Our own Steven Vigilante was on Food Startups Podcast to discuss the process of sourcing and evaluating innovative, early-stage brands and coaching entrepreneurs through the fundraising process at CircleUp. Give it a listen for his take on:
- The fallout from Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods
- An 18 billion dollar shift from large brands to small brands in the consumer space from 2011-2015
- Helio, CircleUp’s data science platform early-stage CPG investing space
- How to attack a trade show
- The future of plant-based, and its entry into the mainstream
- The 5 different types of CPG entrepreneurs
- Why some companies can raise money and others can’t
- How to talk to investors and key financial metrics to consider
- When to raise money