“Can a mission-driven, women-led sparkling wine brand scale from DTC/hospitality into mass retail while maintaining premium positioning and charitable purpose?”
Une Femme Wines was born as the house pour at The Riddler, an all-women-funded Champagne bar in San Francisco. When the bar closed during COVID-19, founders Jen and Zach Pelka pivoted the brand into a standalone DTC and wholesale sparkling wine company. After a $10M Series A in 2022, the company expanded into mass retail (Target, Sprouts) and premium hospitality (Delta, Marriott Luxury Collection, Caesars), becoming the fastest-growing canned wine brand in the US. In mid-2025, Assembled Brands provided a credit facility to fund continued expansion.
UNE Femme Wines discloses Lewis & Clark Bank as its banking provider, according to the Embedded Finance Index 2026.
UNE Femme Wines does not disclose a bank charter of its own; its banking services are provided through Lewis & Clark Bank.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 2 layers in UNE Femme Wines's stack: Banking / BaaS (Lewis & Clark Bank); Lending (Credit facility).
UNE Femme Wines was founded by Jen Pelka and Zach Pelka and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA (also listed as Manhattan, NY in some sources).
UNE Femme Wines has raised $10M+ (Series A confirmed) in total (latest round: Series A, 2022).
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