Karl Kerksiek
Investor @ Salient
Palo Alto, United States
Karl Kerksiek is a Series A investor at Salient in Palo Alto focused on Nutrition and Food Processing. VC investing in high-growth technology companies impacting the entire agriculture and food value chain. Focused on companies that provide new approaches to finance & risk management, identify data-driven operations improvement, or address changing consumer preferences in food. Decade of management consulting experience using data science toadvise C-suite executives on strategic and operational challenges in consumer & enterprise software, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and information technology. Fluent in Mandarin. Academic training in economics from Stanford and Pomona College.
- Total investments:
- 1
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 100%
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Industries Karl Kerksiek invests in
Stages Karl Kerksiek invests in
Countries Karl Kerksiek invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Nutrition 1 (100%)
- Food Processing 1 (100%)
- Food and Beverage 1 (100%)
Investments
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Apparo
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Apparo is a food processing technology intended to process crops in order to maximize the yield of available nutrients. The company provides exceptional protein and micronutrients to food and nutrition companies. Apparo was founded in 2020 and is based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States. | $3.5M / Series A / May 13, 2022 |
Co-Investors
About Salient
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Salient Contacts
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Eric Schmitt
Co-Founder
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Jesse Palma
Head of Machine Learning
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Karl Kerksiek
Investor
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Ray Schmitt
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What does Karl Kerksiek invest in?
Karl Kerksiek invests primarily in Nutrition, Food Processing and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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