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Kai-Petteri Purhonen
United States
Mr. Peter Herz is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Food System 6 Accelerator. He serves as General Partner at 1st Course Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur, board member and advisor to early-stage companies. He was forced to confront his relationship to food due to a set of chronic medical conditions. By turning his attention to food and agriculture he was able to address these conditions without medication, and is now committed to addressing the root causes for poor health that lie within the current food system. He previously served as CEO of irisnote, a SaaS based application provider for scientists to manage their research, interim President of the biological simulation company Entelos, and founding CEO of 3ware, a revolutionary data storage company sold to AMCC. Prior to co-founding 3ware, Peter ran North American Consulting for Synopsys and managed customer engineering for Siemens Semiconductors (now Infineon Technologies AG) North American embedded control business. He has broad international experience including a startup in Munich, Germany and managing sales and partnerships in both Europe and Asia. Peter also serves as a member of the board of directors of Kendall Investments, a private equity fund-of-funds company and previously IPextreme, Inc., a semiconductor intellectual property company. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University and completed A-levels at Eastbourne College, Sussex, United Kingdom.
Individual/Angel
KAIST Venture Investment Holdings
South Korea
Founded in 2014, KAIST Venture Investment Holdings is a venture capital firm based in Seoul, South Korea. The firm seeks to invest in the healthcare, environment, education, food, technology, and social infrastructure industries.
Venture Capital
Kaleido Ideas & Logistics
Spain
Kaleido Ideas & Logistics is an accelerator that specializes in start up investments in logistic services. It is headquartered in Vigo, Spain and also seeks to invest in the automotive, industrial project, natural resource, retail, food, wind power and ship agency sectors.
Accelerator
Incubator
Kanata Ventures
Canada
Founded in 2020, Kanata Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The firm prefers to invest in seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies. The firm prefers to make investments in the healthcare, fintech, food tech, and technology sector in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Oceania, and the Americas.
Venture Capital
Kanca Ventures
United States
Founded in 2020, Kanca Ventures is a family-owned investment firm based in Istanbul. The firm is backed by the second and third-generation family business leaders of Kanca Forging, a leading player in the automotive space since 1965. The firm prefers to invest in early-stage (Pre-seed to Series A) startups focusing on sustainable food systems, cleantech, alternative materials, efficient supply chains, and manufacturing and economic empowerment. It offers strategic guidance and introductions to key stakeholders alongside capital and provides continued support to its portfolio companies through follow-on investments.
Venture Capital
Karl Fredmark
United States
Mr. Robert Allison is the Founder and serves as Principal and Managing Partner at Innovate Partners. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Pear Sports. He served as Chief Executive Officer at Pear Sports. Mr. Allison primarily manages the firms Emerging Growthand Equity Fund that invests in technology, business services and consumer based companies in principally, Southern California. Innovate has led more than 14 investments since 1995 including Jabra, Interworks, Co-Ev Magnetics, Expensable, Ultimate Ears, Swell, Ocean Minded, Emisense, Pear Sports, Canopy HR, Metropark, Innovate Motorsports and GoFit Foods. Mr. Allison also served as a General Partner of Edgewater Private Equity Funds, based in Chicago from 1998 through 2004. Prior to forming Innovate, Mr. Allison served as the President of Aurora Electronics, SVP of Arrow Electronics and Founder and CEO of Insight Electronics. Bob holds a BA in Business from California State University Northridge. Mr. Allison serves as a board member at Fashion Audio and Lindora. He also serves as the CEO at Interworks.
Individual/Angel
Katjesgreenfood
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Katjesgreenfood is act as an impact investor in the market for sustainable food products.
Consumer Goods
Food Processing
Venture Capital
Corporate Venture Capital
KCA Partners
United States
Founded in 1993, KCA Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm prefers to invest in the energy, water and wastewater management, food and beverage sectors.
Private Equity Firm
Kemuri Ventures
Japan
Founded in 2020, Kemuri Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Tokyo, Japan. The firm seeks to invest in early stage companies operating in the food technology sector across Japan.
Venture Capital
Kent Road Capital
Canada
Founded in 2017, Kent Road Capital is a private equity firm based in Toronto, Canada. The firm focuses on small and mid-cap businesses. The firm seeks to invest in general industrials, packaging, equipment and machinery, business services and food manufacturing sectors.
Private Equity Firm
Kerr Tech Investments
United States
Mr. Philip Soran serves as Board Member & Chairman of the Nominating & Governance Committee at Piper Sandler Companies. Mr. Soran also served as Venture Partner at Rally Ventures. He is also an Angel investor. Most recently, Phil served as President of Dell/Compellent after Dell bought Compellent, a company that Phil co-founded in 2002 and ran as its CEO through its IPO and until its eventual sale to Dell for $960 million in 2011. He also serves as Board Member at Foodsby.
Individual/Angel
Kerstin Sandow
Berlin, Germany
Talent & Venture Development Manager at Atlantic Food labs
BioTech
Digital Health
FinTech
Food and Beverage
Health IT
Keswick Enterprises
United Kingdom
Founded in 2004, Keswick Enterprises is a private equity firm based in Essex, United Kingdom. The firm specializes in the supply chain, food services, and related businesses operating domestically & internationally.
Private Equity Firm
Keystone Partners (Tokyo)
Japan
Keystone Partners is a private equity firm that prefers to invest in companies operating in the auto parts, semiconductor and food packaging industries. The firm was established in 2009 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Private Equity Firm
KHAO KLA Venture Capital Management
Thailand
KHAO KLA Venture Capital Management was an accelerator and a venture capital firm based in Bangkok, Thailand. The firm sought to invest in the food, information and communication technology, manufacturing and financial sectors.
Venture Capital
Kilmahew Ventures
Chicago, Illinois, United States
KV advises CVC and VC/PE firms investing in AI, platform machine learning and scalable data services in finTech, foodTech and healthTech.
Venture Capital
Private Equity Firm
Venture Capital
Kilroy Partners
United States
Founded in 2014, Kilroy Partners is a private equity firm and is based in Boca Raton, Florida. The firm prefers to invest in aerospace and defense, automotive suppliers, industrial and niche manufacturing, food manufacturing, transportation, and logistics sectors.
Private Equity Firm
Kin Group
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Private family office with global investments in food, manufacturing, and technology
Family Investment Office
Venture Capital
Kirchner Food Fellowship
Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
They believe it is vitally important for the next generation to understand, get involved and aid in funding businesses.
Agriculture
Accelerator
Krista Pappas
United States
Mr. Richard Boyce serves as Board Member at Allbirds. Mr. Richard Boyce served as Board Member at VaaS International Holdings. Mr. Boyce recently retired from the partnership at TPG Capital, one of the largest global investment partnerships, owning 107 companies with over $140 Billion in revenue. He founded and led TPG's Operating Group, which drives performance improvement across all the TPG companies, from 1997 to 2013. In his first role, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of J.Crew Group, Inc., from 1997-1999, and as a Board member from 1997-2006. He also served as the Chairman of both Burger King Corporation and Del Monte Foods. He currently serves on the board of LPL Investment Holdings and Vigilant Solutions, and is a senior adviser to HP Enterprise, Solamere Capital, and Expa. Prior to joining TPG, Mr. Boyce was a senior officer at PepsiCo. Inc. and was previously a partner at Bain & Company. He received a BSE from Princeton University and received his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He served on the Mitt Romney 2012 National Board and currently serves the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution and the National Council of AEI.
Individual/Angel
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