Spero Foods

Founded in 2016, Spero Foods is on a mission to make everyday dairy products into delicious, nutritious, and sustainable foods made from real ingredients. Phaedra Randolph, the founder of Spero Foods, transformed her own health (migraines, IBS, and seizures) and improved her athletic performance (NCAA D1 recruit) by adopting a plant-based diet. Ten years later, Phaedra created Spero Foods ('Spero' means 'hope' in Latin), to help heal others while also healing the world with its environmentally-sustainable and health-conscious business model. A former analyst turned software engineer at Facebook, Inc., Phaedra served as a software engineer at two (later acquired) startups and earned a B.Sci. in Operations Research and Information Engineering and Pre-Medicine from Cornell University, with nutrition and neuroscience research. Phaedra is also the Founder/ former President of Plant-based Life@ Facebook HQ (featured in Forbes), the Co-Founder/President of Cornell Vegan Society, and Director of Harvard's Ivy League Future of Food Conference. Spero Foods has earned the title, Standout Startup of the Winter Fancy Food Show by Food Business News and 50 Women Led Startups Who Are Crushing Tech by Forbes. Backed by the prestigious YCombinator, the same accelerator that incubated Dropbox and AirBnB, Spero Foods is leading a new, nondairy superfood revolution.