Finistere Ventures
Karl Kerksiek is an Investment Director in Finistere’s Silicon Valley office where he leads the firm’s focus on agricultural applications of new finance and supply chain technologies. His investment interests include new technologies in lending, credit evaluation, derivatives, insurance, trading, online markets, crowd-sourcing, traceability, and blockchain. Prior to Finistere, Karl was a Principal at the Mitchell Madison Group where he led teams in the US and Asia. He brings a decade of management consulting experience using data science to advise C-suite executives on strategic and operational challenges in consumer & enterprise software, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and information technology.
Karl has an MA from Stanford University, where his graduate work focused on the implication of China’s non-performing debt problem for future economic growth. Karl is fluent in Mandarin and has a BA from Pomona College.
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Finistere Ventures
Finistere Ventures is a pioneering venture capital firm in the Agriculture sector, with offices in the Bay Area and San Diego with presence through their global venture partner network in Israel, Australia, New Zealand, the Gulf states and South East Asia. Their team combines deep technical knowledge with domain operating experiences to help entrepreneurs build the leading Ag tech companies powering the next Green Revolution. Finistere Ventures' philosophy is to work hand in hand with the leaders of their portfolio companies to build game-changing technology companies in Agriculture.