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VeganLabs

VeganLabs is a Toronto plant-based snack company founded by serial entrepreneur Craig Morantz, who calls himself its Snack Boss. He took the TechTO stage in September 2017 to explain how he planned to apply four B2B retention tactics — starting with picking an unreasonably narrow market — to a consumer food brand.

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7 companiesfounded by Craig Morantz across tech and bricks-and-mortar before VeganLabs, as he told the TechTO audienceTechTO stage 2017-09
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The people

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What they build

Plant-based snacks

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On the TechTO stage

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About

Craig Morantz had run seven companies across tech and bricks-and-mortar before VeganLabs, and his September 2017 TechTO talk was about carrying one specific lesson across: that churn compounds, and the cheapest way to fight it is to go narrow at the start. His example was the company itself — a snack launching that coming January, aimed not at health food buyers generally but at the vegan community specifically, and, he said, narrower still than that. VeganLabs sells nutritionally dense plant-based snacks built on ingredient combinations rather than fillers. Morantz completed MIT's Birthing of Giants programme and describes himself as a lifelong entrepreneur whose interest sits on the product development, client experience and marketing side of a business.

Backers

No funding round found in any source consulted here. Morantz describes himself as a serial founder who has built and sold businesses; the company appears to be self-funded.

Some figures are founder-stated, not independently confirmed

Quick answers

What does VeganLabs make?

Nutritionally dense plant-based snacks, built on ingredient combinations rather than fillers.

Who founded VeganLabs?

Craig Morantz, a Toronto serial entrepreneur who had founded, run and sold seven previous businesses and goes by Snack Boss at VeganLabs.

What was VeganLabs' TechTO talk about?

Building a zero-churn business — Morantz's argument that a consumer brand should target an unreasonably narrow market first, because customer churn compounds faster than acquisition spend can cover.

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