Manna Tree
Manna Tree is a private equity firm based in Vail, Colorado, founded in 2018. The firm focuses on investing in small and mid-sized companies involved in the food and nutrition sectors across North America, emphasizing areas such as production, processing, logistics, distribution, consumer products, and personal nutrition. Manna Tree aims to enhance human health through food by innovating within the supply chain and fostering authentic partnerships. The firm closed its first fund in March 2020, raising $141.5 million from a diverse group of investors, including private wealth managers and family offices. Notably, women and next-generation investors accounted for 45% of the funding sources. To date, Manna Tree has made four investments, targeting companies like Verde Farms, MycoTechnology, Nutriati, and Vital Farms.
Gotham Greens is a fresh food company on a mission to transform the way they approach the food system, putting people and the planet at the forefront. Gotham Greens produces and delivers long-lasting and delicious leafy greens, herbs, salad dressings, dips, and cooking sauces all year round to retail, restaurant, and food service customers. As a Certified B CorporationTM, Gotham Greens farms with the future in mind through a national network of climate-controlled, high-tech glasshouses across America, including locations in New York, Illinois, Rhode Island, Maryland, Virginia, Colorado, and California. Since its launch in 2011, Gotham Greens has grown from a single urban rooftop glasshouse in Brooklyn, N.Y., to a hydroponic leafy green producer in North America. Gotham Greens products are available in more than 3,000 grocery stores nationwide.
good culture produces real-food cultured dairy products and simple ingredients across its growing portfolio of cultured foods. Its products include a range of cottage cheese which is thick, creamy, and low in sugar as well as other dairy products that help consumers to consume dairy without affecting their health.
Kombucha is made via primary and secondary fermentation, the process that transforms sweet tea into kombucha and significantly reduces the sugar content.Financing the new brewery will be important, Oza adds, because Health-Ade currently is unable to make enough kombucha to satisfy demand. He estimates that the company could be selling five times more product, if only it could brew it.
The New Primal specializes in manufacturing grass-fed, grass-finished, and pasture-raised meat snacks. It specializes in the fields of food processing, food and beverage, and snack food. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in North Charleston, South Carolina.
Urban Remedy is a plant-based organic food company that embodies the belief that Food is Healing. We empower consumers to conveniently eat ultra-fresh and clean. All of Urban Remedy's ready-to-eat meals, snacks and cold-pressed juices are certified organic, non-GMO Project Verified, gluten free, and low glycemic. Urban Remedy ships directly to customers nationally from its headquarters in Point Richmond, CA and operates 17 retail locations and over 300 grocery kiosks across 21 states. Urban Remedy is a certified B corporation. Learn more at www.urbanremedy.com
Evolve Biosystems is a biotechnology company that specializes in providing microbiome-based products designed to develop, restore, and maintain. The company's platform focuses on solving the gut dysbiosis throughout the human life cycle as well as in various animal species, enabling physicians to maintain the healthy gut microbiome in newborn infants with a consumer-directed home use product, and a hospital-based neonatal ICU product.
Gotham Greens is a fresh food company on a mission to transform the way they approach the food system, putting people and the planet at the forefront. Gotham Greens produces and delivers long-lasting and delicious leafy greens, herbs, salad dressings, dips, and cooking sauces all year round to retail, restaurant, and food service customers. As a Certified B CorporationTM, Gotham Greens farms with the future in mind through a national network of climate-controlled, high-tech glasshouses across America, including locations in New York, Illinois, Rhode Island, Maryland, Virginia, Colorado, and California. Since its launch in 2011, Gotham Greens has grown from a single urban rooftop glasshouse in Brooklyn, N.Y., to a hydroponic leafy green producer in North America. Gotham Greens products are available in more than 3,000 grocery stores nationwide.
Verde Farms supplies organic and grass-fed beef. They provide natural and organic pasture-raised beef and lamb solutions for the retail, food service, and ingredient segments. They supply products to wholesale meat distributors, grocery chains, and directly to restaurants.
Nutriati provides functional plant-based ingredients with a clean taste profile and the functional performance that CPG demands. Their plant-based ingredients are functional chickpea flour and chickpea protein. It's commercially available to help companies meet consumer demand for high-protein and non-allergenic foods. Applications include bread, baked goods, pasta, sauces, snacks, non-dairy, plant-based meat, and more.
Private Equity Round in 2019
Vital Farms is a provider and manufacturer of pasture-raised eggs and poultry in the United States. The Vital Farms team has created a company that provides nutritious food for consumers, differentiated products for channel partners, attractive economics for farmers, responsible land use for communities, and ethical, humane living conditions for animals. It also prioritizes the long-term benefits of each of its stakeholders, including farmers and suppliers, customers and consumers, communities and the environment, and crew members and stockholders. Vital Farms was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States.
MycoTechnology utilizes fungi-based food-processing platforms to transform the flavor and value of agricultural products. The platform can be used to solve a variety of challenges faced by the food, beverage, and flavor industries. MycoTechnology has released ClearTaste, an all-natural, GMO-free, organic bitter blocker that is Kosher and Halal certified. ClearTaste improves the flavor of various agricultural products. MycoTechnology also engages in fermenting agricultural products with strains of gourmet fungi. The company offers myceliated chocolate as well as robusta and arabica coffee beans. It develops and licenses technology to the industry to naturally improve the flavor of robusta and arabica coffee. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Aurora, Colorado.
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