Chipotle Names Eight Ventures to Its Accelerator Program, Including an Ostrich Farm

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. has named eight ventures to its first-year program, Chipotle Aluminaries Project, according to an article on Food Business News . According to the article, the project was “ announced in August 2018 as part of the Chipotle Cultivate Foundation” and “the program was launched to help scale food-focused start-up ventures in the areas of alternative farming, food waste and recovery, and plant and alternative products.”

In March 2019, each of the eight ventures selected will participate in a “boot camp” in Newport Beach where they will “create their plans for scale and receive coaching from industry leaders” including entrepreneurs and members of Chipotle’s c-suite, according to the article.

The eight ventures include Agvoice , a “mobile voice-interaction service designed for food and agriculture professionals to capture insights on the go"; American Ostrich Farms , “a vertically integrated producer of ostrich meat” made via more sustainable means than conventional meat production; Asarasi , a producer of “sustainable and renewable water harvested from the byproducts of maple trees”; GrubTubs , a service that collects restaurant leftovers and converts them into “sustainable animal feed”; and more, according to the article.

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