When serial entrepreneurs Ari Tolwin and Joe Savino pitched their plant-based milk company, Numilk, on Friday's episode of ABC's "Shark Tank," they immediately caught the attention of Mark Cuban. The billionaire investor has already built an"Sharks, milk today means something totally different than what the milkman used to deliver to our homes," Tolwin said on the show.
At one of these kiosks, a customer spends $2.00 for a reusable Numilk bottle as a one-time charge, and then they'll spend $3.99 each time they fill the bottle with fresh plant-based milk. And, in summer 2022, Numilk plans to roll out a smaller, countertop unit for in-home use to be sold for $199. Both the professional units and the at-home machines make a variety of drinks like almond milk, oat milk, matcha lattes and protein shakes from Numilk's pre-packaged pouches of ingredients.Shark Daymond John especially liked that idea. "That right there is a necessity for the family, I think," John said.