# Nate Cooper

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MINI BITE—Inside Food Venture Capital: Nate Cooper on Investing in the Next Generation of CPG

This week’s episode is our first ever MINI BITE! You get to learn so much in a shorter episode length. Enjoy! Building a food or CPG company is never easy—and finding the right investors can be just as challenging. On this episode of The Perfect Bite, host Sarah Perkins sits down with Nate Cooper,…

Building Faith or Chasing Likes | Ep. 6

In this episode of the Valor & Vision Podcast, I sit down with Pastor Nate Cooper to have a real conversation about Christian content creation, faith, and social media — and the tension every believer feels navigating the digital space. We talk honestly about how easy it is for faith to drift from …

How Venture Capital Really Works: Storytelling, Unicorn Investing & Family Office Strategy with Nate Cooper

Venture capital isn’t luck. It’s pattern recognition, storytelling, and backing founders who refuse to quit. In this episode, I sit down with Nate Cooper, Founder & Managing Partner of Barrel Ventures, an early-stage VC fund behind breakout brands including the unicorn beverage giant Ollipop. Nate …

Investor Spotlight: Nate Cooper, Barrel Ventures

In this episode of the Startup CPG Podcast, host Hannah Dittman sits down with Nate Cooper, investor at Barrel Ventures, to explore what early-stage food and beverage investors look for when backing emerging brands. The conversation dives deep into evaluating product-market fit, understanding what …

E332: Why Family Offices Must Go Risk-On or Go Broke

What if the best investors aren’t generalists at all, but operators who double down on the one place they truly have an edge? In this episode, I sit down with Nathan Cooper, Founder and Managing Partner of Barrel Ventures, to explore how a family with nearly a century in food transformed itself in…

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

The fashion industry is eat or be eaten. Every single day, girls are chewed up and spit out by the expectations of the industry. Miranda is one of those who sets the tone of the industry. When she's presented with someone who doesn't fit the mold, it becomes a power struggle. How it plays out will …

David Protein's Cod 2 | Media Buyer Index | Aaron Rivadeneyra x Nate Cooper x Chris Ruder

David Protein just dropped Cod 2 and the timeline is split — Karine Hsu, Andrea, Alexa Kilroy, and the operator class are all weighing in. We break down the launch and what it means. Plus three stacked guest interviews with one of the sharpest ecommerce operators in licensed CPG, one of the most ac…

131: Is Your Beverage Brand Actually Venture-Backable? With Nate Cooper

What makes a beverage brand truly investable — and should founders be raising venture capital at all? In this episode of Business of Drinks, we sit down with Nate Cooper, founder and managing partner of Barrel Ventures, to unpack what investors are actually looking for in emerging food and beverage…

How GLP-1's are threatening alcohol sales: Olipop Early Investor

Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi sits down with Barrel Ventures Partner Nate Cooper to discuss why hemp-derived THC beverages are aiming to replace your traditional evening drink. Cooper also explains the massive potential of the alternative beverage market and how GLP-1's are silently th…