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Investment Summary

Where Food Comes From Invests In Validus Verification Services

On September 17, 2013, Where Food Comes From invested in business services company Validus Verification Services

Investment Highlights
  • This is Where Food Comes From’s 2nd transaction in the Business Services sector.
  • This is Where Food Comes From’s 2nd transaction in the United States.
  • This is Where Food Comes From’s 1st transaction in Iowa.

Investment Summary
Date 2013-09-17
Target Validus Verification Services
Sector Business Services
Investor(s) Where Food Comes From
Deal Type Stake Purchase

Target

Validus Verification Services

Urbandale, Iowa, United States
Validus Verification Services, LLC is an independent certification of socially responsible production practices covering pork, poultry and dairy products. The Company provides audits and assessments to producers in order to verify responsible animal welfare, environmental, on-farm security, and worker care production practices.

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Investor

Where Food Comes From

Castle Rock, Colorado, United States
Category Company
Founded 1996
Sector Business Services
Employees89
Revenue 25M USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION

Where Food Comes From is an independent, third-party food verification company. Where Food Comes From was founded in 1996 and is based in Castle Rock, Colorado.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 8
Sector (Business Services) 2 of 7
Type (Stake Purchase) 2 of 5
State (Iowa) 1 of 2
Country (United States) 2 of 7
Year (2013) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-03-26 International Certification Services

Medina, North Dakota, United States

International Certification Services, Inc. is an organic certification company committed to Organic values, to clients, to communities, and to the environment. Company were here when the Organic industry began forming standards, and continue to be involved in the decision making processes related to those standards today.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-02-28 Global Animal Management

United States

Global Animal Management Inc. is a verification service provider, where newborn calves destined for interstate travel are immediately subject to the USDA’s Animal Disease Traceability (ADT) program. There are more than four million dairy calves born annually in the United States.

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