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 and Braze 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.
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.
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