It had been nearly a year since I’d heard from my dear friend, Suzanna Silva Newsom, when she called in July with serendipitous news. Suzy explained that her company, Good Dirt—a fast-growing sustainable garden product brand based in North Carolina—had ...
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 ...
Fast Company recently announced the 2019 Most Innovative Companies list, and we are excited to share that CircleUp was named #3 Most Innovative Data Science Company. CircleUp is included alongside the likes of Lineage Logistics, Orbital Insights, and Hopper, who are all taking a data-driven approach to solve unique global problems. It’s an honor to ...
Warren Buffett says in his 1989 annual report that “Having a dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.” Taking Buffett’s words to heart, I wanted to reflect on past experiences and distill my choices for joining CircleUp into three points:. An innovative business model with a strong ...
Founded by brothers Justin and Tyler Catalana, Fort Point Beer Company is a San Francisco-based craft brewery made up of people who believe the simple things in life can be a whole lot better. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that we are joining forces with Fort Point and have made an investment in the company. ...
Why is category classification important? Take a look at the products below and see if you can categorize them into specific sub-industries. This task is relatively simple for a human. Now imagine it is a task you need to perform frequently and instantaneously across 1.4 M companies. The human eye becomes insufficient. Enter CircleUp’s Industry ...
We are excited to announce the launch of our new Community Job Board. Since 2012, the CircleUp Community has expanded to now include more than 300 innovative consumer and retail brands that are growing quickly as they launch new products and reach new consumers. Over the last six years, we’ve spent time listening to our ...
More isn’t always better. And this couldn’t be truer when developing your data strategy. What data even matters? How do you know it matters? Where do data acquirers spend their time? What data do you go after next? Often times, it’s hard to structure these questions cogently without being overwhelmed. At CircleUp, we boil things ...
Below is a compilation of the content that reverberated through CircleUp inboxes in 2018 and struck a chord.
We are thrilled to announce our recent investment in Heyday. Founded by Adam Ross and Michael Pollak in 2015, Heyday is a skincare services platform that provides customers personalized facial treatments, curated product recommendations, and expert advice. Heyday delivers a new model: an omnichannel solution, made up of physical locations for in-person facial services as ...
We are excited to announce our investment in Pop & Bottle. Founded by Blair Fletcher and Jash Mehta and based in San Francisco, Pop & Bottle manufactures plant-rich ready to drink superfood lattes. Consumers are drawn to the creamy smooth texture and the all-natural organic ingredients including almonds, dates, turmeric, and cacao. Even more notable ...
