About Good Food Business Accelerator
The Good Food Business Accelerator gets farm and food businesses ready for prime time, giving them the skills to launch or scale up. This fellowship program for food and farm entrepreneurs is based at 1871, Chicago’s center of innovation. Fellows are paired with industry-leading mentors and are connected to potential customers and investors. This is the nation’s first business accelerator focused on building supply chains for sustainable local food. Good Food businesses that may apply for the 6-month Fellowship include food artisans, consumer packaged goods companies, farmers, technology firms, food hubs, food processors, food distributors, restaurants, retailers, craft beverage makers, and foodservice providers whose core business values are focused on local, sustainable, humane and fair practices. Businesses must be located in and serve the Chicago foodshed.