Omair Chaudhry

Heyday is a platform accelerating digital brands for today’s consumers. We acquire and incubate leading digitally-native brands through innovative partnerships with eCommerce entrepreneurs. Once a part of the Heyday platform, brands tap into technology, data and capital custom-built to drive exponential revenue and profit growth. Our digital-first approach to brand building is unlocking the overlooked potential in the $2.7 trillion global marketplace economy. Heyday has over 200 global employees with deep eCommerce expertise, and has raised over $800 million from visionary investors like General Catalyst and Khosla Ventures.

Essor, where brands take flight. We find digital challenger brands and supercharge them into iconic global legends that consumers love. As a next-generation consumer products platform, we leverage technology, industry expertise, and strategic collaborations to ignite growth and launch brands beyond expectations. Essor’s brand portfolio today includes a broad range of rapidly growing health & wellness and lifestyle brands like Boka, ZitSticka, Puracy, OTOTO Design, FreshCap, Iron Flask, Fullstar, numnum, Key Nutrients, and Viking Revolution that are sold on Amazon, Direct to Consumer channels, and through national retailers like Target, CVS, and Walmart.

Foxtrot is redefining convenience for the modern consumer, marrying the best of neighborhood retail and e-commerce technology to create a community of discovery. Our storefronts offer the most-loved aspects of neighborhood cafés, and you can turn to the Foxtrot App or website for 30-minute delivery and 5-minute pick up of a city’s best goods – from local beers and fine wines to chef-prepared meals and everyday essentials. We also offer the best of our favorite foods, goods and curated gifts available for nationwide shipping via Foxtrot Anywhere. We’re building a first-of-its-kind omnichannel brand that seamlessly marries e-commerce delivery, proprietary inventory technology, and the feel-good community of neighborhood stores. Since launching our native app in 2013, we now operate a robust e-commerce platform and 20 (and counting!) retail stores across Chicago, DC, VA and Dallas with plans to continue expansion nationwide. We’re on a mission to connect people to better convenience through our love for food & culture, so that everyone can feel good about what they buy everyday.

Founded in 2017, Meati Foods is working to unlock a more delicious, nutritious, equitable, and sustainable food system for everyone. Eat Meati™, the debut product line from Meati Foods, features cutlets and steaks made from mushroom root, a whole-food protein cultivated with a modernized version of ancient and natural processes that have helped preserve Earths ecosystems for millennia. Eat Meati™ made its early retail debut in July 2022 after multiple months of record sellouts through its direct-to-doorstep online shop. A national omni-channel footprint is planned for late 2023.

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Real nutrition, made simple_ We deliver no nonsense good food, free from fluff, for people on the go. Our fresh, chef-prepared meals take the guesswork out of eating healthy. Ingredients with Integrity Every meal uses thoughtfully-sourced ingredients with no hormones, antibiotics, GMOs or additives. Restaurant-Quality Cuisine Our chefs craft restaurant-quality recipes to keep our menu fresh with new delicious options! Expert-Approved Nutrition Our in-house dietitians optimize the calories, nutrients and minerals in every meal on our menu!

Heyday is a platform accelerating digital brands for today’s consumers. We acquire and incubate leading digitally-native brands through innovative partnerships with eCommerce entrepreneurs. Once a part of the Heyday platform, brands tap into technology, data and capital custom-built to drive exponential revenue and profit growth. Our digital-first approach to brand building is unlocking the overlooked potential in the $2.7 trillion global marketplace economy. Heyday has over 200 global employees with deep eCommerce expertise, and has raised over $800 million from visionary investors like General Catalyst and Khosla Ventures.

Essor, where brands take flight. We find digital challenger brands and supercharge them into iconic global legends that consumers love. As a next-generation consumer products platform, we leverage technology, industry expertise, and strategic collaborations to ignite growth and launch brands beyond expectations. Essor’s brand portfolio today includes a broad range of rapidly growing health & wellness and lifestyle brands like Boka, ZitSticka, Puracy, OTOTO Design, FreshCap, Iron Flask, Fullstar, numnum, Key Nutrients, and Viking Revolution that are sold on Amazon, Direct to Consumer channels, and through national retailers like Target, CVS, and Walmart.

Schwartz Capital Group, formerly TCS Group, LLC, is an entrepreneurial and dynamic investment business. We pride ourselves on innovative thinking and value integrity, effective communication, and continuous improvement – a future-minded family investment firm. SCG is based in Chicago and was founded in 1996. Asset Management SCG invests its permanent capital base opportunistically for the long-term. Our portfolio is comprised of exceptional managers that value partnership and alignment of interests. We focus on multi-generational capital appreciation and invest globally across the public and private markets. Private Capital Schwartz Capital Group invests our own capital in operating companies and real estate assets. We target proven, cash flow generating businesses with defensible market positions. Our real estate efforts concentrate on partnering with trusted operators to acquire multi-family and commercial real estate assets. Our lack of outside investors allows us to be nimble, maintain a long-term investment horizon, and be true partners to the management teams and operators we support. Strand Equity Strand Equity Partners (“SEP”), an affiliate of Schwartz Capital Group is a growth equity fund focused on making investments in emerging and dynamic consumer brands. One of SEP’s key tenets is the ability to add value and be flexible when structuring our investment with founders and management. Our goal is to develop an equity solution that makes sense and works for the business. SEP is not looking to take control your business, we are looking to help you strategically scale and grow it. We have had great success aligning with founders and management teams in non-control positions.

Foxtrot is redefining convenience for the modern consumer, marrying the best of neighborhood retail and e-commerce technology to create a community of discovery. Our storefronts offer the most-loved aspects of neighborhood cafés, and you can turn to the Foxtrot App or website for 30-minute delivery and 5-minute pick up of a city’s best goods – from local beers and fine wines to chef-prepared meals and everyday essentials. We also offer the best of our favorite foods, goods and curated gifts available for nationwide shipping via Foxtrot Anywhere. We’re building a first-of-its-kind omnichannel brand that seamlessly marries e-commerce delivery, proprietary inventory technology, and the feel-good community of neighborhood stores. Since launching our native app in 2013, we now operate a robust e-commerce platform and 20 (and counting!) retail stores across Chicago, DC, VA and Dallas with plans to continue expansion nationwide. We’re on a mission to connect people to better convenience through our love for food & culture, so that everyone can feel good about what they buy everyday.

Founded in 2017, Meati Foods is working to unlock a more delicious, nutritious, equitable, and sustainable food system for everyone. Eat Meati™, the debut product line from Meati Foods, features cutlets and steaks made from mushroom root, a whole-food protein cultivated with a modernized version of ancient and natural processes that have helped preserve Earths ecosystems for millennia. Eat Meati™ made its early retail debut in July 2022 after multiple months of record sellouts through its direct-to-doorstep online shop. A national omni-channel footprint is planned for late 2023.