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Supplier success story · Walmart Open Call winner

How DogSauce funded a national Walmart expansion without giving up equity

When Walmart calls with an expansion, you don't say no
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DogSauce at Walmart Open Call
Open Call win
2024
Walmart stores before
1,200
Walmart stores after
3,000+
COGS funded by Bridge
100%
Dakota Sheets, founder of DogSauce, holding a DogSauce pouch
When Walmart calls with an expansion like this, you don't want to say no. But the financing gap between production and payment is real, and Bridge makes it possible to fill the orders without giving up equity.
Dakota Sheets Founder, DogSauce
Funding story

How DogSauce scaled from Open Call to 3,000+ Walmart stores

The opportunity

A golden ticket at Walmart Open Call in 2024 opened the door. DogSauce is now in more than 1,200 Walmart stores, and this year Walmart expanded that to 3,000+, a major vote of confidence in the brand.

An expansion on that scale means producing and shipping inventory before a purchase order payment is sent. Production capital is what lets a growing supplier meet an opportunity like this at full speed.

How Bridge helps

Bridge is a Citi-backed, AI-powered lending platform that gives suppliers fast, transparent production capital to fund orders for Walmart and Sam's Club locations. For DogSauce, that meant funding the incoming Walmart expansion order, up to 100% of cost of goods.

  1. DogSauce shared its order and basic financials
  2. Funded the same day approval came through
  3. Production filled without draining operating cash or giving up equity

DogSauce earned a golden ticket at Walmart Open Call and went national. A single Walmart expansion order, from 1,200 to 3,000+ stores, nearly doubled the brand's prior year revenue. Bridge funded production so DogSauce could fill it in full.

Key results

Production funded. Expansion filled. Equity kept.

100% of COGS funded

Bridge covered the full cost of goods for the Walmart expansion order, so DogSauce could produce at the scale the retailer requested.

Same-day funding after approval

Once approved, capital moved quickly so production could start without waiting on traditional lending timelines.

No equity given up

DogSauce filled a once-in-a-lifetime expansion without selling ownership for a one-time production run.

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