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FirstLook’s Brian Folmer On What Investors Really Want To Learn From CPG Brand Pitches
One of the first steps to a consumer packaged goods brand nailing down investment is getting the brand’s goods to a person who invests. That’s FirstLook’s entire proposition. Launched by CPG investor Brian Folmer, the Cleveland-based...
How A Kind Snacks Veteran Now At Camino Partners Looks At The Longevity Opportunity
An early mover in the better-for-you snacks category, Kind Snacks is now a standard bearer of a successful consumer packaged goods brand trajectory. Daniel Lubetzky founded the company in 2004, and Mars bought a...
H Venture Partners’ Microbiome-Focused Studio Prepares To Launch Two CPG Brands Next Year—And More Later
H Venture Partners is looking to tiny organisms to produce the next big consumer packaged goods companies. Started in 2017 by Elizabeth Edwards, formerly an investor at Maywic Select Investments and West Capital, the Cincinnati-based...
Create & Cultivate Founder Jaclyn Johnson Is Connecting Brands And Angel Investors At Cherub
Co-founder Jaclyn Johnson wants Cherub, a digital membership community connecting startups and angel investors, to do for angel investing what Coinbase has done for crypto. “Buying Bitcoin 10 to 15 years ago felt kind of scary,...
Coefficient Capital’s Anna Whiteman On The Biggest Trends Transforming Beauty And Wellness
Coefficient Capital, the consumer-focused venture capital firm, prides itself on investing in transformational consumer shifts, and partner Anna Whiteman is one of its chief identifiers of such shifts. Like most investors, she digs into the numbers...
Why Wittington Ventures Is Leaning Into Consumer Investments As Other VC Firms Do The Opposite
In Canada, it’s hard to escape the impact of the Weston family. From a single Toronto bakery established in 1884 by American-born entrepreneur George Weston, it spawned aptly named George Weston Ltd., a multibillion-dollar publicly traded retail colossus...
