Top 10 Food Products and Beverages Capital Raises and Investors in the U.S. – January 1st to March 31st, 2026
Several interesting transactions closed in the Food Products and Beverages sector over the past quarter. If you would like more info on these deals or would like to discuss the capital raising market for your company, please contact me.
PIPE
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- The Fresh Factory, vertically-integrated corporation engaged in the fresh and plant-based food and beverage industry, including developing, formulating, manufacturing, distributing, and selling fresh and plant-based food and beverage products, received approximately $3 million of development capital through a private placement.
- AGT Food and Ingredients, globally diversified food company that produces staple products for everyday consumption, received approximately $200 million of development capital from Fairfax Financial Holdings through a private placement.
Merger/Acquisition
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- Chiyo, customized nutritional food that offers essentials for a healthy pregnancy and optimal birth outcomes for both mother and child, was acquired by Epicured.
- Mosaic Foods, plant-based frozen food that helps people consume organic vegetables, was acquired by Splendid Spoon.
Later Stage VC
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- Asheville Tea Company, blended craft teas that helps people experience a tasty and adventurous new leaf, raised $40,000 of venture funding from REDF.
- Big Tree Farms, organic-based food ingredients and sauces for culinary use, raised $10 million of venture funding from Mirova.
Early Stage VC
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- BOLD BAR, protein bars that offers different types of snacks with a blend of complete proteins, healthy fats and honey, raised venture funding from Fortify Ventures.
- Prima (Miami), animal-based nutritional snacks that delivers protein-rich food inspired by ancestral eating practices, raised venture funding from Swan Peak Capital.
Seed
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- CirC (Food Products), protein-rich snack bites that offers convenient, natural-ingredient energy snacks, raised seed funding from Sugar Capital.
- GoNanas, allergen-friendly food brand that provides gluten-free and vegan banana bread, raised $5.76 million through a combination of Seed-1 and Seed-2 funding from Entrepreneur Ventures, 11 Tribes Ventures and Barbour Ventures.
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Ken Margolis
Managing Partner
As one of the founders of Castle Placement, Ken is passionate about helping great companies grow. Over 25 years of experience in investment banking and raising capital from institutional private equity/venture investors, family offices, foundations, endowments, hedge funds, banks and specialty finance lenders. Co-founded Castle Placement in 2009, providing investment banking services and raising private equity/debt capital for early-stage and middle market companies across a wide range of industries including financial services/fintech, real estate, technology, business services, energy/real assets and consumer/retail. In 2007, created a platform providing advisory and capital formation services to financial institutions and private equity funds investing in distressed bank portfolios and community banks which was merged into Castle Placement*. From 1999 to 2007, at Merrill Lynch was co-head of the 50+ person global structured credit products investment banking, sales and syndicate and head of the U.S. alternative investment group raising capital for alternative investment funds in financial services and asset management. From 1991 to 1999, was at Credit Suisse First Boston as a senior trader on a principal transaction desk responsible for managing a proprietary position of credit sensitive commercial/residential real estate and asset-backed securities and head of CSFB’s new issue whole loan and agency CMO desk. Began his career in 1985 at Arthur Andersen where he managed their structured finance group consulting on ground breaking securitizations of residential mortgages, credit cards, auto loans, corporate loans and other financial assets. FINRA Series 7, 24, 63, and 79 licenses.
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