December 9+10 2026 • Los Angeles, CA
Build the relationships that bring your brand to market.
Meet buyers, investors, operators, and experienced founders who can offer practical perspective on retail placement, fundraising, and the decisions ahead.
Retail feedback, investor perspective, founder experience
The right conversation can change what happens next.
Retail placement is harder to win, fundraising criteria have shifted, and decisions around margins, distribution, packaging, and positioning carry more weight than they used to.
Nosh Live brings buyers, investors, operators, and founders together in person for two days of candid conversation, practical feedback, and product discovery. Ask direct questions, pressure-test your strategy, share your product, and build relationships that continue well beyond the event.
Bring the questions you can’t afford to guess on
Boot Camp
How do I protect margins as input costs rise? What do buyers need to see before taking a meeting? How do I build an investor story that holds up in 2026? Boot Camp tackles those questions directly.
It’s a chance to work through real business decisions with experienced leaders across retail, fundraising, operations, marketing, and growth.
Boot Camp is open to all attendees and highly recommended for companies in their first five years.
Live feedback from industry leaders
Pitch Slam
Pitch Slam brings emerging packaged food products to the stage for live feedback from an expert panel and an audience of founders, buyers, and investors.
Whether you’re pitching or watching, you’ll hear what resonates, what raises questions, and what can sharpen your own approach.
A few past participants
Focused time with the people you came to meet
1:1 Meetings
1:1 meetings are pre-scheduled, structured conversations with retailers, investors, and seasoned peers. They offer focused time to discuss product, packaging, retail strategy, marketing, and other decisions shaping the business.
Meetings aren’t guaranteed, but registering early improves your chances of being considered before calendars fill. Meeting requests will open closer to the event.
Product sampling
Let the product lead the introduction.
Sampling runs throughout Nosh Live, creating repeated opportunities for buyers, retailers, investors, and industry partners to experience your product firsthand.
When awareness and distribution are still taking shape, that exposure matters. Share what you’re building, hear direct feedback, and turn a first taste into a more substantive conversation.
Contact us to learn more about sampling opportunities.
Who you'll meet
The right people are within reach.
Nosh Live brings together buyers, investors, founders, operators, and industry partners who can offer direct perspective on retail, fundraising, production, and the decisions ahead.
Retail Buyers
Category managers and merchandising leaders evaluating what belongs on shelf next.
Investors
Angel, venture, and CPG-focused investors evaluating packaged food opportunities.
Founders & Operators
Experienced leaders who have navigated retail, fundraising, operations, and growth.
Distributors
Regional and national teams assessing new products for their portfolios.
Suppliers & Co-Manufacturers
Partners supporting ingredients, formulation, packaging, and production.
Service Partners
Brokers, agencies, advisors, and specialists across sales, finance, and marketing.
Past attendees from across the Nosh Live community
Nosh Live brings brands large and small together with retailers, investors, operators, distributors, and industry partners - a community where practical feedback, useful introductions, and lasting relationships are part of the experience.
Hear from the people shaping packaged food
Sessions and speakers
Nosh Live keeps speakers and attendees close to the conversation, creating more opportunities to ask direct questions, share a product, and hear practical perspective on the decisions ahead.
Past speakers have included VPs of Merchandising, Category Managers, CEOs, and retail buyers across natural, specialty, and conventional channels.
What founders say
It’s an intimate environment where you can get stuff done and make those connections that will lead to the big break, the big opportunity as a young brand.
The best part about Nosh Live is the community. We’ve made lifelong industry friends - people we can call anytime for advice on anything from distribution and retail partners to manufacturing and SQF certification. The connections we’ve built here have helped shape how we run our business.
Buyer access. Retail perspective. Experienced guidance.
Build the relationships behind your next retail opportunity.
Nosh Live brings the packaged food community together under one roof. Share your product, hear candid feedback, and start conversations around retail placement, distribution, and fundraising.
