The class includes eight food and beverage startups that are ‘disrupting and improving’ U.S. food and beverage categories.
Chobani LLC, Norwich, N.Y., unveiled its spring 2019 Chobani Incubator class. The class includes eight food and beverage startups that are disrupting and improving mainstay food and beverage categories in the United States, the yogurt manufacturer said.
Bringing a diverse mix of backgrounds, perspectives and culinary inspirations, the class covers product categories that include gluten-free empanadas, made-from-scratch natural biscuits, frozen locally sourced fruit and homemade Thai curries, with recipes based in a variety of cultural heritages ranging from Argentinian and Thai to Syrian. Notably, 63% of founders or co-founders within the class are female, while underrepresented minority founders make up 75% of the class. This class is the most diverse cohort in the program’s history, Chobani noted, across genders, geographies, race and ethnicity, and country-of-origin.