Allison Kopf
Investment Partner @ XFactor Ventures
New York, United States
Allison Kopf is an entrepreneur and investor. She is the Chief Growth Officer at IUNU, the leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) company serving the Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) industry. Previously, Kopf founded CEA software company Artemis, which was acquired by IUNU. Artemis won the highly coveted Disrupt Cup at TechCrunch Disrupt inSan Francisco in 2015. Kopf was named one of Forbes 2019 30 Under 30 as well as the 2021 Global Women Fresh “Woman of Impact.” She is a sought-after speaker on the future of agriculture, giving keynotes at such conferences as TEDx, Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit, Forbes AgTech Summit and the Alltech Ideas Conference. Kopf sits on the Boards of Santa Clara University’s College of Arts and Sciences, the Ciocca Center for Entrepreneurship, and Cargill EDGE; is an entrepreneur-in-residence at Ireland’s national accelerator, NDRC; and is an Investment Partner at XFactor Ventures.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 2 (40%)
- Events 1 (20%)
- Gaming 1 (20%)
- Retail 1 (20%)
- Wedding 1 (20%)
Country
- United States 4 (80%)
- United Kingdom 1 (20%)
Investments
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| Nalu Bio is a biotech company developing CBD (and cannabinoids) through chemistry (not plants), for companies who want pure and safe ingredients that are better for the planet. Ranked as the #1 CBD producer on the “google for ingredients.” Like plant-based meats, Nalu Bio will fundamentally disrupt CBD production with chemistry. Nalu Bio uses 700xless land, 70x less water, and 14x less energy to produce its cannabinoids while ensuring best-in-class purity and quality (0% THC, no chemicals, no pesticides) without the high capital investment costs of hemp extraction and biosynthesis. | $1.5M / Seed / Jan 07, 2021 | ||
| Hugh & Grace is a first-of-its-kind, innovative, hormone-safe brand focusing on helping to reduce chemical exposure through thoughtful self-care products. Our products are thoughtfully designed to be free from Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs), and are formulated with high-quality, clean ingredients to help promote skin immunity, resiliencyand beauty, naturally. | $600K / Seed / Sep 01, 2020 | ||
| Nextmv is a DecisionOps platform that accelerates optimization AI teams with tools for deployment, testing, CI/CD, collaboration, and management of decision models. With Nextmv, developers can create scalable, custom decision services complete with unique API endpoints and options to integrate with popular solvers and modeling solutions.Nextmv is a globally distributed Series A startup backed by FirstMark Capital, YCombinator, and leaders from Stripe, Twilio, GitHub, and Seamless. | $2.8M / Seed / Mar 10, 2020 | ||
| Event Hollow’s platform allows engaged couples to efficiently shop for wedding services in a curated marketplace of the country’s top venues and vendors, that enables instant booking and wedding financing (never done before). Through integrated calendars, customized and fully transparent vendor pricing, and plenty of guidance and education, theyhave solved the problems to the most convoluted personal process that 65% of the world’s population goes through at least once in their life. And as we approach 2022, we also prepare to embark on history’s biggest wedding year, and are gearing up our product to support the 76% surge in weddings with a truly instant booking and financing process. | $325K / Seed / Jan 20, 2020 | ||
| Goss is a maker of a social gaming platform that enables users to wager on things and events according to what they like. Women can wager on social and fashion events using the company's application in a fun and social setting because it offers social games for web and mobile settings. | Seed / Jan 01, 2020 |
Co-Investors
About XFactor Ventures
XFactor Ventures is focused on making pre-seed and seed stage investments in companies with billion dollar market opportunities that have at least one female founder.
XFactor Ventures Contacts
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Maia Bittner
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Aihui Ong
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Allison Kopf
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Amanda Bradford
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Amy Sterner Nelson
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