She started her business after finding out her daughter was allergic to corn during an emergency room visit.
Denise Woodard knows rejection when it comes to getting investors for her business — it's happened at least 86 times. But her mission was personal, too. Years ago, her baby, Vivienne, ate a snack and ended up in the emergency room. Woodard found out her daughter was allergic to corn.
"I realized that life-threatening food allergies are just that — they're life threatening — and that I needed to come up with a solution to make her life a little easier," she said. Her daughter is one of an estimated 5.6 million children in the U.S. with a food allergy,In 2016, Woodard launched Partake Foods, a line of allergy-friendly cookies, so that children with allergies wouldn't feel left out.
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