318 Episodes

  1. Holiday Recap: Madeline Haydon, CEO of nut pods

    Published: 12/10/2021

  2. Holiday Recap: Jeremy Cai, Founder & CEO of Italic

    Published: 12/9/2021

  3. Holiday Recap: Denise Woodard, Founder & CEO of Partake Foods

    Published: 12/8/2021

  4. Holiday Recap: Helaine Knapp, Founder & CEO of CITYROW

    Published: 12/7/2021

  5. Holiday Recap: Mark Gainey, Founder of Strava

    Published: 12/3/2021

  6. Holiday Recap: Andy Dunn, Founder of Bonobos

    Published: 12/2/2021

  7. Holiday Highlights: Alex Fine, CEO of Dame Products

    Published: 11/30/2021

  8. Denise Woodard (Partake Foods) - How Her Daughter Inspired Denise to Leave Her Well Paying Job and Create A Cookie Everyone Can Eat, How She Started in Retail from Day One, and Impact of COVID

    Published: 11/23/2021

  9. Lori Coulter (Summersalt) - How She Built an Inclusive Swimwear & Apparel Brand

    Published: 11/18/2021

  10. Sarah LaFleur (M.M.LaFleur) - Changing workwear for women and adapting through COVID

    Published: 11/16/2021

  11. Michael Markesbery (OROS) - How he is Sciencing the S*** Out of Everything and Bringing Space Tech to Outdoor Apparel

    Published: 11/11/2021

  12. Jeremy Cai (Italic) - How he created THE C2M Online Marketplace for Luxury Goods, What he learned from Amazon and Costco, and The Evolution of eCommerce

    Published: 11/9/2021

  13. Tali Vogelstein (Avid Ventures) - Are Valuations High, How to invest globally, and What Verticalized Fintech means

    Published: 11/4/2021

  14. Jon Sebastiani (Sonoma Brands + Krave) - Growing up as a winemaker, How he started, scaled, sold Krave and why he decided to buy back the brand, & What's next in consumer

    Published: 11/2/2021

  15. Stuart Landesberg (Grove Collaborative) - How he built a brand devoted to eco-friendly products and why inve

    Published: 10/28/2021

  16. Carter Reum (M13) - Why LA is the Place to Build a Consumer Company, His Approach to Fund Differentiation, and Starting a Venture Capital Fund with you Brother

    Published: 10/26/2021

  17. Will Schmitt (Miroma Ventures) - Investing with a value add, considerations before heading to retail and pulling the right levers for growth

    Published: 10/21/2021

  18. Doug Hudson (Tend) - The First Dentist You Look Forward To Visiting

    Published: 10/19/2021

  19. Claire Díaz-Ortiz - Why solo female founders are underserved, investing early in LATAM, and getting the Pope on Twitter

    Published: 10/14/2021

  20. Andy Dunn (Bonobos) - How he created Bonobos, why they sold to Walmart, the current state of DNVBs, and a sneak peek of what he's doing next

    Published: 10/12/2021

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The Consumer VC takes a look into early-stage consumer investing and venture capital. If you are interested in learning about consumer trends, have a b2c business and interested in learning about the fundraising process at the early stage, you have come to the right place. Mike interviews some of the top venture capitalists in the world that focus on B2C and consumer type companies or have a deep track record investing in these categories such as marketplaces, SaaS, social, CPG and non-tech subscription. Mike also interviews founders that are building some of the most disruptive consumer facing companies in the world. The conversation usually includes the insight the founder discovered, fundraising strategy, and the pitch. This podcast also includes bonus episodes. Each bonus episode dives into a particular subject that might not have to due with the fundraise or venture capital, but still would be helpful to founders. For example, a bonus episode on brand strategy or how to construct a board of directors. All bonus episodes will be clearly labeled. For all episodes, please visit www.theconsumervc.com. For updates, you can follow @mikegelb on Twitter.