Kasra Saidi

Co-Founder & CEO, Algae Cooking Club

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2019
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Strategic Advisor & Investor
Nov 2019
Demanding less from the environment and more for your taste buds, we’re making the world a Táche better.
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2023
Co-Founder & CEO
Apr 2023
Earths purest chef-grade cooking oil youve never tried. Algae cooking oil has an unparalleled purity of good-for-cooking and good-for-you Omega-9 fat. With a light, slightly buttery essence, it beautifully enhances flavors. It quickly became our favorite chef-grade everything cooking oil.  This is an introduction to a much bigger story about algae. This tiny plant has the potential to reshape how we source some of the highest-quality, flavor-enhancing ingredients with a fraction of the planetary resources. We can’t wait to hear your thoughts and show that algae deserves a seat at the culinary table. x Team Algae Cooking Club
2021
Owner, Henry Guest House
Feb 2021
Henry Guest Hosue is a collection of short-term rentals based on a philosophy of artful curation. Roughly half of active Airbnb listings were added in the last two years, and with it came a wave of uninspiring spaces filled with bland and wasteful fast furniture. Groups like Sonder bought up thousands of properties in a race to scale to ridiculous valuations. After staying in many during the pandemic ourselves, we thought there was a better, more sustainable way of creating spaces that feel like a home you want to slow down and enjoy. But we never intended on doing it ourselves. We stumbled across this house two years ago, it was in disrepair, and the front of the building was so water damaged you could cut into the wood pillars with a butter knife. But we bought it, and over two years of restoring and sourcing, we thought the approach was worth sharing.
2019
Strategic Advisor & Investor
Nov 2019
Demanding less from the environment and more for your taste buds, we’re making the world a Táche better.
early stageManufacturing
2018
Portfolio Brand Director (contract)
Jun 2018
Pernod Ricard is a convivial, responsible and successful global wine and spirits group and the #1 premium spirits organisation in the world. The Group represents 240 premium brands available in more than 160 countries. We are 18,500 exceptionally talented people worldwide with our own salesforce in 73 countries. Our portfolio is one of the most comprehensive in the market with every major category of wine and spirits, providing Pernod Ricard with a unique competitive advantage. To keep growing our business, transforming our industry and making a positive impact on the world, we believe in the power of human connection. Creating ‘convivialité’ is our business and our raison d’être. As ‘créateurs de convivialité’, our purpose is to turn every social interaction into a genuine, friendly and responsible experience of sharing. We believe there can be no convivialité with excess and strive to be sustainable and responsible at every step, from grain to glass. You must be of legal drinking age to follow and only share with others of age. Enjoy our brands responsibly. UGC policy: https://bit.ly/41XEYbx
2011
Senior Strategist
2011
Venables Bell & Partners is an internationally recognized independent San Francisco advertising agency founded on good intentions. We believe, above all else, in doing right by our people and our clients. We actively nurture a culture where both honesty and respect thrive. We simultaneously foster both collaboration and debate, among ourselves and with our clients. If we had to explain a method to the madness, it would be this: we believe that integrity is actually a competitive business advantage. With profitable growth every year since opening our doors in 2001, our challenger approach has attracted blue-chip brands like PlayStation, Celebrity Cruises, Blue Moon, REI, Reebok, Intel, Audi of America, and Google to our roster. In addition to our full-service offerings, VB&P is home to VBP Orange, a customer experience consultancy and Lumberyard, a content production facility. Want to work with us? www.venablesbell.com/recruiting