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The Chocolate Maker That Burned Down, Then Went Sugar-Free
A five-alarm fire took Barchemy's main plant in 2022. Three years later the Donora, Pennsylvania ingredient shop runs three facilities, quietly supplies the chocolate inside better-for-you bars, and has private equity money behind it.
Bettani Farms
Bettani Farms is a Berkeley, California food company making protein-rich, dairy-free cheese that melts and stretches like the real thing. Its patented Caseed protein, derived from the seeds of regenerative crops, mimics dairy casein without the dairy, nuts, soy, or carbon footprint. Formerly Climax Foods, the company rebranded to Bettani Farms in October 2025, named former Califia Farms CFO Sandeep Patel as CEO, and closed an initial $6.5M of its Series A led by S2G Investments to scale mass-market cheeses like mozzarella and feta.