OUR MEMBERS & PARTNERS
Building a Stronger Community, Together
Naturally NorCal wouldn't exist the contribution of these companies. Get to know them — or, better yet, become one of them. From small to large, they're committed to supporting our community, our mission, and our programs. Join our community »
FOUNDERS CIRCLE
The Naturally Nor Cal Founders Circle brings together visionary companies, investors, media, and enterprise partners. These founding companies made a three-year financial commitment to establish the foundation and support the expansion of Naturally NorCal. This supportive community fosters collaboration among new and established entrepreneurs and supporting businesses. Join our Founders Circle to gain access to Northern California's most innovative minds and opportunities.
TITANIUM
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Bank of America understands the powerful role it can plays in helping customers and communities navigate the transition to a low-carbon, sustainable economy, and has committed to provide $125 billion in financial and intellectual capital to help develop solutions to climate change and other environmental challenges. The cornerstone of its environmental business strategy is to finance opportunities that create positive environmental change and enables people and institutions to invest in environmental sustainability.
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BPM LLP is one of the 50 largest public accounting and advisory firms in the country. With more than 600 professionals in the United States – as well as an office in Bengaluru – we help clients succeed around the world. BPM’s Consumer Business Industry Group understands the multifaceted sectors that make up the consumer industry – from online retail to food and beverage industries. Alongside our corporate tax, R&D tax and audit services, we provide world-class bookkeeping, outsourced accounting, and advisory services that span from Valuations and Appraisals to Managed IT Services.
We offer a cross-functional team approach that gives clients direct access to the best and most qualified resources.
PLATINUM
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Aspect Consumer Partners is a leading, independent mergers and acquisitions, strategic and corporate finance advisory firm focused on advising consumer companies in healthy, active and sustainable living. Aspect Consumer Partners acts as trusted advisor to leading consumer products companies and their owners, offering thoughtful and innovative solutions backed by decades of experience. Our services include M&A advisory (sell-side and buy-side), valuation services, strategic alternatives evaluation, corporate finance advisory and strategic planning. Aspect Consumer Partners has unparalleled expertise and has advised on transactions with completed value in excess of $66 billion. What sets us apart? Experience. Focus. Integrity. Results.
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Davis Wright Tremaine is a full-service law firm with approximately 600 attorneys operating across our eight offices throughout the United States. We are proud to have one of the most comprehensive and coordinated food and beverage legal teams in the country. Our clients include food and beverage producers and distributors, packaged food companies, restaurants, franchisors, licensors, retailers, wineries, breweries and distilleries, importers, and wholesalers. We facilitate game-changing industry mergers and acquisitions, and litigate and resolve “bet-the-farm” disputes for food and beverage clients facing those transformational events.
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Parabolic is an Oakland and Detroit based shopper marketing agency that creates Ideas with Trajectory: insights-based concepts and innovative activations to help brands with a mission grow by understanding the needs of retailers and shoppers, giving them both reasons to buy. Backed by decades of “big CPG” experience, we help plan, sell in, and execute integrated “screen to shelf” marketing for new products, new distribution, seasonal campaigns, and other initiatives that drive retail sales for food, snacks, beverages, personal care, and cannabis in natural and mainstream grocery, drug, mass and dispensaries.
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Reach deep into yerba mate culture and you’ll discover people have long gathered to imbibe mate to awaken the mind, perform extraordinary feats and to exchange confidences. Even Yari, the mythical goddess of mate decrees it the symbol of friendship. We’ve always believed there was a magical tree in the rainforest with powers to unite and energize. Come to life with this high energy infusion brewed from the mighty, emerald green mate leaves.
GOLD
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Baker Botts is an international law firm whose lawyers practice throughout a network of offices around the globe. Based on experience and knowledge of their clients’ industries, they are recognized as a leading firm in the energy, technology and life sciences sectors. Since 1840, they have provided creative and effective legal solutions for their clients while demonstrating an unrelenting commitment to excellence.
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Heffernan Insurance Brokers, formed in 1988, is one of the largest independent insurance brokerage firms in the United States. Heffernan provides comprehensive business insurance, personal insurance, employee benefits and financial services products to a wide range of businesses and individuals nationwide. With a commitment to people, we value a culture dedicated to serving our clients’ needs in an effort to protect their valuable assets and assist in making smart decisions for their business or family.
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Once upon a time… we dreamed of bringing baby food back to the roots with organic fruits and veggies harvested from local farmers, blended with love and served fresh from the fridge. We dreamed of feeling less stressed about mealtimes because we could feed our little ones foods that give them all the nutrients they need – and then some! We dreamed of a company filled with co-workers we’re happy to spend time with every day and that offers the balance between work and life that every parent needs. Now, with Once Upon a Farm, our dream has come true. Learn more about our farms, our family & our mission.
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Propeller Industries is a CFO and accounting partner for emerging companies that have outgrown bookkeeping but can’t yet rationalize hiring an in-house team. Propeller has taken clients from seed stage through exit and from $0 to over $100M in revenue, but the firm specializes in funded, consumer products, food & beverage, technology and services firms with annual revenue between $2M and $20M. Selected CPG clients and alumni include Krave Jerky, Sir Kensington’s, Chameleon Cold Brew and Kite Hill Foods. Consumer and tech clients include Casper, Giphy and TheSkimm.
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S2G Investments, the direct investment team of Builders Vision, partners with entrepreneurs who are working on solutions to some of the world’s greatest challenges across the food, agriculture, oceans, and clean energy markets. We provide capital, mentorship, and value-added resources to companies pursuing innovative market-based solutions that generate positive social, environmental, and financial returns. We provide our partners with flexible capital solutions that can range from seed and venture funding through growth equity to debt and infrastructure financing. For more information about S2G, visit s2gventures.com, tune-in to our podcast, or connect with us on LinkedIn.
SILVER
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In 1939, Joe Albertson, a former Safeway district manager, took $5,000 he saved and $7,500 he borrowed from his wife’s Aunt Bertie, and partnered with L.S. Skaggs to open his first Albertsons store on 16th and State Streets in Boise, Idaho. Joe knew the keys of running a really great store, and it was all about working hard for the customers: give them the products they want, at a fair price, with lots of tender, loving care.
Today, Albertsons operates as a banner of Albertsons Companies, one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States. With both a strong local presence and national scale, the company operates stores across 35 states and the District of Columbia under 20 well-known banners. Albertsons Companies is committed to helping people across the country live better lives by making a meaningful difference, neighborhood by neighborhood. In 2017 alone, along with the Albertsons Companies Foundation, the company gave nearly $300 million in food and financial support. These efforts helped millions of people inthe areas of hunger relief, education, cancer research and treatment, programs for people with disabilities and veterans outreach.
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Omnium is a team of mathematicians, data scientists and CPG experts who work closely with sales teams to optimize their trade investments and provide strategic counsel for go-to-market strategies and challenges. Clients include Amy’s Kitchen, Clif Bar, Lundberg Family Farms, Musco Family Olive Company, Organic Valley, Wild Planet and more.
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At TIG, we are focused on helping emerging food and beverage brands grow. With an omnichannel view, we design and execute customized route-to-market and go-to-market strategies that build velocity, gain distribution, and win share of stomach.
We help small companies become strong regional brands and help strong regional brands become powerful national ones. We work internationally with companies who wish to bring their brand to or expand their presence in the North American market.
Our clients come to us with products that are innovative and disruptive. They have great stories to tell and a passion for what they do. They’re committed to the triple-bottom-line, doing what is best for people, planet, and profits.
We combine our clients’ innovative products, stories, passions, and triple-bottom-line focus with our proven process, industry knowledge, and omnichannel experience to create growing investment-ready brands.
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For those looking to unlock the full potential of their brand and business, Trinity is a small(ish) brand strategy, design, innovation and activation firm that’s been helping big brands—and brands with big plans—win for nearly 20 years. Flagship office in Berkeley, with outposts in Chicago, Detroit and Dublin, Ireland.
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MISTA helps startups and large organizations optimize ideas, products, people and investments as they work toward solving some of the world’s greatest challenges while also taking advantage of some of the greatest innovations and opportunities in the food and beverage industry.
On their own, no one company or organization can solve our biggest food challenges. MISTA is creating a multi- dimensional, hyper-connected ecosystem to bring ALL aspects of the food system together to address challenges the ENTIRE food system is experiencing.
All of this comes together at the MISTA Optimization Center (MOC), a state-of-the-art development lab and co-working space located in San Francisco.
