Consumer VC

Substack by Mike Gelb · launched Dec 19, 2020

A podcast & newsletter about how to invest in consumer startups. You'll receive a new episode along with a fundraising roundup each week and other venture capital news.

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Subscribers

9.0K

rounded by Substack

Paid subscribers

10+ paid

Followers

14K

Paid plan

$15/mo

Recommends

16

other newsletters

Podcast

Yes

Growth history

Stats worth sharing

Tracked since Sep 10, 2026 — 21 daily snapshots so far. The card below is built from what we track and refreshes nightly.

Percentile

Top 98%

of 525 ranked finance newsletters

Best rank seen

#488

on Sep 14, 2026

Rank, 30 days

−11 places

Subscribers added

+1.0K

since tracking began

Followers added

+677

since tracking began

Reactions per post

12

average, recent posts

Reactions tracked

139

across 12 posts

Tickers covered

1

in tracked posts

Most-reacted post we have seen: Unilever Buys Grüns for $1.2B — 18 reactions on Apr 13, 2026.

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Recent posts

• Making the Soup Aisle Cool Again with Chris Jane, CEO & Founder of Proper Good

  Sep 8, 20262 reactions0 comments0 restacks

• Off Price Retail Soars, Blank Street Raises & More

  Aug 28, 202615 reactions2 comments0 restacks

• Ferrero's Next Bet in Breakfast, AG1 Lauches Gummies, and Alex Cooper's Beverage Shutdown

  Aug 20, 202615 reactions0 comments0 restacks

• Vita Coco Buys Copra, IM8 Raises $1B for Marketing Spend, Strategics Launch Protein SKUs, Align Ventures Raises Fund II & More

  Jul 30, 202614 reactions1 comments0 restacks

• Why Israel Keeps Producing Breakout Consumer Companies

  Jun 25, 20268 reactions2 comments1 restacks

• I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty

  Jun 11, 202613 reactions0 comments0 restacks

• GLP-1s, Protein, Fiber, Peptides, and the M&A Opportunity Behind the Health Shift

  Jun 5, 202611 reactions0 comments0 restacks

  GLP

• 30 Years of Pre-Seed: Blue Bottle, Sweetgreen, Modern Animal, and Why Consumer Never Goes Out of Favor

  May 27, 20266 reactions0 comments0 restacks

• Kill Your Darlings: How Elavi Found Their Hero Product with Michelle Razavi

  May 7, 20265 reactions0 comments0 restacks

• Peptides. So hot right now

  Apr 22, 202615 reactions5 comments0 restacks

• 🎧 How a Diabetic Built One of the Fastest-Growing Cereal Brands in America with Krishna Kaliannan

  Apr 16, 202617 reactions0 comments0 restacks

• Unilever Buys Grüns for $1.2B

  Apr 13, 202618 reactions0 comments0 restacks

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Data: Substack public leaderboards and publication archives, refreshed nightly, plus public beehiiv sitemaps and recommendation pages, refreshed weekly. Source for this page: Consumer VC. Subscriber counts are Substack’s own rounded public figures, so week-on-week changes move in steps. beehiiv audience sizes are self-reported by the publisher and are not verified. Last snapshot: Oct 20, 2026.