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READYBAR™ In the Media

🔹 NPR Interview – Founder & CEO Ryan Dowdy discusses READYBAR's spaceflight origins and recent SBIR grant.
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🔹 Inc. Interview – Inc. interviews Ryan Dowdy on navigating funding challenges and ensuring the future of meal bars for first responders.
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🔹 Startup CPG Newswire – Startup CPG Newswire spotlights READYBAR’s national launch, highlighting its NPR feature and mission to fuel first responders with high-performance nutrition.
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🔹 The Real ResQ Podcast – Host Jason Quinn interviews READYBAR founder Dr. Ryan Dowdy, a NASA-trained food scientist, about designing high-performance food for both astronauts and first responders. They dive into the science behind READYBAR, space nutrition, and what it takes to fuel critical missions — from orbit to the front lines.
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🔹 FoodNavigator – FoodNavigator spotlights READYBAR in its Startup Spotlight series, exploring how a niche-market strategy powered strong pre-seed traction and set the stage for READYBAR’s seed round expansion.
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🔹 Interplanetary Podcast– Former NASA food scientist Ryan Dowdy PhD joins Matt to explore how Artemis program is reshaping the future of human nutrition, from feeding astronauts on the ISS to the Moon and beyond to powering first responders here on Earth.
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🔹 Are We There Yet? Podcast – The science behind space food and supporting tomorrow’s STEM leaders
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