First Bite is a go-to-market software platform that aggregates and analyzes data from over 1 million U.S. restaurants, enabling food manufacturers to efficiently identify sales opportunities and forecast revenue potential for their products. By streamlining prospecting, tracking, and sales performance management, First Bite addresses the challenges of scattered and unstructured foodservice data, allowing manufacturers to connect with the most relevant customers.
Funding
$2.1M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.


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Product
Problem
Food manufacturers face challenges in identifying and targeting relevant restaurant prospects due to scattered, unstructured, and inaccessible foodservice data. Building target lists requires extensive research across numerous sources to gather location details, menus, and other pertinent information. Inaccurate forecasting, resulting from guesswork around volume, brand value, and revenue potential, further complicates sales efforts.
Solution
First Bite offers a go-to-market software platform that aggregates and analyzes data from over one million U.S. restaurants, enabling food manufacturers to efficiently identify sales opportunities and forecast revenue potential. The platform consolidates restaurant data, providing insights into location-specific attributes and searchable menu items. Predictive volume and revenue models, customized to a company's specific products, allow for targeted outreach to the most valuable partnerships. First Bite also streamlines sales performance tracking by integrating with existing CRM systems to manage leads, sales teams, and broker activities.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes food manufacturers seeking to optimize their sales efforts by identifying and targeting relevant restaurant prospects.
Features
- Database of over 1 million U.S. restaurants with location-specific attributes.
- Searchable database of over 140 million menu items.
- Predictive volume and revenue models customized to specific food manufacturing products.
- CRM integration for managing leads, sales teams, and broker activities.
- Custom lead list generation based on menu items and restaurant attributes.
- Sales detective service to identify decision-makers and their contact information.