2024. Braze is headquartered in New York with 15 offices across AMER, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC.
Disclaimer: Braze is not endorsing or guaranteeing the performance of any of the products displayed at the event
Myca Collective is a global community of leading women in food. What started in NYC has grown into a global network of 200+ members. We host curated gatherings that spark connection, collaboration, and support across industries.
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