Just as Antidote Chocolate is beyond your typical chocolate bar, so is founder and creative force, Red Thalhammer. Born in Austria, Red (formerly Renate) began her entrepreneurial journey at the age of 10 selling ice cream at her parents' lakeside cafe in Upper Austria. She also followed other creative side projects in her teens from designing and sewing clothes to large paintings and murals. She is now one of a very small group of chocolate innovators working to expand the boundaries of the chocolate industry as we know it. Red's mission is to make the world healthier. She has concocted an "antidote chocolate" using unique ingredients and rare spices that are not often combined.