non-dairy
(3)
The Curvy Bottle That Convinced America to Pour Almonds in Its Coffee
Founded by the man who once sold Odwalla to Coca-Cola, Califia Farms turned a citrus packinghouse and a strangely shaped bottle into a plant-milk empire pouring in about 30 countries.
Ben & Jerry's
How two friends from a $5 ice cream course turned a renovated Vermont gas station into a global brand - and why its founders are now at war with the company that owns it.
Thomas Bowman
Thomas Bowman is a James Beard-nominated chef turned food scientist and the co-founder of Eclipse Foods, an Alameda, California company building molecule-for-molecule plant-based replacements for dairy. After cooking and staging at restaurants that together held 16 Michelin stars and leading product development at JUST (formerly Hampton Creek), Bowman set out to recreate the taste and texture of dairy from non-GMO plants like oats, corn, and potatoes. Eclipse launched in 2019 out of Y Combinator, chose ice cream as its flagship, and has raised roughly $96 million to date, reaching retailers, foodservice, and direct-to-consumer channels.