Sprinkk LLC

About Us

Our mission is to make candy manufacturing as sweet as the outcome.
Creating new things shouldn’t be so hard. We are here to revolutionize the candy industry by lowering the hurdles to science, innovation, and contract-manufacturing. We strive to develop and produce high-quality, sustainable confections that reach outside of the box of typical innovation and production limitations.

Our Origins
This Nebraska based start-up was founded by veteran confectionery and food scientist Tessa Porter, who is driven by her conviction that it is possible to reduce hurdles for new products and businesses through smarter process design and access to small scale manufacturing. While leading innovation at a giant US candy company in Chicago, Tessa noticed how difficult it was to innovate outside of the parameters that have existed in candy manufacturing for decades. The candy industry was made up of very large manufacturers that do production incredibly well, but struggle to flex for new ideas. Therefore, a lot of great candy ideas would never make it to the store shelf if they couldn’t be validated on a smaller manufacturing scale first.

Luckily Tessa thrives with unique challenges and was looking for a reason to move back to Nebraska. Sprinkk was created in 2019 in a “development lab” that was a rented church kitchen in her hometown. It has since grown into a 3000 sqft dedicated candy development lab in Omaha, and a flexible contract manufacturing facility in Albion. Both facilities are equipped to handle innovative new products across gummies, fruit chews, hard candy, caramels, and taffy, as well as categories that might not exist yet!

Every Sprinkk project is approached with Tessa’s well-known ability to kindly and, most importantly, calmly sort through the chaos of innovation to create delectable magic.