Andrew Black
Founder & CEO @ BrandProject
Toronto, Canada
Andrew Black is a seed investor at BrandProject in Toronto focused on E-Commerce and Health Care. Andrew has a wealth of experience helping to build some of the world’s leading consumer products and consumer technology companies. His expertise spans six different industries and includes building and transforming businesses in highly competitive markets. He has launched over 100 new products and services for global icons including Nike, Virgin,LEGO, Cadbury Schweppes, and Colgate Palmolive.Andrew has strong operational and leadership experience, having been President Americas at LEGO, General Manager for the US Equipment Business at Nike Inc., and VP Marketing-North America at Cadbury Schweppes/Dr Pepper 7UP.In 2004, he followed his passion for starting disruptive new businesses and founded Virgin Mobile Canada with Sir Richard Branson. He and his team grew the Virgin business to over 1 million customers and $300M in revenues within five years, while winning the JD Power Award for customer service every year. Virgin Mobile was acquired by Bell Canada in 2009.Black then founded Blackpoynt Brand Ventures with the mission of helping visionary entrepreneurs build disruptive consumer brands. His portfolio of 8 early stage consumer businesses included Awake Chocolate and Hello with two portfolio companies exiting – Pushlife (acquired by Google) and Virgin Gaming (acquired by Difference Capital).In 2013, Black founded BrandProject, a company creation studio that builds, buys, and makes seed stage investments in disruptive consumer brands. BrandProject raised $12M in equity, lead by the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC). BrandProject provides both consumer business building expertise and investment equity to all its partner companies.Black is a graduate of Queen’s University with a Bachelor in Economics. He also is a Board Member of Free The Children and Virgin Unite, and is a mentor at Next 36 and Extreme Start Ups. Andrew, his wife and four daughters live in Toronto.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
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Industries Andrew Black invests in
Stages Andrew Black invests in
Countries Andrew Black invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 4 (50%)
- Health Care 2 (25%)
- Food Delivery 2 (25%)
- Handmade 1 (13%)
- Internet 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (63%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (13%)
- Series B 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 4 (50%)
- Canada 2 (25%)
Investments
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| Great Many is a New York-based company that offers a holistic approach to hair growth solutions by building a dedicated place for hair health. Great Many provides treatments such as PRP, prescription oral and topical medications, and an in-house product line with its proprietary GrowthFactor Formula™. Their ultimate goal is to empower and educatemen and women on hair health and personal growth journeys. | $3.4M / Pre-Seed / Aug 21, 2024 | ||
| Guaranteed is a care company that makes tough moments easier by blending at-home treatment with cutting-edge technology, | $6.5M / Seed / Nov 03, 2022 | ||
| Clutch is a Toronto-based technology company that is reinventing the way people buy and own cars. Clutch offers high-quality certified vehicles at great prices through a fully online customer experience. At Clutch.ca, customers browse inventory online, buy the car that’s right for them, and enjoy effortless at-home delivery. Clutch’s mission is toprovide customers with a delightful car buying experience by offering high-quality cars at great prices with ultimate convenience while making a positive impact on the communities in which it operates. | $79.6M / Series B / Nov 16, 2021 | ||
| Clutch is a Toronto-based technology company that is reinventing the way people buy and own cars. Clutch offers high-quality certified vehicles at great prices through a fully online customer experience. At Clutch.ca, customers browse inventory online, buy the car that’s right for them, and enjoy effortless at-home delivery. Clutch’s mission is toprovide customers with a delightful car buying experience by offering high-quality cars at great prices with ultimate convenience while making a positive impact on the communities in which it operates. | $5.2M / Seed / Jul 23, 2020 | ||
| Clutch is a Toronto-based technology company that is reinventing the way people buy and own cars. Clutch offers high-quality certified vehicles at great prices through a fully online customer experience. At Clutch.ca, customers browse inventory online, buy the car that’s right for them, and enjoy effortless at-home delivery. Clutch’s mission is toprovide customers with a delightful car buying experience by offering high-quality cars at great prices with ultimate convenience while making a positive impact on the communities in which it operates. | $2M / Seed / Dec 01, 2018 | ||
| Daily Harvest is a customer-first platform that provides subscription-based food delivery services to offer healthy frozen foods. It delivers food and beverages that are developed by nutritionists and include smoothies, soups, bowls, lattes, and breakfast options. Through a combination of data science and a future-focused supply chain, the companyco-creates food with its customers and leverages its direct-to-farmer relationships as well as a robust technology platform to bring food to market in a rapid and highly personalized way. | Seed / May 01, 2016 | ||
| Freshly delivers gourmet ready-made meals, prepared and delivered at the door. It is dedicated to making healthy eating and achieving health and fitness goals easier than ever. They simply want to improve life by delivering fresh, healthy, and delicious meals to the doorstep.Freshly makes this possible and easier than ever by offeringhigh-quality, professionally-prepared meals, based on the paleo principles. The experienced chefs at Freshly utilize locally-sourced and all-natural ingredients to create fresh, gourmet ready-made meals designed to optimize health. Each meal is carefully curated with all-natural ingredients that are high in protein, low in carbs and free of gluten, added sugar, artificial sweeteners, and hormones. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York. | $2M / Seed / Mar 13, 2015 | ||
| BRIKA offers a curated assortment of beautiful and unique crafted products from the most talented, authentic artisans and designers. At BRIKA, we believe it is about more than just the products we sell. We tell the stories of the talented and inspiring artisans and makers we partner with. Our vision is to inspire individuals everywhere to discoverthe beauty of a “well-crafted life” through these stories. | Seed / Mar 01, 2013 |
Co-Investors
About BrandProject
BrandProject is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in consumer products, services, and technology companies. Based in Toronto and New York City, we are typically the first venture money and are often the sole investor in a round.BrandProject has invested in and helped build innovative new brands including Daily Harvest, Freshly,Ritual, Persona, Chefs Plate, Clutch, Gainful, Atolla, Pet Plate, Awake Chocolate, Coveteur, Surf Easy, and Hello Products..Find out more at www.brandproject.com
BrandProject Contacts
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Andrew Black
Founder & CEO
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Andrew Bridge
Co-Founder & CMO
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Colin Harding
Senior Associate
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Hayden Williams
Partner
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Jay Bhatti
Co-Founder and CTO
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What does Andrew Black invest in?
Andrew Black invests primarily in E-Commerce, Health Care and Food Delivery startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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