Founders’ Innovation Day 2025 is made possible through the support of our premier partners and sponsors, whose commitment to emerging brand success fuels the entire experience. Their investment helps bring founders face-to-face with leading retailers, industry experts, and the tools needed to scale with confidence. We are grateful to our event sponsors for championing innovation, enabling meaningful connections, and helping build a platform where the next generation of CPG leaders can thrive.
Afro Unicorn
Afro Unicorn is a multicultural lifestyle brand empowering kids to embrace uniqueness, confidence, and magic. Through representation in toys, apparel, books, and media, Afro Unicorn celebrates diversity, self-love, and joy—reminding every child they are unique, divine, and magical.
Anatole Daphne (Reverie)
Authentic Turkish Bath ingredients infused with modern Superfood science, Reveria bum-bum and leggy body butters power your shelves with flirty new delight. Jelly sugar scrubs, too! Leaving your customers looking & feeling like the next wonder of the world, at an exceptional value. Now that’s the retail life well-lived.
Blistape
Blistape is a thin, vitamin E-infused protection that prevents blisters and chafing. Discreet circles use a unique performance fabric blend for feet and nipple protection with heels, sneakers, and dress shirts, delivering all-day comfort. Positioned in First Aid/Foot Care, Blistape expands category reach and drives add-on purchases from work to play.
Cleanery
Cleanery creates powerful cleaning and dishwashing products, and beautiful hand soaps in a powder-to-liquid format. Mix at home for exceptional results with far less waste. They also develop custom private-label refills that match retailers’ existing cleaning and personal care ranges, improve margins, and transform traditional products into modern, reusable systems.
Cleve’s Gourmet Products
"Cleve’s Gourmet Products delivers serious flavor with the perfect mix of sweet + heat and premium spices. Low-sodium and gluten-free, each blend enhances any dish with real flavor, not just salt. From grill to skillet, Cleve’s is The Only Kick You’ll Ever Need."
Crocodile Products
Crocodile Products are oversized, pre-moistened cleaning cloths that can be used in a variety of settings, from your home to industrial job sites and everything in between. Our cloths are made in the USA and are bigger, better, and wetter than any other wipe on the market.
Cue Candle
Cue candles feature OpenWick™ for a clean, even burn, creating a uniquely satisfying candle experience. Crafted from premium ingredients and housed in sleek, modern jars, each candle delivers long-lasting fragrance and elevated design that transforms any space into a beautifully scented, intentional environment.
Easy Food (Island Time)
Island Time Chips delivers crunchy, grain-free cassava tortilla chips made with clean ingredients, including cassava flour, avocado oil, and chia seeds. Vegan and gluten-free, they come in bold flavors, including Sea Salt, Lime, and Unsalted, bringing authentic island vibes and a delicious guilt-free snack experience to every bite.
Fairy Tales Hair Care
Since 1999, Fairy Tales Hair Care has been the trusted leader in kids’ hair solutions. With explosive omnichannel growth and a cult-like following, the brand delivers innovative, effective products parents swear by. Beloved by families, Fairy Tales continues to set the standard in safe, fun, and results-driven hair care.
Fresh Scents
Fresh Scents sachets are a proven growth driver in home fragrance, accounting for up to 25% of category sales and generating 7-figures for many retailers. Made in the USA, we fill category gaps candles and sprays can’t, while offering retailers extreme consumer value, short lead times, and tools for success.
Eosera
eosera® develops high-quality, effective healthcare products that empower consumers to improve their health, cultivating a positive company culture that prioritizes people over profit. We embody the values of empowerment, positivity, collaboration and bravery as a passionate female-led company focused on making your ear health our top priority.
Gold Medal Manufacturing
We produce Private Brand sliced breads, rolls, English muffins, and more! There are more than 100 varieties, from conventional to premium and better-for-you! Our ambient and frozen bakery programs allow us to meet your unique requirements. We also provide Panera CPG products, Fave’wich (our NEW crustless sandwich) and a seamless B2B distribution solution!
Lewie
At Lewie, we are developing oral healthcare products for the beauty aisle. Whether it’s capturing the perfect selfie, excelling in a meeting or interview, connecting with friends, or impressing a romantic partner, Lewie believes a beautiful smile helps us make life’s essential moments more memorable. It’s in these moments that we truly can shine.
Kencko
Kencko is on a mission to help 9 in 10 people consume more fruits and vegetables a day. Launched in 2019, it is now available nationwide at retailers such as Target, Fred Meyer, Walmart, Kroger, and CVS, with +9,000 stores in the U.S. and +500 international.
King Point China/LOMIRA
LOMIRA develops innovative products that make everyday life easier and more enjoyable. We focus on smart audio and lifestyle accessories that solve real problems without adding complexity. Designed for broad accessibility with a premium feel, LOMIRA scales fast through strong manufacturing capabilities, bringing practical innovation to millions of people
Kornbusch
Kornbusch, a German textile company family-owned since 1895, produces environmentally friendly cleaning clothes, wipes, tools, and a complete line of sponges —Europe’s largest sponge manufacturer. Kornbusch US in Chicago, IL, “Made in America” with packaging lines and pick-and-pack operations. Our products are available in over 15,000 retail outlets.
Mor Ventures (Quitch)
Quitch is a modern first-aid brand founded by three moms, including a Stanford-trained dermatologist. Quitch is on a mission to reinvent the first-aid aisle with gentle, science-backed, kid-friendly solutions that actually work.
Morpheus
Morpheus 360 was founded in 2019 and launched at the CES Show in Las Vegas. We specialize in Bluetooth Headphones, True Wireless Earbuds, Wireless/Wired UC Headsets, and Bluetooth Portable Speakers. We offer a comprehensive assortment of premium and value-priced products. We also provide MAP pricing to protect your margins.
Nesis
Nesis is the genesis of biochemical pathways, guiding people’s health towards sustainable solutions. We map possibilities, remove friction, and align purpose with action. Through clear synergy, creative rigor, and compassionate clinical research, we turn complexity into momentum, empowering bold choices and measurable outcomes that honor people and their healthspan.
Neutonic
Neutonic is a brain health brand powered by research-backed nootropics that boost memory, focus, creativity, and mental clarity for better productivity and performance. Our mission is to help people improve focus and perform at their best every day through our Productivity Drinks, Focus Blends, Brain Capsules and Creatine.
Pental
Pentel is a leading innovator in writing instruments—pens, mechanical pencils, leads, erasers and creative art products—dedicated to empowering personal creativity and self-expression. For over six decades, Pentel has inspired makers, students, professionals, and creators everywhere to dream, design, write and draw with confidence. Pentel invites everyone to Reimagine Your World.
Sweetums
Sweetums is an intimacy-meets-beauty brand using scent and flavor in innovative products that fill a white space. In a world where technology and stress often leave people feeling disconnected, Sweetums offers tangible, sensory ways to bring joy, self-care, and connection back into everyday moments with flavored intimate wipes, fragrances, and lip balms.
The Vincent Group (Kamedis)
Kamedis is a pioneering dermocosmetic brand powered by patented Botaniplex® technology, combining medicinal Chinese botanicals with modern science. Clinically proven and recommended by dermatologists worldwide, Kamedis bridges traditional wisdom and advanced dermatology through an holistic approach, delivering therapeutic and daily skincare that restores balance, treats skin conditions, and promotes long-term skin health.
Wear Wellness
Wear Wellness is expanding its partnerships with retailers, spas, pharmacies, and wellness brands interested in private labeling or carrying the brand in-store. With a growing consumer shift toward convenience-based and non-ingestible health products, wearable nutrition represents one of the most exciting frontiers in modern wellness.
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