Public Company Consumer

Starco Brands

Santa Monica, California, United States

Starco Brands creates behavior-changing consumer brands and technologies, inventing, commercializing, and scaling them across categories and channels.

Focus Areas
Behavior-changing consumer brands, CPG / consumer products

Tracked deals

6

6 tracked deals across 2019-2026.

Recent pace

1

1 tracked deal announced in the last 12 months.

Deal mix

Buyout

6 buyout

Starco Brands Acquisition Volume by Year

Last 5 years

Acquisition volume by year Annual acquisition counts for the last 5 years for Starco Brands. 1 2019 1 2021 1 2022 2 2023 ~1 est. 1 2026
Actual Full-year estimate

Supporting Data

Recent Transactions

  • Buyer
    Starco Brands, Inc., Pasadena Private Lending
    Target
    Custom Bakehouse
    Seller
    Craig Hallum (represented the seller)
    Type
    Buyout

    Starco Brands completed its acquisition of Custom Bakehouse on July 15, 2026, adding a new powdered foods and baking mixes manufacturing platform with an expected incremental approximately $20 million in annual revenue. The deal strengthens Starco’s vertically integrated consumer products value chain by expanding manufacturing capabilities, private-label capacity, and brand portfolio relationships (including Sticky Fingers and licensed Marie Callender’s mixes).

  • Buyer
    Starco Brands, Inc.
    Target
    Soylent Nutrition, Inc.
    Industry
    Food & Beverage
    Type
    Buyout

    Starco Brands, Inc. (OTCQB: STCB) has acquired Soylent Nutrition, Inc., the plant-based complete nutrition brand, which will operate as a separate business unit led by Soylent CEO Demir Vangelov. The acquisition is intended to leverage Starco Brands' manufacturing, distribution and marketing capabilities to scale Soylent's retail and direct-to-consumer business.

  • Buyer
    Starco Brands
    Target
    Skylar
    Type
    Buyout

    Starco Brands (OTCQB: STCB) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Skylar, a clean, hypoallergenic fragrance brand founded by Cat Chen. Skylar will operate as a separate business unit led by its founder while Starco plans to scale the brand through its commercial infrastructure and retail partners (including Sephora and Nordstrom) and expand the direct-to-consumer and subscription business.

  • Buyer
    Starco Brands (OTCQB: STCB)
    Target
    The AOS Group Inc. (Art of Sport)
    Seller
    AOS shareholders (including co-founder Matthias Metternich)
    Type
    Buyout

    Starco Brands (OTCQB: STCB) acquired The AOS Group Inc., maker of the Art of Sport athlete-focused body and skincare brand, in an all-stock transaction that closed on September 12, 2022. The deal brings the Kobe Bryant–cofounded brand into Starco's consumer-products portfolio to leverage Starco's manufacturing, distribution and marketing capabilities and expand AOS into adjacent categories.

  • Buyer
    The Starco Group
    Target
    Chase Products Co.
    Industry
    Manufacturing
    Type
    Buyout

    The Starco Group, a Los Angeles-based manufacturer of aerosol and liquid-fill products, has acquired Chase Products Co., a Broadview, Illinois-based aerosol manufacturer founded in 1927. The acquisition adds Chase's spray paint, household cleaning, personal care and EPA-registered disinfectant and insecticide capabilities to Starco's existing manufacturing footprint to expand capacity and product offerings.

  • Buyer
    The Starco Group
    Target
    Blue Cross Laboratories
    Industry
    Manufacturing
    Type
    Buyout

    The Starco Group (TSG) has acquired Blue Cross Laboratories (BCL), a 60-year-old personal care and household chemical manufacturer based in Santa Clarita, California. The deal (price undisclosed) brings BCL's 105,000-square-foot liquid-fill manufacturing facility into TSG's portfolio while BCL will continue to operate as a stand-alone business and offer TSG's broader product portfolio to its customers.

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