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The American Egg Board introduced its first Founders Cohort to help food and beverage startups scale egg-based innovations. The virtual program delivers hands-on guidance across marketing, R&D, supply chain and fundraising.

Following an intensive three-month accelerator program, Shake Up Cocktails took home the top prize and $100,000 in capital and services. The InvestBev program helps emerging beverage brands sharpen go-to-market strategies and gain investor access.

Prepared Foods’ 2025 Spirit of Innovation Awards recognize excellence in new product development across retail, foodservice, and alternative channels. From authentic flavors to functional benefits, this year’s winners exemplify how trend insight, creativity, and collaboration drive industry innovation.

Boundless Futures Foundation has awarded $90,000 in EmpowHer grants to four female-led startups advancing sustainability, health, and community impact. The latest recipients reflect the foundation’s growing mission to empower purpose-driven women entrepreneurs nationwide.

From collagen creamers and carbon-negative ice cream to compostable yogurt cups and A2 ultra-filtered milks, 14 emerging brands have been selected for Real California Milk’s 2025 innovation programs. The cohorts will receive mentorship, funding opportunities and a platform to pitch for up to $100,000 in support.

The 2025 Unreasonable Food cohort brings together entrepreneurs tackling critical food system challenges. Backed by Mars and Unreasonable Group, the ventures aim to scale innovations that reduce emissions, advance nutrition, and build resilience.

The Blueberry Boost Accelerator was launched earlier this year to fuel forward-thinking product innovation and elevate blueberries as a hero ingredient by supporting visionary startups. 

Together, the two organizations aim to catalyze a new generation of entrepreneurs whose ventures will shape the future of sustainable and equitable food systems, precision nutrition, and public health.

This year’s report underscores consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies’ commitment to consumer-centric innovation, prioritizing solutions that solve for evolving lifestyle and occasion needs.

The SKU Spring '25 selected brands are Fairly Nuts, good dirt, Kobi, Niramaya, PetPax Co, pi00a, Rookie's and Saint Rocco's Treats. Pi00a, which makes Neapolitan pizza frozen pizza with an Asian flair, is SKU’s first brand founded by Deaf and CODA entrepreneurs.