How KPOP Foods Nearly Tripled Their Revenue In One Year
Note: This business is no longer running. It was started in 2017 and ended in 2021. Reason for closure: Acquired.
This is a follow up story for KPOP Foods. If you're interested in reading how they got started, published almost 7 years ago, check it out here.
Hello again! Remind us who you are and what business you started.
Hello again, my name is Theo Lee and I’m the co-founder and CEO of KPOP Foods, a food brand inviting people to discover and enjoy Korean food and flavors through our products. At the time of our last interview, we only had two products - KPOP Sauce, a Korean chili sauce based on my grandma’s recipe, and KPOP Sea Snacks, a premium roasted and all-natural seaweed snack.
Since then, we’ve released three new sauces, KPOP Kimchi Mayo Sauce , a one-of-a-kind spicy and tangy aioli, KPOP XXX Sauce , a spicier version of our original KPOP Sauce, and KPOP Honey Glaze Sauce , a sweet chili sauce made from honeyed chili paste, jalapenos, garlic, lemon, and lime. Our new sauces were all crafted by our Head of Product, chef Chris Oh, who had just joined our team when I last interviewed with you.
It’s actually great reflecting back and seeing how far we’ve come since we last spoke. Since then, in August of last year, we successfully closed an equity crowdfunding campaign on SeedInvest by raising $217,100 from over 50 different investors. It was a wild ride as we had to raise a minimum...
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