Green Mountains,
Great Opportunities
An early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing businesses in Vermont and surrounding regions, FreshTracks’ expertise, networks, resources and capital support innovative businesses through multiple rounds of financing and stages of growth.
Mamava
Mamava delivers design solutions for nursing mothers on the go, making the world a friendlier place to pump or breast feed.
DealerPolicy
DealerPolicy provides auto dealers with a digital platform built on a simple premise: customers get far more value when they buy insurance at the same time that they buy their car.
EatingWell
The EatingWell Media Group became the leading national source of contemporary nutrition, cooking and wellness information for a growing audience of health-conscious readers and digital users.
Ogee
Ogee’s clean-label, certified organic skincare products feature innovative and effective ingredients reduce wrinkles, instantly moisturize and restore healthy, smooth, and glowing skin.
SunCommon
SunCommon was founded with a mission is to tear down the barriers to renewable energy and make going solar easy and affordable for all.
Caledonia Spirits
Caledonia Spirits was founded on a vision to support working landscapes and local agriculture by making Barr Hill craft spirits from regional raw materials.
Faraday
Faraday is a B2B cloud software provider which uses ethical artificial intelligence to help direct to consumer companies make predictions using responsible data.
Equity Investments
Based in Shelburne VT, FreshTracks Capital manages a family of early-stage venture capital funds that are invested with a core focus on Vermont companies.
Portfolio
Fresh Tracks Capital favors businesses with the potential for creating defensible competitive advantages, and seeks out proven, high-performing management teams to lead these companies. Learn more about some of the businesses we work with.
WHO WE ARE
Meet Our Team
The experience, education, background and resources of the FreshTracks team make it a deeply rooted yet agile investor.
Cairn G. Cross
Co-founder & Managing Director
Cross is a co-founder of FreshTracks Capital and has served as a Managing Director of the firm since its founding in 2000. Cairn is the lead partner for FreshTracks’ investments in Faraday, DealerPolicy, ThinkMD, Virtual Peaker, Vermont Teddy Bear, SunCommon, NativeEnergy and Mamava.
Lee E. Bouyea
General Partner & Managing Director
Lee Bouyea is General Partner and Managing Director at FreshTracks Capital, focusing his efforts on software and technology investments for the firm. Lee is currently the lead partner for the FreshTracks portfolio companies: Benchmark Space Systems, Resonant Link, Infisense, ImageRelay, Saasable, AskFora & Defendify.
T.J. Whalen
General Partner & Managing Director
T.J. Whalen is General Partner and Managing Director at FreshTracks Capital, focusing his efforts on consumer opportunities for the fund. Whalen currently serves on a number of boards, including Caledonia Spirits, SunCommon, Zero Gravity, NativeEnergy, and Ogee, and is board chair at 1% for the Planet.
Holly J. Killary
Bookkeeper
Holly is Bookkeeper and Administrative Assistant for FreshTracks Capital, and is responsible for managing portfolio company documents and the fund accounting, assisting with quarterly and year end financial reporting, annual audits, and event planning.
Latest News
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Calling All Entrepreneurs! Entrepreneurs and Investors Meet on the Slopes for Peak Pitch 2023
Shelburne, VT (February 22, 2023)—FreshTracks Capital announces the return of Peak Pitch, a start-up business pitch event on the slopes, scheduled for Tuesday March 14. Now in its seventeenth year,…
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Benchmark combines the electric metal plasma thrusters with its chemical propulsion systems to provide satellite operators with go-fast and precision mobility capabilities https://news.satnews.com/2023/03/16/benchmark-space-systems-fires-up-metal-plasma-bi-prop-thruster-production-realigns-executive-team/
“Montpelier’s Barr Hill Gin is one of the latest Vermont companies to take inspiration from the land. In 2019, after early success, Barr Hill opened up a 27,000-square-foot distillery, bar, and visitors’ center in Montpelier.” https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/14/lifestyle/when-it-comes-goods-vermont-people-are-looking-real-products-that-are-made-by-real-people/
Impact On Our Community
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VERMONT COMPANIES INVESTED IN
TO-DATE
$35MM
CAPITAL INVESTED SINCE 2000
$7MM
AVERAGE ANNUAL REVENUE GENERATED BY A FRESHTRACKS PORTFOLIO COMPANY
$600K
AVERAGE FRESHTRACKS INVESTMENT PER COMPANY