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Back to the Roots
To plant a garden is to believe in the future
Sector Brands
Founded 2009
Headquarters Oakland, CA
Back to the Roots is an online based company that provides a variety of indoor gardening kits. With their products, customers can grow anything from mushrooms to microgreens and even herb garden. Their goal is to reconnect families to the growing process and arm a new generation with the knowledge of where food comes from.
LEADERSHIP
Alejandro Velez
Co-CEO and Co-Founder
Nikhil Arora
Co-CEO and Co-Founder
ARTICLES
06/20/20
Congratulations to our World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers 2020
Sanjeev Krishnan, S2G Ventures Managing Director and CIO, will ...Connecting Technology and Business to Create Healthy, Resilient Food Systems.
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IN THE NEWS
11/23/21
America's #1 Organic Gardening Company Back To The Roots Raises $15M Series D Funding To Accelerate Product Innovation And New Distribution Growth
Back to the Roots, the world's fastest-growing organic garden brand and largest millennial garden brand, announced today that it has raised $15M in Series D funding to accelerate product innovation and support new distribution growth.
Morningstar
10/22/20
Leader In Organic Gardening Back To The Roots Raises New Round Of Financing To Fuel Rapid Expansion Into The Seed Packet Category
Current Investors S2G Ventures, Acre Venture Partners, John Foraker, and Fund Good Jobs Led the Round, Alongside New Investor Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed, a Prominent Sustainable Food & AG Investor
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OUR PODCAST
WHERE WE GROW FROM HERE
6/17/21
The Power of Why: A Guide for Growth with Back to the Roots
From their UC-Berkeley college dorms to over 14,000 stores globally, Back to the Roots is on a mission to reconnect every family & kid back to where food comes from by helping them experience the magic of growing it themselves. Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora, Co-founders and co-CEO, Back to the Roots join the S2G Ventures podcast to discuss entrepreneurship, starting and growing a business for a new generation of consumers, and how they have used the WHY of their business as the guide for growth.
EPISODE
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