What's Cooking in the Kitchen of Good? Madecasse Wins!

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-10-02 09:09:00 UTC
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Dude.

I'm not usually impressed by pitch competitions, but the Kitchen has done a totally awesome job of finding a diverse group of great projects.

Held at the Tribeca Grand Hotel and put on by All Day Buffet as part of The Feast conference, the Kitchen gave nine great entrepreneurs the chance to leave it all on the field and give us their best pitch. At the end of the day, the winner was Madecasse, a fully integrated chocolate for good from Madagascar.

But while one group one, they were all compelling. I particularly liked:

Parent Earth: Parent Earth is trying to create a place for parents and children to learn together about how to do food well. This is an incredibly important issue in a huge space. If they can provide real-value for the "mommy-blogger" market, they could totally kick it.

International Transparency Solutions: My friend Marco did a great job bringing home the barrier that corruption is to investment in the developing world.

VotaVox: VotaVox is trying to get real life, real time information about what people in different communities think about pressing issues, making money by selling highly customized and sliceable demographic data.

See the full list here.

(Photo: Madecasse)

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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