Scaling Up Your Food Business: How Can Ben Franklin Technology Partners Help?
- Length
- 1 hour
- Language
- English
- Event Format
- On-Demand | Recorded
Successfully navigating the growth of your food business can be facilitated by bringing in experienced partners that can provide support and access to resources. Scaling Up Your Food Business: How Can Ben Franklin Technology Partners Help? will introduce you to the services and support Ben Franklin provides to early-stage tech-based startups and small manufacturers in Pennsylvania.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central & Northern PA is part of the economic development family at Penn State, supported by the Commonwealth. For over 40 Years, Ben Franklin has provided startup funding and business support services to startups across Pennsylvania, helping them grow and create high-paying, sustainable jobs by investing in innovation and manufacturing efficiencies.
Ben Franklin's support comes in many forms, from assisting early-stage companies in finding resources and making valuable connections, filling in functional gaps as their team grows, and providing guidance to develop and test their business model and scale. Ben Franklin also provides early-stage investment funding and preparation for second-stage capital. Investment funding is typically used for prototype/product/process development, product testing, line trials, new hires, and sales & marketing initiatives. Companies in Ben Franklin's portfolio range from medical device companies to SaaS businesses and Food & Beverage manufacturers, all with innovative products and a business that can scale. Discover more from Julie Bratton, Portfolio Manager Assistant with Ben Franklin Technology Partners/CNP, during this virtual workshop.
We hope you can join us!
This event is being offered at no charge to participants. Registration is required to receive the link to access the webinar. Registrants will also receive access to the webinar recording.
- Restaurants wanting to distribute products beyond their own retail operation
- Warehouses trying to process foods for their food service customers
- Small home processors looking to expand beyond the farmers' market channel
- How to find business support and funding resources available to startup companies in the Commonwealth.
- How and when to prepare for early-stage investment.
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