InvestEco Capital

President and CEO Andrew Heintzman leads the investment team and sets the firm's strategic direction. InvestEco operates with a lean partnership model, where senior investment professionals share deal-sourcing and portfolio-oversight responsibilities. The firm has historically relied on a tight circle of partners and operating advisors rather than a large hierarchical investment committee.

InvestEco's sourcing relies on the firm's deep network within North American organic and natural-food supply chains, built over more than two decades. The firm often encounters companies before formal sale processes begin, through relationships with independent brands, distributors, and agricultural input providers. This long-tenured ecosystem access is the closest thing to proprietary deal flow in a sector where many growth-stage brands are publicly known.

InvestEco targets growth equity, late-stage expansion, and buyout opportunities. The firm typically invests in companies that are already generating revenue and have established retail or foodservice distribution, rather than pre-revenue startups. Check sizes and stage preferences are calibrated to take meaningful minority or control positions in profitable, scaling businesses.

InvestEco operates as a direct investor, making equity investments into individual operating companies rather than allocating capital to external funds. The firm manages committed capital through a series of closed-end private equity funds and takes active board roles in portfolio companies, consistent with a direct-investment PE model.

InvestEco's mandate excludes conventional industrial agriculture, fossil-fuel-derived inputs, and any food business with a net-negative environmental footprint that cannot be meaningfully improved through operational change. The firm also does not invest in therapeutics, pharma, or medical-technology companies, even where they overlap with nutrition science.

InvestEco is structured as an institutional private equity manager, not a family office. The firm raises capital from limited partners through closed-end fund vehicles, most recently with InvestEco III in 2018. Its governance follows standard LP/GP conventions, with management fees, carried interest, and limited-partner advisory committee oversight.