# Kinderhook Industries

> Kinderhook Industries is a VC fund backing Health Care and Hospital. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 52%
- Last fund: Jun 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dk-chicken-corp-
- Website: http://www.kinderhook.com/

Kinderhook Industries is a private equity firm that invests in early-stage companies.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $633k–$1M |
| Private Equity | $5.1M–$500M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 4 | 19% |
| Hospital | 3 | 14% |
| Automotive | 3 | 14% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 10% |
| Environmental Consulting | 2 | 10% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 11 | 52% |
| Seed | 3 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 5% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 76% |
| Italy | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brandon Watson | Managing Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brandon-watson-bcac |
| Kelsey Mara Stillwagon | Senior Associate and Investor Relations | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kelsey-mara-stillwagon |
| Lisa Schmidt | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lisa-schmidt-313c |
| Michael Iuliano | Managing Director, General Counsel, and CCO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-iuliano |
| Michael Zoch | Managing Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-zoch |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| American Aero | American Aero is a manufacturer of precision aerospace components serving the aviation market. |  | Private Equity | Jul 17, 2026 |  |
| American Aero | American Aero is a manufacturer of precision aerospace components serving the aviation market. |  | Private Equity | Jul 17, 2026 |  |
| AbsoluteCARE | AbsoluteCARE is conveniently located in both Atlanta and Baltimore. The company is a value-based integrated healthcare provider focusing on providing comprehensive and preventative care. It operates a patient-centered ambulatory intensive caring unit delivery model and becomes the primary care provider for the complex and highest utilizingpatients.It was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. | $135M | Private Equity | Jul 22, 2025 |  |
| AbsoluteCARE | AbsoluteCARE is conveniently located in both Atlanta and Baltimore. The company is a value-based integrated healthcare provider focusing on providing comprehensive and preventative care. It operates a patient-centered ambulatory intensive caring unit delivery model and becomes the primary care provider for the complex and highest utilizingpatients.It was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. | $135M | Private Equity | Jul 22, 2025 |  |
| Apex Waste Solutions | Apex Waste Solutions is a privately owned, locally operated waste and recycling company—Denver's sustainability leader in residential, commercial, and roll-off waste and recycling collection services. |  | Private Equity | May 20, 2024 |  |
| Kaizen Collision Center | Kaizen Collision Center provides paint and body repair, auto glass repair, fleet services, and electric vehicle specialty facility services. They provide electrical vehicle repair, employee training, and building relationships within the community. They serve customers. |  | Private Equity | Mar 01, 2024 |  |
| Fitex Capital | Fitex Capital is an investment company that aids small and large SEs through financial services and acquiring services. It is a business acquisition vehicle that has qualities that set it apart from other entities involved in acquiring SMEs. They only purchase one business, not a portfolio of subsidiaries. | $632.9K | Seed | Mar 08, 2023 |  |
| Digital Diagnostics | Digital Diagnostics, formerly IDx, is a pioneering AI diagnostics company founded with a mission to transform the quality, accessibility, equity, and affordability of healthcare worldwide through the application of technology in the medical diagnosis and treatment process. Founded by Michael Abramoff, MD, PhD, a fellowship-trained retinaspecialist, neuroscientist, and computer engineer, Digital Diagnostics developed a patented biomarker-based approach to build an autonomous AI platform that makes clinical decisions without human intervention, removing the diagnostic burden of common diseases from specialists. Digital Diagnostics is paving the way for autonomous AI diagnosis to become the new standard of care, helping to democratize healthcare and close care gaps to improve patient outcomes. By working closely with patient advocacy groups, federal regulators, and other quality of care and ethics-focused stakeholders, Digital Diagnostics is working with the healthcare system to enable the continued adoption of autonomous AI. | $75M | Series B | Aug 23, 2022 |  |
| Better Health Group | Physician Partners, give you the power to transform lives. Working together as a team to shape the future of healthcare, they are at the forefront of innovation and best practices to improve the health of their communities. Their team provides the platform, technology solutions and new health programs in a collaborative environment to our primarycare providers with the sole purpose of achieving Better Health. Their commitment, their passion and their culture sets them apart from others and is the cornerstone of everything they do. Their team settles for nothing less than a new and profoundly better way of delivering truly proactive health care rather than simply building a better version of the same old reactive sick care model that serves our communities today. | $500M | Private Equity | Feb 01, 2022 |  |
| Better Health Group | Physician Partners, give you the power to transform lives. Working together as a team to shape the future of healthcare, they are at the forefront of innovation and best practices to improve the health of their communities. Their team provides the platform, technology solutions and new health programs in a collaborative environment to our primarycare providers with the sole purpose of achieving Better Health. Their commitment, their passion and their culture sets them apart from others and is the cornerstone of everything they do. Their team settles for nothing less than a new and profoundly better way of delivering truly proactive health care rather than simply building a better version of the same old reactive sick care model that serves our communities today. | $500M | Private Equity | Feb 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CVS Health Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cvs-health-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lexington Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lexington-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pacific Life](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pacific-life-corporation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [3M](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3m) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cedar Pine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cedar-pine) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Kinderhook Industries invest in?

Kinderhook Industries invests primarily in Health Care, Hospital and Automotive startups, most often at Private Equity and Seed stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Kinderhook Industries's check size?

Kinderhook Industries typically joins rounds of $633k–$1M at Seed and $5.1M–$500M at Private Equity. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kinderhook Industries participates in.

### How do I contact Kinderhook Industries?

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### Who are the partners at Kinderhook Industries?

The team at Kinderhook Industries includes Brandon Watson (Managing Director), Kelsey Mara Stillwagon (Senior Associate and Investor Relations) and Lisa Schmidt (CFO), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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