Kevin Kimle
Co-Founder @ Ag Startup Engine
Des Moines, United States
Kevin Kimle is a seed investor at Ag Startup Engine in Des Moines focused on AgTech and Farming. Kevin Kimle currently serves as the Rastetter Chair of Agricultural Entrepreneurship at Iowa State University, Director of the Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics. Kimle’s work includes development and delivery of entrepreneurship curriculum and programs in the College of Agriculture and LifeSciences, outreach programs to aspiring entrepreneurs and agribusiness executives, and research on entrepreneurship and innovation.Prior to his appointment at Iowa State University, Kimle worked in a variety of capacities in agriculture. His professional experiences range from start-up companies, the seed industry, venture capital, commodity risk management, and agricultural and trade policy. Businesses founded or co-founded by Kimle include Ag Startup Engine (2016), Inland Sea Company (2014), Heartland Global (2011), Decision Commodities (2002), and E-Markets (1996).
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 100%
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Industries Kevin Kimle invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- AgTech 2 (50%)
- Farming 2 (50%)
- Sensor 1 (25%)
- Agriculture 1 (25%)
- Health Care 1 (25%)
Investments
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GW Nutrition
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GW Nutrition developing a technology to improve food ingredients where the sensory properties limit market opportunity. | $50K / Seed / Mar 09, 2022 | |
| N-Sense develops a soil nitrate sensor system that can be attached to farm implements and used to determine in-real-time soil nitrate concentrations with sufficient accuracy to facilitate precision application of nitrogen fertilizers.N-Sense enables farmers to identify, measure, and deferentially manage soils within fields in a manner thatimproves farm profitability and decreases environmental impact associated with the over-application of nitrogen fertilizer. | $50K / Seed / Nov 17, 2021 | ||
| Haber Technologies develops grain drying technology intended to improve grain quality. It helps to improve time-to-dry by almost 20%, with estimates for the next generation reaching at least 40%, allowing for longer allowable storage times. It also helps agriculture businesses dry grains down to a specified moisture content within specifiedparameters and improve grain quality and energy efficiency. | $50K / Seed / Apr 22, 2020 | ||
| LEAH Labs provides Car T cells for curing B-cell lymphoma cancer in dogs.Scientists at LEAH Labs use precision gene editing to reprogram T immune cells with Chimeric Antigen Receptors (CAR) in order to create CAR T cells that seek out, specifically recognize, and destroy B cell lymphoma without the off-target side effects that come withchemotherapy. | Seed / Jan 16, 2019 |
About Ag Startup Engine
The Ag Startup Engine effort was launched two years ago to help address two fundamental gaps that prevent agricultural startups and entrepreneurs from being more successful in Iowa: early seed stage investment and organized mentorship from successful Iowan and Midwestern entrepreneurs.
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Kevin Kimle invests primarily in AgTech, Farming and Sensor startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 4 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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