Name

Natural Development

Legal name

Natural Development

Website

https://naturaldevelop.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Boulder

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Product Development Services: Professional services revenue from formula development, product innovation, process improvement, quality assurance, and product testing for food and beverage companies. Projects range from $15K to $100K with typical timelines of 6-12 months from ideation to market launch.
2. Ask A Food Scientist Consulting: Hourly consulting sessions providing quick, reliable answers to concept, development, product, process, or manufacturing questions. Billed at $100 per 30 minutes or $200 per 60 minutes.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Natural Development provides food, beverage, and edible pet product development and consulting services for consumer brands. The firm operates as an outsourced product development team, taking clients from concept ideation through formulation, quality assurance testing, certification, process improvement, and market launch. Services are delivered by food scientists, chefs, registered dietitians, and QA experts supported by an in-house analytics lab and a curated network of ingredient suppliers, packaging vendors, and manufacturers.

Product overview

Natural Development is a food and beverage product development consultancy offering a unified suite of services rather than a software platform. The core offering comprises seven integrated service modules: Innovation/Product Development, Ideation, Quality Assurance, Product or Process Improvement, Nutrition Analysis, Certifications, and Investment Analysis. These services work together to take clients from concept ideation through market launch. The company also offers an add-on consultation service called 'Ask A Food Scientist' for clients needing additional support. The company serves established brands, startups, and private label clients across all food and beverage categories.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 3,000+ products developed for clients ranging from start-ups to multinational corporations
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Naturally BoulderminorOthersNatural Development is a member of Naturally Boulder, a close-knit natural products community in Boulder where they regularly attend networking events. The company is currently working with a few fellow members on exciting projects.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Mattson: Mattson is a long-established food and beverage product development and innovation firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area, offering concept-to-market development services to startups, mid-market, and enterprise CPG clients — directly analogous to Natural Development's core offering.
• Sterling-Rice Group (SRG): Sterling-Rice Group is a Boulder, CO-based brand and product innovation consultancy with a dedicated food and beverage practice serving CPG, retail, and ingredient clients — overlapping geography, customer base, and product innovation scope with Natural Development.
• The Hatchery: The Hatchery is a food and beverage innovation and manufacturing incubator offering co-packing, R&D, and product development services to emerging and established CPG brands — a directly comparable product development services model.
• BevSource: BevSource is a beverage product development, formulation, and co-packing services firm serving alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage brands from concept through production — directly comparable for the beverage portion of Natural Development's portfolio.
• Daymon Worldwide: Daymon is a global private label development and brand management firm focused exclusively on retailer-owned brands across food and non-food categories — directly comparable to Natural Development's private label segment serving retailers like Kroger.

Broad incumbents

• Kerry Group: Kerry Group is a global taste and nutrition company offering ingredient systems, applied research, and product development support to food and beverage brands — overlapping with Natural Development but at vastly greater scale and as part of a broad ingredient portfolio.
• Givaudan: Givaudan is the world's largest flavors and fragrances company with extensive application labs serving food and beverage developers — adjacent to Natural Development's formulation work but at global incumbent scale with proprietary flavor libraries.
• International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF): IFF is a global ingredients and applied R&D powerhouse serving food, beverage, and consumer products customers through dedicated application laboratories — broadly comparable R&D services capability at much greater scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/natural-development

Compliance9 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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