US cooperative Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) has selected the start-ups to take part in its 2019 accelerator programme.
The seven companies, which are focused on dairy food products or agriculture technology (ag-tech), will engage in a 90-day “immersive programme,” which runs through to June, the co-op said.
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The selected start-ups will work directly with DFA “leaders” as well as those from CoBank, Sprint and other industry “experts and mentors to create strategic, long-term partnerships”.
Monica Massey, executive vice president and chief of staff at DFA, said: “It has been rewarding to help mentor these entrepreneurs, and we’re thrilled to get started with another class for this year’s DFA Accelerator.
“By working and collaborating with ag-tech and dairy food start-up companies, we’re helping develop solutions that will not only provide value for our farm families and their operations, but will also help drive consumer demand for dairy.”
Its 2019 DFA Accelerator class is made up of four ag-tech companies and three dairy food product businesses.
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By GlobalDataThe ag-tech start-ups are Texas-based Bezoar Laboratories, San Francisco’s Cattle Care, Health Cow – based in Toronto – and Boston’s Labby.
The dairy food product businesses are Brooklyn Buttery, Numa and RifRaf.
New York’s Brooklyn Buttery is said to be “re-imagining butter for the 21st century as a fun, convenient product for home cooks to turn up the flavour on their dishes using sustainably sourced ingredient”.
New Jersey’s Numa makes makes “all-natural sweet, chewy milk treats with just six natural ingredients and four grams of protein”.
And New York’s RifRaf offers “cool, creamy ricotta cups that are one part cheese and one part unexpectedly delicious flavour”.
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