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John Sherwin shared thisAfter leaving the day-to-day at Hydrant, I took a few months off to reset (featuring a few nights sleeping wild in the desert). Now, I’m back in the game and working with brands in the consumer health and wellness space. I’ve got bandwidth for one more company - if you or someone you know could use help building or launching a brand, I’d love to chat. Best way to reach me is jfpsherwin@gmail.com or DM on here.
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John Sherwin posted thisToday, I’m excited to share that Josh Houghton will be joining Hydrant as CEO. After eight years in the role, I believe this is the time for fresh leadership to take the baton. Josh is an accomplished operator and I’m excited to work with him in Hydrant’s next stage. Building Hydrant has been an adventure: - venture backed hyper-growth - opening 12k+ retail doors nationally - working with pro-athletes on big ad campaigns - Learning from plenty of mistakes along the way, and subsequently reshaping the business for profitability and sustainable growth. I want to thank everyone who helped get Hydrant to where it is today: our team, investors, partners and beyond. Hydrant is a great brand with a bright future! I’ll be taking some time off for a few months to explore new ideas and opportunities, in CPG and beyond. If you’re building in consumer with a science component (health or environment), I’d love to connect.
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John Sherwin shared thisJohn Sherwin shared thisWe are absolutely thrilled to announce that Hydrant is now available at Publix Super Markets and GreenWise Market in sunny South Florida! Thank you to Linda Hogan and Rana Whitaker for giving us the opportunity to offer healthier, low sugar, real fruit juice based Hydration solutions to Publix Guests. 🍊 🍋 💧☀️ #hydration #healthandwellness #healthcare #miami #tampa #florida
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John Sherwin shared thisJohn Sherwin shared thisWe are super excited and thankful to announce that Hydrant is now available at King Soopers/City Market! Thank you to Sherita Scott, MS. and our great partners at Feldkamp Marketing: Jenny Johnson and Natalie White for the support and opportunity to help keep Colorado hydrated. #healthandwellness #hydration
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John Sherwin shared thisHello LinkedIn! If you're back at the office this summer, we want to hydrate and energize you and your team with a big care package of Hydrant, to make the hot days as productive and enjoyable as possible. Put me in touch with your office manager or send over your office address and size via DM and we can set up a sample shipment. One caveat: we're only doing this for offices in the USA for now!
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John Sherwin shared thisIt feels like many parts of life have returned to relative normalcy now, but if you don't work in healthcare it's easy to miss how much of a burden is currently on the folks working in hospitals and other parts of our healthcare system. With long hours on your feet and PPE making it harder to drink water frequently, we're hoping that our donations can make a big impact to those on the frontlines still. If that's you - fill out the form!John Sherwin shared thisCALLING ALL HEALTHCARE HEROES! If your staff is interested in receiving a donation of Hydrant, feel free to fill out this form and our team will be in touch: https://bit.ly/3uzY5bf. Please note: Donations are US based only at this time.
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John Sherwin shared thisIt's a cold winter here in NYC, so we developed a new way to enjoy our Hydrant Sleep mix: Sleep Hot Cocoa. This hot drink has the our signature electrolyte blend for hydration + Sleep benefits for an all around better quality of sleep. It tastes decadent, but only has 3g of sugar. No one wants to drink a ton of liquid before bed either, so we designed it for 4-8oz of water or milk (125-250ml for my hometown friends!)John Sherwin shared thisSweet dreams are made of SLEEP Hot Cocoa. 💤 The newest addition to our SLEEP collection, this bedtime mix was created with melatonin for better quality sleep and coconut milk powder for a decadent consistency.
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John Sherwin shared thisWe're hydrating every SoulCycle studio in the world this month! Find us at the front desk. It's the perfect brand crossover: health and performance focused people sweating and hydrating at the same time.John Sherwin shared thisTappin' it back got ya sweaty? We're here to help! You can now find Hydrant at all SoulCycle Inc. studios.
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John Sherwin shared thisHydrant helps busy people get stuff done, and our ambassador and Peloton Instructor Emma Lovewell is the perfect example of that. Check out the video we made with her!John Sherwin shared thisPeloton Instructor, Emma Lovewell, has a lot on her plate but she makes it all happen with the help of Hydrant.Make Your Day With Hydrant Featuring Emma LovewellMake Your Day With Hydrant Featuring Emma Lovewell
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John Sherwin liked thisJohn Sherwin liked thisThis year I launched Cooper Hall Architecture, a design studio based between Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley. For the past couple of years I've been living upstate, renovating my own 19th century home in Pine Plains and working on historic renovations at The Art of Building, a wonderful design-build firm in Rhinebeck. Now splitting my time between Brooklyn and upstate, I'm enjoying working across apartment and brownstone renovations in the city and historic renovations and new builds in the Hudson Valley. Alongside the residential work, the studio takes on select hospitality and retail projects in the New York area. If you have a project in mind, I'd love to hear about it: cooper-hall.com
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John Sherwin liked thisJohn Sherwin liked thisExcited to join Rachel Farkash, Carly Snider and Christine Yeager during Climate Week NYC for a conversation on circularity, beauty, and EPR this Wednesday! In the first panel of the day, we'll dive into one of the beauty industry's biggest sustainability challenges: small-format recycle packaging. If you're in town, come join! https://luma.com/3gnrp2uy
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John Sherwin liked thisThank you to everyone who believed in us from the very beginning who enabled us to do the thing we love most - finding outliers and helping them realise the impossible. Thank you to our team. Thank you to the founders who have chosen to work with us. We are eternally grateful 🙏❤️ It’s a new day!John Sherwin liked thisFor most of its history, venture capital worked on a simple premise: founders gravitate to where the capital is. Silicon Valley, New York, London, and a handful of other centres, because proximity to investors, customers, talent, and networks could decide whether a company survives and ultimately thrives. Whilst that model produced extraordinary companies and will continue to do so, for us at Crane Venture Partners, it no longer describes how we see things. We recently published something we call The Meridian Principle. It begins with a simple observation: talent has always been evenly distributed; opportunity has not. In an AI accelerated world, the world's best founders are no longer bound by geography or defined by their proximity to capital. And they aren't moving to us but instead it is our capital and our presence that needs to be proximate to them. Today, we announced that we have raised $484 million across multiple investment vehicles, expanding our ability to invest from inception through every flavour of seed across Europe, North America, India, and Asia-Pacific. To meet and back the best founders wherever they are. These companies are rarely obvious at the start. Neither are the founders. We have found those people in the world's best-known technology ecosystems. We have also found them in research labs, universities, and emerging communities that venture capital has historically overlooked. We expect to find many more. Ideas that end up looking inevitable rarely looked that way at the beginning. They start as unconventional research, improbable founders, and markets that do not yet exist. Consensus arrives late. That is why conviction matters. The capital we announced today gives us greater ability to do that. The ambition is not to be bigger. It is to build the firm this generation of founders needs: one that can find extraordinary people early, connect them to opportunity anywhere in the world, and stay alongside them through the difficult work of building something that lasts. First to believe. Last to leave.
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John Sherwin liked thisTHIS and the fact that cosmetic innovation need not be expensive or time consuming. Sometimes innovation stems from a simple perspective shift, or a small risk in product development strategy.John Sherwin liked thisAs a Cosmetic Chemist, I have an issue with dupe culture. Dupes in the cosmetic industry are so difficult to talk about, because there’s so much nuance to the conversation. On one hand, I’m so glad that dupes exist. There are so many expensive products that are marked up wildly so the brand can maximize their profits, so having affordable, accessible options is incredibly important. On the other hand, dupe culture has made it more normalized for companies to just knock off each others’ products, which leaves very little room for innovation. Over the course of my career I’ve seen hundreds of products get developed where the brief is just a popular benchmark and the company saying “we want to launch this exact same product, just cheaper for us to make.” The brand piggybacks off the success of a viral product, and the consumer is left buying another basic, boring product that’s been done a thousand times already, in slightly different packaging. I’m ALL for purchasing dupes of products that perform well, feel good, and don’t hurt your wallet. But I also think we should be urging companies to INNOVATE! Brands should increase their R&D budgets, give more creative freedom to the chemists designing the formulas, choose packaging that works well and looks cute, and prioritize quality over quantity. Some of my favorite brands only have 5 or 6 products, but every single product is a hit because they’re intentional with what they launch. THAT is what we should be encouraging and putting our money towards, not companies that just want to take your money. If you like purchasing dupes, don’t let me stop you. But I also encourage you to actively seek out companies that are making good, high quality formulas at prices you can afford. I promise you they exist.
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John Sherwin liked thisMany congratulations to the TwoStep Therapeutics team on closing their Series A financing and receiving IND clearance for their lead program! M Ventures is excited to be supporting TwoStep alongside a fantastic group of investors as the company moves their first-in-class peptide drug-conjugate towards the clinic.John Sherwin liked this🧬 M Ventures co-leads TwoStep Therapeutics oversubscribed $62.5 million Series A round participating alongside Insight Partners, Medical Excellence Capital, LLC and Pfizer Ventures. TwoStep is developing multi-specific targeted therapies for solid tumors with their lead peptide-drug conjugate program TS-104 recently receiving IND clearance by the FDA. This financing and IND clearance enables TwoStep to initiate a first-in-human Phase 1 clinical trial of TS-104. This trial will provide the first clinical evaluation of the multi-specific targeting approach at the heart of TwoStep and assess the potential of TS-104 to broaden the reach of targeted therapies. The proceeds will also enable TwoStep to advance their radioligand program and expand into next-gen peptide conjugates. We're proud to partner with CEO Caitlyn Miller, PhD and the TwoStep team as they advance this highly innovative science and differentiated drug-conjugate approach into clinical studies. M Ventures’ Oliver Lyth and Bauke Anninga will be joining the TwoStep Board Welcome to the M Ventures portfolio! 🚀 🔗 www.m-ventures.com PR: https://lnkd.in/eQDsR2X4
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John Sherwin liked thisJohn Sherwin liked thisI’m delighted to welcome Matt Russell as the new CEO of Log my Care. Building Log my Care from an idea into the business it is today has been an incredible journey. I’m immensely proud of what our team has built and, most importantly, of the impact we’ve been able to have for care providers and the people they support. The success we’ve achieved means the time is right to strengthen our leadership for the next stage of that journey. Matt brings extensive experience scaling technology businesses, but what particularly stood out to me was his passion for people. He has spent his career thinking about how technology can help people do their best work, something that feels incredibly relevant to social care and to what we’ve always wanted to achieve at Log my Care. I’ll remain closely involved as I step into a new role as Founder Director, and am looking forward to supporting Matt, the team and our customers as we enter this next chapter. Welcome, Matt!
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John Sherwin liked thisJohn Sherwin liked thisThis summer I wrapped up my time at Unify. It was my first foray into the AI startup world, and while only a year on paper, I learned more than I expected to in five. Grateful to the team for the ride along the way. In that year, there was one company that kept popping up. Whether it was: - Sitting in on their onboarding call my first week with Angela and Christopher - Later working on a case study with Vicky and Ethan to celebrate their wins - Walking past their ads every day on my way to work - Or even hearing recruiters in my network rave about them So it only feels right to be joining Juicebox to build out product marketing 🧃 Excited to play a small part in the company that recruiting teams at Notion, Cursor, and Reddit trust to hire world class talent. And to work with folks like David, Ishan, Simran, and Seng that I met through the process. If you're in the recruiting space, reach out as I'd love to try my hand at a demo. And if you're looking at new roles, we're hiring! (Not pictured: my wife taking this pic like it's my first day of school)
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John Sherwin liked thisJohn Sherwin liked thisI was thrilled to be invited onto the “Writer's on Writing” podcast, hosted by the esteemed @barbarademarcobarrett. It will be available next week, but in the meantime, here is a teaser from Barbara’s Substack, Pen on Fire. Subscribe! STG, you won’t regret it https://lnkd.in/erd7qyZb
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