Zintinus, The Hershey Company and Whole Foods Market led a $20m Series B round in Blue Stripes.

Zintinus, The Hershey Company and Whole Foods Market, companies focused on food innovation, sustainability, and health-focused consumer products, led a $20m Series B round in Blue Stripes, a sustainable cacao brand, with participation from DMG Ventures, Hamilton Lane, and Praesidium. "For the last two decades of my career I focused on showing people the whimsical and romantic side of chocolate. In this next chapter, I am on a mission to change what happens behind the scenes of the cacao industry - reducing the negative cacao industry impact on the environment, improving the economic value cacao farmers receive for their work, and sharing the incredible functional benefits that the cacao superfruit has with the world," Oded Brenner, Blue Stripes, Founder.