John Norwood

Board Director (PDA-Certified) | Strategy & Growth Advisor | ESG & Triple Bottom Line Leader | Impact & Growth Investor | Expert Generalist | Nominee for Treasurer, State of Iowa

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
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Private Investor
Aug 2025
Doughlicious The London Dough Company is a modern and innovative cookie dough platform. We are the cookie dough delicious is made from! Stretch the limits of snacking. Doughlicious cookie dough bakes into delicious cookies or unites with creamy gelato and cookie crumbs. Our handcrafted, gluten-free certified snacks are made in London with the finest ingredients and renewable electricity to make them super sneaky good! When those cravings strike, answer with Doughlicious - where tasting good never felt oh-so right. Now that’s how to Dough Good!
Private Investor
Aug 2024
Green Acres Milling is farmer-owned premium oat milling facility in Albert Lea, MN. We specialize in sustainability,rural community preservation, and increasing diversity in crop rotation. Green Acres Milling offers premium oat products, an upgrade option, to end product food manufacturers unfinished oat product. This is a true product market fit for end- product manufacturers and consumers looking for premium quality, nutrition, and sustainability practices in their products.
Private Investor
Jun 2024
Blue Ivy Ventures is an Alumni Ventures venture capital fund for alumni of Yale that invests in companies with a Yale connection. Meet the team: David Shapiro, Managing Partner Yevgeny Gelfand, Partner Ryan Musto, Senior Associate We are part of Alumni Ventures, America’s largest venture firm for individual investors. Founded in 2014, we are the venture investing partner to over 11,000 individuals and institutions.   Follow Blue Ivy Ventures for content at the intersection of our shared alma mater, venture capital, and entrepreneurship. We are private, for-profit, and not affiliated with or sanctioned by the college. Offers of securities are made only to eligible investors through formal offering documents, which describe the risks, terms, and other important information that must be considered before investing. Example portfolio company investments shown for illustrative purposes only, do not necessarily reflect investment outcomes that were or would be obtained by any AV fund or investor, and are not available to future investors, except potentially in the case of follow-on investments. Venture capital investing involves substantial risk, including risk of loss of all capital invested. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Private Investor
Sep 2022
We help professionals and entrepreneurs build passive income and build generational wealth investing in commercial real estate.
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2026
Private Investor
Jan 2026
We are a female owned producer of luxury cured meats made with new world flavors and ethically sourced all-natural ingredients. Our products are available online at corofoods.com, in retail shops nationwide and in our famous restaurant Salumi in Seattle.
2025
Private Investor
Aug 2025
Doughlicious The London Dough Company is a modern and innovative cookie dough platform. We are the cookie dough delicious is made from! Stretch the limits of snacking. Doughlicious cookie dough bakes into delicious cookies or unites with creamy gelato and cookie crumbs. Our handcrafted, gluten-free certified snacks are made in London with the finest ingredients and renewable electricity to make them super sneaky good! When those cravings strike, answer with Doughlicious - where tasting good never felt oh-so right. Now that’s how to Dough Good!
2024
Private Investor
Aug 2024
Green Acres Milling is farmer-owned premium oat milling facility in Albert Lea, MN. We specialize in sustainability,rural community preservation, and increasing diversity in crop rotation. Green Acres Milling offers premium oat products, an upgrade option, to end product food manufacturers unfinished oat product. This is a true product market fit for end- product manufacturers and consumers looking for premium quality, nutrition, and sustainability practices in their products.
Private Investor
Jun 2024
Blue Ivy Ventures is an Alumni Ventures venture capital fund for alumni of Yale that invests in companies with a Yale connection. Meet the team: David Shapiro, Managing Partner Yevgeny Gelfand, Partner Ryan Musto, Senior Associate We are part of Alumni Ventures, America’s largest venture firm for individual investors. Founded in 2014, we are the venture investing partner to over 11,000 individuals and institutions.   Follow Blue Ivy Ventures for content at the intersection of our shared alma mater, venture capital, and entrepreneurship. We are private, for-profit, and not affiliated with or sanctioned by the college. Offers of securities are made only to eligible investors through formal offering documents, which describe the risks, terms, and other important information that must be considered before investing. Example portfolio company investments shown for illustrative purposes only, do not necessarily reflect investment outcomes that were or would be obtained by any AV fund or investor, and are not available to future investors, except potentially in the case of follow-on investments. Venture capital investing involves substantial risk, including risk of loss of all capital invested. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
2022
Private Investor
Sep 2022
We help professionals and entrepreneurs build passive income and build generational wealth investing in commercial real estate.
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