GreenChoice, pbc

Conscious consumers lack a single destination to research, discover, & buy their goods.

We’re changing that.

What once took hours of research, we turned into seconds. And we’ve guided hundreds of thousands of healthier, more sustainable purchases.

I’m Galen, the CEO & Founder of GreenChoice.

My team and I are building a marketplace that makes it easy for people to research and shop the best products for their health & the planet, starting with food.

This is an opportunity for you to:

PROBLEM
We need to read hundreds of labels and spend hours researching ingredients & claims just to find groceries that match our dietary needs & values.

And brands making healthy alternatives for us & the planet are lost in the sea of health-washing and green-washing that overwhelms even well-educated shoppers.

THE SOLUTION
A platform for conscious, personalized grocery shopping

Be an informed consumer without the work. 
Feel unrestricted by dietary needs.
Shop with confidence.

We help shoppers find and buy the best products for their dietary needs, health goals, and values.

PRODUCT

GreenChoice is an online grocery marketplace & shopping assistant for health-conscious and climate-conscious consumers with dietary needs.

Climate-positive grocery marketplace

We deliver anywhere in the contiguous U.S. within 2-4 days, with free shipping on orders over $50. 

We estimate and offset 2x the carbon footprint of every order – products, packaging, & shipping. Donating a portion of revenue to renewable energy and carbon capture projects. It’s no silver bullet, but it’s an important piece of the puzzle since people need to eat.

Mobile app

This was our first product and it's free to download in the App Store & Play Store.

• Scan or search a product to quickly see personalized dietary warnings and its GreenScore® rating.
• Discover ‘better for you’ swaps and where you can get them.
• 4.6/5 stars (168 reviews)

We’ll overhaul our mobile app in 2022, so users can shop our marketplace and have a better scan experience.

How we rate & label products

We use 140+ vetted public data sources and natural language processing to analyze, rate, and recommend products.

Our GreenScore® ratings break down food products’ impact on your health & climate, using unbiased public data from research institutes, third-party certifiers, NGOs, government agencies, and food companies.

We look at a product’s dietary alignment, presence of toxic additives, healthful ingredients, risk of exposure to pesticide residues, estimated carbon footprint & water footprint, and more.

We’re working to support many more food intolerances and evaluate packaging sustainability next.

We have filed full US & international patent applications to protect our proprietary values-based rating and recommendation engine.

TRACTION
50K+ monthly users, with no paid marketing

Over 50,000 people use GreenChoice every month to find the best products for their health & the planet. 

We’re growing 18% month-over-month, with $0 spent on paid advertising.

We have 10,000+ registered user accounts.

Google named GreenChoice one of the 3 "Best Apps for Good" in the United States.

Our content ranks top 10 on Google for over 6,000 product-related searches.

BUSINESS MODEL
Consumers & brands are our customers

We generate revenue through sales on our marketplace, membership, vendor advertising, and data-as-a-service.

We beta-tested a limited product catalog processing over $10,000 in orders; the average order value (AOV) was $50.

We project an AOV of at least $80 with our full product catalog.

We'll test customer-lifetime-value and customer acquisition costs across organic & paid channels, before raising venture funding to scale the most successful channels.

MARKET
Millennials & Gen Z are taking conscious consumption mainstream, fast

Last year was a record for the U.S. natural & organic products industry–it grew 12.7% to $259 billion in 2020, and it's on pace to surpass $300 billion by 2023 (source).

70% of Gen Z & Millennials wish food companies were more transparent about how they make their products.

Our target customer is 18-34 years old with food allergies. They have a deep unmet need, often follow a diet, want to reduce their carbon footprint, and are not brand/store loyal.

Young shoppers want to try new food products all the time, and they're looking for alternative shopping platforms that share their values like GreenChoice.

HOW WE'RE DIFFERENT
Research, discover, & shop–all in a few clicks

Conscious consumers are thinking about their diet, their allergy, what’s healthy, or what’s sustainable–all at once.

But time and attention are more scarce than ever.

We have seamlessly integrated dietary, nutrition, & sustainability research, product discovery, and shopping into a single platform that empowers consumers.

And our research and product selection will only get more robust as we grow.

How we source products

We’re partnering with the largest organic and natural food distributor in the U.S. that shares our values as a Certified B-Corp.

We seek out new and emerging brands making better for us and the world products that can't be found at traditional stores.

Over one hundred brands - representing thousands of products - have already applied to sell on our platform.

We match each customer with the very best products for them & the planet

Online retailers of “healthy” goods offer smaller highly-curated product selections. They limit what you can get and exclude many great brands.

This marginalizes many diverse makers and blocks amazing new products from reaching you.

We’re different. Any brand can list on GreenChoice for free. 

We let the brand’s practices and our community be the judge.

WHAT’S NEXT?

Last year our userbase grew 400%, with no paid marketing.

With this investment, we’ll launch our marketplace, increase our content marketing, and launch paid & affiliate marketing.

We are projecting $1M in revenue this year and $200K in monthly revenue by the end of December '22 with this investment. 

Once we break $50,000 in monthly revenue in the second quarter of this year, we plan to raise a few million dollars from institutional investors.

We plan to grow revenue significantly and quickly.

WHY INVEST
We created our company with the purpose of empowering people to foster a healthy, just, & sustainable world through their daily choices

And we want GreenChoice to be funded by the people.

Become an owner in the rapidly-growing conscious consumer movement.

Vote for an honest, equitable, and sustainable future.

With your help, we’ll be able to reach and empower hundreds of thousands of Americans this year and beyond.

We already have:

We’re building the go-to platform for conscious consumers to research, discover & buy their goods.

We hope you'll join us!

Wefunder FAQ

How does this work?
(1) Join Wefunder by clicking ‘Sign Up’ in the top right corner.
(2) Choose an amount you’re comfortable with
You can commit any amount you’d like up to your legal max.
(3) Confirm reservation - Wefunder will reserve your chosen amount. When the campaign ends, you’ll confirm your reservation, and the funds will be deposited to GreenChoice.

What is the minimum investment?
You can invest as little as $100 USD.

What's the maximum I’m allowed to invest?
Through Regulation Crowdfunding everyone can invest at least $2,200. How much you can invest above $2,200 depends on your net income and net worth. You can see how much you're allowed to invest by adding those two numbers under "Investor Limits" here: https://wefunder.com/settings

Do I need to be an accredited investor?
No. Wefunder allows you to invest without being an accredited investor. All you have to do is sign up and invest.

Do I have to do anything for GreenChoice as an investor?
No. You have no obligations after you invest.

What will be my return on investment?
We cannot guarantee or make any promises about future returns on investment. You should be prepared to lose your investment as investing in startups is risky and most startups fail.

Why do you need my SSN?
Directly from Wefunder's FAQ: "When making an investment on Wefunder, you need to provide a tax ID in order to invest. Tax ID generally means an SSN for an individual and an EIN for a company. We require these because when the company you invest in makes a distribution to investors (for example, if they get acquired) we’ll need to provide tax documents to you such as a Form K-1, which require us to include your SSN. If we don't receive your SSN, your investment will be canceled.

We know you might be hesitant to provide this information, but we guard your SSN like our life depends on it.

We encrypt and store Social Security Numbers (SSNs) on a separate group of servers from wefunder.com. We use an RSA key to encrypt the SSN and isolate the private key from production machines. Access to the database that stores the encrypted SSNs is restricted within Wefunder to a need-to-know basis, and we have a policy for access if and when an employee may need to view an individuals SSNs (for example, if we're preparing a tax filing or investigating fraud)."

For other questions, please check out Wefunder's FAQ or contact [email protected].