Sherbrooke Capital

Sherbrooke Capital is a venture capital firm based in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts, founded in 1999. The firm focuses on investments in the health and wellness sector, particularly in emerging consumer markets related to pharmaceuticals, nutrition, healthy foods and beverages, devices and diagnostics, and sustainable living. It typically invests between $1 million and $4 million in initial funding, with a total investment cap of $10 million across multiple financing rounds. Sherbrooke Capital targets companies with revenues ranging from $5 million to $25 million and usually takes a minority stake in its portfolio. The firm prefers to be the first institutional investor and often seeks to syndicate its investments, aiming for a board seat in its chosen companies.

John K. Giannuzzi

Founder and Managing General Partner

26 past transactions

Farmigo

Series B in 2015
Farmigo is an online farmer’s market that works directly with local farmers and food makers to curate a weekly marketplace chock full of delicious produce, meats, dairy, baked goods and snacks.

Kill Cliff

Venture Round in 2013
Kill Cliff specializes in providing sports beverages, ready-to-drink beverages, and recovery drinks. Its products are created as an alternative to energy drinks, sodas, sports drinks, and beverages aimed to help athletes to get an alternative to the other choices in the market. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Farmigo

Series A in 2012
Farmigo is an online farmer’s market that works directly with local farmers and food makers to curate a weekly marketplace chock full of delicious produce, meats, dairy, baked goods and snacks.

Angie's Artisan Treats

Venture Round in 2011
Boomchickapop offers packed readymade popcorn. Their product categories such as ready-to-eat popcorn, seasonal popcorn, multipacks, microwave popcorn, sea salt popcorn, microwave real butter, microwave popcorn, multipacks, white chocolate, peppermint drizzle, and seasonal popcorn.

TransMedics

Series E in 2010
TransMedics provides technology and clinical service solutions, service for heart and lung transplant volume, clinical outcomes, and reduce learning curves.

Kill Cliff

Seed Round in 2009
Kill Cliff specializes in providing sports beverages, ready-to-drink beverages, and recovery drinks. Its products are created as an alternative to energy drinks, sodas, sports drinks, and beverages aimed to help athletes to get an alternative to the other choices in the market. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Ciao Bella Gelato

Venture Round in 2008
Ciao Bella, America’s most stylish dessert brand, began in New York’s Little Italy and has been tempting taste buds for more than three decades. Beyond ordinary, Ciao Bella’s indulgent collection of gelatos and sorbettos offers an unparalleled dessert experience by relying on a chef-inspired blend of naturally intense ingredients and a passion for evoking delight in every frozen bite. Offering unique and intense flavors like Blood Orange Sorbet, Bourbon Caramel Chocolate Gelato, and Key Lime Graham Gelato square, Ciao Bella uses only the most select and pure ingredients, resulting in mouth-watering frozen treats that embody both classic Italy and modern America. The brand has been featured prominently in national media for its captivating creations.

TransMedics

Series D in 2007
TransMedics provides technology and clinical service solutions, service for heart and lung transplant volume, clinical outcomes, and reduce learning curves.

Food Should Taste Good

Pre Seed Round in 2007
Food Should Taste Good® chips are made from the highest quality, all-natural ingredients. All chip varieties are gluten free, cholesterol free, and have no trans fats.

TransMedics

Series C in 2006
TransMedics provides technology and clinical service solutions, service for heart and lung transplant volume, clinical outcomes, and reduce learning curves.

Immaculate Baking

Venture Round in 2006
Immaculate Baking Company engages in the production and sale of baked goods for restaurants, airplanes, supermarkets, and club stores. It offers organic cookie dough, brownie dough, chocolate chunk cookies, dough buttermilk biscuits, scones, cookies, cinnamon rolls and crescent rolls, pie crusts, and snack cookies. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Immaculate Baking Company operates as a subsidiary of General Mills, Inc. As of December, 2012, Immaculate Baking Company operates as a subsidiary of General Mills, Inc.

IZZE Beverage

Venture Round in 2005
The IZZE Beverage Company was founded in 2002 by two friends who set out to create a distinctive natural beverage while contributing to a higher purpose. The IZZE Project Reach program supports and creates education-based development for farm workers and their families in the communities where IZZE buys its fruit.

Advanced BioNutrition

Series B in 2005
Advanced BioNutrition develops functional ingredients to improve animal health and functional nutrition in the aquaculture area. The company focused on offering environmentally sustainable and science-based bioactive stabilization and delivery solutions to a variety of industries, spanning from human nutrition and health and human biologics to agriculture, food ingredients, and food safety. It continues to explore new verticals based on technologies available with over 40 patents. Since the company’s inception in 2001, ABN’s visionary scientists and engineers have helped the company grow into a diversified provider of solutions that better stabilize, protect, and deliver bio-actives to their targeted sites.

BOATHOUSE ROW SPORTS

Venture Round in 2005
Boathouse Row Sports, Ltd. offers outerwear, uniform, and training gear for athletes and schools. It offers its products in various categories, such as accessories, coaches and sideline gear, full zip jackets, pullover jackets, weathershirts, parkas, pants, training and travel suits, training gear and sweats, and uniforms for various sports, such as basketball, cross country, field hockey, football, lacrosse, rowing, rugby, sailing, soccer, softball, tennis and squash, track and field, volleyball, and wrestling. The company also provides corporate apparel, including casual wear and lightweight apparel. Boathouse Row Sports, Ltd. was founded in 1985 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Their mission is to ensure healthier, longer lives for pets and peace of mind for their people. They are dedicated to providing pet parents with the support, resources and tools they need to keep their pets not just surviving, but thriving long into old age.

Affinnova

Series C in 2004
Affinnova is a global marketing technology company that dramatically improves innovation and marketing success rates. Powered by Affinnova’s optimization algorithms and predictive analytics and insights, marketers can explore a substantially wider creative space of product, advertising and design ideas, quickly identifying which will perform best in the market. Led by the strength of its technology platform, Affinnova has gained significant momentum across both large and mid-sized enterprises including such Global Fortune 500 companies as Procter & Gamble, Nestle, Pfizer and Bank of America. Recently, Affinnova compared concepts and executions developed using its technology platform against those using other tools and processes. Results proved on average that 54% more consumers would buy or act on concepts or executions optimized by Affinnova versus challenger executions. In the Consumer Packaged Goods industry, Affinnova-optimized products generate double the in-market success rates and revenues.

TransMedics

Series B in 2004
TransMedics provides technology and clinical service solutions, service for heart and lung transplant volume, clinical outcomes, and reduce learning curves.

SiXtron Advanced Materials

Seed Round in 2004
Founded in 2004, SiXtron is a private, venture backed company located in Montreal, Quebec, focusing on developing anti-reflective coating solutions for the solar cell industry. Other highly scalable and cost-effective thin film coating solutions, for both the electronics industry and the industrial coatings sector, are under development. Sixtron thin films have unique optical and mechanical properties, and can be deposited without the complex requirements of hazardous silane gas.

Advanced BioNutrition

Series A in 2003
Advanced BioNutrition develops functional ingredients to improve animal health and functional nutrition in the aquaculture area. The company focused on offering environmentally sustainable and science-based bioactive stabilization and delivery solutions to a variety of industries, spanning from human nutrition and health and human biologics to agriculture, food ingredients, and food safety. It continues to explore new verticals based on technologies available with over 40 patents. Since the company’s inception in 2001, ABN’s visionary scientists and engineers have helped the company grow into a diversified provider of solutions that better stabilize, protect, and deliver bio-actives to their targeted sites.

VetCentric

Venture Round in 2002
VetCentric, Inc., a privately-held company headquartered near Baltimore, MD, is the only national veterinary-focused pharmacy offering home delivery of FDA- and EPA-approved pharmaceuticals, compounded medications, and therapeutic and wellness diets to pet owners on behalf of veterinary practices. Its comprehensive suite of services provides practices with a customized online store, home delivery and client communications. VetCentric is Vet-VIPPS accredited and firmly supports the Veterinarian-Client-Patient relationship in all its business practices, allowing veterinarians to stay at the center of their patients' care while improving service, encouraging compliance and decreasing practice operating costs.

HeyWire

Series C in 2002
HeyWire provides the LiveText messaging channel that today’s customers prefer, and businesses need in order to increase customer satisfaction and reduce costs. HeyWire’s award-winning solutions for Salesforce-powered businesses directly connect customers to brands by LiveText-enabling existing 1-800 and business phone numbers. Available in the AppExchange, these solutions support conversational text messaging, either initiated by the customer or business, from start to completion. HeyWire’s proven full-stack, messaging cloud solution supports both SMS and other mobile messaging formats, and has delivered 8 billion messages and counting. HeyWire is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Advanced BioNutrition

Venture Round in 2002
Advanced BioNutrition develops functional ingredients to improve animal health and functional nutrition in the aquaculture area. The company focused on offering environmentally sustainable and science-based bioactive stabilization and delivery solutions to a variety of industries, spanning from human nutrition and health and human biologics to agriculture, food ingredients, and food safety. It continues to explore new verticals based on technologies available with over 40 patents. Since the company’s inception in 2001, ABN’s visionary scientists and engineers have helped the company grow into a diversified provider of solutions that better stabilize, protect, and deliver bio-actives to their targeted sites.

Outside the Classroom

Series C in 2002
Outside The Classroom, Inc. designs, develops, and markets online healthcare education and information solutions. The companyâ€:tm:s suite offers alcohol prevention education and awareness; sexual assault prevention; and online feedback services. It markets its products under AlcoholEdu, MentalHealthEdu, SexualAssaultEdu, and Alcohol Innerview brand names. Outside The Classroom partners with The National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, United Educators Insurance, Educational Benchmarking, Inc., and Mothers Against Drunk Driving. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts.

Oregon Chai

Pre Seed Round in 1999
Oregon Chai Inc. produces and supplies chai products for customers in the United States. The company offers tea concentrates, powdered mixes, single serve products, and tea bags; and espresso concentrates. Its products are available at independent markets, shops, and large retail stores; online in the United States; and by ordering on phone.

Cooke Pharma

Seed Round in 1999
Cooke Pharma is a privately held company and is the exclusive maker of the HeartBar line of arginine-enriched products.
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