Captiva Containers - Growth Investment

Undisclosed Amount

There’s a quiet factory humming in Miami where PET bottles come out tougher than your last breakup and slicker than a midnight Cadillac. It’s not just about containers. It’s about Captiva Containers, a name that feels like it was born with sunglasses on. And on April 15, they landed a minority growth investment from the always-calculated, never-flashy team at Trivest Partners.

This isn’t a moonshot startup throwing darts in the metaverse. Captiva’s been in the game since 2013, building a vertically integrated fortress of sustainability and scale. Fred Morgenstern, Captiva’s founder and CEO, isn’t making bottles, he’s packaging a future where eco-consciousness doesn’t come with asterisks. The man knows the terrain: strategy, product, and ecological packaging aren’t buzzwords for him. They’re blueprints. And with Alan Katz, MIT Sloan MBA, ex-UBS Investment Bank, the financial engine is every bit as engineered as the bottles they ship out.

Now let’s talk product. Captiva specializes in recyclable PET packaging, bottles, jars, and containers that stand up to the high-pressure world of CPG, nutraceuticals, and personal care. Literally. These things are engineered to survive 87,000 psi of hydrostatic pressure in High Pressure Processing (HPP) without cracking.

Captiva isn’t dabbling. They’re servicing nearly 1,000 customers across North America, offering everything from custom bottle design and labeling to warehousing and national distribution. No piecemeal playbook here, just full-stack manufacturing under one Miami roof, pumping out millions of FDA-approved, MBE-certified, shelf-life-extending containers every month. These guys aren’t following a sustainability trend. They are the trend.

And while the funding amount remains hush-hush, make no mistake, this Trivest TGIF fund move is calculated. It’s what Trivest does best: backing real businesses with real customers, without yanking the steering wheel out of founders’ hands. A non-control deal, with high-control outcomes. That’s the kind of chess you play when you understand that scaling isn’t about burning capital; it’s about optimizing what already works.

Captiva is leaning in, expanding capacity, launching new product lines, and continuing to invest in the tech and design behind their industry edge. From advanced neck finishes to double seal closures, their innovation isn’t loud, it’s lethal. This is what happens when manufacturing meets mission. And the market? It's not just growing, it’s demanding better. Captiva’s just the one answering the call.

Congrats to Freddy, Alan, and the entire Captiva Containers crew. And salute to Trivest Partners for spotting not just a winner, but a workhorse with a plan. If you’re building in the CPG space and haven’t had Captiva on your radar, it might be time to pop the cap and take a closer look.