Love Street Living Foods, an organic, vegan raw foods company, was started by Jon-Michael Kerestes, a Pittsburgh native, in 2007. Today, his vegan and raw chocolate products sell in over 100 stores across the country, including Whole Foods in East Liberty, the East End Co-op, McGinnis Sisters, Oh, Yeah! ice-cream shop in Shadyside, and several other local grocers.
Since tasting Love Street chocolate bars over a year ago, I’ve become quite addicted. And spoonfuls of Love Street raw chocolate coconut spread can place me directly in heaven for about 15 minutes.
You do not have to be a vegan, a vegetarian, or a raw foodie to enjoy this chocolate — it’s just damn good chocolate. And the benefits of being vegan also means that it’s dairy-free, for all you lactose intolerant folk.
Since introducing his line of chocolate products, Mr. Kerestes has also added an entire online catalog of vegan and raw foods including nuts, nut butters, dried berries, salts, olives, oils and supplements, as well as other eco-friendly household products.
Let us know your experiences (good or bad) with Love Street Living Foods via comments.
DesignAdvance Systems Inc. is a Pittsburgh company that develops electronic design software for designing electrical and mechanical products. They are known as one of the leading developers of EDA and MCAD design automation software solutions. Their flagship product, CircuitSpace, delivers user-assisted automation to the current manual process of PCB component placement. In a world where time means money, this reduces costs and allows them to take products to market sooner.
Last month they announced a new product called CircuitPlan, a concept level planning tool. Here is what they have to say about it.
“Our customers have been actively deploying our solutions [CircuitSpace and CircuitProbe] throughout their PCB design process,” stated Mr. Edward Pupa, DesignAdvance CEO. “Now with CircuitPlan, we provide PCB Designers, hardware engineers, test engineers and manufacturing engineers with solutions and an advanced methodology for planning, physical design, review / verification,” continued Mr. Pupa.
CircuitPlan will be available in February 2009, pricing starts at $3,990.
If you have any insight on DesignAdvance or their products please share via a comment. This is one industry that I am not familiar with, but as I am learning about it I find it very interesting.
Startup Pittsburgh is a blog that will profile and review local startups. It was created because Pittsburgh is a hot bed of innovative startups that no one knows about. That’s right, very few people that live and work here know that these companies exist. Even when they make it to mainstream status, people still don’t know that they are based in Pittsburgh. This blog will change that. We will profile startups and keep you informed as they grow.
The goal of this blog is to show everyone that Pittsburgh is the place for ideas. A secondary goal is to promote the companies and ideas that make this region so exciting.
If you are a local startup, add us to your email list editor [at] startuppittsburgh.com. If you are a fan of business then we suggest you add this blog to your bookmarks or feed reader.
