As VCs increasingly seek to disrupt industries beyond tech, many young, innovative food companies – like NatureBox and Two Moms in the Raw – are raising serious cash to fuel their national aspirations.

With a homegrown natural foods incubator in Blue Ridge Food Ventures and a growing roster of emerging food brands like Lusty Monk, Buchi, Roots, Smiling Hara Tempeh, No Evil Foods, Dolci di Maria, Blue Blaze Soda, and French Broad Chocolates, Asheville could be well-positioned to capitalize on this trend.

View the Food Startups Pyramid.

 

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