# @startupcpg on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DXuLBXiACe9
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/64715379-startupcpg-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-04-29T15:58:08.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Startup CPG (@startupcpg) — https://gondola.cc/startupcpg

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Congratulations to The Cycle on winning The Beverage Forum Pitch Slam! 🏆🧡🩸🌸✨

Anastasia keeps pitching and keeps winning — this time taking home a transformative prize package valued at over $1M+ designed to accelerate growth, unlock national retail access, and fast-track commercial success. And her product is unlike anything we’ve seen before.

The Cycle is a refreshing ritual made with Himalayan Holy Fruit (sea buckthorn), a rare, natural source of bioavailable Omega-7, combined with herbal extracts to support you through every phase. Women’s hormone health has never looked this good in a bottle.

Four products:
✨ Pre-Period Comfort — for your luteal phase 
🩸 Period Comfort — to replenish you while you bleed 
🌸 Peri Comfort — a daily perimenopause ritual 
🧡 Meno Comfort — for support in menopause and beyond

Thank you to our incredible judges for bringing their expertise to the stage:
Brody Burk — Senior Foraging Manager, Sprouts
Paola Rivera — Assistant Director of Grocery, Mother’s Market
Daniel Scharff — Founder, Startup CPG
Czar Daniolco — Founder & COO, Hi Touch Distributions
Nika Mosenthal — Vice President of Food Experience, Hungryroot 
Christina Schmidt — Senior Category Manager, Shelf Stable Beverage & Adult Non-Alc, KeHe Distributors 
Nika Levinson — Senior Category Manager, Beverages, Thrive Market
Jess Rodlin — Director of Natural & Specialty Sales, L.A. Libations

And a huge thank you to all 15 brands who took the stage. The energy in that room was everything. 🙌

#cpg #beverageforum #womenowned #StartupCPG #TheCycle

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beverageforum, startupcpg, thecycle, womenowned, cpg

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