# Event Details - **Event Name**: Los Angeles Grocery Run with Thrive Market - June 2026 - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 04 Jun, 2026 at 11:30 am – Thu, 04 Jun, 2026 at 01:30 pm - **Event Description**: Grocery Run is a national event series connecting relevant retailers to emerging brands. Join us to meet buyers, sample, and network!About this EventLos Angeles, we're coming back with another Grocery Run with at their HQ!We’ll have brand samplings (of course!), networking with your favorite CPG community, and VIP guests (read: the ENTIRE corporate team) from Thrive Market.Join us for buyer introductions and networking while enjoying samples and refreshments. Even if you aren’t sampling, bring product with you to show buyers!Additionally, Thrive Market will vote for their favorite sampling brand to win the Startup CPG x Thrive Choice Award!The grand prize winner will:Join the Thrive Market community: Get the chance to be sold on Thrive Market’s online marketplace (pending our standard quality and compliance checks).Receive dedicated onboarding support: Thrive Market's team will guide you through the onboarding process and provide mentorship to set you up for success.Get a launch boost: Unlock a complimentary marketing package valued at $5,000 to help introduce and promote your brand to Thrive Market's member community.In short, the award means a fast track to joining Thrive Market - with expert support and resources to help your brand make a strong launch.Come meet 40+ featured guests & executives from the Thrive Market team including:Lisa Schilling, Senior Owned Brand ManagerJennifer Mitchell, Merchandise Marketing ManagerThuy Nguyen, Category Manager, Dairy/Deli/Refrigerated GroceryJulianna D'Auria, Merchandise Marketing ManagerChristine McNerney, VP, Retail OperationsNatalie Wieder, VP, Category ManagementDanielle Wold, Senior Category Manager, Vitamins and SupplementsBrianna Waldoch, Senior Director, Owned BrandAnna Wristen, Category ManagerApril Lane, Chief Merchandising OfficerYvette Lemieux, Director, Category ManagementKelly Nigh, VP, Strategic InitiativesBrooke Butler, Senior Category Manager, Babies/Kids/PetYasmin Hartary, Category Manager, Beauty & Personal CareRebecca Molloy, Principal, Owned Brand MerchandisingMorgan Stiffler, Program Manager, PerishablesAlyssa Pfalz, Sr. Category Manager, Core PantrySchuyler Blyth, Senior Director, Merchandise MarketingChristine Dang, Category ManagerNika Levinson, Senior Category ManagerAlexus Medinis, Sr. Manager, Merchandising OperationsCaroline Shaheen, Director, Merchandising Analysis & StrategyCarla Hechler, Vice President, Food Safety & Quality AssuranceMary Zinni, Associate Director, Core PantryEmma Walker, Associate Director, Merchandising MarketingMichelle Mardelli, Merchandise Marketing ManagerErin McCarthy, Senior Owned Brand ManagerKirstin Ratcliffe, Associate Director, Health + BeautyHeather Brand, Associate Director, Perishables + FrozenAdditional featured guests:Alicia Cole - National, Senior Account Manager @ UNFIAliona Mikhed - Sales Manager @ UNFIMore coming soon!Here are the amazing brands sampling at this event:Absolutely Nuts makes the best pistachio cream and pistachio butter in the world, and our mission is to make high quality pistachio products accessible in America.Act Bar is an upcycled protein bar fighting food waste and helping feed communities by donating ½ pound of fresh produce with every bar sold.Batch is an organic, microwavable, shelf stable protein rice product made with chicken broth and grass fed bovine collagen.Blackbird Foods brings you plant powered comfort foods made in NYC.Bowlcut is an AAPI & woman-founded Asian American sauce brand redefining what eating well tastes like for a new generation. Bowlcut creates plant-based sauces inspired by the childhood staples of our past — made in the USA with all-natural ingredients, reduced sodium & sugar and zero artificial additives to let the real flavor speak for itself.Breakin Snacks makes date and honey-sweetened granola bites with a crunchy outside, chewy inside, packed with real food protein and fiber and free from gluten, dairy, gums and seed oils.Cactus Foods is on a mission to transform nature’s wonder—cactus—into delicious, sustainable snacks inspired by global flavors, delivering the perfect balance of crunch, quality, and better-for-you ingredients for people and the planet.Frentel Butter is here to inspire everyday indulgence through authentic French cultured butter—rich in flavor, rooted in tradition, and made to be shared.Good Grains is rebuilding cereal from the Grain Up.GUSSA is bolder & better than your everyday ketchup - it's the ultimate sweet and spicy sauce. Proudly crafted in India with our special blend of local spices using a recipe that took years to perfect, Gussa delivers a delightful sweetness followed by a spicy kick that leaves your mouth watering and craving more.Jamie's Farm is an award-winning granola company crafting premium, small batch granolas baked with ghee for a delicious, nutty and buttery crunch.Kruda makes premium Argentine-style, clean-label full size empanadas made in the USA, convenient comfort food, ready in minutes from freezer to plate.Leemu Superfood makes clean label, all purpose, Persian Inspired sauces, diversifying the global aisle with fresh and modern Middle Eastern flavors while serving a large and historically underrepresented customer base.Lentil Telepathy is reimagining lentils - nature's superfood - as a ready to eat snack, topper, and breakfast cereal!Loom Wipes are natural vinegar and citrus cleaning wipes. No harsh chemicals, fumes, or residues.LuLu Asian Kitchen is redefining the Asian category with better-for-you Asian meals and dumplings made with real ingredients and flavors you know and love.Shinzo Matcha makes matcha sodas - fun, fizzy sodas with natural caffeine from matcha.S'NOODS reimagines iconic noodle dishes into bold, crunchy snacks rooted in real dishes and spices from around the world, delivering the comfort of noodles with the crunch of a chip.SOLZI crafts delicious drinks using bold espresso balanced with sparkling citrusy tonic and sweetened with organic dates.Stella D's Meatballs makes comfort food without compromise—Stella D's premium grass-fed all beef meatballs are Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free & Egg-Free.The Hampton Grocer created Lacnola - the first certified organic, clean-label lactation granola—designed to nourish mothers with real ingredients, no fillers, and functional support you can trust.The Maple Brothers make maple-powered snacks that fuel outdoor fun and spark kids' love for nature.KOOK creates high performance, ocean-safe products for hair and skin.Kula Foods is a B Corp-certified, Black woman-owned brand celebrating Afro-Caribbean flavours through vibrant spice blends and signature spiced hot cocoa mix infused with functional oyster mushrooms, offering bold seasonings and plant-based staples rooted in tradition and heritage.Reclamation Foods is an award-winning brand behind the only shelf-stable bone broth that tastes like homemade and jiggles when chilled - an unseasoned, two-ingredient Korean-style broth in glass jars to upgrade everyday cooking, sipping, and family routines without the microplastics.Tips Chips makes tallow-cooked potato chips with simple ingredients and an everyday price—no seed oils, just real flavor and crunch.Wild Buds is bringing global flavors to kids palates, starting with our line up of kid-crafted condiments that are globally inspired, delicious and fun for kids.Wild Noni is a new superdrink featuring a lightly sparkling blend of natural fruit flavors infused with healthy pure noni juice.More featured brands coming soon!Want to sample at this event? !Thrive Market will be selecting the brands sampling for the event. Space is limited!You must apply to sample.About Thrive Market, Inc. was founded in 2014 with a mission to make healthy and sustainable living easy and affordable for everyone. As an online, membership-based market (with more than 1.6M members), Thrive Market delivers the highest quality, healthy, and sustainable products at member-only prices. At the same time, every annual membership sponsors a free membership for a student, teacher, veteran, nurse, first responder, or a family in need. Thrive Market carries a hyper-curated catalog of organic and non-GMO products and offers 100+ filters and values, allowing you to shop by diet and lifestyle.The brand’s social impact arm, Thrive Gives, has raised more than $19M since its inception to fund food access and environmental sustainability causes. Thrive Market has been carbon neutral since 2014; in 2020, it became the largest online grocer in the U.S. to be a Certified B Corporation; and in 2023, it converted to a Public Benefit Corporation. In 2024, it became the first online-only retailer to accept SNAP EBT. Thrive Market is committed to becoming the world’s first climate-positive grocer. Visit ThriveMarket.com or follow @ThriveMarket to learn more.Sponsors:Interested in sponsorship opportunities? Email partnerships@startucpg.comAbout Startup CPGStartup CPG is the biggest community in the world for emerging brands. We have 30k+ Slack members, produce the #1 podcast in CPG, host 100+ events per year, and are the #1 education hub for brands trying to improve our CPG ecosystem. It’s free — join today!Instagram: @startupcpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/a8e020d0-5f4c-11f1-af60-057f3fab9e06-rimg-w987-h740-dc444832-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/a929fb10-5f4c-11f1-83e9-7d6c0032c368-rimg-w987-h740-dcd5c5a6-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/a96bbf00-5f4c-11f1-83e9-7d6c0032c368-rimg-w987-h740-dc2f312f-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/los-angeles/los-angeles-grocery-run-with-thrive-market-june-2026/100001985963021859 - **Event Categories**: nonprofit, business, health-wellness, kids - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 2 hours - Location: Thrive Market - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 40, max: 535.38, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Los Angeles - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Thrive Market - **lat**: 33.979974 - **long**: -118.4063 - **full address**: Thrive Market, 12130 Millennium Drive, Los Angeles, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Los Angeles Grocery Run with Thrive Market - June 2026 - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/51f04f3f785ec1a056b8c3962d994ebbcd50b338a85486c4ae5d45cb4c44c62b-rimg-w1200-h600-dcf8f8f8-gmir.jpg?v=1774591087 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Los Angeles Grocery Run with Thrive Market - June 2026 being held? - **A:** Los Angeles Grocery Run with Thrive Market - June 2026 takes place on Thu, 04 Jun, 2026 at 11:30 am to Thu, 04 Jun, 2026 at 01:30 pm at Thrive Market, 12130 Millennium Drive, Los Angeles, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Los Angeles Grocery Run with Thrive Market - June 2026? - **A:** Los Angeles Grocery Run with Thrive Market - June 2026 is organized by Startup CPG. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Los Angeles Grocery Run with Thrive Market - June 2026 is ideal for professionals, entrepreneurs, startup founders, and networking enthusiasts eager to grow their connections. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Los Angeles, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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