Kate McAndrew

Co-Founder and General Partner at Baukunst

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2025
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Pre-seed Investor
Oct 2025
Our MO is making moments sweeter - without the crash out. Zero calories. Boost of fiber. No cane sugar or sugar alcohols. POCA fits in your pocket to make every drink better.
Pre-seed lead investor and board member
May 2025
We love a good deal Everything on our site is off-price, up to 80% off everything, all the time. How it works We buy excess inventory from thoughtful, high quality brands at a discount and then pass those savings on to our customers. Brands we carry We focus on Millennial and Gen Z favorites like Baggu, Lisa Says Gah, and others you wont find at traditional off-price retailers. The offe market difference Millions of pounds of clothing go to waste each year so we work with our brands to ensure more clothing is worn, not wasted.
Pre-seed lead investor and board member
Mar 2025
Meet Recess, the category-defining marketplace for parents to find enrichment classes, after-school care, and camps—all in one place. Recess is live in Texas and coming to your city soon!
Pre-seed lead investor and board member
Aug 2024
GOB is the market’s first earplug with a conscience. We’re taking on the earplug market with the first plastic-free, compostable option. We partner with nature to evolve your everyday into the regenerative future. We are reinventing wearable wellness products that are engineered with biology, designed with a long-term vision.
Pre-seed Lead Investor and Board Observer
Oct 2023
Helping Stealth Startups to Launch, Hire & Scale. Here Recruiters Usually List Stealth Roles for early stage startups and job seekers can connect and consider those roles.
Pre-seed Lead Investor and Board Observer
Oct 2023
Pre-seed Lead Investor & Board Observer
May 2023
In recent years tens of thousands of online book tastemakers have reinvigorated the book industry, single-handedly igniting bestsellers and TV/movie franchises from overlooked titles. We believe these tastemakers are key to building a world of books that is more creative, independent, and equitable. We’re building a platform for them to deepen their relationship with their audience, cultivate community, earn the income they deserve, and ultimately publish tomorrow’s most beloved books. Bindery is co-founded by Matt Kaye, former Head of Product at Patreon, Amazon Books PM, VP of Growth at seed-stage startup Inkshares, Head of Growth & Engagement at Trulia, and book marketer in publishing; and Meg Harvey, former Chief Strategy Officer at Girl Friday Productions, a firm she steered for nearly 10 years from a full-stack book production house for major publishers to award-studded, industry-leading independent publishing services company. We are united by a shared passion for the power of books and storytelling and a belief that world-changing stories can come from anywhere. We aim to build a culture that is as diverse, purposeful, and compassionate as the communities we serve.
Pre-seed Lead Investor & Board Member
Feb 2023
A network for entrepreneurs building in stealth. Submit your information here so investors can find you: harmonic.ai/get-discovered
Board Member
Oct 2019
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Board Member
Jun 2019
Maev is the only fresh, ready-to-eat dog food made with the highest quality human-grade ingredients you can name just by looking. Created to radically improve the health and happiness of dogs everywhere, Maev works with veterinary nutritionists to craft complete and balanced fresh-frozen food blends that are high in protein and made from only whole ingredients to support longevity, vitality, and everyday joy. Maev is made with the same premium, human-grade, recognizable ingredients you’d find in your own fridge or pantry, delivering the gold standard of canine nutrition with unmatched convenience – fresh-frozen and ready to serve – straight to your door. Founded in 2018 by Katie Spies, Maev, named in honor of the spunky Irish Wolfhound who started it all, began with a deeply personal goal: to improve how our dogs live. What started as a passion project has grown into a nationwide movement because our dogs deserve nothing less. Follow along @meetmaev and learn more at meetmaev.com. As of 2023, Maev is the #1 fastest growing, most disruptive brand in the hyper-competitive category of Pet — and the 38th fastest growing private company in America.
Pre-seed Lead Investor and Board Observer
Sep 2018
Bobbie is the first and only mom-founded and women-led infant formula company in the U.S. Our European-style recipe meets all FDA requirements, is made with pasture-raised milk from Organic Valley farms, and is the only infant formula to receive both the Clean Label Project’s Purity Award and Pesticide Free Certification. Bobbie is working to shake the stigma and evolve the conversation around how you feed your baby to one of confidence, not comparison, from how we feed to what we feed. We lost sleep over this so you dont have to.
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2025
Pre-seed Investor
Oct 2025
Our MO is making moments sweeter - without the crash out. Zero calories. Boost of fiber. No cane sugar or sugar alcohols. POCA fits in your pocket to make every drink better.
Pre-seed lead investor and board member
May 2025
We love a good deal Everything on our site is off-price, up to 80% off everything, all the time. How it works We buy excess inventory from thoughtful, high quality brands at a discount and then pass those savings on to our customers. Brands we carry We focus on Millennial and Gen Z favorites like Baggu, Lisa Says Gah, and others you wont find at traditional off-price retailers. The offe market difference Millions of pounds of clothing go to waste each year so we work with our brands to ensure more clothing is worn, not wasted.
Pre-seed lead investor and board member
Mar 2025
Meet Recess, the category-defining marketplace for parents to find enrichment classes, after-school care, and camps—all in one place. Recess is live in Texas and coming to your city soon!
2024
Pre-seed lead investor and board member
Aug 2024
GOB is the market’s first earplug with a conscience. We’re taking on the earplug market with the first plastic-free, compostable option. We partner with nature to evolve your everyday into the regenerative future. We are reinventing wearable wellness products that are engineered with biology, designed with a long-term vision.
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