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

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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