Karen Howland
Managing Director @ CircleUp
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Karen Howland is a Managing Director at CircleUp. She attended Tulane University.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 100%
Last updated:
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Industries Karen Howland invests in
Stages Karen Howland invests in
Countries Karen Howland invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Food and Beverage 4 (100%)
- Wellness 1 (25%)
- Nutrition 1 (25%)
- E-Commerce 1 (25%)
- Snack Food 1 (25%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Everything Legendary specializes in plant-based, gluten-free, and soy-free food. | $6M / Series A / Feb 08, 2022 | ||
| Los Sundays is a lifestyle brand disrupting a product-focused category. Strategically built to engage organically with consumers through today's most influential channels – social media, fashion, and immersive events.Los Sundays combines original and relatable content with award-winning tequila to captivate and inspire the new generation oftequila consumers. | $3.5M / Series A / Jun 16, 2021 | ||
| Serenity Kids is facilitating healthy diets and lifestyles for children through the highest quality food, without sugar. They are transforming their society to cultivate health, equality, and sustainability starting with the youngest members of their community.The company was founded in 2016 by Serenity Heegel Carr and Joe Carr and is based inAustin, Texas, United States. | $7M / Series A / Jun 15, 2021 | ||
| IQ Bar is a food and beverage company that offers protein bars and IQMIX hydration mixes. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $2.8M / Series A / Feb 02, 2021 |
Co-Investors
About CircleUp
CircleUp is an investment platform that provides capital and resources to innovative, early-stage consumer brands with a modern, scalable approach to private markets. CircleUp is comprised of internally-managed equity funds, a credit program, and an Insights and Connections team - all powered by Helio, CircleUp's proprietary machine learningplatform. Helio collects and analyzes billions of data points to evaluates 1.3 million consumer businesses and predict future business success.
CircleUp Contacts
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Aditi Dashputre
Partner
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Ben Lee
Investment Committee, CircleUp Funds
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Karen Howland
Managing Director
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Patrick Robinson
Managing Director
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Rory Eakin
Co-Founder, Board of Directors
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What does Karen Howland invest in?
Karen Howland invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Wellness and Nutrition startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 4 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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The most recent investment recorded for Karen Howland closed in Feb 2022. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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