Boutique Venture Advisory for the Impact Economy

Experienced C-Suite Team unlocks Value at the Intersection of Planetary Health Verte and Organizational Health Sante.

Where We Invest

Our Partner Brands

partners with organizations in the impact economy to achieve complete business wellness—aligning corporate purpose, maximizing strategic health, and ensuring sustained financial vitality, thereby securing a truly green future.

is an embedded operating partner solution dedicated to mitigating the operational, talent, and impact-integrity risks inherent in early-to-growth stage impact companies.

Impact
Portfolios

One Step Closer

One Step Closer was founded in 2012 with the mission to build community by supporting CPG founders and CEOs who are dedicated pursuing an organic and regenerative future. Through OSC Fund, Verte Sante has partnered with OSC to assist regenerative CPG companies pursue Regeneration, Collaboration, and Financing, effectively solving the need for truly impactful support and capital. The goal of the OSC Fund is to activate an advisory ecosystem of Founders, CEOs, and executives who understand impact-focused business models to help founders promote sustainable regenerative business practices, de-risk investments, assist structure financial instruments fair to both investor and entrepreneur, and provide impact returns in the low teens.

Ridgeline Partners

Ridgeline Partners is a merchant banking firm, founded in 2006, that specializes in providing corporate finance, strategy, and business development solutions. Along with Verte Sante, Ridgeline Partners focuses their expertise on businesses in the impact, health and wellness sectors of the Green and Blue Economies. Their services aim to provide sustainable growth solutions.

Blue
Economy

Greenfins

Greenfins is a blue tech innovator focused on sustainable seafood. Having successfully designed and built a Research Center of Excellence in a public-private partnership with the University of Rhode Island, Greenfins is pursuing a development strategy for net zero farms to sustainably produce, market and distribute premium seafood products from “egg to plate”. Through public-private partnerships, Greenfins partners with governments and institutional investors to pursue innovative blue economy business models that generate strong risk-adjusted investor returns, foster local workforce development and robust internship programs in blue-tech, and promote the broader blue economy ecosystem.

Proteus Ocean Group

Proteus Ocean Group is pursuing a strategy to build a global smart ocean platform, including multiple subsea habitat laboratories where researchers and others can live and work 24/7 underwater, ocean monitoring systems, blue carbon management tools, and a robust media business to amplify ocean storytelling in multiple jurisdictions. The Proteus Partnership supports leading multinational companies in addressing their relationship with global biodiversity by providing unparalleled access to world−leading biodiversity data and tailored technical assistance. This collaboration allows partners to manage their impact on nature, contribute to UN Sustainable Development Goals, and inform corporate environmental policy and decision-making.

Sustainable Consumer
Goods

TESSCO

Tessco’s Circular Economy Smart Pallet Solution, including embedded Data Transponders, provides partners with a real-time closed-loop cost-effective solution to enhance supply chain visibility by tracking location, temperature, dwell time, and deliveries, thereby drastically reducing pallet and product shrinkage, waste, and environmental impact. By using durable, recyclable plastic HDPE pallets, partners benefit from extended asset life and reduced need for virgin petroleum due to the program's closed-loop process of regrinding old pallets into feedstock for new pallets, while also eliminating the inherent issues associated with wood pallets, such as limited reusability and handler exposure to splintering wood and exposed nails. This shift from wooden pallets to smart sustainable plastic pallets provides customers with improved operational efficiency and increased corporate sustainability scores.

Thanksgiving Coffee

Thanksgiving Coffee pioneered a relationship−based Fair Trade model, guaranteeing farmers fair prices and investing over $1 million in local non-profits and global initiatives for environmental protection. It specialize in Organic, Shade Grown coffees to protect migratory bird habitats and support farmer cooperatives through direct partnership and quality improvement programs.

Natural Habitats

Natural Habitats created the Palm Done Right movement fundamentally changing the conversation around palm oil by proving it can be grown for good. The initiative, supported by Verte Sante, commits to 100% organic, deforestation-free, and wildlife-friendly sourcing that actively preserves animal habitats and empowers smallholder farmers in local communities. By choosing to source this certified, ethical palm oil, partners drive positive change, encouraging a global shift towards sustainable and responsible agriculture that benefits both people and the planet.

Shea Radiance

Shea Radiance's partner impact is focused on empowering women-owned shea butter collectors in West Africa through programs like the AAK Sustainability Partner Program and the Kolo Nafaso direct sourcing program. This strategy improves livelihoods and social value by providing economic, environmental, and quality training, such as the implementation of safer, energy-efficient cookstoves.

Bar U Eat

Bar u Eat is the first protein bar company utilizing BPI Certified 100% compostable packaging made from wood cellulose and bioplastic for its products, significantly reducing landfill waste. It couples this packaging innovation with a product thesis of clean, whole-ingredient snacks with no oils, preservatives, or fillers, promoting healthier consumer choices.

Thrive Natural Care

Thrive is legally organized as a public benefit corporation focused on a "Leave it Better" regenerative business model for skincare. Its impact is delivered through the support and purchase of ingredients from regenerative farming in Costa Rica that restores degraded land and funds the removal of the equivalent of two plastic bottles of waste from the ocean for every bottle sold.

All Good

All Good is a Certified B Corporation and women-owned brand that produces natural, organic, and botanically-based body care products like mineral sunscreens, healing balms, lip balms, and deodorants, emphasizing environmental, social, and economic vitality. Founded by a former EMT who created an all-purpose salve called All Good Goop, the company is committed to using clean ingredients—including calendula grown on their own California farm—and is an activist for reef-friendly sunscreens and a member of 1% for the Planet, reflecting its core philosophy of living in balance with nature.