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Amberstone

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At Amberstone, we back ambitious entrepreneurs scaling brand-first consumer product companies into nationally distributed category leaders. We combine rigorous, data-driven analysis and extensive experience in CPG to provide capital and purposeful partnership to help entrepreneurs achieve their visions.

We take a concentrated and high conviction approach to investing, working with a select group of extraordinary entrepreneurs, to build dynamic, purposeful partnerships. We go beyond a playbook approach, leveraging our experience and network, to achieve exceptional outcomes for all stakeholders.

Those we have backed, now back us. We believe in long-term relationships, and every CEO we have backed that has achieved an exit has, in turn, invested back in Amberstone.

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