Why Invest
in Us?
01
Our team has been together in two startups over the course of 10+ years. We’ve been through two transactions together and overseen tremendous turmoil, including Covid and a turnaround effort.
Proven management team
02
Our team is highly experienced in the food & beverage, health & wellness space. We take a very disciplined approach to buying, keeping costs down and margins up.
Focused industry expertise & disciplined buying
03
With AI and venture capital focused on software these investments represent the other side of the equation, people heavy thin margin businesses that are incredibly difficult to disrupt.
Hard to
disrupt thesis
04
Given the low transaction multiples and the margin advantages that come with a holding company we see a lower risk profile in terms of value loss; additionally, significant multiple arbitrage represents a path to materially higher returns.
Asymmetric Opportunity
Our Goals
01
To assemble a best-in-class food and beverage holding company and team, specializing in strategic acquisitions, margin optimization, and scalable systems and infrastructure, to unlock and dramatically enhance the value of our businesses.
Our Mission
02
To create an alternative path for food and beverage businesses where a consolidated, industry specific and long term approach enables previously unscalable businesses and teams to thrive.
Our Vision
03
Made up of a team of operators that have worked together in food and beverage across two startups for 10+ years, we are building a new type of holding company.
Our Experience
Our team
Proven founder/operator with early success (LeanBox) and scale/turnaround experience at Garten leading to acquisition.
Kyle Roy
CEO / Founder
B2B marketing leader at Google, key architect of Garten’s brand + fundraising ($100M raised).
Gary Batara CMO
Long-standing strategic leader in food & beverage, seasoned board/advisory presence.
Peter Roy
CSO
Ph.D., top-tier translational scientist (Genentech, J&J), later shifted to advising scalable systems.
Brian Chiou CTO
People and leadership development pro, with CHRO-level credentials and Olympic experience.
Alicia Mandel CPO
Financial operator who scaled from early-stage to CFO and led the Firstbase and Garten acquisition.
John Pharr
CFO
40+ years in finance across JTG Partners, Lehman, Athena — deep financial and strategic acumen.
John Grady Advisor
Global impact investor, built Intel Capital in EMEA, now with Astanor (agri/food tech).
George Powlick Advisor
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