370: How Denise Woodard Got Jay-Z, Rihanna, and HER To Partake In Her Packaged Foods Company

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re back for a very exciting update episode with Denise Woodard is the Founder and CEO of Partake Foods, the allergy-friendly company inspired by her daughter’s experience with food allergies. Created in 2016, Denise started the business by self-distributing cookies around NYC, this year it became a Certified B Corporation, and launched a collab with Ben & Jerry’s.

In this episode she shares:

Her strategies to getting investors interested, including big names like HER and Rihanna
How she became the first Black woman to raise more than $1 Million publicly for a CPG food startup, accumulating more than $20M
How she is continuing to inspire other entrepreneurs while growing her own business

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Links mentioned in this episode

Partake’s Website: www.partakefoods.com
Partake’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/partakefoods/
Denise’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denisegwoodard/
Desnise’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denisegwoodard/
Marcy Venture Partners: https://www.marcyvp.com/

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1:04.0	to profitable business.
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1:08.6	So let's get started.
1:10.6	Hey, hey friends, welcome, welcome back to the show.
1:19.2	It's Nikaela here, back with an update episode today.
1:22.6	So today in the guest chair, I have Denise Woodard.
1:25.4	She is the founder and CEO of Partake Foods.
	...

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