City of Boulder

The City of Boulder Economic Vitality Program is pleased to sponsor Naturally Boulder. The natural products industry is a natural fit for Boulder’s environment and consumers. Naturally Boulder fosters business growth as Boulder’s largest and most evolved “industry cluster.”

Mile Hi Express

Mile Hi Express is a refrigerated/frozen warehouse and trucking company providing distribution along the Front Range of Colorado.  We receive, consolidate and redeliver!  Our services include local pickups and deliveries into all the major retail and food service warehouses in Colorado, i.e. UNFI, Whole Foods, King Soopers, Safeway, Sysco, US Foods, Shamrock, both Walmart DC’s in Cheyenne, WY and North Platte, NE….just to name a few.  Coming in April/May of 2018, we will be moving into a new facility that will greatly expand our current frozen storage from our existing 120 pallet spots to roughly 1,200 pallet spots!   Give us a shout for more details.  303-296-8465.

Ripple Foods

Bhakti

Bhakti produces a blend of organic ginger and spice in a brew of antioxidant rich fair-trade black tea. The company uses sustainable practices, and supports nonprofit organizations that work to empower and educate women and girls worldwide.

Aurora Organic Dairy

Aurora Organic Dairy’s mission is making high-quality organic milk and butter more affordable and available for American families. Founded in Boulder, CO in 2003, the Company is a leading producer of private-label and store-brand organic milk and butter for U.S. retailers.

Hogan Lovells

Hogan Lovells Denver office encompasses one of the largest legal practices in the Rocky Mountain region, providing access to a unique combination of local, national, and global knowledge. We are consistently ranked among the top Colorado firms by Chambers USA for corporate/M&A, environmental and natural resources, intellectual property, labor and employment, litigation, and energy law. Our clients, which range from Fortune 500 businesses to venture-backed startups and emerging technology companies, rely upon us to handle sophisticated business transactions, complex commercial and white collar litigation, and large public projects at the intersection of law and public policy.

Purely Elizabeth

Purely Elizabeth is an all natural and organic food company that creates products using the most innovative, nutrient-rich ingredients. Purely Elizabeth’s product lines include Ancient Grain, Grain-Free and Probiotic Granolas, Ancient Grain Muesli, Oatmeal and Cereal, all of which are certified gluten free, vegan, organic and non-GMO project-verified.

The a2 Milk Company

a2 Milk contains only the A2 protein, so it’s the original milk. Just like nature intended. And, if you can’t drink regular milk, it might just help your body, too.

Printpack

Printpack develops innovative packaging solutions that deliver a distinct advantage at the shelf, strengthen brand identity in the minds of consumers and help brand owners increase speed-to-market. Our vast portfolio of packaging solutions along with our technical and commercial expertise in materials science, barrier solutions and printing, gives brand owners peace of mind, enhances product protection, and increases sales at the shelf.

SPINS

Since 1995, we have provided market measurement information and specialized insights into the trends that are top of mind for health and wellness consumers. Our comprehensive offerings include retail measurement services, consumer information and advanced analytics for the natural, specialty and conventional retail channels.

Wild Planet Foods

Wild Planet is committed to providing the finest tasting sustainably caught seafood while supporting the conservation of wild marine ecosystems.  Wild Planet offers a full line of top quality seafood with fresh-from-the-sea flavor. In order to adhere to the highest standards of sustainability possible, each product in our line is carefully researched according to the reports generated by leading environmental organizations.

Good Karma Foods

Good Karma’s commitment to goodness spans across nutrition, taste and values. We are committed to being major allergen free, minimally processed, free of additives, and full of good fats. We are also sustainable, free of GMOs, and kind to animals. On top of all of that, we stand behind products that have variety, are creamy and delicious, and contain nutrients like calcium and protein.

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck is a unique law firm. Walk in any of our offices and you’ll immediately recognize a different type of energy. Complacency doesn’t have a place here. Flexibility and inspiration do. Our culture and enthusiasm allow our attorneys, legislative consultants and legal staff to stay ahead of our clients’ needs and provide them with the resources they require to meet their business objectives.

Sunrise Strategic Partners

Sunrise Strategic Partners provides growth capital and expertise to emerging brands in the healthy, active and sustainable living space. We team up with founders to add strategic value, share guidance on tactical priorities and leverage our industry relationships to maximize potential. The team at Sunrise has been growing businesses for over 30 years and has deep experience with the unique challenges and decisions that growing brands face. We partner with passionate founders who are ready to take their business to the next level, because we know scaling your brand can be a challenging journey. We know because we’ve been there.

Goddess Garden

Goddess Garden is a certified organic skincare company, created by a mom after her daughter’s skin reacted poorly to the synthetic chemicals in body products. Goddess Garden makes sheer, reef-safe, mineral sunscreen, and a corresponding facial care line that counters the effects of the sun. All products are safe, effective, free from harsh chemicals, and free from worry!

I and love and you

We make grain free and raw foods, healthy chews + treats, and supplements for dogs and cats. Everything a well-rounded pet needs, minus a tummy rub. We’re still trying to figure out how to put that in a package.

Birch Benders

We believe that some of the best moments in life are spent around the table with the ones you love. In these crazy, dizzy, over-scheduled days, we want to bring people back together. Our goal at Birch Benders is to make the world a more beautiful and delicious place, one pancake at a time.

New Resource Bank

New Resource Bank is a triple-bottom-line bank serving values-driven businesses and nonprofits that are building a more sustainable world. We see money as an agent of positive social, environmental and economic change and believe banking can transform the economy into one that serves all people and the planet. By putting deposits to work for good, we lend to organizations that benefit our communities and preserve our planet.

Chobani Food Incubator

The Chobani Food Incubator helps early-stage food and beverage companies take on broken food systems to bring better food to more people. The first class of the Incubator launched in October 2016 for six companies tackling everything from making staple foods healthier to minimizing food waste. In addition to a $25,000 equity-free investment, we give these growing companies access to Chobani’s network and expertise in order to scale up their operations and achieve significant growth.

Colorado Business Bank

Colorado Business Bank is a full-service commercial banking institution that offers a broad range of sophisticated banking services – including credit, private banking, treasury management, investment and deposit products – to a targeted customer base of professionals and small to medium-sized businesses. The bank’s parent company, CoBiz Financial Inc. is a $3 billion financial holding company headquarted in Denver

K·Coe Isom

K·Coe Isom brings measurable impact to businesses and families. Want to preserve wealth, boost working capital, expand, ensure a smooth business transition, or thrive in difficult situations? We improve lives and businesses in food and agriculture, banking, manufacturing, education, construction, and technology.

ORGANIC INDIA

At the heart of ORGANIC INDIA is our commitment to be a living embodiment of love and consciousness in action. ORGANIC INDIA’s Tulsi teas and herbal supplements are ethically and sustainably grown by small family farmers using regenerative agricultural practices. We provide meaningful livelihoods, as well as whole herb solutions for healthy, conscious living.

Notogroup Executive Search

We are committed to getting it right. Our tailored process was created to identify the exceptional few who possess the vision, purpose and shared values that align with what’s next for your company. Our mindful partnership ensures we succeed.   A Certified B Corporation, we work with companies that support active, healthy and sustainable lifestyles with a purposeful commitment to the growth and support of those who work for them. We have cultivated relationships with sustainable grocers, natural products and healthy food companies to uncover extraordinary talent.

KeHE Distributors

KeHE is dedicated to the success of our customers and suppliers by providing exceptional marketing, merchandising, and distribution services.  KeHE Distributors prides itself in being employee owned and operated.

Bobo’s Bars

Bobo’s Oat Bars have a moist and delicious home-made taste unlike any other snack bar on the market. Our vegan bars are made with NON-GMO, natural and organic ingredients and come in ten tasty original flavors and six new gluten-free flavors. Our gluten-free bars are just as outrageously yummy as our original flavors, so there’s no feeling of compromise.

OMG, Inc.

For over 30 years, we have developed a deep expertise on Target, built category knowledge in key focus businesses, nurtured longstanding partnerships, and driven mutually beneficial growth for our partners.

HannahMax Cookie Chips

The cookie that snacks like a chip™! HannahMax Cookie Chips® is the original snacking cookie created out of the belief that snacks can be delicious and free from highly-processed ingredients. A perfectly light yet delightfully indulgent snack you can feel great about, Cookie Chips is made with real, premium ingredients like creamery rBST-free butter, cage-free eggs, and pure-milled cane sugar. And there are only 130-140 calories per serving. Our seven crunchy flavors are free of GMO’s, artificial colors, trans fats and preservatives for a better-for-you, sweet treat. Plus, we offer two delicious Certified Gluten-Free flavors (that do not taste gluten free)!

BIGR Ventures

Founded by proven industry veterans Carole Buyers, Duane Primozich, and Bill Weiland in December 2015, BIGR Ventures is a growth equity fund providing value-added, strategic partnership and capital to promising early-stage natural and organic products. Headquartered in Boulder, CO, and boasting 70+ years of combined natural product experience between its founders, BIGR Ventures leverages unparalleled industry relationships and experience to maximize the potential of promising young companies.

DeLine Box & Display

We are a full service custom packaging manufacturer located in Denver, Colorado. We provide packaging solutions for businesses from coast to coast. From die cuts to graphic mother cartons we have it all.

Boulder Organic Foods LLC

Boulder Organic Foods’ mission is to craft “oh my gosh!” good organic food with uncompromised nutrition using garden-fresh ingredients. We’ve got a major thing for organic eating and we’re not ashamed to show it. Some may call our love of nutritious, fresh soup an obsession, but around here we just call it delicious business as usual.

Whole-Brain-Consulting, LLC

Looking for comprehensive outsourcing operations management services? Whole Brain Consulting is a fully integrated consultancy providing operations and supply chain management services to companies that outsource the manufacturing of their product. We provide a full suite of services, from contract manufacturer management to food quality and safety services.

Hope Foods

Simply put, our products make us happy and we hope to make you happy. We believe that business has the potential to have a deeper purpose — to generate HOPE. We are about people. We are about health. We are reliable. We are responsible. We are charitable. We are sustainable. We are HOPE.

Linhart PR

At Linhart PR, we know that immersion in your business is critical to success. We make serious investments in understanding our clients’ industries, competitive landscapes, cultures and business goals; in fact, identifying the latest trends and understanding thorny issues and complex concepts are key strengths of our firm.

Wish Garden Herb

– Providing the highest quality, most elegantly formulated, most effective products possible.
– Educating people about the use and efficency of herbs in healing and health.
– Growing our business in an ecologically and ethically sustainable manner that benefits everyone involved.

Packaging & Promotions LLC

Packaging & Promotions helps growing food and beverage companies source recyclable plastic & glass bottles and closures. We offer container solutions for salsas, beer/wine/spirits, juices, jellies and virtually any other liquid food and beverage product. And, when you are ready to promote your product, we provide top-quality promotional, trade show and award specialty items.

All Packaging Company

All Packaging Company, a Denver manufacturer of retail paperboard packaging, utilizes the latest technologies and sustainability practices. While big enough to sell to the major brands, we are small enough to offer real service and support to local startup companies.

CapitalValue Advisors

We are a unique investment bank based in Colorado, bringing operational experience and focusing on long-term vs transactional success for our partners.  We are proud to support our clients and all groups working in the natural food space.  Find out more about the success of our consumer product clients by talking to our team – www.capitalvalue.net

Fresca Foods Inc

Fresca Foods helps young natural food companies grow quickly into national brands. We partner with innovative companies that inspire conscious consumers and transform traditional food categories. Fresca brings manufacturing, brand management and growth capital, and together we build category leading brands.

Mighty Fudge Studios

To be successful, you’ve got to think outside of the box. But just as important is what’s on the box. Your product packaging is a representation of your brand’s vision and promise.

BFG Partners

BFG seeks partnerships with early stage food and beverage consumer product companies. BFG works alongside exceptional entrepreneurs to ensure the business is able to deliver sustainable growth and outperform its competitors.

Customer Marketing Group, Inc.

For more than 20 years, Customer Marketing Group (CMG) has helped leading and emerging brands maximize the efficiency of their trade spend, generating a minimum 200% ROI in the first year. How do we do it? A dedicated team with extraordinary academic qualifications, analytical firepower, and real world industry experience fully focuses its expertise on the complex job of optimizing your trade budget.

34 Degrees

These lighter, crispier, all-natural crackers are simply good to eat. We created 34° Crispbread as the perfect companion to the world’s favorite cheeses. But the truth is, we love them straight from the box too.

Taggart Insurance

By focusing on your needs, Taggart has grown to be the most recognized and trusted partner for insurance coverage. What began in 1933 as a simple home and auto coverage agency is now a seasoned team of experts with specialists in Commercial Insurance, Bonding, Employee Benefits, and Workers’ Compensation.

KO Firm

KO Firm is a corporate law boutique with a deep industry knowledge and focus in the natural products space. KO Firm represents businesses, private equity and venture capital funds, investors and individuals in a broad range of sophisticated transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investments, entity formations and restructurings. KO Firm also regularly advises clients on general corporate and business matters, serving as outside general counsel and drafting, reviewing and negotiating a wide variety of commercial contracts including supply, manufacturing, co-branding, equipment leasing, co-packing, distribution, employment, consulting and brokerage contracts.

GroundFloor Media

As a leader in this burgeoning field, GFM is one of the few firms capable of synthesizing strategic communications, digital & social media strategy, crisis communication & reputation management into marketing communications programs that tap the consuming public’s hunger for more public dialogue with the brands serving them.

Little Secrets

We’re all about sourcing the best ingredients and creating premium blends without any artificial ingredients, flavors or colors because the words “delicious” and “natural” can and should absolutely go together. Pretty regular at everything else, but our candy game’s tight. And like any good little secret, sharing is optional.

bare snacks

Our snacks are born of the belief that simple is more satisfying and downright delicious. We slice real fruit, sprinkle with a dash of seasoning, and bake it up slowly for a one-of-a-kind crunch.

Sage V Foods

SAGE V FOODS, (pronounced Sage Five) specializes in producing rice based ingredients for use in processed foods and has developed the most complete line of rice products in the industry. In addition to industrial markets, the company’s line of frozen rice is also sold into the food service and retail markets.

Greenberg Traurig

Greenberg Traurig provides legal services in the food, beverage, dietary supplement, and cosmetic industries. We offer clients a wide range of legal services to address every stage of their businesses and guide them through the maze of laws and how the FDA and FTC interpret and enforce them.

Primeflex Labels Inc

Labels. Tags. Stickers. Decorations. Whatever you want to call them, we want to print them. We are a Denver custom label printer but we design and print labels for you no matter where you are located. At Primeflex we understand how important your custom labels are to making a brand work for your product. With our flexographic label printing, we construct label solutions to fit any project.

ePac

Located in Boulder, CO; ePac is a new kind of flexible packaging company focused on providing high-quality packaging solutions, with eye-popping graphics, for Natural and Organic brands of all sizes. Using state of the art digital technology ePac offers locally produced, custom printed finished pouches and rollstock, ships all orders within 3 weeks of art approval, and specializes in short to medium length runs.

Skratch Labs, LLC

Alliance Sales & Marketing

Through polished and proven methodology Alliance leads your brand to market with the right blend of Passion, and Expertise. We will work with you in a collaborative way to customize and implement a winning and evolving go-to-market game plan.

Ridgeline Ventures

Based in Boulder, Ridgeline Ventures invests in natural foods/products, active lifestyle, and technology companies.  We are former business owners and operators and take a unique approach to investing.  The capital we invest is our own which allows us to strategically align with management teams for the long run.  Our goal is to build lasting partnerships, not quick exits, and we work with teams to build successful, sustainable companies that we can all be proud of.

Ancient Harvest

The Quinoa Corporation brought the first 50 lb bag of this unknown grain into the United States to share with the natural foods industry. Since that time, we have spread the word of this amazing grain to all corners of the earth.

MHT Partners

MHT MidSpan is a leading national middle market investment bank focused on high-growth companies and industry leaders. The team at MHT MidSpan assists clients with seller advisory, acquisition advisory, corporate finance, and strategic advisory assignments.  MHT MidSpan has become one of the most active investment banks in the consumer industry, with a focus in the natural products sector.  Within the consumer industry, the senior professionals of MHT MidSpan have completed over 100 deals.

Encore Consumer Capital

Encore Consumer Capital is an innovative private equity firm built specifically to help consumer products companies grow. We invest exclusively in leading consumer products companies, and utilize the experience and network of our operating partners at Encore Associates to accelerate their growth.

VOCO Creative

We’re (spirited) pragmatists. Witty strategists. Results-obsessed pros with your brand in mind. Founded in 2008 and nestled between Denver and Boulder, Colorado, VOCO Creative is a boutique marketing agency with a national client list and a straightforward, savvy, and sustainable outlook on business and life.

TraceGains, Inc.

Automated supplier, compliance, and regulatory document management for food and ingredient manufacturers.

MyChelle Dermaceuticals

Founded in Colorado 12 years ago, MyChelle Dermaceuticals’ singular obsession has been to create the most effective, nontoxic skin care products in the country. Today, MyChelle is the #1 brand of facial skin care in the natural products industry.

Sukle Advertising & Design

Sukle is an independent creative agency that crafts compelling and memorable ideas.

Boulder Economic Council

The Boulder Economic Council, an affiliate of the Boulder Chamber, is a group of prominent business and community leaders committed to Boulder and its economic well-being.

P2Binvestor Inc.

P2Binvestor Inc. (P2Bi) is the first and only crowdfunding platform for working capital loans for growing small and medium businesses in the US. P2Bi offers a contemporary approach to financing with affordable rates, a range of financial products, quick access to working capital, and an easy online loan application process. Normally secured by a company’s accounts receivable, P2Bi underwrites each loan and then offers it to its crowd of accredited investors to fund. Companies that apply for P2Bi funding can expect funding decisions within three business days. P2Bi is headquartered in Denver.

American Tape & Label

Eurofins Microbiology Laboratories

Teatulia Organic Teas

O’Brien Braun PC

Wild Zora Foods, LLC

Compass Natural Marketing

GoodBelly

Anton Collins Mitchell LLP

Natural Habitats Group

Leapin’ Lizard Labels

Lucky’s Market

Acme Distribution Centers, Inc

Creative Alignments

2x Consumer Products Growth Partners

NSF International

Red Idea Partners

Love Grown Foods

ChoNanga

Care2.com

Cura HR

makeena, inc

FMG Warehouse Solutions

Skoop

Avocet Communications

Motherlode Provisions

Eldorado Natural Spring Water

Alfalfa’s

Community Food Share

Woodruff-Sawyer & Company

Amplio Digital

Patterson + Sheridan

Rocky Mountain Spice Company

Crestone Capital

NuLeaf Naturals

Greenmont

Pure Strategic

Third Street Chai

RubinBrown LLP

Brand Geek / Exemplar

R. G. Wood & Co

Belmark Inc

Now CFO

Quinn Popcorn

Madhava Natural Sweeteners

Madhava Natural Sweeteners is a trusted 37 year old natural sweetener company offering the very best 100% pure Rocky Mountain Honey and the nation’s leading organic Agave Nectar. Madhava is dedicated to providing natural and healthy alternatives to highly processed, refined sugars and artificial sweeteners.

Flood and Peterson

Soterian Systems, LLC

Simple Startup

OHCO/Oriental Herb Company