Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=85c687db-4f51-4da6-876b-d34541c662e0
Date 2/2/2016
Company Name Back to the Roots
Mailing Address 424 2nd Street Oakland, CA 94607 USA
Company Description In a college class, we learned mushrooms could grow entirely on spent coffee grounds. After watching hours of how-to videos and turning our fraternity kitchen into a big science experiment, we eventually decided to give up our corporate job offers to instead become full-time mushroom farmers.
Proceeds Purposes The funding will be used to accelerate product development (10 new products in the pipeline for 2016), expand distribution into retailers and schools, and build the team at its Oakland headquarters.