Greg Carstensen

Asymmetria Group and Ballast Capital

📍 Dallas County, Iowa, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 21 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2019
Operator-angel🌍 United States
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Board Member
Nov 2019
IntelliSee is a powerful risk mitigation platform that uses advanced artificial intelligence developed for the U.S. Department of Defense to identify threats to human safety. IntelliSee's active monitoring turns existing passive security into proactive risk mitigation tools. IntelliSee overlays live surveillance feeds and scans the environment for a wide range of threats such as drawn guns, active shooters, slip and fall hazards, trespassers, loitering, employee no-shows, and vehicles. The platform continually evolves and additional threat detections are added regularly at no additional cost to clients. When a threat is detected, IntelliSee instantly validates the threat and sends real-time alerts to the people and systems who can act. Alerts include information such as the nature, visuals and location of the threat, giving end-users the situational awareness needed to address the threat.
early stagePublic Safety
Board Member
Jan 2015
We created Protein2o as a crazy idea. We thought there must be a better way to consume the two nutrients most important to our bodies — water and protein – without a lot of unnecessary calories. We’re proud to be a small but experienced, Chicago-based company dedicated to doing the right thing. Our mission seeks to improve people’s lives by providing great tasting drinks that promote a healthy, active lifestyle through the daily use of protein. When many large companies cut corners, we don’t. When other companies exaggerate their product benefits, we won’t. We quite simply make low-calorie, great tasting protein water. And we have fun doing it! We hope you give us a try and enjoy a refreshing take on protein.
early stageFood & Beverages
Vice President - Investments
Jan 2005
American Equity Investment Life Insurance Company® We are The Financial Dignity Company – and while each person might define financial dignity differently, we believe it’s having the means to retire with pride and peacefulness in your daily life. To do that, our contract owners work with independent agents to choose one of our leading annuity products best suited for their personal needs. And we stay mindful of our investments and continue to look for growth opportunities that enable us to delight and deliver on our decades-long promises to our contract owner. Led by high-energy, savvy thinkers and doers, our team has elevated our business, remaining an agile, time-tested partner in retirement and steadfast in our commitment to the communities we live and work through AE CARES and thoughtful business investments. Headquartered in West Des Moines, IA for nearly three decades, we have satellite offices slated to open in 2022 in Charlotte, NC, and New York, NY. We currently help fund more than half a million retirements nationwide. Social Media Terms and Conditions of Use: https://www.american-equity.com/social-media-terms
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2019
Board Member
Nov 2019
IntelliSee is a powerful risk mitigation platform that uses advanced artificial intelligence developed for the U.S. Department of Defense to identify threats to human safety. IntelliSee's active monitoring turns existing passive security into proactive risk mitigation tools. IntelliSee overlays live surveillance feeds and scans the environment for a wide range of threats such as drawn guns, active shooters, slip and fall hazards, trespassers, loitering, employee no-shows, and vehicles. The platform continually evolves and additional threat detections are added regularly at no additional cost to clients. When a threat is detected, IntelliSee instantly validates the threat and sends real-time alerts to the people and systems who can act. Alerts include information such as the nature, visuals and location of the threat, giving end-users the situational awareness needed to address the threat.
early stagePublic Safety
2016
Principal
Sep 2016
Security. Stability. And Innovative Investment Strategies. It means more wind in your financial sails. Backed by the essential fundamentals of capital planning, our investment strategies and flat-fee pricing aim to provide more wind in your sails and a smoother journey toward your long-range financial future. Your journey to anywhere begins here-with a financial course that focuses on your short and long-term destinations. Our experienced planning advisors are interested in where you're going, not only as an investor, but as an individual, couple, family or organization. And we want to understand your life goals, tolerance to risk, liquidity needs, tax liability and financial responsibilities. Our advisory team will map out this process, step-by-step. It's a holistic approach that includes a network of specialists. If there's one thing that truly sets Ballast Capital Advisors apart from all others, it's our approach to investing. The strategies will vary, based on every client's situation, but one constant is our mindset regarding investment methods and instruments. Unlike most other advisory firms, our investment team won't put together a group of retail investments, drop in your funds and let the market steer the course. Instead, we'll design your portfolio using the same principles that large insurance companies and pension portfolios are built upon...what's often referred to as institutional investing. Similar to how traditional pension funds of the past were managed, we'll establish an investment strategy that aims to balance your existing assets and contributions with your future cash flow and retirement liabilities. We like to call this "functional investing,"​ because every part of the portfolio supports the function of your plan. Ballast Capital Advisors, LLC is a Registered Investment Adviser with its principal place of business in the State of Iowa. Follow us on Twitter! https://twitter.com/BallastAdvisors Follow us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/BallastCapitalAdvisors/?ref=bookmarks
Founder and CIO
Jan 2016
Asymmetria Group, LLC was founded in 2014, as an opportunistic investment company. We provide high net worth investors and our family office partners with access to private markets through our institutional quality sponsor network. While remaining capital stack agnostic, we seek to find asymmetric investment opportunities. Our core investment objectives include a keen focus on capital preservation, cash flow driven total rate of return, and tax efficiency - capturing incremental upside, while mitigating downside risk.
2015
Board Member
Jan 2015
We created Protein2o as a crazy idea. We thought there must be a better way to consume the two nutrients most important to our bodies — water and protein – without a lot of unnecessary calories. We’re proud to be a small but experienced, Chicago-based company dedicated to doing the right thing. Our mission seeks to improve people’s lives by providing great tasting drinks that promote a healthy, active lifestyle through the daily use of protein. When many large companies cut corners, we don’t. When other companies exaggerate their product benefits, we won’t. We quite simply make low-calorie, great tasting protein water. And we have fun doing it! We hope you give us a try and enjoy a refreshing take on protein.
early stageFood & Beverages
2006
Partner
Jun 2006
C K Capital Inc is a financial services company based out of 5588 Kirkwood Hwy, Wilmington, DE, United States.
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