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Sentinel Biosystems
Food safety, nutrition access, and inclusive manufacturing
May 2026
Aggie Square · UC Davis · Investors
A purpose-built platform for top-15 allergen-free, vegan, traceable food serving schools, healthcare, venues, and families.
Top 15
allergen-free manufacturing focus
$1.5M
pre-seed round target
B2B
schools, healthcare, venues, partners
Why this matters
The food system is not built for families who cannot risk a mistake.
Severe allergies, autism-related feeding and GI challenges, chronic disease, and underfunded institutional food service are converging into one urgent access problem.
Food allergy families cannot afford cross-contact mistakes.
Autistic children and medically complex families are underserved by mainstream food systems.
Institutions want safer meals, but legacy suppliers are not built around exclusion and traceability.
What we are building
Purpose-built top-15 allergen exclusion, sanitation, sourcing, and batch traceability.
Vegan, school- and healthcare-ready foods designed for families often left out.
Computer vision, documentation, and process controls to reduce risk and improve margins.
Timing
Demand is visible
Families, schools, healthcare systems, venues, and public programs are asking for safer inclusive food options.
Technology is ready
AI quality workflows, robotics, traceability, and process data can make safer manufacturing more efficient.
Sacramento is strategic
Aggie Square connects research, public health, food science, and community deployment in one ecosystem.
Sentinel turns lived urgency into infrastructure.
The opportunity is not another snack brand. It is a safer manufacturing base for the partners already accountable to families.
Large, urgent, and institution-ready
Multiple markets are converging on the same need.
Sentinel can sell into institutional channels first, then expand into consumer, licensing, co-manufacturing, and food-as-medicine pathways.
Institutional food service
$300B+
schools, hospitals, corrections, public programs
Free-from food category
Fast-growth
driven by allergy, GI, autism, and wellness needs
Food-as-medicine
Emerging
payer and public-health aligned nutrition programs
How Sentinel grows
Contracts with schools, healthcare, public agencies, sports venues, and food service partners.
Dedicated allergen-safe production capacity for aligned brands and nonprofit food programs.
QA playbooks, formulations, traceability frameworks, and partner validation data.
Nutrition programs aligned with health plans, hospitals, disability services, and community outcomes.
Why Sacramento
We want Aggie Square and UC Davis to be part of the foundation.
This is the right home for research-backed, community-deployed food innovation.
Cohort support and credibility through Aggie Square’s innovation ecosystem.
UC Davis collaboration around food science, nutrition, autism, GI health, and safety validation.
Pilot pathway with Sacramento schools, healthcare, and community partners.
Connections to mission-aligned capital, grants, SBIR/STTR support, and manufacturing advisors.
Beachhead strategy
01
Use Lucian’s Food and family advocacy to document demand, stories, and urgent access gaps.
02
Secure institutional pilots with schools, healthcare, disability services, venues, and Sacramento-area partners.
03
Convert pilot data into contracts, grants, co-manufacturing demand, and venture-backed facility expansion.
18-month plan
0–6 months
Finalize pilot formulations, LOIs, advisory bench, site planning, and grant roadmap.
6–12 months
Pilot line, QA systems, first institutional runs, and cohort-backed partner trials.
12–18 months
Revenue pilots, data room, first contracts, and Series A readiness.
Pre-seed round
Raising
$1.5M
to build the pilot manufacturing, R&D, and institutional partnership foundation.
Manufacturing build + equipment
55%
Food-safety R&D + IP
20%
Pilots + partnerships
15%
Team + operations
10%
Defensible advantage
The mission is rooted in real family stakes, not a trend report.
Allergen-safe manufacturing is engineered from day one, not retrofitted.
The platform is designed for schools, healthcare, venues, and public-sector accountability.
Aggie Square and UC Davis can accelerate validation, pilots, and credibility.
Next step
Help us make safe food infrastructure a Sacramento-built national model.
We are seeking cohort support, UC Davis collaboration, investor conversations, pilot partners, and food-safety manufacturing advisors.
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