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  Dec

  2023

  06

  2023 / Dec / 06

  One Fast Casual’s Pursuit of Proprietary Tech

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  Applications for the software go well beyond daily sales forecasts.

  From: QSR Magazine
  Cafe Zupas is leveraging bespoke AI tools to predict sales and improve margins.

  Cafe Zupas prides itself on serving food that’s made from scratch daily. Its expansive menu of soups, salads, and sandwiches requires over 200 ingredients, with fresh produce being delivered daily. read more

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  Oct

  2023

  03

  2023 / Oct / 03

  Remedy Organics Launches Super Ube Glow – The First-Ever Ingestible Beauty Wellness Shake

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  From: News Direct
  Remedy Organics, the leading producer of award-winning, plant-based, and protein-packed functional beverages, today announced the release of its latest innovation, Super Ube Glow. The new revolutionary blend, designed to nourish from within and promote a radiant inner glow, marks the first-ever ingestible beauty wellness shake to hit the market. read more

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  Jun

  2023

  05

  2023 / Jun / 05

  This Company Puts Tepache, Mexico’s 3,000-Year-Old Fermented Pineapple Beverage in Easy Reach of U.S. Consumers

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  Photo:Greg Dupree / Food Styling by Ali Ramee / Prop Styling by Christina Daley
  From:FOOD&WINE
  By:Lucy Simon
  Two beverage industry pros are bringing Mexico’s oldest drink to the U.S. market for the first time, with astonishing success. read more

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  May

  2023

  09

  2023 / May / 09

  Skin care startup raises $6.2 million to fight hyperpigmentation

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  Illustration: Tiffany Herring/Axios

  From: Axios.com
  By: Kia Kokalitcheva

  Mother Science, a skincare company founded by Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger and Ann Marie Simpson-Einziger, a violinist and the guitarist’s wife, is debuting its first product aimed at skin hyperpigmentation. read more

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  Nov

  2021

  10

  2021 / Nov / 10

  This 24/7 Livestream Starring Chefs is Going After the $500 Billion Cooking Market

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  From: Fast Company
  By: Nicole LaPorte

  A sports-TV pioneer has launched Kittch, a live feed of cooking classes and restaurant action—creating digital revenue for chefs like Marcus Samuelsson and Chris Bianco.
  This 24/7 livestream starring chefs is going after the $500 billion cooking market

  Chef Amanda Shulman is chattering away as she expertly whacks a pile of charred beets with a knife and tosses them into a bowl.

  “I just want them to be roughly chopped,” she says. “I like when things are recognizable. You should be able to take a bite [of a dish], and it should be full of all these things, not, like, minced.”
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• Nov

  2021

  08

  2021 / Nov / 08

  Starbird Chicken Closes $12 Million Capital Raise

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  From: Nation’s Restaurant News

  Led by KarpReilly, capital raise to fuel super-premium fast food’s next phase of growth

  Starbird Chicken, the nation’s first super-premium fast food concept, announced today the closing of a $12 million capital raise. The fundraise was led by KarpReilly and will ignite Starbird Chicken’s next phase of growth, which includes development of additional company-owned restaurants and ghost kitchens, increasing licensing engagements, and launching its franchise offering. read more

• Nov

  2021

  04

  2021 / Nov / 04

  TRUE Linkswear To Accelerate Growth In Golf Footwear With $11.25m Investment From Karpreilly

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  FROM: Cision PR Newswire

  With significant growth and momentum, TRUE has established itself as the premier golf shoe brand focused on comfortable, versatile footwear that can be worn on or off the golf course.

  KarpReilly is a Greenwich, CT-based private investment firm focused on consumer growth brands including Mack Weldon, Linksoul, Stio, Christy Dawn, Made In, Boxycharm and many others.

  With significant growth and momentum, TRUE has established itself as the premier golf shoe brand focused on comfortable, versatile footwear that can be worn on or off the golf course.
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• Jan

  2021

  08

  2021 / Jan / 08

  Peels Citrus CBD Brand Secures Multimillion Dollar Investment from KarpReilly

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  NEWS PROVIDED BY
  Peels Citrus CBD 

  LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — CBD startup Citrus CBD Industries, Inc. (“Peels“), launches the first nationwide CBD brand made from oranges led by Founder & CEO Chris Hetherington, an 11-year NFL veteran and Yale alumni, announces they have secured a $4mm investment from KarpReilly, LLC. KarpReilly, a Greenwich, CT-based private investment firm, with a diverse portfolio of emerging brands in the consumer sector with notable food, beverage, and natural products including: KeVita, Spindrift, Salt & Straw, LIFEAID, and Wilde, among many others. read more

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  Jan

  2021

  07

  2021 / Jan / 07

  Hungryroot Is Simplifying The Way Consumers Shop For Groceries

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  Hungryroot delivers fresh and organic groceries based on consumers dietary, meal planning and timing preferences.  MICHAEL MARQUAND

  From: Forbes
  By: Yola Robert
  FORBESWOMEN

  Last year changed the way consumers shopped, prepared, and consumed food. Consumers are taking fewer 73% trips to the grocery store and instead are shopping more at food subscription services and online grocery stores, with 80% of U.S. consumers having shopped online for groceries since COVID-19 outbreak. read more