COMPANIES TO WATCH

Sister and brother Aubry and Kale Walch 7 wanted to re-create the meat dishes they ate growing up in Guam—minus the meat. The result: the Herbivorous Butcher, a vegan butcher that sells meat-free Italian sausages, porterhouse steaks, and chicken.

Last year, serial entrepreneurs Tina Sharkey and Ido Leffler 8 launched the San Franciscobased consumer basics e-commerce store Brandless— now bolstered by $292.5 million in venture capital—with a product development outpost in Minneapolis, which is, not coincidentally, the home turf of larger-than-life retailer Target. 9 Eric and Andrew Dayton, sons of Minnesota governor Mark Dayton, created Askov Finlayson, 10 a men’s outdoor clothing brand and retailer that flaunts its dapper Minnesota roots with products like its must-have knit pompom hat with the word North stitched on the front.