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101 Best Connecticut Food and Beverage Companies and Startups - Best Startup US

101 Best Connecticut Food and Beverage Companies and Startups

October 3, 2021
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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

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Tastes Natural

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

Newmans Own Inc

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Creators of delicious salad dressing, marinades and sauces.

Newmans Own Inc

Eemax

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Eemax is the supplier of tankless water heater solutions in the USA.

Newmans Own Inc

EBP Supply Solutions

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EBP Supply Solutions is a business supplies firm dealing in janitorial, foodservice, school, restaurant, and healthcare supplies.

Newmans Own Inc

JCJ Architecture

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JCJ Architecture is a major Hartford architecture firm.

Newmans Own Inc

Legend Food Service

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Legend Food Service is a provider of workplace food solutions.

Newmans Own Inc

PeriShip

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PeriShip is a Value Added Service provider for shippers and receivers of food and perishable products.

Newmans Own Inc

Wayback Burgers

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Wayback Burgers is a Connecticut-based fast-casual franchise with a reputation for serving fresh burgers and thick.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

Late July

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Late July makes delicious organic, non-GMO snacks.

Newmans Own Inc

Watson

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Watson is a food production company providing nutrient premixes and ingredients.

Newmans Own Inc

Carla’s Pasta

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Carla’s Pasta produces and distributes homemade-filled pasta and sauces.

Newmans Own Inc

Barteca Holdings

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A South Norwalk, Conn.-based wine bar and restaurant operator.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

Star Strong Capital

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Early stage debt investment firm

Newmans Own Inc

Brescome Barton Inc.

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Brescome Barton is a wine & spirits company offering liquor, wine, and beer distribution services.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

Carvel Ice Cream Bakery

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Carvel Ice Cream Bakery is an ice cream and cake manufacturer.

Newmans Own Inc

SpikedSeltzer

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SpikedSeltzer is naturally flavored and gluten-free. It contains only five grams of carbs and 6% alcohol.

Newmans Own Inc

Vroom Service Now

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Vroom Service Now is Fairfield County’s largest growing restaurant marketing Service.

Newmans Own Inc

Agrivolution

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Agrivolution is an agri-technology company that develops innovative farming solutions.

Newmans Own Inc

Star Distributors

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Star Distributors is a wholesale beverage distributor company.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

TraceFood

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TraceFood is a Blockchain platform specializing in the Trace ability of Food supplychain

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

UCAN

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UCAN manufactures energy products for health-conscious consumers.

Newmans Own Inc

Takeout7

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Takeout7 is a cloud based technology platform with turnkey solutions for independent restaurants.

Newmans Own Inc

Culture Fresh Foods

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Culture Fresh Foods manufactures Dairy + Non-Dairy products and Beverages.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

Better Rhodes Co.

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Premium beverage non-alcoholic, mindful drinking lifestyle products and community.

Newmans Own Inc

ALOHA

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Aloha is an organic, clean plant-based food & beverage company

Newmans Own Inc

Bactana Corp.

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Bactana Develops Novel Probiotics and Postbiotics to Support Sustainable Livestock Farming & Companion Animal Health

Newmans Own Inc

Kathie’s Kitchen

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Kathie’s Kitchen introduces SuperSeedz, offering dry roasted shelled pumpkin seeds.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

Sportwater Beverages

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Sportwater Beverages is an innovative company that provides electrolyte formulation drinks for athletes.

Newmans Own Inc

Direct Eats

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Direct Eats is a distributor and provider in the online food industry.

Newmans Own Inc

Half Full Brewery

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Half Full Brewery is a operator of a microbrewery to provide quality beers.

Newmans Own Inc

Oakridge Dairy

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Oakridge Dairy is produces dairy products.

Newmans Own Inc

Bridgewater Chocolate

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Bridgewater Chocolate is a hand made confection manufacturing company that specializes in premium enrobed American style chocolates.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

YUMEARTH INC

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YumEarth specializes in producing organic candies.

Newmans Own Inc

Edible Arrangements

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A U.S.-based franchising business that specializes in fresh fruit arrangements.

Newmans Own Inc

Harvest Hill Beverage Company

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Harvest Hill Beverage is a grocery retailers, wholesalers, supercenters and foodservice distributors.

Newmans Own Inc

Munk Pack

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Munk Pack Oatmeal Fruit Squeeze snacks provide sustained energy and quick nutrition for adventurers of all ages.

Newmans Own Inc

Dirty Hands

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Dirty Hands is the industry leading provider of contracted field sales and merchandising in the natural food industry.

Newmans Own Inc

Back East Brewery

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Back East Brewing Company is a Craft brewery located in Bloomfield, CT.

Newmans Own Inc

Kitchen Brains

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Kitchen Brains™ wirelessly networks cooking appliances, automates food production and provides real time remote monitoring.

Newmans Own Inc

SFP Market

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Enterprise Marketplace Platform for Grocery Wholesalers and Distributors

Newmans Own Inc

Subway IP

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Subway IP is a restaurants company located in Milford.

Newmans Own Inc

Tasty Bite

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Tasty Bite features all-natural Indian & Asian cuisine ready to eat in 1 minute.

Newmans Own Inc

Bozzuto’s

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Bozzuto’s is a wholesale distributor of food and household products.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

Stew Leonard’s

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Stew Leonard’s offers farms fresh foods, seafood, wines and catering services.

Newmans Own Inc

Sweet Leaf

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Sweet Leaf is a producer of artisan iced teas and lemonades.

Newmans Own Inc

The Bites Company

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The Bites Company makes round, bite-size artisanal Biscotti in almond, lemon, chocolate and brown butter.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

Thompson Brands

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Thompson Brands is a company producing only quality chocolate items with “no artificial ingredients.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

Next Level Marketing

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Next Level Marketing is a widely recognized beverage company located in Westport.

Newmans Own Inc

Get Joy Food

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Get Joy Food is an e-commerce platform that offers healthy foods for pets.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

Beyond Botanicals LLC

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Retail, Wholesale, Private Label sales of American-hemp made CBD products.

Newmans Own Inc

Thimble Island Oyster Company

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Were proud to be the first multi-species 3-D ocean farm in Long Island Sound.

Newmans Own Inc

Guttenplan’s Frozen Dough

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Guttenplan’s Frozen Dough is a leading producer and supplier of frozen dough products.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

Field Trip

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Field Trip is a health lifestyle brand aimed at providing meat snacks and plant-based protein chickpea butter.

Newmans Own Inc

Caffe Social

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Caffe Social is a Cafe that provides various types of Food & Beverages to their clients.

Newmans Own Inc

R.L. Albert & Son, Inc

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R.L. Albert & Son, Inc is importer of gourmet food and European specialty product.

Newmans Own Inc

American Frozen Foods

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American Frozen Foods is a food and beverages company that makes nutritious and frozen foods.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

Sipstirs

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Sipstirs is an artisanal Spirits & Craft Brew specializes in hand-crafted wines and spirits from around the world

Newmans Own Inc

Zoni Foods

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Zoni Foods is reinventing cooking to make it easy for everyone to eat healthy, plant-based food.

Newmans Own Inc

Organika Kitchen

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All Vegan and Organic Quick Service Restaurant and Juice Bar

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

Oma’s Pride

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Oma’s Pride is an Animal feed store company located in Avon.

Newmans Own Inc

Perrier

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Perrier is a food & beverage company that provides lemon, grape, peach, cherry and mango flavored carbonated drinks.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

Stay Fresh Foods

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Stay Fresh Foods provides custom HPP services.

Newmans Own Inc

Menumavin

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Menumavin is an Online Ordering Team For Delivery, Carry Out, Catering, Corporate Dining, Campus Dining, and More.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

My Pet Chicken

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My Pet Chicken e-commerce platform provides backyard and urban chicken.

Newmans Own Inc

Napoli Foods

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Napoli Foods is a family owned and operated company for imported and regional food and non food items.

Newmans Own Inc

Monini

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Monini is to bring the finest extra virgin olive oil in all of Italy to America’s tables.

Newmans Own Inc

Brother Jimmy’s BBQ

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Brother Jimmy’s BBQ is a restaurant specializing in slow-smoking’ barbeque dishes.

Newmans Own Inc

NWF Group

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NWF has grown into a strong, profitable and resilient business.

Newmans Own Inc

ANSAC

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ANSAC is a supplier of good quality dense and medium dense natural soda ash.

Newmans Own Inc

Averys

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Averys offers everyday drinking and fine wines, wine dinners and tasting events and wine advisory services.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

Country Home Bakers

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Country Home Bakers, LLC provides bakery products and services to retail and foodservice trades.

Newmans Own Inc

Craft Beer Guild Connecticut

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Craft Beer Guild Connecticut is a craft beer distributor company.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

Newmans Own Inc

GastroPark

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GastroPark provides an experiential dining concept that features a food truck park, bar, yard game area, and event venue.

Newmans Own Inc

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.

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