Top Wisconsin Food Startups (20)

Eillien's Candies is an independent, family-owned company headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It specializes in packaging various candies, baking nuts, snack nuts, and trail mixes. The company serves both its own branded Eillien's products and private label customers, including convenience stores, discount chains, and supermarkets, providing products in bulk and individual wrappings.

HB Specialty Foods develops and manufactures food ingredient solutions, specializing in batters, breaders, and coating systems. The company supports customers from product development and ingredient sourcing through regulatory compliance, certification, packaging, and shipping. It operates three manufacturing facilities and produces gluten-free breadcrumbs, bakery mixes, grain blends, seasonings, and other dry blends for bulk and retail markets across diverse food applications.

PURIS cultivates a spectrum of pure, plant-based foods and ingredients from U.S.-based organic and non-GMO sources.

Stella & Chewy's features natural, raw dinners and treats for dogs and natural, raw dinners for cats.

Wohlt Creamery LLC is a manufacturer of processed cheeses with a 60-year cheesemaking tradition, specializing in process cheese products for foodservice, retail deli, and food manufacturers. It joined the Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery family in 2018.

Blueprint is a health optimization and longevity company founded by Bryan Johnson. It focuses on using data-driven protocols and advanced science to maximize human longevity, offering a comprehensive system of measurements, protocols, and therapies. By leveraging biological data and rigorous experimentation, the company makes Bryan Johnson's personal anti-aging and health optimization protocol accessible to the public through a range of...

Octopi Brewing is a leading contract beverage facility based in Waunakee, Wisconsin. They specialize in helping beverage companies by sourcing materials, developing recipes, designing brand identities, and managing production. The company provides comprehensive co-production services, enabling brands to launch products efficiently. In 2024, Octopi Brewing was acquired by the Asahi Group, a global food and beverage company, to further expand...

TW Vending Inc., now operating as TurnKey Corrections, evolved from a full-service vending provider to a specialist in commissary and communication solutions for correctional facilities, offering proprietary software and integrated services.

We are a wholesale distributor to independent supermarkets. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, Certco is a full service supermarket supplier throughout Wisconsin, Minnesota, Northern Illinois and Eastern Iowa. We offer one of the largest variety of products in all departments of any grocery wholesaler in the region. We also provide our retailers with various retail support services to help the independent retailer...

An innovative beverage company with a broad range of products including coffee and tea to hot and cold powdered beverages.

Agricycle transforms food waste and agricultural byproducts into all-natural and organic CPG brands.

Holmen Cheese is the industry’s newest and most advanced manufacturer of dairy- and plant-based cheese, cheese alternatives, cheese blends, and processed cheeses. They provide industrial, food service, and retail markets with outstanding non-Standard of Identity (SOI) cheese solutions and specialize in client-centric innovation for B2B customers.

Winona Foods is a Wisconsin-based cheese manufacturer and distributor founded in 1995. It produces natural, processed, and specialty cheeses for food-service, industrial-ingredient, retail, and co-packing customers. Its integrated facilities cut, slice, chunk, cube, and shred cheese, while also making portion-controlled dips, sauces, preserves, jams, jellies, and dressings. The company also highlights dairy-focused solutions and exceptional customer experiences.

Noticing an issue in the modern-day coffee industry, we've created an environmentally-conscious option for outdoor enthusiasts. Our mission is to provide a sustainable coffee that you, the adventurer, can be proud to brew. All six deliciously crafted blends are roasted fresh per order in small batches. Offered in two sizes for your convenience: The Venture Pouch, a convenient compostable package...

Bar Corallini is a warm, convivial Italian neighborhood restaurant in Madison’s Atwood neighborhood. Led by Chef and owner Giovanni Novella, it serves scratch-made fresh pasta, Neapolitan-style pizza, mozzarella, burrata, Italian classics, and classic cocktails, with cannoli and other offerings. In a cozy seaside-inspired setting, the restaurant also hosts private gatherings and provides catering, including family-style dinners and standing receptions for...

CityTins is a promotion tool for Milwaukee restaurants and an online store for food and beverages.

Old Wisconsin is a Wisconsin food manufacturer specializing in handcrafted, hardwood-smoked sausages and protein-rich meat snacks. Its offerings include summer sausage, snack sticks, snack bites, smokestack products, and other smoked meats. The company emphasizes quality ingredients, slow hardwood smoking, traditional recipes, family values, community involvement, and making portable, flavorful products for consumers at home or on the go while preserving...

Heartisan Foods is a Barron, Wisconsin-based manufacturer and distributor of branded and private-label cheese products. Formed in 2021 as a specialty-cheese platform, it serves clients across the United States. Its operations include cheese packaging and conversion, custom manufacturing, private-label production, natural cold smoking, waxing, and cut-and-wrap services, helping customers prepare cheese products for retail through team-oriented operations.

Carnivore Meat Company, the nation’s leading private label provider in the RAW pet food industry, manufactures premium quality, USA sourced raw frozen and freeze-dried pet food and treats. Carnivore Meat Company is a processing facility, 100% dedicated to dogs, cats, and other carnivorous pets. "We strive to be on the cutting edge of the raw industry by leading with innovation, variety,...

Home of the FoodHealth Score. One score to make nutrition simple. About FoodHealth Company FoodHealth Co. is a nutrition intelligence company revolutionizing how we understand and access healthy food. Through its personalized FoodHealth Score, the company provides data tools that help consumers make better choices, retailers curate smarter shelves, and brands design with health in mind. Formerly known as bitewell, the company is...