Paumanok Ventures
A CPG brand studio that builds and backs consumer packaged goods brands, giving founders distribution and operating infrastructure through its BoxNCase wholesale network.
Paumanok Ventures operates as a consumer packaged goods (CPG) brand studio, combining operating infrastructure with selective investment rather than deploying capital alone. Based in Commack, Long Island, New York, the firm works with founders across specialty food and beverage, functional beverages, dairy, meat and produce, providing distribution, product identity, brand assets and public relations support from the outset of a brand's development. Where the fit is right, it adds direct investment or structured partnerships; founders are invited to apply to build their brand within the studio.
The studio's principal asset is BoxNCase, a wholesale distribution network built to move specialty food nationally. The network spans more than 2,200 vendors and 13,000 wholesale buyers, with service across all 50 states. Alongside physical distribution, the company's technical work concentrates on cold-chain distribution technology, AI procurement tooling and making wholesale catalogues accessible to AI procurement agents - infrastructure intended to shorten the distance between a new brand and shelf.
The model is distinctive among early-stage consumer investors in that the distribution platform is the product, with capital attached where appropriate rather than the reverse. Founders gain access to operating infrastructure - logistics, brand-building and go-to-market support - as a package, and the studio's selectivity on investment is explicit. Vertical focus is narrow: packaged goods and perishable categories where cold-chain capability and buyer relationships determine outcomes.