plant-based-snacks

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Company
Rivalz Snacks
Consumer · Health · Ecommerce

Rivalz Snacks

Rivalz is a Sonoma, California snack company making oven-baked, dual-textured stuffed snacks built on yellow pea protein. Each one-ounce serving packs 8g of plant protein, 4g of fiber, no added sugar and seven essential vitamins and minerals, wrapped in nostalgic flavors like Late Night Pizza, Extra Chedda' Mac and Spicy Street Taco. Founded in 2022 by a team of CPG veterans, food scientists and UC Davis researchers and led by former Marine aviator Peter Barrick, Rivalz aims to make genuinely nutritious snacking taste like the junk food people already crave - and to sell it at mainstream prices.

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Company
Sundia Corporation
Consumer · Health · Ecommerce

Sundia Corporation

Sundia Corporation is an Orinda, California-based plant-based snacking company best known for its True Fruit ready-to-eat refrigerated fruit cups and True Chia coconut-milk chia pots. Founded in 2004 around the unsexy genius of better watermelons, Sundia has spent two decades turning produce-aisle staples into branded, shelf-stable convenience without the syrupy compromises of the canned-fruit era.

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Legend
Dan Hoskins
Executive · Operator · Founder

Dan Hoskins

Dan Hoskins is the President & CEO of Sundia Corporation and its parent entity GT Brands, a plant-based snacking company headquartered in Orinda, California. A veteran of the food and beverage industry with 25+ years of experience, Hoskins helped turn Sundia from a fresh watermelon branding startup into one of the fastest-growing plant-based snacking brands in the US, distributing preservative-free True Fruit refrigerated cups and True Chia products to more than 6,000 grocery and convenience stores across the US and Canada. Before Sundia, he built his chops scaling Odwalla's national distribution and managing e-commerce at Hello Direct. An English Lit grad and former varsity swimmer and rower at UC Berkeley, Hoskins brings a rare blend of operational discipline and consumer intuition to a category he has helped define.

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