Back Bay Ventures — Portfolio

Building things
that matter.

Five ventures across food & beverage, workplace culture, functional wellness, and AI — each built around a simple thesis: improve the experience of being human.

5+
Ventures founded
20+
Years building
850+
Locations powered
$300M+
Revenue under mgmt
01 —
LeanBox
Corporate Food & Beverage Technology

Co-founded in 2013, LeanBox reinvented corporate food service by blending health, convenience, and technology. Automated fresh-food kiosks deployed across Greater Boston offices, helping employees make better choices at work. LeanBox became a category-defining brand and a blueprint for how technology could transform the break room.

02 —
Grind Coffee & Back Bay Roasters
Specialty Coffee / CPG

Co-founded to power LeanBox's coffee program and expand into a standalone brand. Back Bay Roasters & Brewers brought craft coffee and cold brew to corporate offices across New England, redefining the breakroom experience. Built with a clear mission: say goodbye to drab breakroom brews and hello to something fresh, flavorful, and worth looking forward to.

03 —
PERKS Convention
Events / Employee Experience

Co-founded PERKSCon, the world's largest employee experience conference — a six-city annual tour connecting HR professionals with the best in workplace benefits, perks, and innovation. From its Boston roots at the Hynes Convention Center, PERKSCon grew into a national platform with stops in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Toronto.

04 —
HiTide & EverGreen
Functional Beverage / THC Wellness & Private Equity

HiTide is an emerging player in the THC infused beverage space, built on the premise that cannabis deserves a premium, experience-first brand. Evergreen is a private equity backed beverage platform that started with the merging of Lord Hobo and Lone Pine Brewing.

05 —
GetWard
AI / Decision Intelligence for Retail Operators

Ward is an AI operating layer for multi-location retail — connecting POS, marketing, labor, finance, inventory, and ERP into a single intelligence layer. It tells operators what changed, why, and what to do about it. Already deployed across an 850+ store operator with over $300M in revenue, targeting measurable EBITDA improvement through closed-loop decision intelligence.

Investment thesis
“I like working on products that are easily accessible and can improve some aspect of the buyer's life. The best companies are built around community, not just product.”

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