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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-23-005749"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "STCB"
cik: "0001539850"
company_name: "Starco Brands, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-02-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T04:45:33.405632+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Starco Brands acquires complete nutrition pioneer Soylent

## Summary
- Soylent will operate as a separate business unit under Starco Brands; CEO Demir Vangelov remains.
- Soylent has mass-market distribution at Walmart, Target, Publix and other leading retailers.
- Soylent investors include Andreessen Horowitz, GV, and The Production Board.
- Acquisition follows Starco's Dec 2022 purchase of Skylar Body and Sep 2022 purchase of Art of Sport.
- Proskauer Rose represented Starco; Mally Collective and Sheppard Mullin represented Soylent.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-23-005749
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: STCB
- cik: 0001539850
- company_name: Starco Brands, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-02-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539850/000149315223005749/0001493152-23-005749-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539850/000149315223005749/form8-k.htm

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