Built Oregon reveals 2024 cohort of consumer products mentorship program

It must be accelerator season. We just learned about the new class of the Latino Founders Accelerator. And now, we’ve got a whole new crop of interesting consumer products companies beginning their cohort in the Built Oregon Accelerator. So who made the cohort? Let’s take a look.

The companies are:

• Brothy*
• Cultured Kindness
• Dappled Tonic
• Heck Brewing
• Hentze Family Farm*
• Howl at the Spoon
• Gay Awakening Coffee
• Grey Duck Ice Cream*
• La Casa de Mamá*
• Maté Party
• Mister OK’s Essentials
• Polk Apothecary
• Portland Bee Balm
• Portland Design Works
• Range Revolution
• Remco
• Ritual Glaze
• Trailhead
• Wolves and People

“This accelerator is distinct from others in that it’s very human-centric,” Built board member Karmen Olson told the Portland Business Journal. “We put the people at the front of the problems we are trying to solve. The goal of the program is to support the people behind the businesses,”

The program begins today and will last until the rush of the holiday season — but it never really ends, Built Oregon cofounder and director, Mitch Daugherty shared. “We always say it never ends. Four months in consumer products is a blip.”

I can confirm that Built often gets the chance to support folks from every Built mentorship cohort on a regular basis. Which is how the program was designed from the beginning — for the long haul, in support of Oregon consumer product company founders. Helping whenever and wherever we can.

For more information on the cohort, see the write up in the Portland Business Journal. For more on the accelerator program, visit Built Oregon.

* Participants in a “light touch” version of the program

[Full disclosure: I am the cofounder of Built Oregon. I also work on the accelerator program.]

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