#74 - 💰 Lil Bucks & Little Sesame Score New Funding

September 17, 2024

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Podcast:

🎉 Huge congrats to Lil Bucks and Little Sesame on their new funding!

🚀 We’ve had the pleasure of chatting with both brands on the pod!

🎧 Dive into our chats below with Emily & Nick to learn more about how their brands are powering regenerative systems through CPG demand.

Events:

🌐 Naturally Minnesota is hosting Food | Ag | Ideas on October 7th-9th!

This conference is for farmers, entrepreneurs, brands, industry professionals and companies alike, and this year they will focus on who are the critical partners at the table for food companies to begin sourcing and supporting regenerative farms, ingredients, and supply chains. They are looking to support small, large, and particularly mid-size companies on their journey of navigating this new supply chain reality, and providing them a playbook on what and how to do this.

Credit: Naturally Minnesota

News:

  • The women-led buckwheat-based snack company secured $3 million that Lil Bucks will use to grow its retail footprint, expand its farmer network, add key hires, and introduce more buckwheat snack innovations to the market.

  • Additional coverage from Nosh 

Credit: Lil Bucks

  • The investment will enable Little Sesame to deepen its supply chain, scale its manufacturing capacity, expand its corporate team, and invest in marketing efforts.

  • Santatera Capital, Watchfire Ventures, and Terpsi Capital all participated in the financing.

    Credit: Little Sesame

🏃‍♂️ Quick Hits:

🍔 Hickory Nut Gap has launched their new Smash Burger blend.

🎋 Florida Crystals, the only grower of ROC™ sugarcane in the U.S., announced their new compost facility, producing 100,000 tons of compost in just one season.

👉 Oatman Farms has released their first Regenerative Impact Report, touting the conservation of 1.13 billion gallons of water on just 665 acres of land.

🥔 Roots Chips is one of the first companies to receive the Soil and Climate Initiative certification for their regenerative farming practices.

🥃 Dry Land Distillers has launched a new organic rye whiskey made with 100% Regenerative Organic Certified® grain from southern Colorado.

🤷 A new report from Purdue’s Center for Food Demand Analysis and Sustainability claims consumers are unfamiliar with the term “regenerative agriculture.”

🍸 Waterford Distillery has introduced a new whiskey made from barley grown with regenerative biodynamic farming methods.

📱Prove, a new tech-enabled storytelling platform, is hoping to help brands tell powerful stories using farm-level data.

Fun Stuff:

🎞️ Outriders, a new short film from Force of Nature, shares their origin story and hope for a thriving food system for future generations.

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