Visram developed the idea as a graduate student at Columbia Business School, where she studied the baby-food market and child nutrition, and began building the company while in business school.

Rolph, a Cornell Business School graduate, had a prior career at Whole Foods in research.

[3] The company launched its first products on Mother's Day in 2006 – a line of organic, fresh-frozen baby meals sold through a New York grocery store chain.

[4] By 2010, Happy Family grew to more than $13 million in sales and was ranked 68th in Inc. Magazine's list of fastest-growing companies, with three-year growth of over 3,000%.

[6][7] In May 2013, Groupe Danone acquired a 92% stake in the company with both Visram and Rolph as current owner partners.