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As a woman-founded business, Stacy’s has been committed to empowering and connecting woman founders through the Stacy’s Rise Project. We’re sharing our past winners so you can support them too. It’s only when we all share that we can all rise.

Class of 2023

Carolyn Simon

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Plant-based Caribbean goodness, our all natural and vegan patties are ready in minutes.

Diana Rios

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Jarabe Gourmet Pops is a Mexican Pop-Bar based in the Washington Metropolitan Area that specializes in Mexican-style gourmet pops.

Dorielle Price

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Created by a pediatrician-mom duo, Easy Peasie Veggie Blends are premium vegetable powders, perfect for picky eaters. Easily sprinkle into food for a veggie power-up.

Elaine Tan Comeau

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Magnetic Schedules for kids, adults and classroom. Products to help families get organized and into routine, helping everyone have easier days.

Essilfua Bartels

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Vegan, small-batch cooking sauces, condiments and spice-blends from West-Africa with world flavor that deliver fresh and new flavors with simple and clean ingredients.

Jacqueline Grady Smith

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Not Just sauces and dressings are plant-based pantry staples designed to help you get a healthy and delicious dinner done.

Jane Barden

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Flavor packed meals made small batch using up-cycled produce while supporting small scale farming, giving back to our community, and reducing waste in our food system.

Jolene Johnson

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100% Indigenous female-owned and located on Neqotkuk (Tobique First Nation), Wabanaki Maple provides a taste of Indigenous culture through our maple syrup products.

Kristyn Carriere

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From indulgence to sport performance, we provide targeted nutrition and satisfying superfood chocolate products crafted to conquer your next adventure.

Michelle Razavi

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ELAVI gut-friendly, low sugar dessert cashew spreads are like a healthy Nutella, but 10x less sugar, plant-based, no palm oil, and boosted with vibrant superfoods.

Monica Sunny

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For us Chai is more than just a drink, it is a part of our culture and heritage. Experience the best with The Chai Box premium small-batch ethically sourced Chai blends and concentrates.

Patrice Cunningham

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Our handcrafted napa cabbage kimchi comes from an authentic family recipe that's made to be fresh, delicious, and approachable.

Rhonda Cammon

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Perfectly Cordial non-alcoholic mixers bring mixology to the home bar without the mess, fuss, expense, of pretentiousness of a fancy cocktail bar.

Shelley Elkovich

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Complex cocktails made with love, not alcohol. Farmed and foraged Pacific Northwest ingredients, clean and healthful botanicals. We craft cocktails for the sophisticated adult palate.

Class of 2021

Adrienne Walker

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Craft cocktails made easy. BlueHenry has a collection of syrups, fruit garnishes and rimming salts and sugars – anything you may need to host a great party.

Alberta Liao

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Jinka is a plant-based tuna. The goal is to provide a clean, healthy, sustainable, and delicious tuna alternative to people who are looking to incorporate more plant-based foods in their life.

Amber Balakian

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Balakian Farms is a 4th generation certified organic oasis of stone fruit, row crops and small-batch products. These products are inspired by their Armenian heritage, and picked & packed at the family farm.

Jasmine Coer

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Color My Story is an integrated platform dedicated to mental wealth in the workforce, online, and in local communities through storytelling and arts & crafts.

Jocelyn Ramirez

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Todo Verde is a plant-based WOC-owned food business and inspired by regional culturally-relevant Mexican flavors. We help home cooks create Abuelita-approved meals using our vegan, non-GMO certified seasoning, and offer recipes through our platforms and best selling published cookbook.

Julie Butcher

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The Vegan Knife offers a line of allergy friendly and vegan cupcake/cakes and donut mixes. All baking mixes are gluten free, wheat free, dairy free, egg free, soy free, nut free, and vegan.

Marsha Stephanson

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Cater to Mom is a monthly postpartum care gift box featuring organic, cruelty-free full size products. The box includes postpartum recovery essentials, products carefully curated for new and seasoned moms.

Sajani Amarasiri

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Kola Goodies makes culturally rooted delicious and better for you tea lattes and superfood blends sourcing and giving back to where the trends originate from, with a mission to increase cultural representation starting from the farmer, in the wellness industry.

Sam Holmes

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Holmes Sweet Home crafts retail ready dessert sauces and artisan brittles that are the perfect addition to specialty grocers & retailers, gift shops and gift basket partners.

Sara Fludd

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Pop Goes the Waffle is an innovative waffle company dedicated to providing authentic liege waffles where pearl sugar is combined with a brioche-style dough to make a waffle with the sweetness built in.

Sue Kakuk

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Kakookies are delicious grab-n-go cookies made with real food ingredients and plant-based protein providing the nutrition of energy bar with the deliciousness and comfort of a cookie.

Class of 2020 - Wave 1

Arion Long

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Organic, sustainable and natural period care, simplified. Femly is a personal care brand on a mission to set a new standard, provide relatable education, and deliver healthier products for people.

Callee Ackland

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Bestowed Essentials creates eco-friendly home and body products while providing jobs for people who face barriers to employement. Neurodivergent-female- veteran-owned.

Chi Nguyen

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A purple tea beverage company powered by social purpose. Purpose Tea produces delicious purple tea beverages that power goodness in health and the world.

Claudia McMullin

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Hugo Coffee is a coffee roasting company that marries animal philanthropy with commerce by supporting animal welfare organizations nationwide through the sale of fantastic, fair-trade, organic coffee nationwide.

Jessica Gartenstein

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Frönen is a dairy-free ice cream with simple ingredients and indulgent taste. No additives, sugar alcohols, or preservatives. Naturally sweetened with honey or coconut sugar.

Joy McBrien

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Shop cute, ethical, affordable jewelry and accessories by Fair Anita. All pieces are handcrafted by fair trade artisans worldwide from sustainable materials.

Junita Flowers

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Junita's Jar satisfies sweet treat cravings with deliciously wholesome, satisfyingly crisp bite-size cookies, all while sparking conversation and inspiring positive change.

Keira Kotler

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Everviolet is a beautiful lingerie and loungewear collection nurturing changes in a woman’s body following treatment for breast cancer and other meaningful life events.

Kemi Tignor

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Upbounders® award-winning puzzles and games cultivate belonging through play. Sold in retailers like Target and Nordstrom, they are making it easier to find quality screen-free toys that represent cultural and ethnic differences accurately, clearly, and with joy!

Maria Palacio

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Progency Coffee is a specialty coffee business committed to bringing a real solution to the broken coffee chain. Each purchase furthers the mission to lift Colombian coffee farmers out of poverty.

Nina Tickaradze

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NADI’s rosehip juices and all natural apple chips are loaded with sustainably farmed ancient super-fruits.

Sophia Maroon

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Dress It Up Dressing is a salad dressing company anchored in the belief that salad dressing should be as healthy as salad. We produce our dressings with a commitment to sustainability and social responsibility so that our two greatest resources - people and the planet - are protected.

Sylvie Charles

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Just Date Syrup is a low-glycemic index sweetener made from one perfect ingredient: wholesome, organic, California dates. Just Date Syrup offers a healthier sweet we can all feel good about.

Tiffany Griffin

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Bright Black is a Black-owned, family owned company that pays tribute to Black greatness through beautifully handcrafted candles and clean fragrance body oils. 

Class of 2020 - Wave 2

Anika Goodwin

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OpulenceMD Beauty offers a full range of glue-free, magnetic lashes, eye makeup, skincare, and tools made to keep your eyes safe, simplify your beauty routine and keep your self-confidence limitless.

Anika Hobbs

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Nubian Hueman features independent and emerging Black-owned and Brown-owned brands within fashion apparel, accessories, clothing, art, and beauty products.

Arielle Loren

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100K Incubator is the first business funding mobile app created for women. They help women entrepreneurs get funding for their businesses and scale to 100K+ in yearly sales.

Cassandre Davilmar

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Lakou Cafe restaurant is proud to feature Haitian culture through food and art. Shop the rotating curation of Haitian art or browse the sweet selection of Haitian snacks.

Deb Koenigsberger

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Noir et Blanc is a contemporary boutique located in New York City’s Flatiron/NoMad District. The store’s French-inspired essence is about sophistication, class, French chic and timelessness.

Karneisha Christian

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Pucker Up Lemonade Company handcrafts over 100 flavors of lemonade, iced tea, and infused water with several zero-sugar options.

Kim Roxie

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LAMIK Beauty is a vegan makeup line made with natural and organic ingredients for women of all skin tones.

Latricia Wright

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Olive Seed is a certified woman-owned wellness brand empowering individuals, communities, and corporations through wellness experiences, holistic services, and wholesome products.

Lisa S Jones

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EyeMail Inc. a patent-pending marketing communications technology company, enables video to automatically play (up to 60 seconds) in email and mobile, to increase customer engagement and deliver storytelling moments to the inbox.

Logan Niles

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After five wonderful years of selling delicious pot pies, PotPieFactory has closed its doors while founder Logan Niles pursues her next adventure.

Company: PotPieCo.

Mimi Johnson

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With its vegan and cruelty-free cosmetics line, The Glamatory empowers all people to embrace life with products and services that enhance their beauty and confidence.

Stevonne Ratliff

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Beija-Flor Naturals is an organic skin and haircare company that was the first American beauty line to include fair trade, nutrient rich botanicals ingredients from Brazil. 

Thereasa Black

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Bon AppéSweet offers artisanal small batch chocolate bars. Organic, dairy-free, and plant-based, non-GMO, all with zero added sugar.

Xiomara Rosa-Tedla

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UnoEth offers classic and versatile, leather bags and accessories handmade in Ethiopia, crafted by artisans.

Zandra Cunningham

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Zandra is a plant-based and cruelty free beauty company dedicated to liberating girls & women worldwide via STEAM education & entrepreneurship.

Class of 2019

Hannah Dehradunwala

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Raeri helps recirculate and upcycle excess stuff away from landfills towards people and places that need it.

Hannah Hong

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Must Love is a plant-based non-dairy dessert made with real ingredients. They offer dipped bars, pints, and dye-free sprinkles.

Kate Holby

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Ajiri (ah-jee-ree) provides premium African teas and coffee while creating employment for women. It is a 100% women-owned and operated. All profits support orphan education.

Michele Liddle

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The Perfect Granola is organic, and naturally flavored granola. It is on a mission to end hunger and poverty by donating and sharing profits with homeless shelters and foodbanks nationwide.

Pilar Gonzalez

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Pilar grew up learning the recipes for each DipIt flavor from the kitchen of her grandmother and great aunt. DipIt is an excellent addition to any salad dressing, chicken dish, pasta sauce, or Greek-inspired dish.

Since 2017, Stacy’s® has connected thousands of women entrepreneurs and provided more than
$1,000,000 in funding

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