CircleUp Growth Partners is proud to welcome Art of Sport (AOS) as our 22nd portfolio company. AOS is a complete line of daily essential body and skincare products powered by natural botanicals and clean ingredients. Co-Founder and CEO Matthias Metterich ...
We are thrilled to welcome Partake Brewing, a low-calorie / low-carb craft non-alcoholic beer, as CircleUp Growth Partner’s 21st portfolio company. Partake was launched in 2017 by Ted Fleming after he gave up drinking alcohol due to Crohn’s disease but ...
It was announced today that Liquid I.V., the leading better-for-you electrolyte drink mix brand, has signed an agreement to be acquired by Unilever. We’re extremely excited to congratulate Brandin and team on the company they have built. Liquid I.V. is ...
It was announced today that Liquid I.V., a leading better-for-you electrolyte drink mix brand, has signed an agreement to be acquired by Unilever. We are incredibly proud to have partnered with Founder & CEO Brandin Cohen over the last two ...
When Mia Melon’s CEO, Todd Listwin, joined Mia Melon the company was making women’s apparel. The company was doing OK, but not great. Listwin wanted to change things up, to make a splash. Drawing on his experience in snowboarding apparel, he took Mia Melon’s flagship fashion jackets, made them weatherproof, and began marketing to a ...
By: CircleUp Rooibee Red Tea recently finished a successful funding round on CircleUp, raising an impressive two million dollars in growth funding. They also landed a co-packer in the process. “He was on board immediately,” says Heather Howell, Rooibee Red’s CEO, says of their new production partner. “He told me he’s been buying Rooibee Red ...
By: CircleUp Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart started out in ethical fashion at the age of ten, when she sold her first t-shirt design: Being Cruel isn’t Cool. “That was the year I lost all my friends,” she says. “All I was interested in was animal rights and social justice. No one understood why I cared so ...
By: CircleUp How does someone with a degree in economics and aspirations of medicine end up building the one of the most unique lines of children footwear in the market today? Mia Abbruzzese was born in Swampscott, a small town on the outskirts of Boston, “which lends itself to the background of the branding of ...
By: Nicholas Fereday This guest post comes to us from Nicholas Fereday. Nicholas covers Food and Consumer trends as Vice President, Global Senior Analyst at Rabobank International. Rabobank recently attended the CAGNY (Consumer Analyst Group of New York) conference in Boca Raton, FL. This annual jamboree is where food and beverage companies line up under the palm ...
By: CircleUp CircleUp Alum, The Orange Chef Co, was selected by eBay for its Entrepreneur at Ebay series. Founder, Santiago Merea, shared his story of following his passion, starting a family, and growing a new business. All at the same time.
By: CircleUp A design company first, Urbio’s original, signature product was designed to be a vertical, indoor gardening system. Created by designers, for designers, living in small, urban spaces, the system launched as a Kickstarter campaign in 2011. Within 5 weeks backers committed $77,000—more than 400% of Urbio’s original goal. Here’s where things got interesting. ...
By: CircleUp Artis Coffee is raising capital from qualified accredited investors to fund their expansion on CircleUp. Interested investors can sign up here to view their offering. It’s hard to introduce Artís without giving away the punchline, so here it is: They roast your beans in front of you to your preference. And if you don’t ...
By: Bill Harris This article comes to us from Bill Harris, Founder and CEO of Personal Capital. Personal Capital develops tools to help investors make smarter financial decisions. Learn more at PersonalCapital.com. The investing world has been slow to change – from branches and offices to online access – from once-a-quarter paper statements to real-time information – ...
By: Jonathan Sandlund In November of last year Nomad closed its Series A financing. But this wasn’t just any Silicon Valley fundraise. Nomad was unique. It leveraged a new securities exemption that allowed it to broadly advertise its fundraise—enabling the company to raise capital from its fanatical customer base. Customers, investors, whom have now joined in the company’s ...
