Karl Kerksiek

Early Stage VC

📍 Redwood City, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 24 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2024
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
24
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6
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8
Mid stage
6
Late stage
9y
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Jun 2024
Siftr Bio is a new venture launching soon from Imperial College London. Were building the next-generation of highly specific, low side-effect cancer therapeutics.
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Oct 2023
Your funding assistant in a box
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Jun 2023
Citrine empowers product experts with vanguard AI technologies. With no background in data science, product experts apply Citrine to deliver next generation products faster than any other time in history. Citrine’s software learns easily from the knowledge of its users and their idiosyncratic data to enhance all aspects of the product lifecycle across all industries with a physical product. Citrine’s users increase supply chain efficiency, rapidly improve product quality, enhance customer experience, expand product reach and increase the velocity of product delivery. With Citrine, product experts unlock the capability to solve our society’s greatest environmental and productivity challenges. Citrines customers include Eastman, Panasonic, Grace, LyondellBasell, LANXESS, Morrow Batteries and some of the biggest and most respected names in the materials and chemicals and CPG industries in Asia, North America, and Europe. For more information visit our website at https://citrine.io.
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May 2023
Robigo is an early-stage biotech leveraging CRISPR and data science to empower microbes to protect crops from disease and recover lost yields while being safe to beneficial microbes, pollinators, humans, and the environment.
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Jun 2022
Enko® designs safe and sustainable solutions to farmers’ biggest crop threats today, from pest resistance to new diseases. By applying the latest drug discovery and development approaches from pharma to plants, Enko is bringing an innovation model to agriculture and meeting farmers’ evolving needs. Founded in 2017 and led by a team of proven scientists, entrepreneurs and agriculture industry veterans, Enko is backed by investors including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Anterra Capital, Finistere Ventures, Novalis LifeSciences, Germin8 Ventures, TO Ventures Food, and Rabo Food & Agri Innovation Fund.
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May 2022
Make weather-related decisions in time to matter. Reliable, award-winning 2- to 52-week forecasts for adapting to a more volatile climate.
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Apr 2022
Sustainably transforming sunflower seed processing to produce two sunflower protein isolates, a protein concentrate, an expeller sunflower oil and a polyphenol nutritional ingredient. Gluten free, Non-GMO and Upcycled Certified, we aim to increase sustainable food sources of protein and other ingredients.
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Mar 2022
MarketDial assists retailers, restaurants, grocers, CPGs, and convenience store brands in identifying and understanding their customers behavior by running in-store tests. Brands are able to easily create and analyze an in-store experiment in minutes. MarketDial marries robust data science and an easy-to-use interface to enable our clients to design scientifically-sound business experiments. Brick-and-mortar operators use MarketDial to measure the true ROI of marketing, operations, and strategy initiatives.
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Feb 2022
At Climate Robotics, we are committed to revolutionizing agriculture and reducing carbon emissions by creating the worlds first infield pyrolysis processing system. Our innovative technology produces biochar in agricultural fields, promoting soil health and sequestering atmospheric carbon. By intersecting two massive markets - agriculture and carbon sequestration - we aim to tackle some of the worlds most significant environmental challenges. We are proud to be VC-backed and have assembled a team of exceptional professionals who are leaders in their fields. Our headquarters is in Houston, TX and we are looking for individuals with curious minds seeking to work at a fast-growing startup and make a meaningful impact. Join us in our mission to change the world and shape a more sustainable future for all.
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Feb 2022
We are on a mission to develop and scale groundbreaking technologies that regenerate our soils and sequester atmospheric carbon by the gigaton for the betterment of people and planet. Our technology leverages natural thermal processes and precision automation to convert crop residues into biochar, a stable form of carbon that builds soil health and stays out of the atmosphere permanently. By utilizing a mobile, in-field solution to convert field waste to biochar, we keep carbon where it matters most while dramatically cutting costs from the typical approach of shipping massive amounts of bulk material to and from centralized facilities.
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Dec 2021
Placer.ai is the most advanced location analytics platform allowing anyone with a stake in the physical world to instantly generate insights into any property for a deeper understanding of the factors that drive success. Placer.ai is the first platform that fully empowers professionals in retail, commercial real estate, hospitality, economic development, and more to truly understand and maximize their offline activities.
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Dec 2021
Hi Fidelity Genetics is a computational biology company aiming to change the productivity of global agriculture
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Nov 2021
Drip specializes in efficient working capital solutions, offering both payable and receivable finance solutions. While our core expertise lies in financing international trade, we extend our services to facilitate domestic transactions within a country. Our goal is to provide seamless underwriting and financing options for businesses of all sizes, catering not only to SMEs but also to large enterprises. Utilizing technology, we aim to transform the landscape of working capital solutions, making it accessible and straightforward for businesses, regardless of their scale, to meet their financial needs. With offices in the United States and India, Drip Capital is a fintech company founded by Wharton alumni Pushkar Mukewar and Neil Kothari. Our dynamic team, consisting of engineers, data scientists, and seasoned finance professionals, operates from Palo Alto and three offices in India: Mumbai, Delhi, and Bangalore. Phone Numbers: US +1 (650) 437 0150 India +91-9987-779-334
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Jan 2021
The worlds first enterprise climate resilience tech platform, specializing in adaptation for agriculture, food, and beverage companies.
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Jan 2021
Founded by Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck, a fourth-generation farmer, ProducePay is eliminating the economic and food waste caused by the volatile, opaque and fragmented nature of today’s global fresh produce supply chain. Our AgTech company’s Predictable Commerce Platform is giving growers and buyers greater control of their business by providing unprecedented access to each other, capital, trading, insights and greater supply chain visibility. Consumers receive fresher produce more efficiently, knowing it is grown and delivered in responsible ways. This transformational approach is unlocking economic value, and creating a more sustainable global fresh produce industry.
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2024
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Jun 2024
Siftr Bio is a new venture launching soon from Imperial College London. Were building the next-generation of highly specific, low side-effect cancer therapeutics.
2023
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Oct 2023
Your funding assistant in a box
Investor
Jun 2023
Citrine empowers product experts with vanguard AI technologies. With no background in data science, product experts apply Citrine to deliver next generation products faster than any other time in history. Citrine’s software learns easily from the knowledge of its users and their idiosyncratic data to enhance all aspects of the product lifecycle across all industries with a physical product. Citrine’s users increase supply chain efficiency, rapidly improve product quality, enhance customer experience, expand product reach and increase the velocity of product delivery. With Citrine, product experts unlock the capability to solve our society’s greatest environmental and productivity challenges. Citrines customers include Eastman, Panasonic, Grace, LyondellBasell, LANXESS, Morrow Batteries and some of the biggest and most respected names in the materials and chemicals and CPG industries in Asia, North America, and Europe. For more information visit our website at https://citrine.io.
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May 2023
Robigo is an early-stage biotech leveraging CRISPR and data science to empower microbes to protect crops from disease and recover lost yields while being safe to beneficial microbes, pollinators, humans, and the environment.
early stageBiotechnology
2022
Investor
Jun 2022
Enko® designs safe and sustainable solutions to farmers’ biggest crop threats today, from pest resistance to new diseases. By applying the latest drug discovery and development approaches from pharma to plants, Enko is bringing an innovation model to agriculture and meeting farmers’ evolving needs. Founded in 2017 and led by a team of proven scientists, entrepreneurs and agriculture industry veterans, Enko is backed by investors including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Anterra Capital, Finistere Ventures, Novalis LifeSciences, Germin8 Ventures, TO Ventures Food, and Rabo Food & Agri Innovation Fund.
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