Boulder Food Group
BFG seeks partnerships with early stage food and beverage consumer product companies. BFG works alongside exceptional entrepreneurs to ensure the business is able to deliver sustainable growth and outperform its competitors.
BFG look to invest alongside passionate founders with an exceptional product(s), a disruptive and distinguished brand, and a clearly defined strategy. In addition to providing our portfolio companies with capital, BFG provides teams with the advice most needed to make critical decisions and maximize opportunities. This advice spans operational strategy, tactical marketing, channel development, organizational design and capital planning.
Sector
17 past transactions
Bobo’s Oat Bars
Series B in 2019
On a rainy afternoon in 2003, Beryl Stafford and her daughter “Bobo” baked oat bars that soon became a Boulder, CO cafe favorite. This humble oat bar has since captivated loyal fans nationwide, with no compromise to the original recipe, small-batch baking process, or mother-daughter tradition.
Bloom
Seed Round in 2021
Vessel is an at-home wellness tracker that helps in accessing, understanding, and optimizing health and wellness from the comfort of home. With Vessel, users can test 10 different health metrics in less than 10 minutes for around $10. Vessel works with some of the best doctors, nutritionists, and scientists to create its wellness cards and build food, supplement, and lifestyle recommendations tailored based on the results. A variety of membership plans enables one to see how diet, supplements, and lifestyle affect the body over time so users can start to feel and perform better. With Vessel, the science of feeling great fits in the palm of the hand.
Vacation
Series A in 2023
Quinn Snacks
Series B in 2021
Quinn Snacks is a developer of an online food ordering platform used to give people the choice to snack mindfully. Its platform offers a variety of flavored popcorn choosing real ingredients from trusted farmers and suppliers so the environmental impact can be lessened that enable users to shop for healthy snacks online.
It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.
Barnana, PBC
Venture Round in 2015
An alternative to traditional snacks; healthy, organic Barnana, the Super Potassium Snack, is pioneering the use of the banana's naturally occurring nutritional content. Barnana has no additives, no preservatives and is naturally sweet. Barnana's banana snacks are grown in sustainable, organic farms in South America and are an exceptional source of potassium, fiber and have over 20 vitamins and minerals. Original, Chocolate, Coconut, and Peanut Butter Organic Banana Bites can be found at Whole Foods, Safeway, Sprouts, and other finer grocers nationwide.
Good Day Chocolate
Seed Round in 2015
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.
Truman's
Seed Round in 2019
Truman’s is a household company that offers non-toxic products that reduce shipping and plastic waste while effectively cleaning clothes. The company's non-toxic solution for clean pants, plates, and potties. Their four non-toxic surface care products for floors, kitchens, bathrooms, and glass. It aims to reduce single-use plastic bottles and truckloads in the cleaning industry by shipping concentrate-filled cartridges that mixed with water in reusable bottles at the point of use.
Truman's was founded in 2019 and is based in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
Barnana, PBC
Venture Round in 2017
An alternative to traditional snacks; healthy, organic Barnana, the Super Potassium Snack, is pioneering the use of the banana's naturally occurring nutritional content. Barnana has no additives, no preservatives and is naturally sweet. Barnana's banana snacks are grown in sustainable, organic farms in South America and are an exceptional source of potassium, fiber and have over 20 vitamins and minerals. Original, Chocolate, Coconut, and Peanut Butter Organic Banana Bites can be found at Whole Foods, Safeway, Sprouts, and other finer grocers nationwide.
Mid-Day Squares
Series B in 2021
CAULIPOWER
Seed Round in 2017
Caulipower is a food and beverage manufacturing company that focuses on producing vegetable-based pizzas and pizza crusts that are gluten-free. It specializes in providing frozen pizza, pizza, manufacturing, and Gluten-Free.
It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Encino, California.
Mid-Day Squares
Series A in 2019
Maev
Series A in 2022
Maev, Inc. engages in manufacturing foods for dogs. It offers raw food bowls, vitamin bars, and bone broth. The company provides food diet consultancy services as per the dog’s breed, age, weight, activity level, and lifestyle. It sells its products online. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.
4th & Heart
Series C in 2019
4th & Heart is an artisan producer of organic ghee, or clarified butter. It untapped culinary treasure in mainstream American diets, with incredible flavor and health benefits.
OLIPOP
Seed Round in 2019
OLIPOP, Inc produces digestive health beverages. It offers sparkling tonics for digestive health with fiber, prebiotics, and botanical extracts. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Oakland, California.
Fat Snax
Series A in 2020
Fat Snax provides low-carb snacks and desserts to customers since 2017. It offers four flavors of their soft-baked cookies, along with Brownie Bites and Blondie Bites. The products can be found at FatSnax.com.
ZitSticka
Series A in 2019
ZitSticka is an evidence-based skincare brand focused squarely on acne treatments that target every unique stage of a zit's life cycle. ZitSticka's debut product, the KILLA patch, contains dermatologically backed ingredients, and is layered with self-dissolving microdarts that disrupt the progression of upcoming, early-stage zits. ZitSticka upholds all FDA cosmetic regulatory standards. The company is founded by brothers-in-law and human biology enthusiasts, Robbie Miller and Daniel Kaplan, and launched in February 2019. The KILLA kit is available online for $29.00, which includes eight KILLA patches and eight priming CLEANA swabs.
OLIPOP
Series A in 2020
OLIPOP, Inc produces digestive health beverages. It offers sparkling tonics for digestive health with fiber, prebiotics, and botanical extracts. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Oakland, California.