Yomee is revolutionizing homemade yogurt: With its Keurig-like design, just add milk and a Yomee pod to enjoy fresh, healthy yogurt. Making yogurt with Yomee is simple - add your choice of milk & yomee pod before you goto sleep, 2 servings fresh & chilled yogurt is ready for breakfast or take away to eat later.
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Dear Backers
We have been busy since our last update and have a lots of news to share.
Ashok represented Lecker Labs at the FIA food Summit in Singapore where he cooked up a yogurt storm! It was a great opportunity to network with food industry leaders and innovative startups. The follow up conversations from this event look promising and will lead to some amazing partnerships for Lecker Labs.
Steve won another pitch event. This time at HKTDC Start Up Express. This makes Lecker Labs eligible to get HKTDC support to network and grow in Hong Kong and China plus join Hong Kong’s trade promotion events in USA and elsewhere.
Ashok travelled to Nelson, New Zealand to work with our partners and review plans for pod production. Pod testing is going well and will pick up pace as we work on getting consistent results and shelf life. Ashok also found time to enjoy some great Kiwi beer!
We are pleased to get QDesign on board to help us project manage the production process. The team at QDesign collectively has decades of experience in bringing prototypes to production. Their help will be invaluable for Yomee to ship a robust and reliable product. Please take a look at their website for details on other amazing projects they have worked on.
We are booked to present and/or compete at these upcoming events:
Thank You
The Yomee Team
Dear Backers
Apologies for the delayed update. The Yomee team has been on the road dealing with production, working with partners and attending events and getting some recognition.
Lecker Labs winner at Startup Launchpad
Lecker Labs was declared the winner at the Global Sources Startup Launchpad pitch competition. Over 200 consumer electronics startups from across the world applied for this event. This event was part of the Global Sources Consumer Electronics show in Hong Kong. It is the world’s largest electronics trade fair showcasing over 6000 companies. Apart from winning the pitch competition, we made connections with global distributors, suppliers and industry veterans. We hope to leverage these connections to help Yomee achieve global scale.
Lecker Labs wins China Daily Innovation Award
Lecker Labs was one of 3 startups and 6 electronic gadget companies to receive the China Daily Innovation Award. Video from the award ceremony here
FIA Food for the Future Summit 2018, Singapore
Ashok will take a break from factory visits to represent Lecker Labs at the first Food Industry Asia (FIA) Food for the Future Summit in Singapore on April 26th. The event will bring together CEOs and leadership teams from some of Asia’s biggest F&B companies as well as innovative food technology startups.
Production plans on track
While Steve travels the world collecting awards, Ashok and the rest of the team have been hard at work on production plans, tooling design, firmware and app development, pod development, culture tests and the rest of our mile long to do list! Our production plans are on track and we will post more recent videos of the final design once patent filings are updated.
While it is gratifying to win recognition across the world from Food Bytes in SF to Global Sources in HK, we know that the first to recognise Yomee’s potential were our backers right here. We are working hard to deliver on our promises and will have a lot more to share in the months ahead.
Thank You
Dear Backers
It’s been a busy time at Lecker Labs. Steve Stanton, an early investor and true believer in Yomee, joins us as CEO. Steve has spent the last 20 years consulting for high growth startups and investment banks.
Steve and our COO, Anindya Roy represented Lecker Labs at FoodBytes in San Fransisco. FoodBytes! by Rabobank is a next-generation food and agriculture pitch competition. Started in 2015, they’re now held annually in Austin, New York and San Fransisco. In 2018, FoodBytes will debut in Montreal, Canada.
The FoodBytes format is a two-day pitch competition and networking event along with a mentorship boot-camp all-in-one that’s focused on discovering and empowering the most cutting-edge entrepreneurs. FoodBytes! esteemed alumni include Back to the Roots, MycoTechnology, Love the Wild, ReGrained, Imperfect and many more.
Lecker Labs was invited to give a 3.5 minute pitch at the main event. This is a highly competitive process with over 600 applications and only 8 long format pitch companies chosen to present.
They say there are no tourists at FoodBytes. Every attendee was a decision maker at top food and agriculture companies. Steve gave an outstanding introduction to Yomee and got a great response from the audience. Facebook video for the whole event here. Steve pitches Yomee at around 1:02:00.
We are actively following up on the many connections made at FoodBytes, from manufacturing, branding, and legal mentors and advisors to growth accelerators and potential co-branding partners. In the days after, we will be meeting with an international dairy producer, a global contract manufacturer, and several long time veterans of the US food industry.
Our website gets a brand new look. Check it out at www.yomeeyogurt.com Recipe blogs will make a comeback soon with videos, tips, nutritional stats and more.
Our culture gurus in New Zealand have sent over a freshly mixed batch of Yomee starter culture. We are very excited to start a series of intensive tests on various types of milk under differing conditions. Some backers have asked us if we can really make ‘Greek style’ yogurt with 0% fat skim milk. The answer is - there are a few tricks that help get a reasonably thick yogurt even from 0% fat skim milk. (Hint: Don’t think additives and thickeners, think about maximum temperature and time).
We are testing all the variables that go into yogurt making and will compile results by varying temperature, time and of course the milk used. This is especially important for plant based milks. Rule of thumb for plant based milks - if the ingredient list in the milk is a mile long, you will probably get unhappy results. What we hope to achieve from our tests is to go beyond ’rule of thumb’ and have extensive data on what works and what doesn’t. And in the spirit of dogfooding, the Yomee team will be consuming copious amount of yogurt in the weeks and months ahead!
If any of your friends missed out on backing us on Kickstarter, please refer them to our campaign on Indiegogo where they can get the same discounted price as our Kickstarter backers. Retail price of Yomee goes up in the fall.
Thank you
The Yomee Team
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