John Newton

Angel Investor

📍 Litchfield, Connecticut, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 22 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2015
VC🌍 United States
9
Total investments
3
Early stage
1
Mid stage
1
Late stage
22y
Years active

Portfolio

9 investments · sorted by recency
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Investor
2015
Harbinger Venture is a financial services company based out of 2880 Lakeside Dr, Santa Clara, California, United States.
Investor
2015
BFG Partners is a venture capital firm that seeks partnerships with early stage businesses across consumer product categories. Our focus includes food & beverage, personal care, and pet. We work alongside exceptional entrepreneurs to ensure the business is able to deliver sustainable growth and outperform its competitors. In addition to providing our portfolio companies with capital, BFG provides teams with the advice most needed to make critical decisions and maximize opportunities. This advice spans operational strategy, tactical marketing, channel development, organizational design and capital planning.
Investor
2014
Little Secrets is reinventing your childhood chocolate favorites by creating mind-blowingly delicious, premium versions of the classics. Were Fixing Chocolate. Founded in Boulder in 2014, Little Secrets® Chocolate Pieces, Crispy Wafers, Cookie Bars, and Creamy Nougat Bars are made using sustainable European chocolate, the highest quality ingredients and no artificial colors, flavors or corn syrup while still delivering on nostalgic deliciousness. Little Secrets is here to provide chocolates fix with the ingredients you love, the flavors you crave and zero of the conscience-busting bad stuff.
early stageManufacturing
Investor
2011
If Black Swans are unforeseen calamitous events, Red Swans are great companies most of us never saw coming. They are built by entrepreneurs who create joy for their customers, provide meaning to their employees, and scare their shareholders by passing on premature acquisition offers. They are movements as much as businesses. We are honored to be a part of them.
Investor
2011
We're out to change the apparel industry for good. Our super soft everyday apparel is made using non-GMO organic cotton in a transparent supply chain that improves the lives of farmers and workers. You’ll not only feel good in Pact, but also feel good about how it’s made.
Investor
2010
Founded in 2005, the Icelandic Milk & Skyr Corporation makes clean and simple, low sugar yogurt products under the brand name siggi’s. Our first product skyr is a strained yogurt, made from skim milk so it is thick and creamy, high in protein, and non-fat. We combine the ancient Icelandic tradition of skyr making with milk from local family farm. Our farmers do not use growth hormones like rBST. All siggi’s products are natural and do not contain any artificial sweeteners; our yogurts are very lightly sweetened with agave nectar or cane sugar. Our mission is to create rather delicious, low sugar yogurt products.
Investor
2009
EVOL (ee-vuhl) Foods, based in Boulder, Colo., is changing the way the world thinks about frozen food. Philip Anson, chief operating officer, chef and founder, is very choosy about what goes into his burritos, wraps, snacks, entrees, flatbreads and pizzas: antibiotic-free chicken, pork, beef and chorizo sausage; artisan hand-tossed dough; cage-free eggs; traditionally made tortillas; herb-roasted skin-on potatoes; house-made green chilé and salsas; and numerous local and organic ingredients. There’s a lot to LOVE about EVOL. EVOL Foods is available in grocers nationwide. evolfoods.com
late stageManufacturing
Investor
2008
We are on a mission to make fits and connections that inspire people to be themselves. Our Bonobos menswear brand is known for being a style instigator and offering perfect-fit risks through our innovative retail model and personalized experience. Launched online in 2007 with its signature line of chinos, Bonobos now offers a variety of styles available to order online and to try on at any one of our 60+ Guideshop locations. Our Guideshops are in-real-life stores that deliver one-on-one service and expert fit advice. Don’t think traditional retail, Bonobos is something you haven’t seen before. The Bonobos team is vibrant, collaborative, and inclusive. If you value self-awareness, empathy, intellectual honesty, positive energy, and judgment, often over experience, consider joining our team. At Bonobos, we’ve created a culture where collaboration and communication are paramount, all while making time for fun and celebrating extraordinary efforts. Consider joining us and view our open roles—http://www.bonobos.com/jobs.
early stageRetail
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Investments (9)
2015
Investor
2015
Harbinger Venture is a financial services company based out of 2880 Lakeside Dr, Santa Clara, California, United States.
Investor
2015
BFG Partners is a venture capital firm that seeks partnerships with early stage businesses across consumer product categories. Our focus includes food & beverage, personal care, and pet. We work alongside exceptional entrepreneurs to ensure the business is able to deliver sustainable growth and outperform its competitors. In addition to providing our portfolio companies with capital, BFG provides teams with the advice most needed to make critical decisions and maximize opportunities. This advice spans operational strategy, tactical marketing, channel development, organizational design and capital planning.
2014
Investor
2014
Little Secrets is reinventing your childhood chocolate favorites by creating mind-blowingly delicious, premium versions of the classics. Were Fixing Chocolate. Founded in Boulder in 2014, Little Secrets® Chocolate Pieces, Crispy Wafers, Cookie Bars, and Creamy Nougat Bars are made using sustainable European chocolate, the highest quality ingredients and no artificial colors, flavors or corn syrup while still delivering on nostalgic deliciousness. Little Secrets is here to provide chocolates fix with the ingredients you love, the flavors you crave and zero of the conscience-busting bad stuff.
early stageManufacturing
2011
Investor
2011
If Black Swans are unforeseen calamitous events, Red Swans are great companies most of us never saw coming. They are built by entrepreneurs who create joy for their customers, provide meaning to their employees, and scare their shareholders by passing on premature acquisition offers. They are movements as much as businesses. We are honored to be a part of them.
Investor
2011
We're out to change the apparel industry for good. Our super soft everyday apparel is made using non-GMO organic cotton in a transparent supply chain that improves the lives of farmers and workers. You’ll not only feel good in Pact, but also feel good about how it’s made.
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