Published: 01/30/2023
Finalists will take part in a 10-week business boot camp, designed to help them explore their business ideas further and end the course with a usable pitch deck for funding opportunities.
Congratulations to the finalists for The Food and Beverage TechCelerator Cohort with Ben Franklin Technology Partners, including several past and present clients of Gannon University’s Erie Technology Incubator, NWPA Innovation Beehive and I-HACK Hatchery.
Read the full release from Ben Franklin Technology Partners here.
These finalists will take part in a 10-week business boot camp, designed to help them explore their business ideas further and end the course with a usable pitch deck for funding opportunities.
Representatives engaged in Gannon's entrepreneurial ecosystem who were selected for The Food and Beverage TechCelerator Cohort include:
8fronds Pineapple Eddie Jerk Sauce (Karen Thomas and Adrienne Paul, Erie County) has created a sauce product that is plant-based, allergen, sugar-free, and free of chemical preservatives that can be used as a marinade or sauce to give meals prepared at home great flavor and interest while saving time.
KEVO (Paul McMahon & Ryan Maloney, Erie County) is leveraging growing trends in both cold brew consumption and single-serve coffee. KEVO has developed a patented, innovative device to make a single cup of cold brew using either coffee pods (also known as K-cups) or regular grounds. It is also unique in that it can use an immersion method with K-cups, producing a fuller-bodied flavor.
Fungiable (Formerly MP-ERIE-CO) (Matthew Gacura, Gary Vanderlaan, Davide Piovesan, Arvin Sharifbaev, Erie County) is commercializing a process to grow mushrooms from agricultural/plant waste that is generated from farms, wineries, breweries, and other food producers. This win-win process will utilize otherwise hard to dispose of waste while producing a nutritious, low-cost food which could be beneficial to impoverished communities.
Read the full release from Ben Franklin Technology Partners here.