Alec’s Ice Cream secures US$11M series A to scale organic products

USA – Alec’s Ice Cream, an ice cream company that makes A2 regenerative ice cream marketed as organic, has raised US$11 million in a Series A round.

At the same time, the company also will allocate the funds to strengthen regenerative supply chains, said Alec Jaffe, founder and chief executive officer of Alec’s Ice Cream.

Alec’s Culture Cup debuted in April 2025 following a “growing demand for snackable, better-for-you indulgences.”

Alec’s Culture Cup is a line of single-serve, chocolate-topped, pre-and probiotic ice cream cups formulated with “grass-fed regenerative A2 dairy.”

The cups are formulated with skim milk, cream, and a chocolatey shell made from coconut oil, alkalized cocoa, powdered sugar, cane sugar, tapioca fiber, egg yolks, acacia fiber, citrus fiber, BB-12 culture, and vanilla bean seeds.

They are available in five indulgent varieties: Madagascar vanilla bean, dark chocolate honeycomb crunch, peanut butter cup, mint chocolate cookie, and chocolate covered strawberry.

“Consumers were asking for a treat that was portion-friendly, gut-friendly and planet-conscious and so we created one,” Jaffe said.

In addition to its Series A round, Alec’s raised $3.75 million in 2022 led by several investors.

Those investors included Michael Meldman, co-founder of Casamigos; Vinny Smith, founder of Toba Capital; Mark Silverman, founding principal of Alberdi Advisory Corp.; and Anthony Corsaro, managing director of Outlaw Ventures, according to the company.

Jaffe founded Alec’s Ice Cream in 2018 and went on the market in 2020.

“The idea traces back to my childhood when I taught myself to make ice cream for a school project and spending time on my relatives’ sustainable farmland,” he said. “Those early experiences planted the seeds, but it wasn’t until years later, standing uninspired in front of the freezer aisle, that I realized how much better ice cream could be.”

USA ice cream companies to phase out artificial colors by 2028

Recently, the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) announced that Dozens of USA ice cream producers are planning to remove artificial colours from their products by 2028.

The IDFA said that the 40 ice cream companies will remove Red 3, Red 40, Green 3, Blue 1, Blue 2, Yellow 5, and Yellow 6 from their retail products, excluding non-dairy products.

The IDFA said artificial dyes are not safe, and ice cream makers are taking the step in part to avoid disruption of sales from state efforts to phase out dyes from school foods and West Virginia’s recent food dye ban.

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