Green Circle Capital Partners provides financial advisory services and operational support to early-stage health and wellness companies to help them raise capital or sell their business. They assist with market valuation, investment materials, pitching investors, negotiating terms, and closing deals. Green Circle has extensive experience in industries like food/beverage and life sciences, and their principals have backgrounds in investment banking, founding companies, and closing deals. They aim to leverage their networks and expertise to help clients achieve their goals.
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1. Capabilities & Services
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Green Circle Capital Partners LLC assists exceptional early-stage companies
in the areas of Health & Wellness (from natural food & bev to life sciences) with
financial advisory services and consultative sales/marketing/operational support.
2. • Save you time/aggravation so you can focus on running your business.
• Provide expert insights into market valuation and terms.
• Prepare investment materials, shape the pitch and coach you on
presenting.
• Negotiate terms with potential lead investors (or acquirers).
• Source appropriate potential investors (or acquirers) from outside of
Why Hire an Advisor/Banker?
• Source appropriate potential investors (or acquirers) from outside of
your existing network.
• Help to more effectively pitch, close and retain prospective investors.
• Create the proper environment and urgency to convert interest into
actual investments.
• Provide sophisticated deal management leading to a smooth closing.
• Help to contain other professional fees.
• Help you avoid legal or regulatory pitfalls.
3. • Green Circle presents a best-in-class team of professionals with many
years of collective experience in Wall Street sales, investment
banking, and founding/operating companies of our own.
• We focus, primarily, only on verticals related to health and wellness
(from natural food & bev to life sciences) where we have expertise,
and rolodexes that add significant value for our clients, whether they
are raising capital or selling a business.
Why Hire Green Circle?
are raising capital or selling a business.
• One or more of our principals personally runs every single
engagement we take on.
• Green Circle has a robust network of both individual “angel” investors
as well as relationships with numerous VCs and Family Offices.
• We are experienced closers who will help you achieve your goals.
• Principals are licensed with Peraza Capital & Investment, a member
of SIPC and FINRA.
4. Strategic Planning
• Brand Development and Innovation
• Corporate Strategy and Strategic Planning
• Sales and Distribution Forecasting
• Competitive Market Analysis
• Financial Modeling
Other Services
The principals of Green Circle, directly and through our sister company,
The Bricktown Group, also offer additional consultative services:
• Financial Modeling
Sales, Marketing and Distribution Network Execution
• Distributor & Broker Network Creation & Management
• Sales to Specialty, Natural, Grocery, Independents and Chains
• Promotional Planning and Execution
• Marketing Strategy and Execution—Traditional, Grassroots and Online
Operational Support
• Product Development
• Production, Operations and Logistics Oversight
• Supply Chain Management
• Co-Packer Identification & Management
5. Stu Strumwasser
Managing Principal
Stu has over twenty years of
Green Circle/Bricktown Team
Eric Skae
Managing Partner at
The Bricktown Group
Jeremy Friedman
Principal & Advisor to
New Ground Ventures
Stu has over twenty years of
experience in selling investments.
He was a Director and VP at major
Wall Street firms such as Paine
Webber (now UBS) and
Oppenheimer & Co., until he left in
2005 to found Snow Beverages, a
manufacturer of natural soda. At
Snow Stu personally raised over
$3.5 million in angel financing and
acquired distribution in top regional
and national retail chains. He is a
graduate of Cornell University, and
holds Series 7, 63 and 82 licenses
with a perfect compliance record.
linkedin.com/in/stustrumwasser
Eric is a well-known, veteran operator
in the natural food and beverage
industries. He was the founder and
CEO of the publicly traded beverage
company New Leaf Brands Inc.
(Ticker: NLEF), from Sept. 2008 to
Feb. 2012. Prior to that, Eric founded
Skae Beverage International, LLC,
U.S. Distributor for Iceland Spring
Water and spent fifteen years in the
beverage industry working in senior-
level sales, marketing and distribution
roles at companies including Fresh
Samantha, Hansen Beverage
Company, and Arizona Beverages.
He is a graduate of Northwood U.
Jeremy spent 10 years as an M&A
professional at Integrated Finance
and Bear Stearns, where he was a
VP. He then moved to the buy side,
evaluating early-stage investments
in health & wellness, media, and
technology for family offices/funds
including Palm Ventures, and New
Ground Ventures. Prior to
becoming a banker Jeremy worked
in Mexico City for a spin-off of Booz
Allen Hamilton. He earned a B.A.
from Stanford University and an
MBA from the University of Chicago.
6. A principal of Green Circle, has been employed by or has acted in a
consulting or investment banking capacity for each of the following and more:
Clients
7. Stu Strumwasser
Managing Principal
Green Circle Capital Partners LLC/
Securities offered by Peraza Capital & Investment LLC,Securities offered by Peraza Capital & Investment LLC,
Member SIPC & FINRA
stu@greencirclecap.com; Tel: 646-875-4870.
Offices in New York, NY and Boca Raton, FL.
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