DAIRY INNOVATION

The Dairy Innovation Program builds a pipeline for dairy farmers and food entrepreneurs to ideate, pilot, and scale up value-added dairy products, positioning them as startups able to successfully progress in capitalization, commercialization, and competitions such as Grow-NY... The program supports dairy entrepreneurs from ideation through to growth by teaching customer discovery, business planning and development, and prototyping. This is executed through the Dairy Runway initiative and the Northeastern Dairy Product Innovation Competition. Graduates of Dairy Runway are positioned to participate in the dairy innovation competition and winners of the dairy competition are prepared to enter other competitive funding opportunities, including Grow-NY, resulting in new, high-growth dairy companies and an increase in utilization of dairy ingredients produced in New York and the entire Northeast.

Primary location: Ithaca United States