True Story Whiskeys
Debt Financing in 2025
True Story Whiskeys focused on creating a comprehensive visitor experience at its flagship project—a new distillery and tourism complex.
Renais Spirits
Seed Round in 2025
Renais Spirits is a beverage manufacturing company that offers luxury gin made with upcycled grapes.
Rare Character Whiskey
Funding Round in 2024
The goal of Rare Character Whiskey is to give each customer "the perfect American whiskey," whatever that means to them personally. In order to showcase distinctive and unadulterated American whiskeys from all throughout the nation, Rare Character was established.
Sèchey
Venture Round in 2024
Sèchey is a beverage manufacturing company that specializes in producing non-alcoholic drinks. Its mission is to provide alcohol alternatives that mimic the social experience, taste, and ritual of drinking, enabling adults to make mindful drinking choices without compromising on flavor or social engagement.
JuneShine
Private Equity Round in 2024
JuneShine is a producer of organic hard kombucha and low-alcohol beverages based in San Diego, California. The company offers a variety of hard kombucha flavors, including blood orange mint, honey ginger lemon, midnight painkiller, and cucumber mojito, available in cans and on draft, and distributes its products in California's San Diego, Orange County, and Los Angeles markets. Its beverages are brewed with a jun scoby, which provides probiotics and other gut health benefits.
Thomas Ashbourne Craft Spirits
Venture Round in 2023
Thomas Ashbourne Craft Spirits specializes in producing a range of ready-to-drink craft cocktails, available in both canned and bottled formats. The company emphasizes the use of natural ingredients in its offerings, which are designed to provide consumers with high-proof beverages that are both flavorful and convenient. Additionally, all products are kosher certified, ensuring they meet specific dietary requirements. By focusing on quality and authenticity, Thomas Ashbourne Craft Spirits aims to deliver delicious, ready-to-sip cocktails that cater to a variety of tastes.
Ten To One Rum
Venture Round in 2023
Ten to One Rum is a wine company that builds a brand grounded in authentic elements of culture and heritage with a narrative that is both compelling and contemporary. They provide white and dark oak ex-bourbon cask rums.
Speakeasy Company
Seed Round in 2023
Speakeasy Company is a technology-driven e-commerce platform focused on the wine and spirits industry. It empowers brands to sell directly to consumers while adhering to the three-tier distribution system, allowing them to maintain control over the user experience and access valuable customer data and analytics. The platform enhances market reach and scalability for alcohol brands by providing services such as website redesign and development, digital advertising, merchandise fulfillment, and warehousing. Additionally, it offers real-time insights into customer behavior, enabling brands to improve engagement and optimize their marketing strategies. Through these comprehensive solutions, Speakeasy Company supports alcohol brands in navigating the complexities of direct-to-consumer sales.
Pilot Project Brewing
Seed Round in 2022
Pilot Project is a unique brewery incubator that supports start-up breweries by offering resources for manufacturing, distribution, and retail. It aims to reduce barriers to innovation and accelerate growth for its owned, operated, and incubated brands.
L'uva Bella
Venture Round in 2022
L'uva Bella Winery is a winery that specializes in the production of wine and juice products, catering to commercial wineries, home winemakers, and the consumer packaged goods market in the United States. The company offers a diverse range of services, including the manufacture of bulk wine, private label brands, and custom crush services, as well as providing home winemaking juices. L'uva Bella emphasizes the selection of high-quality grapes from various regions, which contributes to the distinct and fresh flavors of its unique wine offerings. Through its commitment to quality and innovation, the winery enables customers to enjoy a broad varietal wine collection.
Siempre Spirits
Series A in 2021
Siempre Spirits Limited is a Toronto-based company that specializes in the production of tequila. Established in 2015, the company focuses on creating handmade, high-quality spirits that embody a unique flavor profile, blending earthy, bold characteristics with sweet, citrus notes. Siempre Spirits has gained recognition for its flagship product, Siempre Plata, which has received numerous accolades, including eight international awards such as platinum and consumer choice at the SIP awards, as well as a gold medal from The Beverage Testing Institute. The company's products are available for purchase through its website and various distributor channels, emphasizing its commitment to quality and craftsmanship in the spirits industry.
RD1 Spirits is a Lexington-based distillery dedicated to honoring the heritage of bourbon. It manufactures and distributes bourbon and related distilled products using small-batch methods and carefully selected inputs to serve the premium spirits market, delivering high-quality products to a diverse range of customers.