Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best Connecticut based Food and Beverage companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Food and Beverage industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Connecticut Food and Beverage Startups
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Tastes Natural
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Tastes Natural is a food ingredient company that improves the taste of vegetables, vegetable proteins, vitamins, and supplements.
Newmans Own Inc
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Creators of delicious salad dressing, marinades and sauces.
Eemax
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Eemax is the supplier of tankless water heater solutions in the USA.
EBP Supply Solutions
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EBP Supply Solutions is a business supplies firm dealing in janitorial, foodservice, school, restaurant, and healthcare supplies.
JCJ Architecture
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JCJ Architecture is a major Hartford architecture firm.
Legend Food Service
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Legend Food Service is a provider of workplace food solutions.
PeriShip
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PeriShip is a Value Added Service provider for shippers and receivers of food and perishable products.
Wayback Burgers
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Wayback Burgers is a Connecticut-based fast-casual franchise with a reputation for serving fresh burgers and thick.
Bakery on Main
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Bakery on Main is to make you happy while helping to clean up their food supply and provide everyone with products.
Late July
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Late July makes delicious organic, non-GMO snacks.
Watson
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Watson is a food production company providing nutrient premixes and ingredients.
Carla’s Pasta
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Carla’s Pasta produces and distributes homemade-filled pasta and sauces.
Barteca Holdings
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A South Norwalk, Conn.-based wine bar and restaurant operator.
H.J. Baker & Bro., LLC
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H.J. Baker & Bro. is a food production company offering animal, poultry, and beef cattle food products.
Brescome Barton Inc.
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Brescome Barton is a wine & spirits company offering liquor, wine, and beer distribution services.
Elm City Market
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Elm City Market is a grocery store in New Haven, CT, offering a large selection of healthy and affordable products.
Carvel Ice Cream Bakery
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Carvel Ice Cream Bakery is an ice cream and cake manufacturer.
SpikedSeltzer
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SpikedSeltzer is naturally flavored and gluten-free. It contains only five grams of carbs and 6% alcohol.
Vroom Service Now
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Vroom Service Now is Fairfield County’s largest growing restaurant marketing Service.
Agrivolution
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Agrivolution is an agri-technology company that develops innovative farming solutions.
Star Distributors
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Star Distributors is a wholesale beverage distributor company.
Polarn O. Pyret
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Polarn O. Pyret is a Swedish premium brand of children’s clothes best known for its high quality, functionality and unique design.
TraceFood
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TraceFood is a Blockchain platform specializing in the Trace ability of Food supplychain
Athletic Brewing
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Athletic Brewing is a food and beverage company that specializes in brewing, healthy living, organic, e-commerce, and direct-to-consumer.
New Wave Foods
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New Wave Foods is a provider of algae and plant-based food used to preserve and enrich seafood traditions.
Verb Energy
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Verb Energy makes healthy and delicious energy products for every day. Our flagship product is the Verb Caffeinated Energy Bar.
American Halal Company
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American Halal Company produces and sells organic halal foods. Its products include chickpeas, wraps, frozen entrees, and chicken.
LesserEvil
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LesserEvil is focused on making iconic snack foods, offering a potato based puff and a line of extravagantly flavored low carb popcorns.
UCAN
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UCAN manufactures energy products for health-conscious consumers.
Takeout7
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Takeout7 is a cloud based technology platform with turnkey solutions for independent restaurants.
Culture Fresh Foods
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Culture Fresh Foods manufactures Dairy + Non-Dairy products and Beverages.
Miami Beverage Company (trimino)
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A functional beverage that is not only great tasting and refreshing but also healthier than the alternatives on the market.
Better Rhodes Co.
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Premium beverage non-alcoholic, mindful drinking lifestyle products and community.
ALOHA
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Aloha is an organic, clean plant-based food & beverage company
Bactana Corp.
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Bactana Develops Novel Probiotics and Postbiotics to Support Sustainable Livestock Farming & Companion Animal Health
Kathie’s Kitchen
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Kathie’s Kitchen introduces SuperSeedz, offering dry roasted shelled pumpkin seeds.
Two Roads Brewing Company
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Two Roads Brewing Company is a producer of craft beer using a combination of classic German as well as American hop and malt varieties.
Sportwater Beverages
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Sportwater Beverages is an innovative company that provides electrolyte formulation drinks for athletes.
Direct Eats
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Direct Eats is a distributor and provider in the online food industry.
Half Full Brewery
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Half Full Brewery is a operator of a microbrewery to provide quality beers.
Oakridge Dairy
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Oakridge Dairy is produces dairy products.
Bridgewater Chocolate
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Bridgewater Chocolate is a hand made confection manufacturing company that specializes in premium enrobed American style chocolates.
Torie & Howard
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Torie & Howard is an organic candy company focused on unique, indulgent treats for health-conscious consumers with sophisticated palates.
YUMEARTH INC
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YumEarth specializes in producing organic candies.
Edible Arrangements
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A U.S.-based franchising business that specializes in fresh fruit arrangements.
Harvest Hill Beverage Company
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Harvest Hill Beverage is a grocery retailers, wholesalers, supercenters and foodservice distributors.
Munk Pack
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Munk Pack Oatmeal Fruit Squeeze snacks provide sustained energy and quick nutrition for adventurers of all ages.
Dirty Hands
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Dirty Hands is the industry leading provider of contracted field sales and merchandising in the natural food industry.
Back East Brewery
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Back East Brewing Company is a Craft brewery located in Bloomfield, CT.
Kitchen Brains
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Kitchen Brains™ wirelessly networks cooking appliances, automates food production and provides real time remote monitoring.
SFP Market
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Enterprise Marketplace Platform for Grocery Wholesalers and Distributors
Subway IP
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Subway IP is a restaurants company located in Milford.
Tasty Bite
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Tasty Bite features all-natural Indian & Asian cuisine ready to eat in 1 minute.
Bozzuto’s
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Bozzuto’s is a wholesale distributor of food and household products.
Deep River Snacks
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Deep River Snacks offers kettle-cooked potato chips, baked fries, cheese popcorn, and multigrain tortilla chips that are healthy.
Votto Vines
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Votto Vines is a wine importing and distribution company specializing in highly rated and boutique wines from Italy, Spain, and France.
Stew Leonard’s
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Stew Leonard’s offers farms fresh foods, seafood, wines and catering services.
Sweet Leaf
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Sweet Leaf is a producer of artisan iced teas and lemonades.
The Bites Company
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The Bites Company makes round, bite-size artisanal Biscotti in almond, lemon, chocolate and brown butter.
Conquer Ordinary
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Conquer Ordinary is an electronic commerce, food service and wholesale distribution company where consumers and businesses can save most.
Thompson Brands
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Thompson Brands is a company producing only quality chocolate items with “no artificial ingredients.
Fire Ox Foods
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Fire Ox Foods is a vegetable centered cuisine exploring plant based frozen meals that is made from simple ingredients.
Next Level Marketing
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Next Level Marketing is a widely recognized beverage company located in Westport.
Get Joy Food
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Get Joy Food is an e-commerce platform that offers healthy foods for pets.
Poseidon Water
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Poseidon Water is a company that assists other organizations to produce clean water for areas lacking a safe supply.
Beyond Botanicals LLC
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Retail, Wholesale, Private Label sales of American-hemp made CBD products.
Thimble Island Oyster Company
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Were proud to be the first multi-species 3-D ocean farm in Long Island Sound.
Guttenplan’s Frozen Dough
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Guttenplan’s Frozen Dough is a leading producer and supplier of frozen dough products.
The John B. Pierce Lab
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The John B. Pierce Laboratory is a nonprofit, independent research institute that is formally affiliated with Yale University.
Ikan
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Ikan is a countertop unit that allows you to keep track of groceries you’ll need on your next trip.
Field Trip
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Field Trip is a health lifestyle brand aimed at providing meat snacks and plant-based protein chickpea butter.
Caffe Social
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Caffe Social is a Cafe that provides various types of Food & Beverages to their clients.
R.L. Albert & Son, Inc
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R.L. Albert & Son, Inc is importer of gourmet food and European specialty product.
American Frozen Foods
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American Frozen Foods is a food and beverages company that makes nutritious and frozen foods.
Noteworthy Chocolates
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Noteworthy Chocolates is an online platform for customers to create unique and heartfelt messages laser engraved into chocolate stationery.
Sipstirs
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Sipstirs is an artisanal Spirits & Craft Brew specializes in hand-crafted wines and spirits from around the world
Zoni Foods
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Zoni Foods is reinventing cooking to make it easy for everyone to eat healthy, plant-based food.
Organika Kitchen
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All Vegan and Organic Quick Service Restaurant and Juice Bar
Rogers Orchards
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Rogers Orchards grows more than 20 varieties of apples throughout the season, including Rome, Macoun, and other heirloom varieties.
Oma’s Pride
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Oma’s Pride is an Animal feed store company located in Avon.
Perrier
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Perrier is a food & beverage company that provides lemon, grape, peach, cherry and mango flavored carbonated drinks.
Winzz Gas N Goods
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Winzz Gas N Goods is a conventional store that offers coffee, lunch, and gas and also has an on-site ATM.
Stay Fresh Foods
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Stay Fresh Foods provides custom HPP services.
Menumavin
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Menumavin is an Online Ordering Team For Delivery, Carry Out, Catering, Corporate Dining, Campus Dining, and More.
Nuovo Pasta
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Nuovo Pasta is a pasta manufacturer company that specializes in a wide range of pasta such as ravioli, tortellini, fettuccine and Sacchetti.
My Pet Chicken
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My Pet Chicken e-commerce platform provides backyard and urban chicken.
Napoli Foods
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Napoli Foods is a family owned and operated company for imported and regional food and non food items.
Monini
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Monini is to bring the finest extra virgin olive oil in all of Italy to America’s tables.
Brother Jimmy’s BBQ
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Brother Jimmy’s BBQ is a restaurant specializing in slow-smoking’ barbeque dishes.
NWF Group
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NWF has grown into a strong, profitable and resilient business.
ANSAC
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ANSAC is a supplier of good quality dense and medium dense natural soda ash.
Averys
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Averys offers everyday drinking and fine wines, wine dinners and tasting events and wine advisory services.
Andre Prost
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Andre Prost provides a complete range of services to market & distribute foods & confectionery throughout the United States and Canada.
Avon Bakery & Deli
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Avon Bakery & Deli is an online portal that offers catering, wide range of wholesale bread and bakery products.
Davidson Specialty Foods LLC
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Davidson Specialty Foods LLC is a food & beverage distribution & selling firm that distributes & sells various food products.
Country Home Bakers
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Country Home Bakers, LLC provides bakery products and services to retail and foodservice trades.
Craft Beer Guild Connecticut
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Craft Beer Guild Connecticut is a craft beer distributor company.
Epicure Robotic Vending Bar
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Robotic vending machine about the size of a food truck that autonomously sells affordable healthy and delicious grab & go food.
GastroPark
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GastroPark provides an experiential dining concept that features a food truck park, bar, yard game area, and event venue.
Longford’s Ice Cream
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Longford’s Ice Cream has been producing small batch, all natural premium ice cream for wholesale and at retail locations.
