• Overview
• Goals
• Investment Criteria
• Value-Added Operations

Overview –
Meriwether Ventures, LLC has been formed by David Howitt, Ken Barker and others to manage venture capital investments. Current targeted investment categories include: Branded Consumer Products; Wellness; and Active and Healthy Lifestyle companies.

All target investments must meet our criteria of being DISRUPTIVE – in that the company, technology, brand, service and management team are committed to overturning or radically changing the status quo of their category.

We are interested in partnering with companies that:

• Create categories.
• Disrupt and become leaders in their space.
• Change the way that consumers and enterprises live and interact.
• The investment filters within these target categories include companies that:
  
  • Are early-stage, growth oriented businesses serving consumers and small businesses.
  • Have dynamic, experienced and capable leaders.
  • Are focused on rapidly changing markets.
  • Are aggressively building a brand as a key aspect of their business model.
  • Are entering stale categories that are ripe for hungry, entrepreneurial and agile companies to exploit and take market share from complacent, slow and lazy category leaders.
    

The Principals believe that the American economy is still highly entrepreneurial and that early-stage businesses can emerge as competitive stand alone companies with attractive operating margins by leveraging both technology and intellectual property to create innovative products or services that cause dramatic market changes.

Within this environment, the Fund strategy is to provide entrepreneurs and business managers with a blend of capital, financing expertise, technological experience, significant operational guidance and strategic vision to help them create durable companies and long-term shareholder value.