Food, Beverage & Consumer Goods

Startup founders face countless decisions and tasks every day. Fortunately, there aren’t too many early legal decisions that can have lasting, irreversible implications for founders down the road. However, your equity arrangement with co-founders and the company’s early cap table is one thing that should be carefully considered from a…

KO client Pomp, a beauty-tech startup aiming to bring personalized skin care from licensed estheticians to the masses, has closed a $3.3 million seed II round to advance its mission. The funding will be used to grow Pomp Professional, the company’s B2B SaaS offering that allows estheticians to consult with…

KO client bitewell, the first corporate food health benefits provider, recently announced the oversubscribed closing of its $4 million seed round led by Lake Nona Sports & Health Tech Fund and Refinery Ventures. The investment will enable bitewell to expand its team, fund research, and build more advanced technology and…

KO client GoodBuy Gear, the leading online, managed marketplace for used baby and kid products, recently announced that it has raised $14 million in funding to further scale and solidify its position as the leading and most trustworthy baby and kid resale brand. “With this funding, we are able to…

Natural Products Expo West, the industry’s largest trade show, hosted more than 3,000 exhibiting companies and top retailers as well as 65,000 attendees at this year’s event. The show featured new food, beverage, and consumer goods products and innovations. Here’s a closer look at top trends that we expect to…

Are you preparing for financing or M&A due diligence now or planning to in the future? If a third party started due diligence on your company today, would you be putting your best foot forward? When you prepare for a major transaction, financing, or exit, an investor or an acquirer…

NASA recently named KO client Ascent Technology’s SATED product as a finalist for the Deep Space Food Challenge, a public competition to extend the limits of humans in space through food. Boulder-based SATED – which stands for Safe Appliance, Tidy, Efficient, & Delicious – creates a variety of well-known foods…

KO client Sustainable Beverage Technologies (SBT), a growth-oriented company focused on reimagining the beer marketspace through revolutionary technological innovations, recently entered into a strategic and investment partnership with Middleby Corporation, a global leader in the food service industry. SBT develops technologically advanced brewing and dispensing applications, including BrewVo® patented technology,…