Tripp Baird
Managing Partner at The Builders Fund
- Role
- Board Member at Traditional Medicinals
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Tripp Baird
Impact investor, entrepreneur with a career-long focus on sustainability and health. Founder & Managing Partner of the Builders Fund, a growth-stage private equity platform investing to build a better world. Builders partners with purpose-driven companies scaling into opportunities created by the need to solve environmental and social challenges. Focused on themes of sustainable systems and human elevation; to decarbonize the economy, help fix our broken food system, address access and affordability, use our finite resources more efficiently, and to create a more equitable, sustainable future. Serve on the Boards of PosiGen Solar, Traditional Medicinals, Urban Remedy, Umoja Health, and MIXT.Have invested in, secured funding for, and helped develop a number of other successful brands including Sambazon, Manduka, Planet Organic, Pure Organic, Faraday Bicycles, CytoSport/MuscleMilk, Equator Coffees, BOGS Footwear, Aerika Estates, and Surftech among numerous others.Previously Founding Principal and a Partner at Partnership Capital Growth (PCG)- a merchant bank focused in the areas of healthy, active, and sustainable living. Helped build boutique consumer advisory/investment group from the ground up, leading investments and advising transactions in the areas of active lifestyle/outdoor recreation, sustainable products, wellness, and healthy food/bev. Other co\'s we advised and invested in included Anytime Fitness, KIND Bar, thinkthin, Gaiam, Vino Volo, TRX, and Ecover/Method.Was an associate at North Castle Partners (Equinox, Naked Juice), and a consultant for Bain & Company. Earned dual magna cum laude A.B.s from Harvard University.Twice a NOLS graduate. Enjoy art/photography/painting, climbing, running distance, yoga (RYT 200), surfing, and snowboarding. With better half, Shana; sons, Cillian & Ewan; pup, Yuki, am based in San Francisco.
Experience
Board Member
Mar 2017 — Present
Education
Harvard University
AB x 2, Psychology and Visual/Environmental Studies
Skills
- Sustainable Business
- Venture Capital
- Finance
- Sustainability
- Due Diligence
- Start-Ups
- Cleantech
- Corporate Finance
- Management
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Strategic Planning
- Valuation
- Public Relations
- Business Strategy
- Impact Investing
- Socially Responsible Investing
- Strategic Partnerships
- Marketing
- Corporate Development
- Training
- Investment Banking
- Brand Development
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Strategic Consulting
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Entrepreneurship
- Management Consulting
- Small Business
- Executive Management
- Investments
- Private Equity
- Business Development
- Leadership
- B Corporations
- Fundraising
- Strategy
- Marketing Strategy
- Equities
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