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Participants include Numa, RifRaf, Brooklyn Buttery, Labby, Healthy Cow and Bezoar Laboratories

July 10, 2019

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Startups in two verticals — ag tech and dairy food products — engaged in a 90-day immersive program and worked directly with leaders from Dairy Farmers of America, CoBank, Sprint and other industry experts and mentors to create strategic, long-term partnerships during the 2019 DFA Accelerator program.

“In selecting participating companies for the DFA Accelerator program we looked at not only the potential of their innovations, but also at the opportunity to form long-term partnerships,” says Monica Massey, executive vice president and chief of staff at DFA. “Though demo day is the conclusion of the official 2019 program, we view it as the start-line for what we hope are potential, long-term partnerships that will yield positive benefits to DFA and its family-farm owners using innovation and technology.”

With the DFA Accelerator, the selected ag tech and dairy food product companies received mentorship, connections and resources to help accelerate their growth. Features of the 90-day program include:

  • Targeted, strategic meetings with the corporate teams to discuss business development, pilots and potential sponsorships

  • Mentoring from DFA staff and their networks, as well as from the investor, business development and entrepreneurial communities

  • Business building sessions around product, brand, marketing and entrepreneurship

  • State-of-the-art workspace facilities

The 2019 DFA Accelerator class includes:

Ag tech

  • Bezoar Laboratories (Bryan, Texas): Bezoar’s current innovation is a patent-pending probiotic for cattle that, when paired with nitrate, decreases their methane production by 50%;

  • Healthy Cow (Toronto, Canada): Healthy Cow is an ag-biotechnology helping dairy farmers to produce more milk while simultaneously reducing their dependence on antibiotics and hormones;

  • Labby (Boston): Labby is an artificial intelligence-powered smartphone platform for food and agro analytics.

Dairy food products

  • Brooklyn Buttery (Brooklyn, N.Y.): Brooklyn Buttery is reimagining butter for the 21st century as a fun, convenient product for home cooks to turn up the flavor on their dishes using sustainably sourced ingredients;

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  • Numa (Bridgewater, N.J.): Numa makes all-natural sweet, chewy milk treats with six natural ingredients and four grams of protein;

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  • RifRaf (Brooklyn, N.Y.):  RifRaf offers ricotta cups that are one-part cheese and one part flavor.

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Source: Dairy Farmers of America, which is solely responsible for the information provided and is wholly owned by the source. Informa Business Media and all its subsidiaries are not responsible for any of the content contained in this information asset. 

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