BEFORE BrandsTM, Inc. Closes $13.1M Series A Financing

Transformative Consumer Products Company to Commercialize Novel
Nutritional Products to Support Immune Health in Infants and Toddlers

MENLO PARK, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#BEFOREBrands–BEFORE Brands™, Inc., a science-based consumer products company
dedicated to bringing innovative, proprietary nutritional products
directly to families, announced today that it has raised $13.1 million
in private funding in a Series A financing round led by Gurnet Point
Capital.

Co-founded by entrepreneur Dr. Ashley Dombkowski and pediatrician Dr.
Kari Nadeau, BEFORE Brands’ products build on a growing body of evidence
in support of nutritional strategies that include potentially allergenic
foods as a regular part of a healthy diet. The products are based on
insights and intellectual property developed by Dr. Nadeau and licensed
to BEFORE Brands by Stanford University on an exclusive, global basis.
The Company’s Early Adaptive Tolerance™ edible products are designed to
be incorporated into the diet of infants around 6 months of age as part
of solid food introduction. This proprietary platform embraces ideals
from the crossroads of the dietary supplement, natural food products,
and infant nutrition categories.

“Food allergies are an accelerating epidemic, now impacting about two
kids per classroom in the United States and doubling every 10 years. As
a clinician and researcher, I study the interaction between genetics and
environmental influences like diet in the context of food allergies and
asthma. BEFORE Brands will soon commercialize a line of products based
on these insights and designed specifically for healthy infants and
toddlers to complement a diverse, fresh and healthy diet while the
immune system is developing. Our products use our proprietary Early
Adaptive Tolerance system, which aligns with independently generated
evidence in support of ‘early and often’ introduction of typical
allergenic foods, like peanut, in infant diets,” said Dr. Nadeau who is
full-time Naddisy Foundation Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and
Director of the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at
Stanford University.

“Our first-of-its-kind product line benefits from proprietary insights
from one of the world’s foremost experts in adult and pediatric
allergies alongside world class development and commercialization
capabilities. Our team is grateful to have the commitment and expertise
of Gurnet Point Capital to help us expand our reach rapidly and
responsibly, and is looking forward to working closely with Gurnet Point
during this important phase of our Company’s growth,” said Dr.
Dombkowski, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer.

“The BEFORE Brands team is building a company that combines scientific
rigor with the creativity of a consumer company to serve young families.
We are thrilled to apply Gurnet Point Capital’s operating expertise and
resources to support the vision of this outstanding entrepreneurial
team,” said George Montgomery, Partner at Gurnet Point Capital and a
member of the company’s Board of Directors.

The Series A syndicate included investments from Martha Goldberg Aronson
& Dan Aronson, Justine & John Arrillaga, Denise & Dave Bunning, Michele
& Tim Barakett, Katherine Collins, Linda & Bill Friend, Kim & Alan
Hartman, Melissa & Scott Kepner, Rebecca & Sasha Lainovic, Michelle &
Daniel Lubetzky, Julie & Bruce Menin, Shirley & Mike Orsak, Melanie &
Tom Staggs, Lisette & Jeff Weiner, Anne Wojcicki, and Stephanie Winston
Wolkoff & David Wolkoff.

The Company is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

About BEFORE Brands™, Inc.

The immune system: part soldier, part sentinel. An essential balance,
perfected by time but increasingly disrupted by modern living. BEFORE
Brands is developing edible products to support this critical duality,
beginning in healthy infants before
problems arise. Our products use our proprietary Early Adaptive
Tolerance™ blend of whole food proteins & Vitamin D designed to help
provide balanced, gentle & consistent immune system support right from
the start. This technology was innovated by Dr. Kari Nadeau, a
pediatrician, mother of five, and the Director of the Sean N. Parker
Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University. Our
products build on a growing body of evidence in support of nutritional
strategies that include potentially allergenic foods as a regular part
of a healthy diet. At BEFORE Brands, We Nourish Possibilities™. For more
information please visit www.beforebrands.com.

About Gurnet Point Capital

Gurnet Point Capital (GPC) is a unique health care fund founded by
Ernesto Bertarelli and led by Christopher A. Viehbacher, who, together,
have decades of expertise in an industry for which they share a passion,
both as Chief Executives and as investors. With an initial allocation of
$2 billion, GPC is investing long-term capital and supporting
entrepreneurs in building a new generation of companies. Based in
Cambridge, MA, its remit is global, encompassing life sciences and
medical technologies. The fund invests across all stages of product
development through to commercialisation and does so with an approach
that is a hybrid of venture and private equity investing strategies.
This approach is governed by a guiding tenet that even the earliest of
technologies must present a clear commercial case, benefiting both
patients and the healthcare system as a whole.

Contacts

BEFORE Brands
Lynn Rosen
media@beforebrands.com

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