Ken Young

📣 building an 8 figure agency @middleman 🎯 3x agency founder | 1x 7-figure exit

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2022
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Mar 2022
Lupii is unleashing the power of the small-but-mighty lupini bean to keep you fueled, fed, and running like a boss. Our hero ingredient, the lupini bean, has 3x more protein than eggs, 3x more fiber than oats, is jam-packed with vitamins, and has all 9 essential amino acids. Whether you’re vegetarian, vegan, reducetarian, or just plain awesome– eating Lupii is the perfect way to nourish your body, mind, and planet.
Investor
Mar 2021
Petalfast is the first-of-its-kind route-through-market platform for the cannabis industry. Petalfast helps cannabis brands achieve rapid growth via its go-to-market accelerator program in California and through its full spectrum of agency services available to brands nationally. Notable cannabis brands already engaged in the Petalfast platform include Space Coyote, Emerald Sky, Bloom Brands, and Yada Yada. The Company, through its incubator program Pilot by Petalfast, also provides new and recently launched brands with direct access to leading retailers and opportunities to gain first-hand market analysis, while also offering select retailers the opportunity to see future brands before they formally hit the market. Petalfast is taking its business model and expanding into newer, competitive markets.
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2025
Founder
Aug 2025
Implementing a proven growth system for service-based consultancies 🚀
2023
Silent Partner
Oct 2023
middleman x the first growth agency for brands on Faire we have mastered the platform and helped brands build a sustainable and growing business on Faire
Co-founder & Chairman of the Board
Jan 2023
Were Finance and Accounting experts who love consumer brands.
2022
Managing Partner
Aug 2022
We accelerate positive outcomes for emerging beverage brands.
Investor
Mar 2022
Lupii is unleashing the power of the small-but-mighty lupini bean to keep you fueled, fed, and running like a boss. Our hero ingredient, the lupini bean, has 3x more protein than eggs, 3x more fiber than oats, is jam-packed with vitamins, and has all 9 essential amino acids. Whether you’re vegetarian, vegan, reducetarian, or just plain awesome– eating Lupii is the perfect way to nourish your body, mind, and planet.
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