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Grüns

Daily greens-and-vitamin gummies in single-serve packs, sold mostly by subscription to US adults (and kids), now owned by Unilever.

Supplement ad machines★ our pickFit: MIRANEST ✓✓Live Meta ads: ~860Seen 2026-09-30gruns.co ↗

Grüns on a phone, first screen — **First screen** on a phone, as a new visitor sees it (Sep 30, 2026; cookie banner declined)

Grüns homepage, scrolled — **Scroll** — the top of the homepage, pop-ups hidden

Live Meta ads today

~860own page 860 · US, Sep 30

Valuation (Series B)

About $500M ($35M round led by Headline)¹⁶2025-05

Revenue run rate

$300M+ annualized run rate (surpassed by late October 2025, per Modern Retail's timeline)^15,17,182025-10

Profitable

Month 14 (Oct 2024)^18,19,292024-10

Hero product: Grüns Superfood Gummies (Original, Low Sugar or Sugar-Free)^1,2,3,12

FormatPouch of 28 daily packs (one pack = one serving of gummies). Also an 84-pack size.

One-time$66.65 Low Sugar / $73.32 Sugar-Free per 28 packs ($2.38/day). 84 packs one-time: $199.95.

Subscription$49.99 Low Sugar / $54.99 Sugar-Free per 28 packs, every 4 weeks ($1.78/day). 'Pause or cancel any time.' Free shipping.

Other offersFirst-order pages: 'up to 61% off' plus free gifts (free shipping valued $8, Nütrops variety pack, canvas tote, performance hat) with a dated deadline ('Order by September 30th'). Homepage banner: 'Save 52% + free shipping on your first order'. Licensed flavors (Shrek, Minions, Popsicle Firecracker, Raspberry Lemonade) at $70.38 one-time. Post-purchase: 'Upgrade to Quarterly' (12-week box). HSA/FSA eligible via Truemed. Cashback offers (10–49% cash back or double as store credit) in the product feed.

Guarantee30-day money-back guarantee on the first order only. Site says 'Less than 1% of customers use our Money-Back Guarantee'.

Founded2023 by Chad Janis (Stanford MBA 2023, ex-investor at Summit Partners). First sale DTC in August 2023.^13,15,16,28

OwnerUnilever (Wellbeing division). Deal announced 9 April 2026. Chad Janis stays CEO; brand runs as a standalone unit.^13,14,18

ProductOne core product: a daily pack of gummies with 60+ ingredients, 30+ organic fruits and vegetables, 21 vitamins and minerals, 6g prebiotic fiber.^1,13

Product linesAdults; Kids (July 2024, renamed from Cubs); Nütrops mushroom line (Dec 2024); Immün immunity (Sep 2025); Jüced pre-workout (Dec 2025).^15,17

Funding before exitAbout $55M in total. Series B: $35M led by Headline, May 2025, at about $500M valuation.^16,18

Retail pathAmazon Dec 2023 → Sprouts Dec 2024 → Target Feb 2025 (1,600+ stores) → Walmart Apr 2025 (1,900 stores) → Sam's Club Oct 2025 → H-E-B, Hy-Vee, Wegmans Jan–Feb 2026 → Costco Mar 2026 → Ulta Apr 2026.^15,16

TeamAbout 60 people (May 2025).¹⁶

Marketing leads named in sourcesConnor Dalt, CMO (per The Food Stack; spelled 'Dault' elsewhere). Claire Yi, VP of Growth (Northbeam case study).^18,24

Their system how they get and keep customers

Ads^{11,18,20,22,24,27}

Very high volume of Meta ads split by customer type (avatar). Each winning angle is rolled out at once to ads, a landing page, emails and creators. TV and other paid platforms run on top.

Motion counts 589 active Meta ads and about 81 new creatives per week. Top formats: 'Yapper' talking-head 16%, static-to-video hybrid 11%, demo 9%.
Angles seen in the ads: GLP-1 side effects (nutrient gaps, hair loss), 'replace your multivitamin', PCOS, travel, bodybuilding, preconception. Lisa Rinna appears in several ads.
Six core avatars (per Segwise / The Digital Chapter): general nutrition, gut health, weight loss, AG1/powder switchers, GLP-1 users, protein users. Each gets its own ads, landing page and testimonials.
Per The Food Stack, the CMO works in 'narrative arcs and coordinated sprints': test a research-based problem hook on Meta (fiber gap, microbiome, powder hassle); if it wins, scale it across a landing page, segmented emails and creator briefs together.
Northbeam is checked daily by growth, CFO and CEO. Northbeam reports media spend up 22x, revenue up 40x, and new-customer CAC down 14%+.
They also buy Snapchat, AppLovin, Google and YouTube traffic: there are separate landing pages per platform (e.g. /pages/gut-health-applovin-gwp, /pages/fiber-snapchat-gwp, /pages/glp-gwp-listicle-youtube).

Landing pages & funnel^{4,5,6,7,8,9,11,21}

One product, 100+ landing pages. Each avatar, condition, platform, celebrity and flavor drop has its own page with the full buy box on it.

Funnel of the Week (May 2026) counted 99+ landing pages. Share of ad traffic: /first-order 21.5% (801 ads), /nutrition-support (GLP-1) 9.9% (369 ads), /first-order-gut-health 9.8% (365 ads), /fiber 5.5%, /first-order-green-powders 2.9%, /destigmatize-the-gummy 2.5%, /perimenopause 1.6%, /male-fertility 0.9%.
The sitemap on 2026-09-30 lists 128 page URLs (some are test pages). Condition pages: perimenopause, menopause, PCOS, bone health, women's and male fertility, post-GLP-1, runners, gut-health-x-skin, kids screen time, kids food allergy, kids who barely eat. Celebrity pages: Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Julianne Hough, Vivian Tu, Lisa Rinna.
Listicle format with a light joke: '7 Benefits GLP-1 Users Love About Grüns (Besides the Poops)'; '6 Reasons Why Grüns Is Your Gut's New Bestie (Besides the Poops)'; '6 Reasons Your Skin Needs More Than Skincare'; 'Perimenopause Changed Your Body. Your Multivitamin Didn't Notice.'
Gut-health page order: offer bar → 4.8 stars / 100K+ reviews / 1M+ members → 6 benefits → 'What to expect' Day 3 / Day 14 / Day 30 → clinical study → testimonials → FAQ → buy box with 'Start Now'.
Gamified entry page: 'Flip to Win Your Welcome Gift' — the visitor flips cards to collect 4 prizes (gifts and discounts).
Lisa Rinna page 'We'd Copy Us, Too' uses a parody cease-and-desist letter ('Please & Persist') aimed at copycat gummies.

Offer & subscription^{2,3,11,12,21,33}

Subscription-first. Big first-order deal plus free gifts, then an upsell to a 12-week box right after purchase.

Base price gap: $66.65 one-time vs $49.99 subscribe for 28 packs (every 4 weeks). The subscribe option is pre-marked 'Most Popular'.
First-order stack: 'up to 61% off' + 4 free gifts (shipping, Nütrops variety pack, tote, hat) + a hard end date.
Buy box asks 'How many Adults?' — a household plan. Innerbody (May 2025) saw a two-person subscription at $114/month (29% off).
Post-purchase one-time offers (per Funnel of the Week): 1) upgrade to delivery every 12 weeks, 3 pouches for the price of 2; 2) one extra pouch at subscriber price. Reported AOV $86.50 vs $40.80 base (2.1x). The Shopify feed has 'Upgrade to Quarterly on Next Order' items.
Each licensed flavor drop (Shrek, Minions, Popsicle Firecracker, Raspberry Lemonade) gets its own first-order, 'surprise' and VIP pages.
Extra levers: HSA/FSA via Truemed; cashback products (10–49% cash back or double as store credit).

Creators & ambassadors^{3,16,19,20,21,22,23,34}

A large gifted micro-creator base feeds UGC into ads; celebrities come in as investors, page faces or whitelisted ads.

Archive case study: 650+ influencers managed (500 TikTok/Instagram + 150 YouTube), about 2 hours per week of outreach, automated gifting, 1,500 UGC assets tracked in 4 months. Content moves through 3 stages: Need to Request → Approved for Social Use → To Download for Editing.
Common Thread: Grüns built a creator community, 'treating influencers as true believers rather than paid billboards'.
Segwise reports a network of 250,000+ micro/nano creators, with UGC reused as paid ads and TikTok Spark Ads (not confirmed by a primary source).
Named talent: Lisa Rinna (ads and page), Bethenny Frankel and Jessie James Decker (2025), Shaun White on the first-order page. Funnel of the Week lists whitelisted creators incl. Barbara Corcoran and Jesse Palmer.
Celebrity investors: Anna Kendrick and Shaun White (via Plus Capital).
Current job board: Influencer Marketing Manager (International), Livestream Host, Livestream Operator.

Channels^{11,12,15,16,17,21,25}

DTC and Amazon first, then fast national retail, then TV and licensed pop-culture flavors.

Retail: about 6,300 doors by Nov 2025 (Sprouts, Target, Walmart, Sam's Club); Costco nationwide Mar 2026; Ulta Apr 2026.
Amazon since Dec 2023.
TV (iSpot, 31 Aug–30 Sep 2026): 8 creatives, 156 national airings. Spots include 'Hotline', 'Hey Kids!', 'Grüns Gals Unfiltered: Monica'.
Other paid: Facebook, Google, YouTube, podcasts, influencers; Gotham FC 'official foundational nutrition partner' (2025).
Licensing and collabs: Dr. Seuss (Grinch punch flavor), Shrek, Minions, Popsicle; Target holiday end caps as stocking stuffers.
Traffic (SimilarWeb via Funnel of the Week, Mar 2026): 1.2M monthly visits, 52% direct, 230K monthly searches for 'gruns'.

Retention^1,10,18,27

Paid-style membership perks, exclusive flavors and a quarterly upgrade keep subscribers; email/SMS is split by avatar.

'Exclüsives' membership: 'Come for the gummies, stay for the perks.' Two levels (Green Gummy and Golden Gummy), exclusive flavors, 'Flavor Vault', merch discounts.
Member-only 'Upgrade to Quarterly' page: pick 'Quarterly Only Flavors' and switch to a 12-week box.
Rewards menu: VIP Access, merch store, refer-a-friend.
Email/SMS capture is matched to the avatar (e.g. Gut Health Guide, Weight Loss Checklist), per The Digital Chapter.
Per The Food Stack, the brand made five product changes in the first year from customer feedback.

All the numbers as reported by each source, with its date — ad counts from Motion are an older snapshot than the live count above

What	Number	Date
Valuation (Series B)	About $500M ($35M round led by Headline)¹⁶	2025-05
Revenue run rate	$300M+ annualized run rate (surpassed by late October 2025, per Modern Retail's timeline)^15,17,18	2025-10
Profitable	Month 14 (Oct 2024)^18,19,29	2024-10
Exit price	About $1.2B to Unilever (per Axios; Unilever did not publish a price). About 32 months after launch.^13,15,18,26	2026-04-09
Output	4 million gummies per day¹⁶	2025-05
Retail doors	About 6,300¹⁷	2025-11
Customers / reviews (site)	1,000,000+ members; 4.8 stars, 100K+ reviews¹	2026-09-30
Meta ads (Motion)	589 active; about 81 new per week²²	2026 (data refreshed ~4 months before 2026-09-30)
Meta ads (Funnel of the Week)	776 active in last 30 days; 634 new²¹	2026-05
Landing pages	99+ (Funnel of the Week); 128 page URLs in sitemap incl. tests^11,21	2026-05 / 2026-09-30
Attribution result (Northbeam)	Media spend 22x, revenue 40x, new-customer CAC -14%+²⁴	undated case study
AOV with post-purchase offers	$86.50 vs $40.80 base²¹	2026-05
TV airings (iSpot)	8 creatives, 156 national airings²⁵	2026-08-31 to 2026-09-30

What makes them different

One product, 100+ landing pages: every avatar, condition, ad platform, celebrity and flavor drop gets its own full sales page with the buy box on it.

Angle 'sprints': when a hook wins on Meta it is pushed to the page, emails and creator briefs at the same time, not ad by ad.

Subscription-first offer engine: first-order gifts with a deadline, then a post-purchase upgrade to a 12-week box that roughly doubles AOV.

Licensed pop-culture flavor drops (Shrek, Minions, Popsicle, Grinch) create new pages, VIP lists and retention hooks every few months.

What we could add copy the structure, never their assets or claims

For MIRANEST

Add one landing page per dog avatar (Pomeranian hair loss / Alopecia X, itchy Frenchie, senior dog), each with its own reviews, own before/after and own buy box — like /first-order-gut-health.
Add a listicle page per angle with the Grüns pattern ('6 Reasons Pom Owners Switched to MIRANEST'), using only our real customer results.
Add a 'What to expect' timeline block (week 2 / month 1 / month 3) built from our own owner-reported cases.
Add a post-purchase one-click upsell: 'Switch to a 3-month box, get 1 box free' after the first order.
Add separate copies of the winning page per traffic source (Meta, Google, YouTube) so each source can be read on its own.
Add a simple creator-content pipeline (request rights → approved → download for editing) with a fixed 2-hours-per-week outreach slot.

For BI-SU

Add a 'gut-to-skin' listicle page in the Grüns structure ('6 Reasons Your Skin Needs More Than Skincare'), with BI-SU facts and real reviews only.
Add a women-40+ angle page (perimenopause / changing skin) led by real customer reviews, as Grüns does with /perimenopause.
Add a limited flavor or seasonal drop with its own VIP early-access page and a 'first order' page.
Add a member level with an exclusive flavor or gift (like Grüns 'Exclüsives' Golden Gummy) for long-time subscribers.

Watch out

Class action (D.N.J., filed 31 Aug 2026) against Unilever and Grüns: 'sugar-free' label while sweetened with allulose.³²
Scott v. Gruns Nutrition (C.D. Cal., filed 22 July 2026): lab test says 5.27g fiber vs 6g on label and 14.6mg vs 16mg niacin. Not decided.³¹
Cavallaro-Kearins v. Grüns (S.D.N.Y.): 'comprehensive nutrition' claims dismissed as puffery on 19 May 2026; GLP-1 theory dismissed without prejudice (can be refiled).³⁰
Subscription complaints: Innerbody (2025) reports cancellation problems and a BBB 'F' rating at one point (25 of 30 complaints unanswered). Guarantee is first order only, with a $5 return fee (2025).³³
The '61% off' headline is much bigger than the plain subscription gap ($66.65 → $49.99 is about 25%); the rest seems to come from gifts. Do not copy discount math we cannot explain.^2,3

Where to look

Website ↗Meta Ad Library — Grüns page (live ads) ↗Top landing page (first order) ↗GLP-1 listicle ↗All landing pages (sitemap) ↗Motion creative library ↗Funnel of the Week teardown ↗iSpot TV ads ↗

Open questions not verified yet — for the deep research

'True believers' is Common Thread's wording, not a Grüns quote. No primary Grüns source found for a 'creators before celebrities' rule.
Creator network size: 250,000+ (Segwise, no source given) vs 650+ managed influencers (Archive case study). Which is right today?
$1.2B price comes only from Axios (via other outlets); Unilever did not publish it. Deal close date 1 June 2026 is only from Wikipedia. Unilever's own press page returned 403 and was read via a reprint (BeautyMatter).
'$25M in a single month' is implied from the $300M run rate; no source shows an actual month's revenue.
Joe Burrow as an investor appears only in Segwise.
Homepage says 'subscriptions now start at $29.99' — which product/size this is was not confirmed.
How the 'up to 61%' discount is calculated is not shown on the page.
Current CMO name and status (Connor Dalt / Dault) not confirmed from a primary source.
Subscription share of revenue and DTC vs retail split: not found.
Operators Podcast E124 (July 2025) was not transcribed; Janis quotes on avatars/CAC come via Segwise.
Resolved 2026-09-30: live Meta ads counted directly in the Ad Library (US, active): ~860 — Grüns 860.

Sources · 34

Grüns homepage · 2026-09-30
Grüns product page (Superfood Gummies) · 2026-09-30
Grüns landing page /pages/first-order · 2026-09-30
Grüns landing page /pages/first-order-gut-health · 2026-09-30
Grüns landing page /pages/first-order-weight-loss · 2026-09-30
Grüns landing page /pages/nutrition-support (GLP-1) · 2026-09-30
Grüns listicle /pages/glp-gwp-listicle-google · 2026-09-30
Grüns x Lisa Rinna page · 2026-09-30
Grüns 'Flip to Win' page · 2026-09-30
Grüns Exclüsives and Upgrade to Quarterly pages · 2026-09-30
Grüns sitemap (pages list) · 2026-09-30
Grüns Shopify product feed · 2026-09-30
Unilever to acquire US greens supplement company Grüns (press release, reprinted by BeautyMatter) · 2026-04-09
Skadden: Unilever to acquire greens supplement company Grüns · 2026-04-10
Modern Retail: A timeline of what led up to Grüns being acquired by Unilever · 2026-04-09
Modern Retail: The approach that helped Grüns hit a $500 million valuation in 2 years · 2025-05-12
Modern Retail: What's next for Grüns this holiday season after a breakout year in retail · 2025-11-03
The Food Stack: $1.2 billion in 32 months — how Grüns built the fastest $1B exit · 2026-04-16
Common Thread Collective: Grüns just sold for $1.2B in 30 months · 2026-04-10
Segwise: Grüns ad strategy — 6 avatars to a $1.2B exit · 2026-03-23 (updated 2026-09-03)
Funnel of the Week: The secret behind Grüns' 99 landing pages → offer stack · 2026-05-18
Motion creative library: Grüns · data refreshed ~4 months before 2026-09-30
Archive customer story: Grüns · undated
Northbeam case study: Grüns · undated
iSpot: Grüns TV commercials · 2026-09-30
Wikipedia: Grüns · 2026-09-30
The Digital Chapter: How Grüns turned a simple idea into a $500M DTC brand · 2025-09-16
Operators Podcast E124: Winning big in consumer with Grüns' founder Chad Janis (show notes) · 2025-07-30
Beauty Independent: Why Grüns' $1.2B exit marks a reset in CPG investing · 2026-04-13
National Law Review: 'Comprehensive nutrition' deemed puffery (Cavallaro-Kearins v. Grüns) · 2026-06-03
ClaimDepot: Scott v. Gruns Nutrition (fiber and niacin) · 2026 (case filed 2026-07-22)
Law360: Unilever, Gruns sued over gummies marketed as 'sugar-free' · 2026-09-02
Innerbody: Grüns review (BBB, refunds, pricing) · 2025-05-02
Grüns jobs board (Greenhouse) · 2026-09-30

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Profile researched 2026-09-30 from the brand’s own site and product pages, company filings and press releases, founder/CMO interviews, vendor case studies and trade press — every point links to its source; agency/blog teardowns are marked as weaker; anything unconfirmed is under Open questions. Live ad count: Meta Ad Library, United States, active ads on the brand’s own page(s), counted 2026-09-30. Phone captures: iPhone-size browser, 2026-09-30. Notes: fuma-hk/research/brand-study/gruns.json