With experience in food industries and an expansive knowledge of health research and product innovation, we can help you navigate challenges and capture significant opportunities in health and wellness.
We track the latest scientific discoveries in health and nutrition and translate those into your next business opportunity.
Retailers & Food Businesses
Health Policy
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Additives & Ingredients Policy
Create science-backed ingredient and additive policies, and strategy for how to improve product mix to meet standards. -
Nutrition Policy
Build nutrition policy based on international nutrition standards including sugar, salt, healthy fats and fiber. -
Health KPIs
Set company-wide health metrics and comprehensive strategies to achieve them. -
Communications
Incorporate health policies into marketing and opportunities for customer engagement. Differentiate client from competitors based on health.
Business Strategy
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Sales Strategy
Set and implement strategies to increase sales of healthy, organic, and sustainable food. -
Health Strategy
Embed and integrate health into core business strategy to drive growth, improve financial performance, and strengthen competitive positioning. -
Data Analysis
Analyze company data to calculate impacts on health. Develop health and social impact metrics. -
Stakeholder Engagement
Work with a broad set of business stakeholders to develop and implement strategy including board members and category, sourcing, and operations managers.
Product Innovation
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Product Trends
Advise on trends impacting food, wellness products, and ingredients. -
Product Mix
Evaluate and improve product mix using latest market trends, best new products, and better health policies. Create strategic plan for improving product mix. -
Product Development
Contribute to ideation of new own-brand products. -
Formulation & Reformulation
Work with manufacturers to reformulate when products have additives and ingredients that don’t match health policies.
Investors
Investor Screens
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Nutrition Screen
An impact screen that analyzes products based on strict international nutrition standards and can be used to highlight best in class companies and products. It reviews sugar content, salt, healthy fats, fiber and more. -
Additives & Ingredient Screen
A screen that reviews and ranks the health and safety of all ingredients and additives in a product. It identifies product leaders and products of concern, and highlights when ingredients are banned or limited in Europe or the US. -
Holistic Health Screen
A multi-faceted screen that incorporates key health considerations beyond nutrition and ingredients. It examines a company’s health policies, marketing to kids policies, less toxic packaging, and past health-related scandals.
Early Stage Investments
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Scouting & Prospect Research
Identify young companies in natural and health foods and wellness products open for equity or debt investments. Find and then facilitate conversations with start-ups and early stage ventures that are poised for success: correctly applying the latest trends while leading on health, ingredients and sustainability. -
Health-Related Due Diligence
Put a company and their products through our rigorous health screen. Review products, company policies, nutrition, ingredients, sourcing, communications, and past controversies. Identify current and future potential risks. -
Reduce Risks & Optimize Opportunity
Work with companies to reduce risks and identify opportunities related to health, wellness, and sustainability.
Strategy & Policy
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Focus Areas
Identify priority and focus areas in health and wellness. Bring knowledge of current and upcoming product, market, and consumer trends. Identify potential risks and which categories are poised for growth. -
Health & Nutrition Policy
Set health, nutrition, and ingredient targets and policies to help guide investment selection and prospect research. -
Measure Social Impact
Measure the health and social impact created by portfolio companies through their products and policies. Set metrics to track ongoing impact. -
Advise Portfolio Companies
Work with portfolio companies on product selection and formulation, communicating health policies and growth strategy.
Nonprofits & Public Sector
Food & Health Policy
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Programs & Campaigns
With years of experience working in big food retail, we know how to design effective campaigns that can impact businesses to change policies and improve the health, safety, and sustainability of food and CPG products. -
Advise on Food & Health Policy
Advise on writing and implementing policies that promote healthy eating, increase access to healthy food and reduce the use of concerning additives and ingredients in products. We are passionate about policies that disincentivize sugar consumption, like sugar taxes. We’ve advised local governments and spent years in academia studying health policy. -
Policy Research & Writing
Write reports that analyze international food legislation and policy – including government and industry policies. We research food-related preventative health measures and how policy impacts formulation and consumption.
Food Programs
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Healthy Food & Diet Programs
Design and lead programs to improve dietary and lifestyle habits, encouraging people to adopt healthier diets through research and data, inspiration and support. Members participate in person and online, building community and learning new tools, recipes, and habits to kickstart a healthier diet. -
Nontoxic/Eco Lifestyle Programs
At a time when everyday products from soap to makeup and even furniture have a multitude of hidden concerning chemicals, minimizing exposure to harmful ingredients has never been more important. We educate participants on how to reduce exposure to pollutants like carcinogens and endocrine disruptors through lifestyle changes and purchasing decisions, empowering them to create safer homes and healthier lives. -
Programs for Employees & Patients
We personalize our programs to meet your needs. We’ve built programs for nonprofit and company employees and individuals. Our programs produce meaningful results.
Educational Seminars
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Address Chronic Illness through Food
Presentations on meaningful steps the food industry, governments and other stakeholders can take to help address and reverse increasing levels of obesity and chronic illness through better formulation, access to healthy food and food literacy. -
Nutrition, Ingredients & Health
Seminars on nutrition science and key components of healthy eating. We review the merits of popular diets such as keto, paleo, Mediterranean and vegan. Presentations on concerning ingredients and additives, including how to approach creating policy for them, which to avoid, which require more research, and the differences in international legislation. -
Trends in Natural Food & Wellness
We follow food, product and health trends like a hawk! From functional ingredients and medicinal herbs to gut healthy formulations, we’ll share our knowledge of categories to watch and current and upcoming healthy product trends – including research studies driving popularity.
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