BFY Millennial Parents Opps: Goodles completes funding round, hires first CMO (Score 52)

Sales lead: Reach out now to help this new, better-for-you brand build initial awareness. 

  • Goodles just secured $13m in a Series A funding round.
  • The company plans on using these funds to build out its leadership team and ramp up US production. 
  • This includes the recent promotion of Stacie Hadjuk to CMO. 
  • Hadjuck was an independent marketing consultant prior to joining the company as a marketing growth strategist. 

Target demographic: Millennial parents seeking healthy meals for their children

The company will likely:

  • Significantly increase ad spend
  • Diversify ad placement
  • Seek agency assistance

Digital and social insights (digital ad spend, effectiveness, impressions, and performance)

  • YTD spend: Goodles spent about $424.6k on digital display ads YTD, a 27% decrease from $584.9k spent in this channel during the same time period of 2022. 
  • YTD data: 64.6m impressions via Instagram (61%) and Facebook (39%). 
  • 2021-2022 spend: Full-year spend skyrocketed from $229.8k in 2021 to $1.1m in 2022. 
  • Ad location: It placed 100% of these ads directly onto instagram.com and facebook.com. 

Agency analysis:

  • Opportunity: Goodles does not currently have any agency partners to the best of my knowledge, so reach out now to be top-of-mind.
    • You may have the best luck offering PR/communication services first.

Insight Sources: Digital spend insights estimated by Pathmatics