Jake Budler

VP of Platform | Bookstore Owner | Bike Advocate

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 2 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2025
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Feb 2025
Turchetti’s Meats is a USDA-certified producer of premium salami, deli meats, bacon, and sausage. Founded in 2017 in Indianapolis, we have grown from a neighborhood butcher shop into a national brand in the making. Our products are crafted with a chef-driven focus on flavor, clean-label ingredients, and humane sourcing. Our tagline, Real Craft. Real Flavor., reflects the standard we hold ourselves to every day. From farmers markets to a beloved Indy deli to a USDA facility with national distribution, Turchetti’s has always been about raising the bar for charcuterie and deli meats. We are now expanding into grocery, foodservice, and co-packing partnerships across the country.
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Sarabande Books is an award-winning, internationally-distributed, nonprofit, independent literary publishing house founded in 1994 in Louisville, Kentucky. With nearly three hundred titles in print, we have earned a dedicated readership and a national reputation as a publisher of diverse forms and innovative voices. Through our free arts programming, we are proud to invest in emerging writers and serve as an educational resource locally and nationally. Sarabande authors are Nobel laureates, Pulitzer winners, Guggenheim recipients, and winners of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and many other awards, honors, and distinctions. Our mission is to champion innovative voices in poetry, short fiction, essay, and literature in translation. We’re committed to creating lasting editions that honor exceptional writing.
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Feb 2025
Turchetti’s Meats is a USDA-certified producer of premium salami, deli meats, bacon, and sausage. Founded in 2017 in Indianapolis, we have grown from a neighborhood butcher shop into a national brand in the making. Our products are crafted with a chef-driven focus on flavor, clean-label ingredients, and humane sourcing. Our tagline, Real Craft. Real Flavor., reflects the standard we hold ourselves to every day. From farmers markets to a beloved Indy deli to a USDA facility with national distribution, Turchetti’s has always been about raising the bar for charcuterie and deli meats. We are now expanding into grocery, foodservice, and co-packing partnerships across the country.
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Sep 2024
PLEASE & THANK YOU is a chocolate chip cookie brand | F&B, Retail + CPG | 2X Voted Americas Favorite Cookie Shop by USA Today | As seen in Food & Wine, GQ, Boston Globe | Franchising in 2025! Currently Raising on WeFunder!
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