Kurt Knapton

CEO, Investor, and Strategic Advisor

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2023
VC🌍 United States
6
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1
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0
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Late stage
15y
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Portfolio

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Board Member
Mar 2023
The Lion’s Den DFW was created to fuel the expansion of the Kingdom economy through investing in transformative entrepreneurship. Our goal is to facilitate value-aligned investments by connecting Christ-centered entrepreneurs with investors. Through our yearly conference and pitch competition, we connect and equip business leaders to use their wealth and experience to change the world and create a tremendous impact. We’ve been connecting real businesses with real investors to make real impact for the last 11 years. Our biggest annual event of the year is coming up April 29-30, 2026 in Dallas, Texas. Register to attend @ www.thelionsdendfw.org
Board Member
Dec 2022
When accurate data is paramount, data-driven researchers and enterprises trust Rep Data for advanced technology and unparalleled service. We’re committed to providing the highest-quality data collection solutions for primary quantitative research studies. This unwavering focus makes us a trusted partner for the world’s leading market research agencies, management consultancies, Fortune 500 corporations, brand consultancies, universities, and more. Our goal is to collect the highest-quality data as quickly as possible. We start with multi-source sampling, drawing on our relationships with dozens of established panels. This helps us maximize feasibility and mitigate the potential biases inherent in working with just one vendor. Our Solutions Are Second to None Research Defender Our Research Defender technology is the industry’s most comprehensive fraud prevention platform. It leverages multiple API tools to protect your data. From weeding out respondents masking their location or deleting their cookies to identifying professional survey takers or those utilizing copy-and-paste tools, Research Defender is the industry leader in finding, defeating, and outsmarting fraudsters and bad actors. Research Desk Our Research Desk technology is a demand-side platform built to simplify DIY sample buying. With Research Desk, quantitative researchers can buy the highest quality sample at scale with minimum friction. Research Services If you choose to work with our research services division, you’ll never have to do your quantitative research alone. You’ll have one point of contact, and our team will monitor Research Defender flags and outputs for you, adding that expert human oversight to our machine-learning technology. That’s Data Done Different.
early stageMarket Research
Investor and Strategic Advisor
Oct 2016
Board Member
Sep 2016
Edify believes that educating underserved children is the greatest opportunity for Christian transformation in impoverished communities around the world. A young person with book smarts and life skills can create a small business or find employment that will lift his or her family out of poverty; a young person grounded in the Christian faith will develop the moral foundation necessary to transform a culture and society. With a dedication to serving the poor, Edify proposes to increase access to Christ-centered education and improve the quality and relevancy of what’s taught in Christian schools.
Board Member
Sep 2011
At Dynata, we deliver the highest quality first-party data to help businesses around the world gain precise insights, activate the right audiences, and confidently measure impact. With industry-leading responder accuracy, reliability, and commitment to continuous improvement, Dynata is the trusted foundation for smarter decision-making. We serve more than 6,000 market research, media and advertising agencies, publishers, consulting and investment firms, and corporate customers in North America, South America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Learn more at www.dynata.com. 
Experience · 8 entries
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2023
Board Member
Mar 2023
The Lion’s Den DFW was created to fuel the expansion of the Kingdom economy through investing in transformative entrepreneurship. Our goal is to facilitate value-aligned investments by connecting Christ-centered entrepreneurs with investors. Through our yearly conference and pitch competition, we connect and equip business leaders to use their wealth and experience to change the world and create a tremendous impact. We’ve been connecting real businesses with real investors to make real impact for the last 11 years. Our biggest annual event of the year is coming up April 29-30, 2026 in Dallas, Texas. Register to attend @ www.thelionsdendfw.org
2022
Board Member
Dec 2022
When accurate data is paramount, data-driven researchers and enterprises trust Rep Data for advanced technology and unparalleled service. We’re committed to providing the highest-quality data collection solutions for primary quantitative research studies. This unwavering focus makes us a trusted partner for the world’s leading market research agencies, management consultancies, Fortune 500 corporations, brand consultancies, universities, and more. Our goal is to collect the highest-quality data as quickly as possible. We start with multi-source sampling, drawing on our relationships with dozens of established panels. This helps us maximize feasibility and mitigate the potential biases inherent in working with just one vendor. Our Solutions Are Second to None Research Defender Our Research Defender technology is the industry’s most comprehensive fraud prevention platform. It leverages multiple API tools to protect your data. From weeding out respondents masking their location or deleting their cookies to identifying professional survey takers or those utilizing copy-and-paste tools, Research Defender is the industry leader in finding, defeating, and outsmarting fraudsters and bad actors. Research Desk Our Research Desk technology is a demand-side platform built to simplify DIY sample buying. With Research Desk, quantitative researchers can buy the highest quality sample at scale with minimum friction. Research Services If you choose to work with our research services division, you’ll never have to do your quantitative research alone. You’ll have one point of contact, and our team will monitor Research Defender flags and outputs for you, adding that expert human oversight to our machine-learning technology. That’s Data Done Different.
early stageMarket Research
Board Member
Nov 2022
In 1958, founder David Adamson saw the need for an establishment that would provide citizens with non-partisan, unbiased information and make it easy for them to communicate with their lawmakers. His goal proved to be a clear and worthy one. Three generations later, this family-owned business operates in all 50 states and remains true to David Adamson’s vision. Today, National Write Your Congressman continues to receive wide-spread respect and applause in Washington, D.C. and is the leading source of constituent correspondence received by Congress. National Write Your Congressman is a membership organization which provides a service to concerned and responsible American business owners & leaders. This service, which helps busy people communicate directly with their elected officials effectively, is an annual membership, which is both sold & serviced by our national outside membership sales force.
2016
Investor and Strategic Advisor
Oct 2016
Board Member
Sep 2016
Edify believes that educating underserved children is the greatest opportunity for Christian transformation in impoverished communities around the world. A young person with book smarts and life skills can create a small business or find employment that will lift his or her family out of poverty; a young person grounded in the Christian faith will develop the moral foundation necessary to transform a culture and society. With a dedication to serving the poor, Edify proposes to increase access to Christ-centered education and improve the quality and relevancy of what’s taught in Christian schools.
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