First Run Welcomes Jack Hamrick as General Partner

First Run is excited to announce that Jack Hamrick is joining the firm as General Partner.

Jack is a founder and operator with firsthand experience building, scaling, fundraising, and exiting venture-backed consumer businesses. Prior to joining First Run, he founded and led Foraged, a specialty food marketplace backed by Bessemer Venture Partners and leading founder-investors across the consumer and technology ecosystem. He built the company from concept through national scale and guided the business through its 2025 acquisition by E-Fish, Co.

Before Foraged, Jack held strategy, growth, and innovation roles at Anheuser-Busch InBev and Recycle Track Systems, with experience spanning product innovation, operations, go-to-market execution, and corporate strategy.

Jack’s experience reflects exactly what First Run is building.

First Run exists to back and build the next generation of consumer brands through our accelerator, angel group, and fund. We believe the best founders deserve more than capital. They deserve partners who understand firsthand what it takes to build consumer businesses from zero.

Jack brings that perspective across every part of company building: product-market fit, customer acquisition, fundraising, operations, distribution, hiring, and scaling under pressure.

As First Run continues expanding its accelerator, investment platform, and national founder network, Jack will play a key role across investment strategy, founder support, and platform growth.

We are excited to have him on the team and even more excited for what we are building together.