{"id":1555,"date":"2018-05-22T08:02:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T12:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2018-05-20T12:26:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T16:26:26","slug":"alumnus-founded-sap-beverages-takes-top-honors-at-food-pitch-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2018\/05\/22\/alumnus-founded-sap-beverages-takes-top-honors-at-food-pitch-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus-Founded Sap! Beverages Takes Top Honors at Food Pitch Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sapmaplewater.com\/\">Sap! Beverages<\/a>, which\u00a0makes sparkling superfood beverages out of maple and birch tree sap, took the judges&#8217; &#8220;Highly Commendable Award&#8221; at the recent FoodBytes pitch competition in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodbytesworld.com\/foodbytes-montreal-winners-save-bees-fish-and-maple-trees-2\/\">Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1556 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2018\/05\/Chas-300x256.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2018\/05\/Chas-300x256.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2018\/05\/Chas.png 521w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Sap! was co-founded by The Sustainable Innovation MBA alumnus Chas Smith &#8217;15 (<em>left, in photo<\/em>) and has been on a hot-streak in 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-m1\">appearing on the ABC pitch show &#8220;Shark Tank&#8221;<\/a> and being <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-gr\">named a product trend to watch by Whole Foods Market<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodbytesworld.com\/\">FoodBytes!<\/a> is a next-generation pitch competition that aims to discover the most ground-breaking food and agriculture (F&amp;A) startups and provide them the mentorship and connections they need to grow. Since launching in 2015,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodbytesworld.com\/press-coverage-alumni\/\">190 startups<\/a>\u00a0have pitched on the FoodBytes! stage, 1,250 startups have applied from 35 countries and more than 3,000 people have attended events in North America, Europe and Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sap! Beverages, which\u00a0makes sparkling superfood beverages out of maple and birch tree sap, took the judges&#8217; &#8220;Highly Commendable Award&#8221; at the recent FoodBytes pitch competition in Montreal. Read more here. Sap! was co-founded by The Sustainable Innovation MBA alumnus Chas Smith &#8217;15 (left, in photo) and has been on a hot-streak in 2018, appearing on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2018\/05\/22\/alumnus-founded-sap-beverages-takes-top-honors-at-food-pitch-competition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alumnus-Founded Sap! Beverages Takes Top Honors at Food Pitch Competition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-p5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}