Founders & Funders Roadshow – Los Angeles

We're bringing brands and investors together for an evening of high-quality networking, deal-making, and funding opportunities.

Founders & Funders: Roadshow shines a spotlight on the most relevant CPG investors in each region via a cross country tour. It’s a chance for brands to connect and learn in an intimate setting, with sampling opportunities for the most exciting products. Our first stop of 2026 is Los Angeles!

Our hope is to provide a warm, thoughtful environment to educate and connect brands and VCs in the early CPG ecosystem, and interested VCs will have the option to receive info on brands attending (summary of their revenue, traction, and fundraising).

Event Programming includes:

• Arrivals and Kick-Off Greeting
• 1:1 meetings between brands & investors
• Panels & Remarks
• Light food & beverages

How the 1:1 Meetings Work:

Purchase a ticket, then you'll receive a link to submit a one-pager. Investors will review them in advance to select who they want to meet with. If you're selected for a 1:1 meeting, you'll know there's already genuine interest before you sit down at the table.

Important: Application does not guarantee a 1:1 meeting. However, you'll still have valuable networking opportunities with investors throughout the event!

Come meet investors from these firms (more coming):

• XRC
• OpenSky Ventures
• Willow Growth Partners
• Entrepreneur Ventures
• Provenance
• Selva
• CAVU Consumer Partners
• Family Fund
• Wellness Growth Ventures
• Strand Equity Partners
• Bam Ventures
• Palette
• Rich Products Ventures
• Siddhi Capital
• Freedom Trail Capital
• Terpsi
• Fourward Ventures
• Vibrant VC
• MarcyPen Capital Partners
• Air Ventures
• Alliance Consumer Growth
• Touch Capital
• Supernatural Ventures
• RX3 Growth Partners
• TheVentures
• Northhall
• Casseta Hotels
• Back to Back VC
• Green Park Brands
• Sunset Health Products
• Barbarella Ventures

See here for a recap of the Founders & Funders event in December 2025.

Sponsors:

About Rosenthal Capital Group:

Rosenthal Capital Group (RCG) is the premier provider of non-dilutive growth capital solutions for today's leading brands. Trusted by millions of entrepreneurs for over 88 years, RCG partners with private equity, venture, and fractional CFO firms to deliver the liquidity their clients need to succeed. Loan size ranges from $500K-$40MM+

About Advantage Solutions:

Advantage Solutions leads from the center of commerce, with solution offerings at every point along the path to purchase, connecting brands, retailers, and people - shaping every way people shop. FDM, an Advantage Solutions company, is the leading brokerage agency providing headquarter sales representation for emerging, insurgent, and mid-sized clients for conventional, natural/specialty and independent channels.

About Circana:

Circana is a leader in providing technology, AI, and data to fast-moving consumer packaged goods companies, durables manufacturers, and retailers seeking to optimize their businesses. Circana’s predictive analytics and technology empower clients to measure their market share, understand the underlying consumer behavior driving it, and accelerate their growth. Circana’s Liquid Data® technology platform is powered by an expansive, high-quality dataset and intelligent algorithms trained on six decades of domain expertise. With Circana, clients can take immediate action to future-proof and evolve their growth strategies amid an increasingly complex, fast-paced, and ever-changing economy.

About Escalon:

Escalon helps growing companies stabilize finance and HR quickly, so leaders can focus on building the business instead of managing operational complexity. We support financial operations, accounting, revenue optimization, HR, recruiting, payroll, and more. Escalon isn’t just an outsourced back-office solution. We’re a strategic growth partner that helps teams scale with confidence.

About Rho

Rho is the all-in-one banking platform for startups and the accountants who support them. With banking set up in minutes, 2% cashback cards, and powerful tools for managing spend, paying bills, and closing the books, Rho helps high-growth startups move fast and stay focused - with support that goes to the ends of the earth to help you win.

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