Food Business Ventures 2019
The Food Business Accelerator is a partnership between CitySeed and Collab.
Dave Bonet
Dave’s Angry Sauce
A line of vinegar-based hot sauces with different flavors and levels of heat made with mostly organic, natural ingredients.
Keila, Sheariah and Adaiah Stevens
Dream Puffs
A line of puffs with a variety of flavors — some vegan, some savory, some sweet — all with a healthy twist.
Eduardo Juan Delara-Alarcon
Republic of Empanadas
A food cart providing gourmet empanadas — from seasonal lobster rolls empanadas in the summer or pumpkin in the fall.
Laura Jimenez, William Ruiz
Elm City Roaster & Bistro
A rustic café bistro delivering freshly roasted artisan coffee, indulgent breakfast dishes, and more. The goal is to be a safe place of inclusion where people of all kinds can come together.
Fatema AlHelo, Abdullah Zatar
Fatema’s Kitchen
A Syrian food truck serving healthy, delicious, and affordable meze and mana’eesh, entrees like fried Kebbeh, and desserts like qatayef and baklava.
Debra Halsted
For the Love of Food
A product line of Superfood Energy Balls — a chewy, bite-sized treat sweetened from dried fruits with a surprise pop of flavor from the combination of healthy, delicious ingredients.
Faith Kim, Logan Skinner
In Good Faith
A product line of fresh noodles made with local eggs and flour — and tons of love. These noodles will be more accessible for those in the New Haven area.
Kevin McGuire, Seth Wallace
Kawit!
A restaurant offering innovative and accessible Filipino food — affording customers the ability to enjoy food and history at the same time.
Kaina Mondesir
Kina’s Kitchen
A Haitian food truck, serving delicious Haitian twists on American dishes and American twists on Haitian dishes using seasonal, local ingredients.
Parvine Toorawa
Parvine’s Place
Homemade and versatile chutneys with flavors like date, jalapeno, coconut, lemon, Mauritian vegetable, and more.
Marvis Brown, Rickie Miller
Royal Vegan
A vegan food truck with a signature meat replacement — fried oyster mushrooms that are satisfying, delicious, and versatile.
Eric Rey and Alejandro Pabon-Rey
Sopa!
A “soup-scription” service delivering warm, healing, homemade soups to the New Haven area.
Vanesa Suarez, Ana Benitez, Elsa Calle, Hugo Diaz, Hazel Mencos, Erick Lopez
A Pupuseria Co-op from Unidad Latina en Acción
A worker-owned cooperative food truck serving Salvadorian pupusas (thick stuffed corn tortillas).
Poreyah Benton
Vegan Ahava
A food truck serving delicious, comforting vegan soul food.