Want to be the go-to provider in the pet industry? Pet Connect is the place to start
Source new partners from across the eco-system
- Build your profile amongst mid-sized firms looking to source your services, with brands including Wagmo, Petfolk, Odie and more
- Increase your visibility and connections amongst industry giants including Mars Petcare and Nestle Purina through closed-door and 1-2-1 sessions
Gain recognition as a subject matter expert with your target audience
- Lead consumer-focused roundtables, where you can showcase your expertise in industry trends including customer acquisition and retention, subscription models, identifying strategic alliances and more. Learn more about partnering here.
Be at the forefront of innovation and market trends
- Watch and connect with 12 investor-profiled start-ups at our Best in Show spotlight event
- Identify new opportunities for your own market expansion, with sessions including ‘The Innovation and Investment Landscape’ and ‘Market Expansion: Increasing Pet Parent Support to Create Lifetime Consumers’.
Join market-access roundtables
- Showcase your expertise in industry trends and business challenges.
- Facilitate discussions on customer acquisition and retention, subscription models and identifying strategic partnerships.
- Enquire about hosting your own roundtable, with hand-picked audience members here.
Achieve your business goals in 2025
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Pet Connect USA allows you to meet everyone who matters in the pet world. Connect effortlessly with innovators, disruptors and influencers in a room packed with possibilities!
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Lead Financial Wellness Partner
Independence Pet Holdings
Website: https://www.independencepetholdings.com/
Please visit our website for more information.Agency Partner
Circa Healthcare
Website: https://www.circahealthcare.com/
We’re an Animal-health and Petcare focused, strategic marketing and communications agency. We know there’s no such thing as a ‘normal’ communications challenge. That’s why we unite a unique blend of strategy, collaboration, creativity, and understanding of the Petcare and Animal Healthcare worlds—and everything in them—that you won’t find anywhere else to produce abnormally brilliant results for our clients. It’s not normal. But that’s what we’re all about.
Associate Partner
epiq
Website: https://www.epiq-ah.com/
epiq Animal Health is a master distributor who revolutionizes the animal health industry by partnering with manufacturers and distributors to deliver innovative products to veterinary professionals and pet owners. epiq serves as the connective tissue across the supply chain, creating efficiencies and adding value to supply chain and growth management, product and account management, and marketing and strategy.
epiq leverages insights and relationships and is committed to transparency and integrity, ensuring top-notch service for their partners. Whether support is needed in supply chain management or a comprehensive suite of services, epiq customizes a plan that aligns perfectly with their partner’s needs. True success means nothing unless shared with partners.
Synchrony
Website: https://www.synchrony.com/
Synchrony Financial is a leading consumer financial services company, offering a wide range of financing solutions through partnerships with retailers, healthcare providers, and other industries. The company provides credit cards, installment lending, and savings products. Established in 2003 as part of General Electric, Synchrony became an independent company in 2014. It is known for its private-label credit cards, loyalty programs, and innovative digital financial services, helping both businesses and consumers manage payments and enhance purchasing power.
CareCredit, a division of Synchrony, specializes in healthcare financing solutions. It offers credit cards that can be used for medical, dental, vision, and wellness expenses. CareCredit allows consumers to finance treatments and procedures with flexible payment plans, often with low or deferred interest. Partnering with healthcare providers across the U.S., CareCredit aims to make healthcare more affordable and accessible for patients by easing the financial burden of out-of-pocket medical costs.
Zoetis
Website: https://www.zoetis.com/
As the world’s leading animal health company, Zoetis is driven by a singular purpose: to nurture our world and humankind by advancing care for animals. After innovating ways to predict, prevent, detect, and treat animal illness for more than 70 years, Zoetis continues to stand by those raising and caring for animals worldwide – from veterinarians and pet owners to livestock farmers and ranchers. The company’s leading portfolio and pipeline of medicines, vaccines, diagnostics and technologies make a difference in over 100 countries. A Fortune 500 company, Zoetis generated revenue of $8.5 billion in 2023 with approximately 14,100 employees.
For more information, visit www.zoetis.com
Senior Event Partner
301 INC
Website: https://www.goldmedalventures.com/what-we-do/301-inc
301 INC is the venture capital arm of General Mills. We invest in driven and passionate founders across the value chain who are transforming the food ecosystem. Our team is purpose-built to partner with founder teams and to help realize their ambitions.
Casco Pet
Website: https://cascopet.com/us/
CASCO Pet is a leading innovator in the design and manufacture of premium animal enclosures for the veterinary and pet retail sectors.
We are at the forefront of animal care, combining cutting-edge technology with a deep understanding of animal wellness. We are committed to enhancing the well-being of pets by providing safe, durable and thoughtfully designed environments that meet the highest industry standards.
Driven by a passion for improving the lives of pets and the professionals who care for them, we are a trusted partner for veterinarians, pet retailers, and animal care specialists worldwide.
Chi Dog
Website: https://chidog.com/
Chi Dog is a direct-to-consumer, subscription-based dog food company dedicated to improving canine health through holistic nutrition. Founded by integrative veterinarians, Chi Dog harnesses the power of traditional food therapy to address the most commonly diagnosed chronic diseases in dogs.
Our expert veterinarians developed five unique, therapeutic meal options, each crafted to support specific health conditions and enhance overall wellness. Unlike many other brands, Chi Dog’s meals are made with high-quality, cooked ground meat and contain no organ meats, resulting in clean, low-fat, and lower-carbohydrate options for dogs.
Chi Dog has garnered strong support from holistic and progressive veterinarians nationwide who share our belief: Food is the First Medicine.
Know Your Pet DNA
Website: https://petdna.ancestry.com/
Please visit our website for more information.Leap
Website: https://www.leapventurestudio.com/
Leap Venture Studio & Academy is the first startup-centric accelerator program built to springboard innovation in the growing pet ecosystem
Nestlé Purina
Website: https://www.purina.com/mypurina-app
Nestlé Purina PetCare creates richer lives for pets and the people who love them. Founded in 1894, Purina has helped dogs and cats live longer, healthier lives by offering scientifically based nutritional innovations. Purina manufactures some of the world's most trusted and popular pet care products, including Purina ONE, Pro Plan, Fancy Feast and Tidy Cats. Our more than 8,700 U.S. associates take pride in our trusted pet food, treat and litter brands that feed 51 million dogs and 65 million cats every year. More than 500 Purina scientists, veterinarians, and pet care experts ensure our commitment to unsurpassed quality and nutrition.
Purina promotes responsible pet care through our scientific research, our products and our support for pet-related organizations. Over the past five years, Purina has contributed more than $150 million towards organizations that bring, and keep, people and pets together, as well as those that help our communities and environment thrive.
Purina is part of Nestlé, a global leader in Nutrition, Health and Wellness. For more information, visit purina.com.
Odie Pet Insurance
Website: https://getodie.com/
Odie Pet Insurance “Odie” was born out of three generations of pet lovers who just happened to be in the insurance business. After recognizing the growing costs of vet bills and expensive wellness plans, we saw the growing need for better pet insurance. Since inception, our belief has been that all pets deserve great medical care and that owners should not have to choose between their finances and a loved one’s well-being. Our program aims to make pet insurance more affordable with easy to understand policies and a convenient tech-based claims process.
Thompson Coburn
Website: https://www.thompsoncoburn.com/
Thompson Coburn is a full-service law firm with offices in Birmingham, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Southern Illinois, St. Louis and Washington D.C.
Thompson Coburn provides the high-quality legal services and counsel our clients need to realize their most critical business goals. With more than 400 attorneys and more than 50 practice areas, we serve clients across the United States in virtually all major areas of the law. Our multidisciplinary teams are led by experienced lawyers skilled at solving real-world challenges.
We are guided by our philosophy of giving our clients straightforward, practical, and economical solutions to their legal challenges and business demands, no matter how complex. We know our clients expect a valuable return for their investment in us, so we put this philosophy into practice every day for every client – whether a multinational corporation or a private individual.
Willoughby Design
Website: https://willoughbydesign.com/
Willoughby Design builds bonds between people and brands. We are a woman-owned (WBE) branding agency with decades of experience working with pet brands ranging from the creation of the Three Dog Bakery brand to the development of private label brands for Pet Supplies Plus. From strategic framing to fully integrated identity systems across packaging, retail experience and digital, we design strong brands that ignite business innovation and growth.
Event Partners
Agrolimen
Agrolimen is a multinational CPG company with revenues ~$3B which operates in two main segments: human food and pet food. We are present in Europe, US and Africa. We have deep knowledge and understanding of the pet food market, with Affinity (#5 Europe PF player), Nature’s Variety (#2 US Raw player), and Natures Menu (#1 UK Raw player) among our main brands. From Agrolimen Ventures, Agrolimen’s Corporate Venturing Unit, we seek to connect with and potentially invest in innovative start-ups with potential to disrupt the categories we play in. Our investment focus is in human food and pet food brands based on our industry experience and the resulting ability to support startups. We look for talented and ambitious teams working on sustainable / direct-to-consumer / healthy / natural / alternative pet food among others. Apart from the financial component, we bring our deep knowledge on the pet food industry and on developing brands into potential partnerships.
Peel Plastics Products
Website: www.peelplastics.com
Peel Plastic Products has earned a reputation as the leader in providing pre-made packaging solutions for the North American market. Our continued expansion into the global marketplace has further complemented our commitment to deliver innovative solutions to the pet care industry.
Our leadership position has created lasting partnerships, and many of our partners have enjoyed measurable lifts in market share with one or multiple selections from our portfolio. Peel’s established leadership position in the pet food packaging market provides significant benefits for new and existing portfolios. Because of our breadth of flexible pouch options, we are well positioned to supply the best solutions for all your packaging needs.
Take advantage of over 45 years of experience and get your product the recognition it truly deserves.
Media Partners
AAHA
Website: www.aaha.org
AAHA’s purpose is to simplify the journey towards excellence for veterinary practices and counts more than 4,500 veterinary practices and hospitals among its accredited membership. Since 1933, the American Animal Hospital Association has been the only organization to accredit veterinary hospitals throughout the United States and Canada according to more than 900 standards directly correlated to high-quality medicine and compassionate care. The AAHA-accredited logo is the best way to know a practice has been evaluated by a third-party. Look for the AAHA logo or visit aaha.org.
American Pet Professionals
Website: https://www.americanpetprofessionals.com/
American Pet Professionals, (APP), is a multiple award winning National Business Networking, Educational and Multimedia Organization for the Pet Industry. Educating, Uniting, Referring, Connecting and Helping all Pet Professionals since 2009! The organization offers in-person and online networking events since it’s inception, hosting over 150 in-person events throughout the country. APP’s is mission to have pet professionals work together, help businesses grow, support each other to continue unite the pet industry, to ultimately help pets and their parents. In addition to in-person networking events, American Pet Professionals also hosts educational courses, masterminds for it’s members; sends out a weekly Pet Events Newsletter to 20,000 pet lovers that showcases both B2B and B2C pet events and also promotes many rescue groups. Founder and President of American Pet Professionals, Nancy E. Hassel, was named 2018 Women of Influence in the Pet Industry, referred to as an ‘industry visionary,’ she also travels across the country attending and speaking at pet business conferences and works with many of the organizers of such conferences to bring more expertise, knowledge, ideas and inspiration to its members. The membership-based organization started in February 2009, for more information go to www.AmericanPetProfessionals.com. Featured regularly in Pet Age Magazine, Pet Product News International Magazine, Pet Business Magazine, Pets+ Magazine, Dogster Magazine, Modern Dog Magazine and numerous other magazines, newspapers, blogs and TV stations throughout the country and world. Connect socially: @AmericanPetPros on Twitter and Instagram
Black Pet Business Network
Website: https://www.blackpetbusinessnetwork.com/
Please visit our website for more information.GlobalPETS
Website: https://globalpetindustry.com/
GlobalPETS (and our magazine PETS International) are the go-to publications for the international pet industry. Stay on top of the latest trends, developments and expert insights.
International Petfood
Website: https://internationalpetfood.com/
Please visit our website for more information.Pet Boarding and Daycare Magazine
Website: https://www.petboardinganddaycare.com/
Please visit our website for more information.Pet Business World
Website: www.petbusinessworld.co.uk
Pet Business World is the UK’s leading news magazine and website for the pet and aquatics industry. We distribute 7,711 copies (November 2018) to qualifying pet trade professionals – the biggest circulation in the specialist trade by a considerable margin. The independently-owned magazine was established in 1951 and the website (www.petbusinessworld.co.uk) attracted more than 37 million hits in the 12 months to October 2018 – and rising!