Direct to Consumer Startups

Walker Brothers brews craft kombucha, including non-alcoholic varieties and 5% ABV hard kombucha, flavored with organic fruit and botanicals and made with naturally-occurring probiotics. The company brews every batch in-house at its Nashville, Tennessee facility and also offers a line of non-alcoholic botanical sodas called Forest Water.

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Waterloo produces sparkling water with zero calories, sugar, or sweeteners, offered in natural flavors. The beverages are purified, Non-GMO Project Verified, and Whole30 Approved.

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Dunatura offers pre-portioned daily supplement packs ("Tagespacks") with pre-set dosages, aimed at consumers focused on nutrition, recovery, and fitness routines. The product is positioned as a convenient personal supplement routine.

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Dutch Gold Honey produces and sells honey and maple syrup products, offering consumer information on topics such as raw versus filtered honey, crystallization, and product certifications. It operates in the food and consumer packaged goods category.

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AT Digital is a Sydney-based web design and development agency that builds custom websites and web applications from scratch using frameworks like React, Vue.js, Next.js, and Node.js, along with headless CMS options. It serves businesses seeking bespoke, conversion-focused sites, including e-commerce builds, with SEO and digital marketing practices included.

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Dr. Whitney Bowe Beauty is a dermatologist-created skincare brand offering clinically-proven products with published results in dermatology journals. It emphasizes sustainable, "clean" formulations with airless, opaque packaging, eco-friendly refills, and post-consumer recycled materials.

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DYPER makes plant-based, plastic-free diapers and training pants along with wipes for babies, marketed on health and environmental grounds. It sells via subscription and offers ReDyper, a diaper composting service for its compostable products.

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Dyrekassen is an online store selling pet products such as dry and wet pet food and related supplies to consumers in Norway.

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I-NA Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company that operates the "Kagu350" online furniture and interior retail store and provides digital advertising agency services (Yahoo!, Google, and SNS ad management) and web production. It also runs an interior wholesale business and produces original furniture, serving consumers and businesses in the furniture and interior sector.

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Earthful is a plant-based nutrition brand that sells supplements and protein powders, including a pea and brown rice protein blend containing all essential and non-essential amino acids. Its product range spans multivitamins and functional capsules for hair, sleep, and general wellness, with an emphasis on transparent ingredient sourcing.

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East Side Golf is a golf apparel and lifestyle brand co-founded to reshape the culture around the sport. It designs golf-inspired clothing and accessories for a broader, more diverse audience.

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Eat Grub is a UK food brand that produces edible insect-based products, offering a range of insect foods aimed at introducing insects into Western diets as a nutritious and sustainable protein source. It markets these products to consumers in the foodtech and consumer food space.

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Enlightened is a consumer packaged food brand that makes frozen dessert treats, including ice cream, sold across North America and beyond. The company has paused production according to its site notice.

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Fishwife sells tinned seafood products, including smoked salmon, albacore tuna, anchovies, mackerel, and sardines, sourced from various fisheries and hand-packed at canneries in Europe and the US. It offers these conserved fish products directly to consumers.

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Man Cereal makes a high-protein breakfast cereal with added creatine (2.5g creatine, 15-16g protein per serving) made with whey protein isolate and no added sugar, seed oils, or artificial flavors. Sold direct-to-consumer in flavors like Fruity, Salted Fudge, Cinnamon, and Maple Bacon, it is marketed primarily to men for strength, recovery, and cognitive support.

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Eat Me makes plant-based, vegan-certified non-dairy ice cream with simple ingredients and rotating flavors, sold to consumers across Upstate New York and the East Coast. The company operates its own manufacturing plant in downtown Rochester, NY.

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MìLà produces frozen Chinese food products—dumplings and ready-to-heat meals—sold directly to consumers for home preparation. The company sources fresh ingredients from locations in Washington and California and positions its offerings as restaurant-quality alternatives to dining out.

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Pre Brands sells 100% grass-fed and grass-finished beef sourced from certified farms in Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S., raised without added hormones or antibiotics. The company markets its beef products—including ground beef, steaks, and roasts—directly to consumers with an emphasis on animal welfare, non-GMO feed, and transparent packaging.

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Smash Foods makes jams and jam-based snacks (such as protein bites and toasties) with no added sugar, sweetened with dates and made from upcycled 'imperfect' fruits. Its products are sold direct to consumers as a healthier alternative to conventional jams.

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Ecklers Corvette is an online retailer of classic car parts and accessories, offering body and glass, brakes, drivetrain, electrical, engine, exhaust, interior, suspension, and wheel components. It also sells classic car gifts and lifestyle products.

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Eclo is a beauty brand offering skincare and makeup products, including regenerative serums, balms, radiance concentrates, and clean mascaras. It sells directly to consumers and emphasizes natural, eco-designed formulas with biosourced cosmetic packaging.

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ECOAustralis makes natural pet care products, including veterinary cosmetics and functional superfood snacks for pets, using Chilean botanical extracts and native ingredients such as Maqui, Tilo, and Cochayuyo. The company draws on Chilean biotechnology and ingredients sourced from ecosystems like the Pacific Ocean, Atacama desert, Patagonia, and central valley.

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Ecologyst sells clothing and apparel basics made from organic cotton, linen, and other natural fabrics, offering items such as tees, hoodies, shirts, and pants for men and women. It operates as a direct-to-consumer apparel brand.

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Edelwhite Gin is a distillery in Ebnet, in the Biosphäre Entlebuch region of Switzerland, producing London Dry gins (including Edelwhite Gin, Söiblueme Gin, and Ginoncello) and vodka. It also offers gin-making workshops and distillery tours where visitors create their own recipe and taste the products.

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