One day, at their apartment in Eugene, Oregon, University sophomores Keeley and Erika were scraping the bottom of yet another jar of peanut butter. With no more peanut butter and a surplus of celery, they were faced with a familiar conundrum.
Luckily, they had a bag of raw peanuts, a brand new food processor, and two squirrelly little minds. It didn't take long before they had created a delicious batch of homemade peanut butter.
However, their creativity now sparked, Keeley and Erika were no longer content with the plain peanut butter they had created. So they set to adding every conceivable ingredient they had on their shelves. They sprinkled in cinnamon, raisins, chocolate chips, coffee, coconut... the list goes on. They tried them all.
After extensive sampling, Erika and Keeley decided their product was simply too good to keep to themselves. On this fateful day, the first batches of Wild Friends Nut Butter were created!
Location: United States, Oregon, Portland
Total raised: $3.5M
Investors 4
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Katjesgree... | katjesgree... |
| - | Cambridge ... | cambridges... |
| - | Echo Capit... | echocapita... |
| - | CompanyFir... | companyfir... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 21.11.2018 | Series A | $3.5M | - |
Mentions in press and media 5
| Date | Title | Description | Source |
| 22.11.2018 | Katjesgreenfood Launch First Palm Oil-free Company Wild Frie... | Katjesgreenfood has announced the first palm oil free US nut butter company, Wild Friends, as latest... | vegconomis... |
| 21.11.2018 | Wild Friends Foods Closes $3.5M Series A Funding Round | Wild Friends Foods, a Portland, Oregon-based clean-label food brand, closed a $3.5m Series A funding... | finsmes.co... |
| 21.11.2018 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, November 21 | BILLIONS Good morning, Term Sheet readers. Paid Content What you need to know about growing cybera... | fortune.co... |
| 21.11.2018 | Wild Friends secures $3.5 million investment as it branches ... | PORTLAND, ORE. — Wild Friends Foods, maker of clean label nut and seed butters, has closed a $3.5 mi... | foodbusine... |
| 20.11.2018 | Wild Friends Foods Raises $3.5M Series A | PORTLAND, OR, Wild Friends Foods, the brand revolutionizing the nut butter industry, announced tod... | vcnewsdail... |