REINVENTING GLOBAL FOOD

CREATING INVESTOR OPPORTUNITIES

The Planting Hope Company leverages

cutting-edge FoodTech to create better swaps

for 'everyday' food in the largest categories:

more delicious, nutritious, sustainable,

and scaling FAST.

REINVENTING GLOBAL FOOD

CREATING INVESTOR OPPORTUNITIES.

The Planting Hope Company leverages cutting-edge FoodTech to create better swaps for 'everyday' food in the largest categories: more delicious, nutritious, sustainable, and scaling FAST.

FIND OUR BREAKTHROUGH BRANDS AT:

We Have Developed Food Evolutions In Key Categories:

REIMAGINING:

MILK

$800B+ Global Market

(Plant Milk: $35B, 15% CAGR)

REIMAGINING:

RICE

$280B+ Global Market

REIMAGINING: SNACKS

$85B+ Global Market

REIMAGINING:

MILK

$800B+ Global Market

(Plant Milk: $35B, 15% CAGR)

HOPE AND SESAME®

SESAMEMILK

swap for dairy, oat, or almond milk

More Nutritious. 4-8X more protein than almond, 1-3X more than oat.

More Sustainable. Uses minimum 76% less water cradle to grave than oat, almond, or dairy. Upcycled.

More Delicious. Barista favorite; multi-award winning.

REIMAGINING:

RICE

$280B+ Global Market

RIGHTRICE®

HIGH-PROTEIN RICE

swap for white rice

More Nutritious. 11g complete protein (3x white rice), 6g fiber, 30% fewer net carbs.

More Sustainable. Uses 98% less water cradle to grave with 40% lower greenhouse gas emissions.

More Delicious. Customer favorite at CAVA Restaurants and QVC.

REIMAGINING: SNACKS

$85B+ Global Market

HOPE AND SESAME®

SESAMEMILK

swap for dairy, oat, or almond milk

More Nutritious. 4-8X more protein than almond, 1-3X more than oat.

More Sustainable. Uses minimum 76% less water cradle to grave than oat, almond, or dairy. Upcycled.

More Delicious. Barista favorite; multi-award winning.

RIGHTRICE®

HIGH-PROTEIN RICE

swap for white rice

More Nutritious. 11g complete protein (3x white rice), 6g fiber, 30% fewer net carbs.

More Sustainable. Uses 98% less water cradle to grave with 40% lower greenhouse gas emissions.

More Delicious. Customer favorite at CAVA Restaurants and QVC.

MOZAICS

REAL VEGGIE CHIPS

swap for deep-fried snacks

More Nutritious. #1 ingredient real veggies; 2-4g protein per serving.

More Sustainable. Packaged in degradable NEO Plastics film.

More Delicious: Customer favorite on QVC. Hundreds of 5-star reviews on Amazon.

MOZAICS

REAL VEGGIE CHIPS

swap for deep-fried snacks like 'veggie straws'

More Nutritious. #1 ingredient real veggies; 2-4g protein per serving.

More Sustainable. Packaged in degradable NEO Plastics film.

More Delicious: Customer favorite on QVC.

These are the foods that Gen Z is demanding and

Gen Alpha will grow up with.

bECOME A PART OF THE FUTURE OF FOOD - TODAY.

Experience The Future:

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FOOD IS CHANGING - FAST.

WE ARE RIGHT TIME, RIGHT TRENDS, RIGHT PRODUCTS.

THOUSANDS of 5-STAR CUSTOMER REVIEWS

GARNERING NATIONAL

MEDIA ATTENTION

MORE THAN 20 PRODUCT AND COMPANY AWARDS

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PLANTING HOPE DRIVES INNOVATION

SETTING US AHEAD OF COMPETITION

INNOVATIVE PRODUCT STRATEGY

Global Crops

We use the world’s most nutritious and most sustainable crops like sesame, peas, beans, and lentils:

• Cover crops that fix nitrogen in the soil and renew soil health

• Self-pollinating (no bees required!)

• Nutrient-dense

• Widely farmed and familiar globally


With significantly lower water usage cradle-to-grave (including cultivation and processing).

Intellectual Property

Most companies have a recipe and brand. We have approached innovation with an IP-focus from day one.

In an independent third-party review, Planting Hope received a valuation of $50 Million+ on our expansive intellectual property (IP) portfolio, which includes ingredients, formulations, processes, packaging, and brands.

Metis Partners ranked our IP portfolio at #32 of Top 100 companies ranked on their IP index.

Multi-Brand Approach

Multiple synergistic brands reinforce + accelerate each other.

Our brands have the same:

• End consumer

• Distribution chain

• Channel opportunities

Combined, we can grow FASTER and more cost effectively:

• Faster access to distributors and redistributors

• Lower overhead costs by brand

• Accelerated customer opportunities reducing sales & marketing expenses

LESS WATER MATTERS.

In Partnership with PLANET FWD, we found:

Hope and Sesame® uses 76% less water than oat, 87% less than almond, and 92% less than dairy milk.

RightRice® uses 98% less water than white rice (California-farmed), and emits 40% lower greenhouse gases.

INNOVATIVE GO-TO-MARKET STRATEGY

Foodservice Focus

The Foodservice channel offers:

• Better net profit margins

• Stronger unit velocities

• Lower channel development costs

• Faster payment terms

• Drives trial and awareness - free of additional charge

We have already opened regional Foodservice distributors supplying tea and espresso cafés across North America and are actively selling products in DOT Foods, a $10B redistributor of products to distributors that service 4,500 distribution warehouses representing 200,000 end user locations.

Marketing Efficiencies

Marketing is expensive but essential. We do things differently - we target sales opportunities that help do our marketing for us, including Foodservice operators, QVC, Argo Tea Cafés, and Costco.

We also leverage influencer partnerships - exchanging our delicious products for social sharing, and have garnered millions of impressions to date using this strategy.

Once we hit a tipping point, customer word-of-mouth kicks into gear.

Profitability Focus

For most CPG companies, profitability is not a top priority.

At Planting Hope, we are building a multi-brand platform with multi-billion dollar opportunities ahead. Profitability and building a strong base for our shareholders is our priority.

We expect to turn the corner on quarterly profitability in the second half of 2024 by focusing on transactionally profitable business (i.e. Foodservice) and strategically reducing expenses.

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The Team

TOP EXPERTS IN REVOLUTIONIZING FOOD

Julia Stamberger, Co-Founder & CEO

Julia revolutionized the airline food industry by developing and launching the airline snackbox program – now the mainstay of airline foodservice across North American carriers.

She was the first to ever put shelf-stable hummus on an airline – revolutionary 20 years ago, now a normal part of airline travel. That’s her specialty: breakthrough practical innovations that alter food forever – and now are an everyday part of life.

With the Planting Hope Company, her mission is broader:

to change the future of food globally with practical, delicious, nutritious, and sustainable foods that reimagine and replace common foods with better alternatives.

That’s what she’s developed at Planting Hope – better milk, better rice, better snacks. Each category is earning awards and scaling quickly. Five years from now, these will be part of everyday life. But just like hummus on an airline 20 years ago, today they are revolutionary.

Julia intentionally develops products with large market share and drives growth though high margin channels. Planting Hope is scaling through foodservice first: higher volumes, higher net margins, and lower development costs. Julia knows that driving free trials and strategic partnerships cuts through the noise of traditional marketing to accelerate market penetration and develops brands in an authentic and cost effective way.  

Susan Walters-Flood, COO

Susan scaled NuWorld Foods from a $1M comanufacturer to a $27M+ specialty ingredient R&D powerhouse, creating hundreds of cutting-edge foods and beverages with sustainable grains for Fortune 100 clients over a 20-year period, including developing some of the first commercialized upcycled ingredients.

James Curley,

Co-Founder & EVP Sales

James Curley,

Co-Founder & EVP Sales

James is an OG who has been driving the natural foods revolution for more than 45 years, building brands that are in your kitchen today, from Tofurky to Mamma Chia to Nancy’s Yogurt to Nutpods.

MANAGEMENT, BOARD, AND ADVISORS

Kohmela Grier

CFO

Jeannie Andolena

SVP, Marketing & Ecommerce

Saundra Linn

Lead Director, Board

Kay Wong-Alafriz

Director, Board

Shelley Diamond

Director, Board

Amanda Helming

Director, Board

Jessica Gleeson

Advisor

Janell Pittman

Advisor

Danny Rubenstein

Advisor

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one category where planting hope has ALREADY cracked the code on the next big thing: Milk.

Sesame milk is designed to replace other players in the plant milk category.

Consumer Reports has identified it as the next disruptor after oat milk.

We agree.

As $800 Billion Dairy Sector Declines, Plant Milk Is Scaling at a Rocketship 15% CAGR.

Category Growing at Tech-Level Rates

For the past 13 years, plant milk has been growing at 15% CAGR, from $7B in 2010 to $35B globally

in 2022,¹ and it’s not slowing down — by 2030, the worldwide plant milk market is projected to reach $120B+,² representing 20% of all fluid milk.

Award-Winning Innovation

Hope and Sesame® Sesamemilk has undergone 5 years and millions of dollars of intensive research and experimentation to craft an award-winning formula that outshines other plant-based milks on the market, garnering critical acclaim and numerous accolades.

Outshining the Competition

Nutrition: Comparable to dairy with up to 8X more protein than almond milk and 1/2 the sugar of oat milk.

Sustainability: Using

87% less water than almond milk and 76% less than oat; sesame thrives in arid climates.

Performance: Froths, foams, and steams as well as oat milk in barista applications.

Timing, Timing, Timing

Oat milk went from a $45M to a $6B global subcategory in just seven years (101% CAGR)³— that’s how quickly the plant milk space can evolve. Sesame milk has all the hallmarks of doing the same, already gaining menu placements in cafés nationwide, and representing the next stage of plant milk evolution. Consumer Reports thinks so too.

The Time To Invest Is NOW

The Planting Hope Company spent 5 years and $20M developing Hope and Sesame® Sesamemilk. Our patience has paid off, our product line consistently outperforms competitors on nutrition, sustainability, taste, and performance in barista applications.  

After just 1 year in market, Hope and Sesame® Barista Blend is securing placements on hundreds of café menus nationwide and fielding calls of interest from overseas.  

Investors have the opportunity to join at the start of the next milk revolution with a best-in-class new alternative, sesame milk. With the development phase complete, it is time to accelerate roll out. Come join us!

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INVESTOR OPPORTUNITY

RAISING $5M IN GROWTH CAPITAL

Supporting inventory build to meet growing demand and expanding sales in transactionally profitable strategic channels including Foodservice.

Private Placement - Convertible Note Under US Reg D 506c

Convertible Note Terms:

Interest Rate: 10%

• Pre-set conversion price (reserved with the TSXV*): ~$0.18 USD/share ($0.25 CAD)

• Note Term: 3 years (36 months)

Warrant: 1,925 per $1,000 USD invested (9,625 warrants per $5,000 USD invested)

• Warrant strike price: ~$0.26 USD/share ($0.35 CAD)

• Warrant expiration: 3 years (36 months)

Minimum investment: $5,000 USD ($6,859 CAD)

Closing: These terms are anticipated to be available through mid-November 2023.

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MORE THAN a Financial opportunity

Investing in The Planting Hope Company is a chance to be part of a transformative force that's scaling great tasting, deeply nutritious, sustainable food solutions for people and for our planet.

Reasons to Invest

Practical, Delicious, Transformative, Revolutionary:

Planting Hope is creating tomorrow's food with today's resources.

  • Disruptive Vision:

The Planting Hope Company is forging a path as a sustainability-focused Food & Beverage leader, creating transformative and disruptive solutions by unlocking the dense nutrition of widely cultivated, ultra-sustainable crops across multiple multi-billion dollar global food segments.

  • Proven Revenue Growth, Profitability Targeted Ahead:

Planting Hope scaled from $2.6M to $12.2M from 2021 to 2022. In 2023 the company is stabilizing its growth with a focus on profitability as a key target, and setting the stage with team, distribution, customer, and marketing initiatives to meaningfully penetrate the foodservice segment and deliver exponential growth in 2024 and beyond.

  • Sector Relevance and Resilience:

Better-for-you food and healthy eating are globally scaling trends and diets have permanently shifted. More than 50% of the planet’s population identifies as ‘flexitarian’,⁷  - defined as consciously reducing consumption of animal proteins and consuming more plants and plant-based foods. Gen Z and Millennials are accelerating the trend toward sustainable food and packaging and are early adopters of Planting Hope products.

  • A+ Experienced Management Team:

Led by industry veteran Julia Stamberger, Planting Hope has an A+ management team with decades in the industry including United Airlines, Kroger, and UNFI, who are able to quickly adapt to macro landscape changes, take advantage of opportunities to drive profitability, trial and adoption, and pivot nimbly in the face of changing capital markets conditions.

  • Food Is Changing, FAST:

Oat milk sales soared like a rocket ship, scaling from $45M in 2016 to a $6B subcategory in 2022 (101% CAGR), because it provided baristas with a better plant milk option. Backed by more than a dozen industry awards, Hope and Sesame® Sesamemilk is poised to emulate oat milk’s success — and with that success, could potentially achieve a double-digit share of the $35B+ global plant milk market.

  • A Better Product In A Multi-Billion 15% CAGR Market:

More than 75% of humans are intolerant of lactose⁶, in dairy milk, a significant reason plant milk is scaling rapidly worldwide. Almond milk has a more than 50% share of the category despite little nutrition and big sustainability issues related to exorbitant water usage and damage to bee populations⁴. Because its more sustainable and nutritious, sesame milk is already starting to steal share from almond and help increase the overall plant milk category.

  • Foodservice Distribution Open & Ready To Scale:

Forbes noted in the September 2023 article “10 Fast Food Restaurants with Healthy Options,”
“RightRice® is made from a blend of lentils, chickpeas, green peas and rice [and] contains double the protein, 5X the fiber and 40% fewer net carbohydrates than a standard portion of white rice.” Featured on menus at all CAVA Restaurants, RightRice® is capitalizing on the booming ‘bowl’ trend in addition to distribution with grocers like Whole Foods Market.

  • Synergistic IP Portfolio Valued At $50M+:

Planting Hope’s “portfolio of brands” approach maximizes channel and customer synergies, reduces go-to-market costs, boosts multiples and helps hedge early-stage timing risks associated with brand development. Planting Hope's management team has coupled this multi-brand approach with a concerted Intellectual Property (IP) strategy that protects and scales the outcomes of these FoodTech-focused development initiatives. This IP has been valued by third party Metis Partners at between $50 and $54 million, with an IP Score of #31 out of top 100.

  • Timing, Timing, Timing:

Planting Hope products are already securing placements on hundreds of menus nationwide. Now is the time to join the company in its endeavor to become the leading sustainable food & beverage player of tomorrow.

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Press/News

The Planting Hope Company:

Driving Transformation at The Planting Hope Company

Dedication to excellence, innovation, and sustainability

The Planting Hope Company today is a small and rapidly evolving company that punches well above its weight class. Planting Hope has nimbly developed and launched groundbreaking FoodTech-backed products and a large and deep IP portfolio that backs its innovative Food and Beverage brands. In a short period of time, Planting Hope’s products have received a significant number of awards and a large amount of media coverage as they gain recognition in the marketplace. The Planting Hope Company is quickly being seen as a groundbreaking FoodTech force driving the evolution of healthy, sustainable food and beverages.

Hope and Sesame® Sesamemilk alone has won or been a top finalist for more than a dozen major national and international industry awards since launch, including being crowned the Best Plant-based Beverage at the 2022 World Plant Based Awards, winning ‘Best Novel Creamer’ in Good Housekeeping's 2022 Best Coffee Awards, and clinching the coveted ‘Best Product’ award at Coffee Fest Chicago 2022.

Commitment to leadership

The company's relentless commitment to leadership, superior performance, environmental stewardship, and nutritional excellence has set it apart as a transformative force in the food industry. Among other recognition and accolades, The Planting Hope Company was selected as a Late-Stage Partner for leading entrepreneurial incubator 1871's 2023 FoodTech Innovation Lab and CEO and Co-founder Julia Stamberger was recognized by Crain's Chicago Business as a 2023 Notable Leader in Sustainability, underlining the company's commitment to impactful change.

Press attention from dozens of outlets

The company’s products have received press attention from dozens of outlets including Forbes, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Fox News, Thrillist, VegNews, Consumer Reports, Good Housekeeping and many others. Hundreds of social media influencers have posted on the company’s products, resulting in multi-million consumer impressions as the company continues to build its brand, exercising grass roots ‘earned’ sources that are authentic, meaningful, and conserve budget until the timing is right to deploy significant resources on driving broader consumer awareness.

Dedication to excellence, innovation, and sustainability

In all, The Planting Hope Company's garnering of multiple awards and industry endorsements showcases its transformative influence on the sustainable Food and Beverage markets. With unwavering dedication to excellence, innovation, and sustainable practices, the company has solidified its place as a game-changer, attracting ever-increasing attention from global industry giants and institutions alike.

Why are we offering free food when you book a meeting?*

Because we know you'll love it.

Our investors are our best brand ambassadors.

First and foremost, our food is delicious. When you try it, you'll also feel great about its nutrition, sustainability, and scalability.

The next evolution of how we feed our planet is pretty tasty.

Try it for yourself!

Our Prediction?

You'll Be Drinking Sesame Milk In Your Coffee This Time Next Year.

Welcome to The Planting Hope Company!

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Disclaimer


*Free Sample Kit offer only available to accredited investors based in the US, that book and attend an appointment with the Planting Hope Investor Relations team. Offer is at the sole discretion of the company. Offer subject to change or cancellation at any time.

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