Laurent Marcel

Founder & Managing Partner, Eclair Partners

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2025
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Board Member and Investor
Jul 2025
Smash Foods is a line of superfood jam & jam packed snacks made with simple, real ingredients, no refined sugars and flavors the whole family will love!
Board Member
Oct 2019
A family-owned, organic, dairy-free creamery building better dairy with plants—not cows.
Board Observer
Jan 2019
A new-age FMCG company, Epigamia is one of Indias leading health snack brands. Catering to a wide consumer demographic owing to our unique and diverse product offerings - we believe we are contemporizing traditional dairy. From Greek Yogurt to Artisanal Curd, Smoothies to Milkshakes, Lactose-free ranges to Plant-based ranges - we constantly push boundaries in the most creative manner to make sure you never have to choose between health and taste. A brand that is by the people, of the people and for the people who love food. A love so deep that it made us think of ourselves as Activists of Taste and Advocates of Health! We push boundaries to make food yummier and ensure some, if not all, health boxes are ticked! For our very first creation, we added the best of Indian and Greek cultures to a cup and let the magic loose. And the rest? History. We love thinking outside the cup - oops, we mean box. With plenty of creative elbow room and a passion for pushing boundaries, we experiment with unique flavours, create new products and bring innovation to life!
Board Observer
Jun 2018
Nature’s Fynd is a Chi­ca­­go-based food com­pa­ny cre­at­ing ver­sa­tile alterna­tive pro­teins to nour­ish the world’s grow­ing pop­u­la­tion while nur­tur­ing the plan­et. Born out of research con­duct­ed for NASA on microbes in Yellowstone Nation­al Park, the company’s break­through tech­nol­o­gy pro­duces Fy™. Fy is a new-to-the-world, nutri­tion­al fun­gi protein that only uses a frac­tion of the resources required by tra­di­tion­al agri­cul­ture. We use Fy to make delicious, nutritious, and sustainable meat and dairy alternatives.
Board Member
Dec 2017
Founded in 2010, Harmless Harvest is a progressive food & beverage initiative set to demonstrate that ecosystem-based businesses can outcompete the conventional model. By integrating the long term welfare of all its stakeholders - from plant to customer - Harmless Harvest Coconut Water has taken the food and beverage world by storm, rising to the top of the industry in record time. In 2011, we introduced the world’s first sustainably harvested, organic coconut water and are now one of the leaders of the category nationwide. Combining innovative scientific methods with local traditional farming practices, Harmless Harvest develops and manufactures products that deliver the nutritional and ethical integrity that nature intended. Harmless Harvest is proud to be the first Fair for Life certified coconut water. Fair for Life verifies our commitment to paying fair wages, providing decent working conditions abroad and in the USA, and reinvesting in the communities at the source. Harmless Harvest offers free healthcare to our partners through our Fair for Life initiatives, we have provided medical and vision check-ups to 776 farmers and their communities since the program’s inception, 80% of who had never received medical care. Harmless Harvest has helped certify over 300 farms Organic and Fair for Life in Thailand. Harmless Harvest is dedicated to generating positive feedback loops between people and plants. Our vision is a world where nutritious, clean, organic and healthy food and beverages are the standard rather than the exception; where all people involved in the chain of custody are treated with fairness; and the planet is treated harmlessly #Be Harmless, #Live Harmless, #Drink Harmless Join the movement, touch lives
Board Member
Sep 2017
Chez Yooji, nous sommes avant tout des parents qui voulons ce qu’il y a de mieux pour nos bébés. Et pour nous, rien ne vaut le fait maison ! C’est pourquoi on s’est lancé le défi de réinventer l’alimentation infantile en copiant le fait maison, pour que les jeunes parents n’aient plus jamais à choisir entre qualité et praticité. Nous avons imaginé des repas sous la forme de petites portions surgelées pratiques à doser & réchauffer, pour sadapter aux besoins de chaque enfant et éviter de gaspiller. Le tout cuisiné avec des ingrédients bio, en majorité Français, dans notre propre atelier du Sud-Ouest & avec beaucoup damour. Yooji cest les repas comme fait maison pour bébé, prêts en 2 minutes !
Experience · 9 entries
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Investments (7)
Founder (1)
Board (7)
2025
Board Member and Investor
Jul 2025
Smash Foods is a line of superfood jam & jam packed snacks made with simple, real ingredients, no refined sugars and flavors the whole family will love!
2023
Founder & Managing Partner
Apr 2023
Investing in the Next Generation of Sustainable Food and Foodtech Brands in the US, Europe and India
2019
Board Member
Oct 2019
A family-owned, organic, dairy-free creamery building better dairy with plants—not cows.
Board Observer
Jan 2019
A new-age FMCG company, Epigamia is one of Indias leading health snack brands. Catering to a wide consumer demographic owing to our unique and diverse product offerings - we believe we are contemporizing traditional dairy. From Greek Yogurt to Artisanal Curd, Smoothies to Milkshakes, Lactose-free ranges to Plant-based ranges - we constantly push boundaries in the most creative manner to make sure you never have to choose between health and taste. A brand that is by the people, of the people and for the people who love food. A love so deep that it made us think of ourselves as Activists of Taste and Advocates of Health! We push boundaries to make food yummier and ensure some, if not all, health boxes are ticked! For our very first creation, we added the best of Indian and Greek cultures to a cup and let the magic loose. And the rest? History. We love thinking outside the cup - oops, we mean box. With plenty of creative elbow room and a passion for pushing boundaries, we experiment with unique flavours, create new products and bring innovation to life!
2018
Board Observer
Jun 2018
Nature’s Fynd is a Chi­ca­­go-based food com­pa­ny cre­at­ing ver­sa­tile alterna­tive pro­teins to nour­ish the world’s grow­ing pop­u­la­tion while nur­tur­ing the plan­et. Born out of research con­duct­ed for NASA on microbes in Yellowstone Nation­al Park, the company’s break­through tech­nol­o­gy pro­duces Fy™. Fy is a new-to-the-world, nutri­tion­al fun­gi protein that only uses a frac­tion of the resources required by tra­di­tion­al agri­cul­ture. We use Fy to make delicious, nutritious, and sustainable meat and dairy alternatives.
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