Grow Your Food-Focused Business

FFI provides sophisticated financial technical assistance to food, beverage and value-added agriculture businesses. 

Through supporting our collaborative network and partners with training, resources, tools and mentorship, FFI fulfills its mission of making sophisticated financial technical assistance available to every growing food, beverage and value-added agriculture enterprise. 

250
Consultants Trained
205
Boot Camp Participants
100+
Food-focused clients receiving direct consulting across the U.S.

Experiencing growing pains? FFI has the solutions to supercharge your food, beverage and value-added agriculture businesses to financial success.

Technical Assistance

FFI provides sophisticated financial technical assistance to growing food, beverage and value-added agriculture businesses.

Edible-Alpha® Learning Center

Edible-Alpha® Learning Center is a digital resource hub providing our collaborative network with actionable insights, training, resources and tools so they can build and fund the next generation of profitable food, beverage and value-added agriculture businesses. 

Immersion Trainings

FFI helps growing food, beverage and value-added agriculture businesses level up through our immersion trainings such as Boot Camp, Raising Equity, and Scenario Planning.

Resources for new and growing food businesses

Trained and certified consultants

FFI provides rigorous training, resources, tools and mentorship to consultants so they can provide sophisticated financial technical assistance to food, beverage and value-added agriculture businesses.

Other UWIBE programs

The Food Finance Institute is one of five programs at the Institute for Business & Entrepreneurship, which provides specialized resources and helps clients craft personalized plans to grow their businesses. The Institute performs outreach on behalf of the world-class University of Wisconsin System.

Edible-Alpha® Podcast

The Edible-Alpha Podcast captures great conversations with consultants, entrepreneurs, bankers and investors about building and funding profitable food and beverage businesses. Released twice-monthly across many platforms.

Edible-Alpha® Learning Center Resource Library

Edible-Alpha® includes both free and paid resources developed by our authors as well as resources from others that are curated and vetted by people working in the trenches to build and fund profitable food businesses. Quickly and easily find the resources you need to grow your business.

About

The Food Finance Institute leverages and supports a collaborative network of professionals focused on building and funding profitable businesses in the food, beverage and value-added agriculture sector.
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