Food
Tanner Maddocks – Agape Energy
Tanner Maddocks is the 21-year-old founder of Agape Energy. Agape Energy is an energy drink rooted in Christian values and based in Pennsylvania. He prayerfully started his brand idea in September of 2025. Maddocks saw that almost all energy drink cans depicted some demonic creature or death. He decided to change this and use…
Read MoreNoé Vandamme- Bruges Belgian Bistro
Noé Vandamme is a food entrepreneur from Belgium. Noé likes eating and making waffles. When Noé came to the United States, he realized that there wasn’t any breakfast place that sells unique mini waffles. When Noé was born in 2003, his dad started to make these mini waffles dipped in chocolate right in their kitchen…
Read MoreIseult Ward – Solving a Food Crisis
In 2012 Iseult Ward, a student at Trinity College in Dublin Ireland, launched a platform dedicated to helping connect food suppliers with non-profit organizations to help cut down on unnecessary food waste. Growing up, Ward lived in a socioeconomically deprived area, which brought the issue of hunger much closer to home for her and was…
Read MoreAlina Morse – Zolli Candy
When Alina Morse was seven, she visited a bank with her father, where the bank teller offered her a lollipop. She wanted to accept it, but her parents had told her how bad candy was for her teeth growing up. This prompted her to ask her father—“Why can’t we make a lollipop that’s actually good…
Read MoreAlina Morse – Zollipops
Born in America in 2005, Alina Morse started Zollipops at just 10 years old in 2015. One time when she was 9 years old, she went on a bank errand with her father and was given a lollipop. This got her thinking about how sugary normal lollipops and other candy are, and how they are…
Read MoreTommy Oswald – Homeboy Co.
Homeboy Coffee may, from the outside, seem like any regular café; however, it has been taking the internet by storm, and its unique vibes and feel-good energy set it apart from the rest. So, what’s the driving factor behind this coffee shop’s youthfulness and authenticity? Actually, it’s not a what, but rather a who. Meet…
Read MoreAlina Morse – Zolli Candy
Gen Z entrepreneur Alina Morse is the founder of Zolli Candy, a brand that sells sugar-free, oral-health candies. Beyond sugar-free, the candy she sells is gluten-free, allergen-friendly, and all-natural in both flavoring and coloring, appealing to the fun kids want from candy without health concerns for the parents. Founded in 2015 at the age of…
Read MoreCory Nieves – Mr. Cory’s Cookies
Cory Nieves, better known as Mr. Cory, is a Gen Z entrepreneur hailing from Englewood, New Jersey. His cookies have been stocked in large players in the retail game such as Amazon and Walmart, and as of 2021, Nieves and his brand are reported to be worth over $1.5 million. Though his cookie business has…
Read MoreCory Nieves – Mr. Cory’s Cookies
Cory Nieves, who is now 20, started a business when he was six years old. Nieves became an entrepreneur after complaining about having to take the bus to school and wanted to ride to school in a car instead. This pain led him to sell hot cocoa as a way to help earn money for…
Read MoreGuilhereme Maia Sliva – Força Foods
Guilherme Maia Silva grew up all around the world due to his dad working in the agriculture industry, so he saw many methods of crop production firsthand. He decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and pursue a degree in plant science and crop production at the University of California Davis. While he was there,…
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