Dave Stangis

Strategy | Sustainability | Corporate Governance | Corp. Affairs | Reputation, Brand | Finance, CPG, Ag/Bio/Info Tech | Future-Proofing | Resiliency | Board Director, Advisor | Intrepreneur | Author | Decision Maker

📍 Greater Philadelphia, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 7 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
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Investor & Advisor
Feb 2017
Triple Bottom Brewing Company is a craft brewery with a conscience. Our beers are beautiful, balanced and fresh, and our brewery creates good jobs for people who struggle to find someone who will give them a chance. We believe beer brings people together, breweries build community, and a job can change a life.
Investor & Advisor
2017
Triple Bottom Brewing Company is a craft brewery with a conscience. Our beers are beautiful, balanced and fresh, and our brewery creates good jobs for people who struggle to find someone who will give them a chance. We believe beer brings people together, breweries build community, and a job can change a life.
Board Member
Aug 2015
Board Member
Aug 2012
Plum, PBC is home to Plum Organics, a values-driven company committed to nourishing the next generation with great tasting, nutritious food from high chair to lunchbox. Plum Organics is a group of extremely passionate people that truly love what they do and why they do it. They are parents, aunts, uncles, big brothers… tooth fairies. They are curious connoisseurs and joy seeking foodies that have come together to discover, celebrate & create all things healthy, inventive & yum For more information about Plum Organics, visit www.plumorganics.com. You can also follow us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/PlumOrganics) and Twitter (@plumorganics). For open positions at Plum Organics, check out: http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?k=JobListing&c=qHC9Vfw7&v=1 Plum, PBC is committed to providing equal opportunity for employees and applicants in all aspects of the employment relationship, without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.
Board Member
2012
Plum, PBC is home to Plum Organics, a values-driven company committed to nourishing the next generation with great tasting, nutritious food from high chair to lunchbox. Plum Organics is a group of extremely passionate people that truly love what they do and why they do it. They are parents, aunts, uncles, big brothers… tooth fairies. They are curious connoisseurs and joy seeking foodies that have come together to discover, celebrate & create all things healthy, inventive & yum For more information about Plum Organics, visit www.plumorganics.com. You can also follow us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/PlumOrganics) and Twitter (@plumorganics). For open positions at Plum Organics, check out: http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?k=JobListing&c=qHC9Vfw7&v=1 Plum, PBC is committed to providing equal opportunity for employees and applicants in all aspects of the employment relationship, without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.
Experience · 13 entries
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2025
Board Member
2025
Graanul Invest Group is the world’s leading sustainable biomass and bioenergy producer. For over 20 years, we have dedicated ourselves to developing and re-inventing the bioenergy sector. As a forefront player in renewable energy, we operate 12 modern pellet plants, 6 CHPs, and 4 vessels in the Baltics and the U.S. Our commitment and leadership in biomass are key to meeting the global climate challenge. With our cutting-edge processes and technologies, we have established ourselves as the industry leader in efficiency, sustainability, and reliability. Graanul Invest operates in two main business areas: producing environmentally friendly, carbon-neutral wood pellets and generating green electricity and heat from forestry and wood industry by-products. We make both premium-grade and industrial wood pellets with exemplary quality. Our mission is to accelerate the advancement of science-driven sustainable bio-economy and the uptake of biomass opportunities. Tackling climate change has never been more important, and urgent action is needed to reduce fossil emissions. The world urgently needs solutions that are effective here and now. Our wood pellets and bioenergy are immediate and cost-efficient substitutes for fossil fuels across industries. Our commitment and leadership in biomass are key to meeting the global climate challenge.
2021
Partner, Chief Sustainability Officer
2021
Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade credit to private equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. To learn more, please visit www.apollo.com. Nothing herein constitutes an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security or product of Apollo or any Apollo-managed fund.
2019
21C IMPACT, LLC
Founder & CEO
Oct 2019
21C IMPACT, LLC
Founder & CEO
2019
Mentor - FoodTech & AgTech Start-ups
2019
AgFunder is a global venture capital firm investing in deeptech platforms to unlock critical bottlenecks in food, agriculture, human and planetary health. Our news arm, AgFunderNews reports on the evolution of the world’s food and agriculture systems for human and planetary health. With a readership of millions globally and a knowledge base of over 50 million startups, AgFunder, and our specialist team of journalists, offer unparalleled insights and industry access.
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