This week we’re back for a very exciting update episode with Denise Woodard is the Founder and CEO of Partake Foods, the allergy-friendly company inspired by her daughter’s experience with food allergies. Created in 2016, Denise started the business by self-distributing cookies around NYC, this year it became a Certified B Corporation, and launched a collab with Ben & Jerry’s.
In this episode she shares:
Her strategies to getting investors interested, including big names like HER and Rihanna
How she became the first Black woman to raise more than $1 Million publicly for a CPG food startup, accumulating more than $20M
How she is continuing to inspire other entrepreneurs while growing her own business
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Links mentioned in this episode
Partake’s Website: www.partakefoods.com
Partake’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/partakefoods/
Denise’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denisegwoodard/
Desnise’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denisegwoodard/
Marcy Venture Partners: https://www.marcyvp.com/
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