AccelFoods

AccelFoods, LLC is venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments. It does not invest in restaurants or other food-retail concepts or alcoholic beverages. The firm seeks to invest in packaged food and beverage companies, nutrition, alternative proteins and snacks, frozen and confectionary sweets, and portable meals. It typically invests in companies based in the United States. AccelFoods, LLC was founded in January 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Michael Arnstein

Fund Associate

Jordan Gaspar

Managing Partner

Lauren Alexander Jupiter

Managing Partner

Hannah McCain

Senior Associate

Alex Wolf

Operations Associate

125 past transactions

Tea Drops

Venture Round in 2020
Tea Drops is a Los Angeles based, woman owned organic tea company, making innovative, bagless, dissolvable teas. Tea Drops are USDA organic, GMO free, Gluten Free, and free of artificial/natural flavors. Pressed into whimsical shapes such as hearts, stars, and flowers -- Tea Drops are eco-friendly by design and made in sunny California.

Kidfresh

Series B in 2017
Kidfresh creates all-natural kids’ meals it provides top nutrition with no artificial colors or flavors to kids. Kidfresh is now offering a line of six healthy kids’ meals all-natural, frozen meals for kids sold in the US at retailers such as Whole Foods, Shaws, ShopRite, and a growing list of other supermarkets. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Ready, Set, Food!

Venture Round in 2021
Ready, Set, Food! Manufactures and sells packet food for infants. It offers its products through online. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Encino, California.

Bravo Sierra

Series A in 2021
Bravo Sierra is the first military-native performance wellness company, pioneering a user-driven performance personal care and nutrition organization developed within the U.S. military community. Powered by the insight generated through social manufacturing including direct collaboration with its core community of 1,000 U.S. military active duty service members, the company delivers performance goods with unprecedented responsiveness and accuracy for those who serve and for the benefit of all. Designed to support and enhance today's ultra-active lifestyle and engineered with critically relevant innovation and stress-tested in the field, the products include first-to-market technologies and formulas that are clean, vegan, and cruelty-free. Bravo Sierra is built around a revenue share model contributing 5% of all sales to the Morale Welfare and Recreation (MWR) program, which offers a complete range of community support and quality of life programs for members of the U.S. Armed Forces, their families, retirees, and veterans.

Yumi

Series B in 2021
Yumi is the definitive source for parents seeking to understand what they are feeding their children and why, offering a science-based early childhood meal delivery program that is the most convenient and most nutritional option in the market.

Aloe Gloe

Venture Round in 2017
Aloe Gloe is part of L.A. Libations, an emerging beverage incubator that was founded by Stepper, Pat Bolden and Dino Sarti. The three first met while working as merchandisers for Coca-Cola Enterprises and after many successful years in the beverage industry they reunited to create L.A. Libations and in turn their own passion project, Aloe Gloe.

Tractor Beverage

Venture Round in 2020
Tractor Beverage Company is all about honoring a complete meal experience. These drinks are sourced, prepared and poured with all the love, attention and intention as the food they pair with.

Tractor Beverage

Debt Financing in 2020
Tractor Beverage Company is all about honoring a complete meal experience. These drinks are sourced, prepared and poured with all the love, attention and intention as the food they pair with.

Good Day Chocolate

Series B in 2021
Good Day Chocolate makes chocolate with benefits for young working adults. Easily measured “honest” doses in a melt-proof candy-coating means control and convenience and real, premium chocolate means a universally loved, delicious treat. Need a pick-me-up? One piece of Energy is a darker chocolate with the caffeine from 1/2 cup of regular coffee, plus vitamins and minerals for a smooth energy boost. Calm is a milk chocolate with amino acids and botanicals that help you release tension without drowsiness.

Proud Source Water

Series B in 2021
Proud Source Water is a brand bottling naturally alkaline spring water. Proud Source Water offers naturally alkaline spring water with zero additives and packaged in infinitely recyclable aluminum bottles. They providing a much-needed alternative to plastic bottles in the bottled-water market with their recyclable aluminum packaging. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho, United States.

Kalahari Biltong

Seed Round in 2019
Kalahari Biltong offers seasoned and dried beef snack that tastes like prosciutto and jerky. The company began in South Africa when three friends raced 175 miles in an Ironman and Ultramarathon within a week. There they discovered the age-old traditions of crafting and preserving beef with simple ingredients. Since then, they've been rooted in a mission to share these styles and elevate the way people experience food. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Harmless Harvest

Private Equity Round in 2018
Harmless Harvest, Inc. produces organic coconut water. Its products include pro-plant pro-people, pro-biotic, and coffee coconut water. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Koia

Series A in 2018
Koia is a food and beverage company that specializes in manufacturing plant protein drinks. The company is driven by its mission is to empower people through plants,100% Plant-Based Protein and natural ingredients. Each 12 oz bottle is packed with 15-19g of plant-based protein with amazing taste and under 5g of sugar. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Rethink Water

Seed Round in 2019
Rethink Brands is a solution-based beverage company that is focused on optimizing the products of everyday life. It is a drink for all occasions, may it be birthday parties, soccer game refreshments, and lunch table concessions, children could see a good bit of sugar over the course of any given day. It is based in Columbia, Maryland, and was founded in 2015.

Nomi

Venture Round in 2015
Nomi is a producer of a refrigerated snack bar used to offer nutritious snacks. Its snack bar is oat-based, gluten-free and has high fiber and whole grains that enable consumers to have high-protein bars. Nomi was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Good Day Chocolate

Seed Round in 2017
Good Day Chocolate makes chocolate with benefits for young working adults. Easily measured “honest” doses in a melt-proof candy-coating means control and convenience and real, premium chocolate means a universally loved, delicious treat. Need a pick-me-up? One piece of Energy is a darker chocolate with the caffeine from 1/2 cup of regular coffee, plus vitamins and minerals for a smooth energy boost. Calm is a milk chocolate with amino acids and botanicals that help you release tension without drowsiness.
Skinny Dipped Almonds makes chocolate-covered almond treats using high-end ingredients. They offer roasted almonds that are skinny dipped in a thin layer of artisan dark chocolate and finished with a whisper of pure cocoa, espresso, or raspberry. Skinny Dipped Almonds was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Mansi

Venture Round in 2016
Mansi sells the first calamansi juice beverage available in North America. This Premium ready-to-drink citrus product is the first in its category to be Non-GMO Project verified, using only the finest, most premium, hand-picked calamansi, naturally sweetened with organic cane sugar and a splash of organic honey.

LOLA

Series C in 2020
LOLA is the first lifelong brand for a woman’s body, providing the transparency and candor women deserve when it comes to products and content for their reproductive health.

Kidfresh

Series C in 2019
Kidfresh creates all-natural kids’ meals it provides top nutrition with no artificial colors or flavors to kids. Kidfresh is now offering a line of six healthy kids’ meals all-natural, frozen meals for kids sold in the US at retailers such as Whole Foods, Shaws, ShopRite, and a growing list of other supermarkets. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States.

LOLA

Series B in 2018
LOLA is the first lifelong brand for a woman’s body, providing the transparency and candor women deserve when it comes to products and content for their reproductive health.

Good Fish

Series A in 2020
Good Fish specializes in producing and selling fish skin snacks to customers. Good Fish is headquartered in the USA.

Cirkul

Venture Round in 2019
Cirkul, Inc. manufactures water bottles with flavored-bottle system which filters water and mixes drinks to personalized taste. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Tampa, Florida.

New Pop

Venture Round in 2016
New Pop offers skinless popcorn. New Pop begins its journey with premium popcorn kernels - no oil, no butter, or salt is added. Next, the skin is removed and kernels are popped under high pressure to lock in the nutrients and maintain flavor. Finally, they heighten the flavor by sprinkling on a variety of low calorie, all natural seasonings to create different flavor varieties.

Tea Drops

Series A in 2021
Tea Drops is a Los Angeles based, woman owned organic tea company, making innovative, bagless, dissolvable teas. Tea Drops are USDA organic, GMO free, Gluten Free, and free of artificial/natural flavors. Pressed into whimsical shapes such as hearts, stars, and flowers -- Tea Drops are eco-friendly by design and made in sunny California.

Cirkul

Series B in 2021
Cirkul, Inc. manufactures water bottles with flavored-bottle system which filters water and mixes drinks to personalized taste. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Tampa, Florida.

Kidfresh

Venture Round in 2019
Kidfresh creates all-natural kids’ meals it provides top nutrition with no artificial colors or flavors to kids. Kidfresh is now offering a line of six healthy kids’ meals all-natural, frozen meals for kids sold in the US at retailers such as Whole Foods, Shaws, ShopRite, and a growing list of other supermarkets. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Koia

Series A in 2018
Koia is a food and beverage company that specializes in manufacturing plant protein drinks. The company is driven by its mission is to empower people through plants,100% Plant-Based Protein and natural ingredients. Each 12 oz bottle is packed with 15-19g of plant-based protein with amazing taste and under 5g of sugar. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

The Toasted Oat, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
The Toasted Oat’s soft and chewy granola has old-fashioned flavors, authentically good-for-you ingredients, and absolutely no agenda other than tasting amazing and making you feel great. Unlike some other granolas we could name, The Toasted Oat Granola is stop-you-in-your-tracks delicious—more like a crumbled cookie than a big batch of dry bland in a box. Inspired by the goodness that came out of our kitchens when we were kids, it’s pure baked nostalgia with a nod to modern-day—gluten-free, oven-baked from scratch (not processed) in small batches, and ready to enjoy whenever you are.

Roar Organic

Venture Round in 2018
ROAR represents a new breed of electrolyte infused hydration beverages with unique flavor combinations that set us apart from the rest. With a powerful base of coconut water and b-vitamins, loud "​in your face"​ packaging, the expressive aspects of an energy drink, yet the functionality of a healthier sports beverage, ROAR is a bold, healthy, alternative to the sugary, artificial, traditional isotonic beverages available today. ROAR is scientifically formulated for fast assimilation and long lasting energy, featuring an advanced hydration system to help replenish both body and mind with less sugar, NO artificial flavors, NO preservatives, NO gluten, NO caffeine, NO high fructose corn syrup, NO brominated vegetable oil.

Right Rice

Venture Round in 2020
RightRice is a tasty new rice grain that's made from vegetables. It's what they all love about rice, but made even right-er. RightRice is a complete, plant-based protein that's delicious, nutritious, and easy to cook. Every bowl of RightRice has more than double the protein, five times the fiber, and almost 40 percent fewer net carbs than a bowl of white rice. Just like rice, RightRice soaks up your favorite flavors and sauces. Original RightRice is ready to season your own way, or you can try one of their delicious, already seasoned varieties like Lemon Pepper, Spanish or Garlic Herb—all using real herbs and spices, nothing artificial, non-gmo, vegan and a complete source of protein, all with a low glycemic index.

Evoke Healthy Foods

Venture Round in 2014
Evoke Healthy Foods provides muesli, a ready-to-eat cereal food that includes a base of oats and whole grains mixed with ingredients, such as nuts, seeds, dried fruits, and sweets. The company serves customers through retail stores in the United States. It also sells muesli online. Evoke Healthy Foods was formerly known as Muesli Fusion, Inc. and changed its name to Evoke Healthy Foods in March 2014. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Rochester, New York.

The Nue Co.

Series A in 2019
The Nue Co. was born after a trip to Copenhagen inspired them to create a supplement brand founded on two danish principles, simplicity and creativity. Their lab has over 20 years experience and is based in Cambridge, England. Rather than working with harsh, isolated vitamins they choose to work with powerful organic foods high in specific vitamins or minerals. Every ingredient they use is completely traceable and of the highest standard. They never add fillers of any type, making their blends potent and pure.They limit the use of plastic packaging and are focused on minimising their carbon footprint.

Tractor Beverage

Venture Round in 2018
Tractor Beverage Company is all about honoring a complete meal experience. These drinks are sourced, prepared and poured with all the love, attention and intention as the food they pair with.

Tea Drops

Seed Round in 2020
Tea Drops is a Los Angeles based, woman owned organic tea company, making innovative, bagless, dissolvable teas. Tea Drops are USDA organic, GMO free, Gluten Free, and free of artificial/natural flavors. Pressed into whimsical shapes such as hearts, stars, and flowers -- Tea Drops are eco-friendly by design and made in sunny California.

Nounos Creamery

Corporate Round in 2019
Nounos Creamery produces Greek yogurt using the locally sourced ingredients in New York. The company hand-crafted the products in small batches to honor the artisanal Greek tradition. Nounos Creamery is family owned and operated in Southampton, NY.

JJ's Sweets

Venture Round in 2018
JJ's Sweets a candy company dedicated to offering blissful, innovative and mindfully crafted treats. They draw from the past but are influenced by our desire to see candy evolve into tasty indulgences that inspire the spirit, support our bodies, and are sustainable for the environment.

Mindful Foods

Seed Round in 2019
Soozy's is a food and beverage company that offers healthy and tasty grain-free baked goods. The company uses only clean ingredients, and all of its muffins are paleo and allergen-friendly and made without grain, gluten, dairy, peanut, or soy. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.

Good Day Chocolate

Venture Round in 2016
Good Day Chocolate makes chocolate with benefits for young working adults. Easily measured “honest” doses in a melt-proof candy-coating means control and convenience and real, premium chocolate means a universally loved, delicious treat. Need a pick-me-up? One piece of Energy is a darker chocolate with the caffeine from 1/2 cup of regular coffee, plus vitamins and minerals for a smooth energy boost. Calm is a milk chocolate with amino acids and botanicals that help you release tension without drowsiness.

Jinx

Series A in 2021
Jinx is a dog wellness brand that primarily sells dog foods online. It delivers optimal nutritional health dogs need to eat a high-quality protein medley from both animal and plant sources in the right proportions. Jinx online shop provides nutrition options with purposeful ingredients that they can recognize. The company was founded in 2019 with a mission to build a community of like-minded dog parents that take pride in how they care and connect with their fur babies.

Kidfresh

Convertible Note in 2021
Kidfresh creates all-natural kids’ meals it provides top nutrition with no artificial colors or flavors to kids. Kidfresh is now offering a line of six healthy kids’ meals all-natural, frozen meals for kids sold in the US at retailers such as Whole Foods, Shaws, ShopRite, and a growing list of other supermarkets. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States.

The Toasted Oat, Inc.

Venture Round in 2018
The Toasted Oat’s soft and chewy granola has old-fashioned flavors, authentically good-for-you ingredients, and absolutely no agenda other than tasting amazing and making you feel great. Unlike some other granolas we could name, The Toasted Oat Granola is stop-you-in-your-tracks delicious—more like a crumbled cookie than a big batch of dry bland in a box. Inspired by the goodness that came out of our kitchens when we were kids, it’s pure baked nostalgia with a nod to modern-day—gluten-free, oven-baked from scratch (not processed) in small batches, and ready to enjoy whenever you are.

ByHeart

Series B in 2021
ByHeart operates as a fully integrated infant nutrition company. It is dedicated to translating leading nutrition science and breastmilk research into evolved foods and formulas to support babies’ health and parents’ peace of mind. Its products strive to be next to nature made from hand-picked ingredients using small-batch blending and sit at the forefront of immune, microbiome, cognitive, and digestive health. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.

Bravo Sierra

Series B in 2022
Bravo Sierra is the first military-native performance wellness company, pioneering a user-driven performance personal care and nutrition organization developed within the U.S. military community. Powered by the insight generated through social manufacturing including direct collaboration with its core community of 1,000 U.S. military active duty service members, the company delivers performance goods with unprecedented responsiveness and accuracy for those who serve and for the benefit of all. Designed to support and enhance today's ultra-active lifestyle and engineered with critically relevant innovation and stress-tested in the field, the products include first-to-market technologies and formulas that are clean, vegan, and cruelty-free. Bravo Sierra is built around a revenue share model contributing 5% of all sales to the Morale Welfare and Recreation (MWR) program, which offers a complete range of community support and quality of life programs for members of the U.S. Armed Forces, their families, retirees, and veterans.

Nounos Creamery

Venture Round in 2021
Nounos Creamery produces Greek yogurt using the locally sourced ingredients in New York. The company hand-crafted the products in small batches to honor the artisanal Greek tradition. Nounos Creamery is family owned and operated in Southampton, NY.

Buff Bake, LLC

Seed Round in 2017
Buff Bake, LLC produces and retails butter, cookies, and protein spreads. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Santa Ana, California.

Kidfresh

Venture Round in 2020
Kidfresh creates all-natural kids’ meals it provides top nutrition with no artificial colors or flavors to kids. Kidfresh is now offering a line of six healthy kids’ meals all-natural, frozen meals for kids sold in the US at retailers such as Whole Foods, Shaws, ShopRite, and a growing list of other supermarkets. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Gainful Health Inc.

Series A in 2021
Gainful Health Inc. manufactures and supplies protein powder online. It offers personalized protein powder to consumers on subscription basis. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Native State Foods, Inc.

Venture Round in 2018
Native State Foods, Inc. produces and supplies pinole grains food products. The company provides Purely Pinole brand line of hot cereal and snacking products, as well as apparel. It markets and sells its products through stores and online in the United States. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Koia

Funding Round in 2018
Koia is a food and beverage company that specializes in manufacturing plant protein drinks. The company is driven by its mission is to empower people through plants,100% Plant-Based Protein and natural ingredients. Each 12 oz bottle is packed with 15-19g of plant-based protein with amazing taste and under 5g of sugar. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Bonafide Provisions

Series B in 2019
Bonafide Provisions, LLC produces organic frozen bone broth. It offers restorative pasture raised chicken and grass fed beef broths and soups. The company sells its products online and through retail stores. The company was formerly known as Real True Foods LLC and changed its name to Bonafide Provisions, LLC in January 2016. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Carlsbad, California.

BRAMI Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
BRAMI Inc. provides lupine beans. It offers BRAMI beans that are soy-free ready-to-snack lupine seeds that are taken as a snack at any time of the day. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Mindful Foods

Seed Round in 2020
Soozy's is a food and beverage company that offers healthy and tasty grain-free baked goods. The company uses only clean ingredients, and all of its muffins are paleo and allergen-friendly and made without grain, gluten, dairy, peanut, or soy. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.

Four Sigmatic

Venture Round in 2017
Four Sigmatic make drinking mushrooms easy with our mushroom coffees, elixirs, and superfood blends.

Crunchsters

Venture Round in 2015
Crunchsters is a new kind of snack food in the fastest growing sector of the food industry worldwide: snacks. They provide an innovative and delicious solution for customers who want a nutritious and satisfying savory snack, without the empty calories and artificial ingredients in with other snack products. Although the taste of Crunchsters is often compared to potato chips, they offer 3 times the protein and twice the fiber of a similar calorie amount of chips.

il Morso Coffee Bites

Seed Round in 2016
Il Morso is a manufacturer of a packaged coffee bar made from organic coffee functioning as a low impact energy food. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

ICONIC Protein

Venture Round in 2014
ICONIC is committed to using clean-label, premium ingredients that not only taste great but also are good for you. ICONIC is 100% all natural with no artificial ingredients or chemicals. Their protein is grass-fed, and all of their flavors are made with ingredients you can pronounce and understand.

Good Fish

Convertible Note in 2020
Good Fish specializes in producing and selling fish skin snacks to customers. Good Fish is headquartered in the USA.

Tea Drops

Venture Round in 2019
Tea Drops is a Los Angeles based, woman owned organic tea company, making innovative, bagless, dissolvable teas. Tea Drops are USDA organic, GMO free, Gluten Free, and free of artificial/natural flavors. Pressed into whimsical shapes such as hearts, stars, and flowers -- Tea Drops are eco-friendly by design and made in sunny California.

Bandar Foods

Venture Round in 2015
Bandar Foods, LLC produces sauces and snacks in the United States. It offers naan chips, mint-cilantro chili sauces, spicy mango chili sauces, chili garlic hot sauces, masala spiced tomato ketchups, crisped vegetables, and poppadums; and T-shirts. The company sells its products through retail stores, as well as online. Bandar Foods, LLC was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Mansi

Venture Round in 2018
Mansi sells the first calamansi juice beverage available in North America. This Premium ready-to-drink citrus product is the first in its category to be Non-GMO Project verified, using only the finest, most premium, hand-picked calamansi, naturally sweetened with organic cane sugar and a splash of organic honey.

Nona Lim, LLC

Venture Round in 2016
Based in Oakland, California, Nona Lim makes non-GMO, dairy-free, and gluten-free soups, broths, and convenient meals using the freshest local and organic ingredients. Also, Nona Lim offers a variety of prepared meals and noodles that you can customize to make-it-your-own. The company was founded in 2006.

Alpha Foods

Seed Round in 2019
Alpha Foods produces plant-based foods focused on taste, texture, and sustainability. It is dedicated to returning to the roots of a healthy diet and sustainable industry by bringing delicious meat alternatives derived from plants. It aims to bring clean, sustainable sizzle to the plant-based protein market with a variety of delicious convenience foods. Alpha Foods was founded in 2015.
Skinny Dipped Almonds makes chocolate-covered almond treats using high-end ingredients. They offer roasted almonds that are skinny dipped in a thin layer of artisan dark chocolate and finished with a whisper of pure cocoa, espresso, or raspberry. Skinny Dipped Almonds was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Whynatte Enterprises

Seed Round in 2014
Whynatte Enterprises is a beverage company that produces and sells ready-to-drink coffees. It also sells hoodies, shot glasses, T-shirts, hats, bar mats, prints, posters, and cups online.

cliosnacks

Venture Round in 2020
CLIO Snacks is a consumer goods company that manufactures yogurt bars. Clio believes in snacking clean without compromise. It’s all game, no shame. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Roselle, New Jersey.

Native State Foods, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
Native State Foods, Inc. produces and supplies pinole grains food products. The company provides Purely Pinole brand line of hot cereal and snacking products, as well as apparel. It markets and sells its products through stores and online in the United States. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Koia

Series A in 2017
Koia is a food and beverage company that specializes in manufacturing plant protein drinks. The company is driven by its mission is to empower people through plants,100% Plant-Based Protein and natural ingredients. Each 12 oz bottle is packed with 15-19g of plant-based protein with amazing taste and under 5g of sugar. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Good Fish

Venture Round in 2019
Good Fish specializes in producing and selling fish skin snacks to customers. Good Fish is headquartered in the USA.

Element Snacks

Venture Round in 2015
Element Snacks is a modern twist on a classic snack: rice or corn cakes coated in chocolate or fruit. They believe in nurturing our bodies and minds at the same time. They believe in simple yet flavorful. They believe in real food. They believe in supporting small-scale farms as an ecological, economic and human asset. They believe that life is too short to snack badly.

Element Snacks

Seed Round in 2016
Element Snacks is a modern twist on a classic snack: rice or corn cakes coated in chocolate or fruit. They believe in nurturing our bodies and minds at the same time. They believe in simple yet flavorful. They believe in real food. They believe in supporting small-scale farms as an ecological, economic and human asset. They believe that life is too short to snack badly.
Skinny Dipped Almonds makes chocolate-covered almond treats using high-end ingredients. They offer roasted almonds that are skinny dipped in a thin layer of artisan dark chocolate and finished with a whisper of pure cocoa, espresso, or raspberry. Skinny Dipped Almonds was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

JicaChips

Venture Round in 2015
We discovered jicama, the "Mexican Potato", while vacationing in Mexico. Traditionally eaten raw, with a sprinkle of Chili & Lime, this slightly sweet, low calorie & nutrient dense root vegetable inspired JicaChips, deliciously irresistible, crunchy chips made from jicama slices. Goodbye potato chips, Hello JicaChips. We believe that everyone deserves a snack that is as delicious as it is good for you. Make JicaChips your family's new favorite snack and crunch without sacrificing.

Exo Protein Bars

Venture Round in 2014
Exo is a producer and provider of protein bars made from cricket flour. Its protein bars are a combination of cricket flour with organic ingredients such as raw cacao, dates, almond butter, and coconut to create a bar that is high in protein, low in sugar, nutritionally dense, and packed with omega 3 fatty acids, iron, and calcium that enable users to get sports bar that is free of sugar, gluten, grains, dairy, soy, and artificial preservatives. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Wandering Bear LLC

Seed Round in 2017
Wandering Bear LLC produces, brews, and delivers coffee for homes and offices. It offers iced coffee packaged in twelve-cup boxes. The company sells its products through stores in New York City, as well as online stores in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Wandering Bear LLC was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Cows Gone

Funding Round in 2015
Cows Gone Coconut non-dairy frozen dessert is a rich and creamy treat that does not contain dairy, gluten, soy, eggs or cholesterol.

Nomi

Venture Round in 2017
Nomi is a producer of a refrigerated snack bar used to offer nutritious snacks. Its snack bar is oat-based, gluten-free and has high fiber and whole grains that enable consumers to have high-protein bars. Nomi was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Bandar Foods

Seed Round in 2016
Bandar Foods, LLC produces sauces and snacks in the United States. It offers naan chips, mint-cilantro chili sauces, spicy mango chili sauces, chili garlic hot sauces, masala spiced tomato ketchups, crisped vegetables, and poppadums; and T-shirts. The company sells its products through retail stores, as well as online. Bandar Foods, LLC was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Skinny Dipped Almonds makes chocolate-covered almond treats using high-end ingredients. They offer roasted almonds that are skinny dipped in a thin layer of artisan dark chocolate and finished with a whisper of pure cocoa, espresso, or raspberry. Skinny Dipped Almonds was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Jaali Bean

Venture Round in 2014
Jaali Bean brings delicious and healthy Indian comfort food into your kitchen! Discover the ease of cooking with whole spices and other non-GMO ingredients that are naturally gluten free.

Kalahari Biltong

Funding Round in 2018
Kalahari Biltong offers seasoned and dried beef snack that tastes like prosciutto and jerky. The company began in South Africa when three friends raced 175 miles in an Ironman and Ultramarathon within a week. There they discovered the age-old traditions of crafting and preserving beef with simple ingredients. Since then, they've been rooted in a mission to share these styles and elevate the way people experience food. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Wandering Bear LLC

Venture Round in 2016
Wandering Bear LLC produces, brews, and delivers coffee for homes and offices. It offers iced coffee packaged in twelve-cup boxes. The company sells its products through stores in New York City, as well as online stores in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Wandering Bear LLC was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Soozy's

Seed Round in 2018
Soozy's is a food and beverage company that offers healthy and tasty grain-free baked goods. The company uses only clean ingredients, and all of its muffins are paleo and allergen-friendly and made without grain, gluten, dairy, peanut, or soy. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.

Tractor Beverage

Venture Round in 2017
Tractor Beverage Company is all about honoring a complete meal experience. These drinks are sourced, prepared and poured with all the love, attention and intention as the food they pair with.

Tea Drops

Seed Round in 2018
Tea Drops is a Los Angeles based, woman owned organic tea company, making innovative, bagless, dissolvable teas. Tea Drops are USDA organic, GMO free, Gluten Free, and free of artificial/natural flavors. Pressed into whimsical shapes such as hearts, stars, and flowers -- Tea Drops are eco-friendly by design and made in sunny California.

Right Rice

Funding Round in 2017
RightRice is a tasty new rice grain that's made from vegetables. It's what they all love about rice, but made even right-er. RightRice is a complete, plant-based protein that's delicious, nutritious, and easy to cook. Every bowl of RightRice has more than double the protein, five times the fiber, and almost 40 percent fewer net carbs than a bowl of white rice. Just like rice, RightRice soaks up your favorite flavors and sauces. Original RightRice is ready to season your own way, or you can try one of their delicious, already seasoned varieties like Lemon Pepper, Spanish or Garlic Herb—all using real herbs and spices, nothing artificial, non-gmo, vegan and a complete source of protein, all with a low glycemic index.

Bonafide Provisions

Funding Round in 2018
Bonafide Provisions, LLC produces organic frozen bone broth. It offers restorative pasture raised chicken and grass fed beef broths and soups. The company sells its products online and through retail stores. The company was formerly known as Real True Foods LLC and changed its name to Bonafide Provisions, LLC in January 2016. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Carlsbad, California.

BOU Brands, LLC

Funding Round in 2017
BOU is a small team of foodies who are committed to creating products that are tastier, healthier, higher quality, and more convenient. They believe that you should never have to sacrifice flavor for health, or quality for convenience. Whether it's their easy to use cubes, or their on the go soup cups, their products are made with real and all natural ingredients, and are designed to make your life easier.

Kalahari Biltong

Seed Round in 2017
Kalahari Biltong offers seasoned and dried beef snack that tastes like prosciutto and jerky. The company began in South Africa when three friends raced 175 miles in an Ironman and Ultramarathon within a week. There they discovered the age-old traditions of crafting and preserving beef with simple ingredients. Since then, they've been rooted in a mission to share these styles and elevate the way people experience food. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Wandering Bear LLC

Series A in 2018
Wandering Bear LLC produces, brews, and delivers coffee for homes and offices. It offers iced coffee packaged in twelve-cup boxes. The company sells its products through stores in New York City, as well as online stores in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Wandering Bear LLC was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Four Sigmatic

Venture Round in 2015
Four Sigmatic make drinking mushrooms easy with our mushroom coffees, elixirs, and superfood blends.

Halsa

Venture Round in 2017
Hälsa is a line of plant-based yogurt drinks made with a base of fermented organic whole grain oats

Bear Squeeze

Seed Round in 2018
Bear Squeeze is a brand that provides on-the-go ketogenic food products. Its goal is to create a great-tasting, keto-friendly meal replacement with optimal nutrition and ultimate convenience. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in California City, California.

Rethink Water

Venture Round in 2017
Rethink Brands is a solution-based beverage company that is focused on optimizing the products of everyday life. It is a drink for all occasions, may it be birthday parties, soccer game refreshments, and lunch table concessions, children could see a good bit of sugar over the course of any given day. It is based in Columbia, Maryland, and was founded in 2015.
Skinny Dipped Almonds makes chocolate-covered almond treats using high-end ingredients. They offer roasted almonds that are skinny dipped in a thin layer of artisan dark chocolate and finished with a whisper of pure cocoa, espresso, or raspberry. Skinny Dipped Almonds was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Rethink Water

Corporate Round in 2018
Rethink Brands is a solution-based beverage company that is focused on optimizing the products of everyday life. It is a drink for all occasions, may it be birthday parties, soccer game refreshments, and lunch table concessions, children could see a good bit of sugar over the course of any given day. It is based in Columbia, Maryland, and was founded in 2015.

Element Snacks

Venture Round in 2017
Element Snacks is a modern twist on a classic snack: rice or corn cakes coated in chocolate or fruit. They believe in nurturing our bodies and minds at the same time. They believe in simple yet flavorful. They believe in real food. They believe in supporting small-scale farms as an ecological, economic and human asset. They believe that life is too short to snack badly.

Four Sigmatic

Venture Round in 2014
Four Sigmatic make drinking mushrooms easy with our mushroom coffees, elixirs, and superfood blends.

Good Boy Organics

Venture Round in 2015
Good Boy Organics is focused on providing Certified Organic and Non GMO Project Verified products for the entire family.
Skinny Dipped Almonds makes chocolate-covered almond treats using high-end ingredients. They offer roasted almonds that are skinny dipped in a thin layer of artisan dark chocolate and finished with a whisper of pure cocoa, espresso, or raspberry. Skinny Dipped Almonds was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Wandering Bear LLC

Venture Round in 2016
Wandering Bear LLC produces, brews, and delivers coffee for homes and offices. It offers iced coffee packaged in twelve-cup boxes. The company sells its products through stores in New York City, as well as online stores in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Wandering Bear LLC was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

JJ's Sweets

Seed Round in 2014
JJ's Sweets a candy company dedicated to offering blissful, innovative and mindfully crafted treats. They draw from the past but are influenced by our desire to see candy evolve into tasty indulgences that inspire the spirit, support our bodies, and are sustainable for the environment.

BRAMI Inc.

Funding Round in 2018
BRAMI Inc. provides lupine beans. It offers BRAMI beans that are soy-free ready-to-snack lupine seeds that are taken as a snack at any time of the day. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Bonafide Provisions

Venture Round in 2017
Bonafide Provisions, LLC produces organic frozen bone broth. It offers restorative pasture raised chicken and grass fed beef broths and soups. The company sells its products online and through retail stores. The company was formerly known as Real True Foods LLC and changed its name to Bonafide Provisions, LLC in January 2016. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Carlsbad, California.

Kalot

Seed Round in 2014
Kalot Superfood make the vibrant health you crave attainable and enjoyable. SNACKALOT for your daily boost of nutrition and optimal wellness.

Siete Family Foods

Private Equity Round in 2019
Siete Family Foods Inc. produces grain-free tortillas and tortilla chips that are paleo, gluten-free, and preservative-free. The company distributes its food products and apparel through stores and online platform. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Kalahari Biltong

Venture Round in 2019
Kalahari Biltong offers seasoned and dried beef snack that tastes like prosciutto and jerky. The company began in South Africa when three friends raced 175 miles in an Ironman and Ultramarathon within a week. There they discovered the age-old traditions of crafting and preserving beef with simple ingredients. Since then, they've been rooted in a mission to share these styles and elevate the way people experience food. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Good Day Chocolate

Venture Round in 2018
Good Day Chocolate makes chocolate with benefits for young working adults. Easily measured “honest” doses in a melt-proof candy-coating means control and convenience and real, premium chocolate means a universally loved, delicious treat. Need a pick-me-up? One piece of Energy is a darker chocolate with the caffeine from 1/2 cup of regular coffee, plus vitamins and minerals for a smooth energy boost. Calm is a milk chocolate with amino acids and botanicals that help you release tension without drowsiness.

Exo Protein Bars

Series A in 2016
Exo is a producer and provider of protein bars made from cricket flour. Its protein bars are a combination of cricket flour with organic ingredients such as raw cacao, dates, almond butter, and coconut to create a bar that is high in protein, low in sugar, nutritionally dense, and packed with omega 3 fatty acids, iron, and calcium that enable users to get sports bar that is free of sugar, gluten, grains, dairy, soy, and artificial preservatives. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Proud Source Water

Series A in 2020
Proud Source Water is a brand bottling naturally alkaline spring water. Proud Source Water offers naturally alkaline spring water with zero additives and packaged in infinitely recyclable aluminum bottles. They providing a much-needed alternative to plastic bottles in the bottled-water market with their recyclable aluminum packaging. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho, United States.

Kidfresh

Venture Round in 2016
Kidfresh creates all-natural kids’ meals it provides top nutrition with no artificial colors or flavors to kids. Kidfresh is now offering a line of six healthy kids’ meals all-natural, frozen meals for kids sold in the US at retailers such as Whole Foods, Shaws, ShopRite, and a growing list of other supermarkets. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States.

The Toasted Oat, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
The Toasted Oat’s soft and chewy granola has old-fashioned flavors, authentically good-for-you ingredients, and absolutely no agenda other than tasting amazing and making you feel great. Unlike some other granolas we could name, The Toasted Oat Granola is stop-you-in-your-tracks delicious—more like a crumbled cookie than a big batch of dry bland in a box. Inspired by the goodness that came out of our kitchens when we were kids, it’s pure baked nostalgia with a nod to modern-day—gluten-free, oven-baked from scratch (not processed) in small batches, and ready to enjoy whenever you are.

Harmless Harvest

Funding Round in 2018
Harmless Harvest, Inc. produces organic coconut water. Its products include pro-plant pro-people, pro-biotic, and coffee coconut water. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Tractor Beverage

Funding Round in 2018
Tractor Beverage Company is all about honoring a complete meal experience. These drinks are sourced, prepared and poured with all the love, attention and intention as the food they pair with.

JJ's Sweets

Venture Round in 2015
JJ's Sweets a candy company dedicated to offering blissful, innovative and mindfully crafted treats. They draw from the past but are influenced by our desire to see candy evolve into tasty indulgences that inspire the spirit, support our bodies, and are sustainable for the environment.

Harmless Harvest

Venture Round in 2017
Harmless Harvest, Inc. produces organic coconut water. Its products include pro-plant pro-people, pro-biotic, and coffee coconut water. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Alpha Foods

Series A in 2020
Alpha Foods produces plant-based foods focused on taste, texture, and sustainability. It is dedicated to returning to the roots of a healthy diet and sustainable industry by bringing delicious meat alternatives derived from plants. It aims to bring clean, sustainable sizzle to the plant-based protein market with a variety of delicious convenience foods. Alpha Foods was founded in 2015.

JicaChips

Seed Round in 2016
We discovered jicama, the "Mexican Potato", while vacationing in Mexico. Traditionally eaten raw, with a sprinkle of Chili & Lime, this slightly sweet, low calorie & nutrient dense root vegetable inspired JicaChips, deliciously irresistible, crunchy chips made from jicama slices. Goodbye potato chips, Hello JicaChips. We believe that everyone deserves a snack that is as delicious as it is good for you. Make JicaChips your family's new favorite snack and crunch without sacrificing.

Ready, Set, Food!

Seed Round in 2020
Ready, Set, Food! Manufactures and sells packet food for infants. It offers its products through online. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Encino, California.

Nomi

Venture Round in 2018
Nomi is a producer of a refrigerated snack bar used to offer nutritious snacks. Its snack bar is oat-based, gluten-free and has high fiber and whole grains that enable consumers to have high-protein bars. Nomi was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Toasted Oat, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
The Toasted Oat’s soft and chewy granola has old-fashioned flavors, authentically good-for-you ingredients, and absolutely no agenda other than tasting amazing and making you feel great. Unlike some other granolas we could name, The Toasted Oat Granola is stop-you-in-your-tracks delicious—more like a crumbled cookie than a big batch of dry bland in a box. Inspired by the goodness that came out of our kitchens when we were kids, it’s pure baked nostalgia with a nod to modern-day—gluten-free, oven-baked from scratch (not processed) in small batches, and ready to enjoy whenever you are.