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Thies Kolln

Partner at AAVIN Equity Partners

📍 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States🔄 Updated November 2026💼 17 investments📅 22 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
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Jan 2026
CalCog, Inc. is a clinical supply services partner supporting early- to late-phase global trials. We deliver clinical supply solutions, including material procurement, GMP packaging and labeling, storage, and distribution, with a focus on complex and blinded trials, cold chain logistics, and Schedule I–V investigational product management. CalCog is guided by five strategic pillars that shape how we deliver clinical supply services: - Operational Excellence: We execute clinical supply programs with precision, consistency, and visibility, so trials stay on track. - Trusted Expertise: Our team helps sponsors and CROs navigate regulatory complexity with confidence and clear communication. - Focused Solutions: We concentrate on programs where we can deliver the most impact, ensuring resources are optimized. - Sustainable Growth: By delivering consistently and building credibility, we cultivate long-term client partnerships. - Agile Teams: Our teams respond flexibly yet disciplined, keeping clinical supply aligned, compliant, and on schedule. With precision, transparency, and intentional agility, CalCog helps sponsors and CROs optimize their clinical supply chain every step of the way.
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Jan 2026
CalCog is a vertically integrated clinical supply services company supporting early- to late-phase global clinical trials. We provide end-to-end clinical supply solutions including clinical trial material procurement, packaging, labeling, storage, and distribution ensuring reliability and compliance at every stage of the clinical supply chain. We specialize in complex and blinded clinical trials, offering advanced support for cold chain logistics and Schedule I–V investigational products. Our expertise helps sponsors and CROs navigate regulatory complexity while maintaining trial integrity and patient safety. Let CalCog optimize your clinical supply chain with precision, flexibility, and confidence.
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May 2023
Services: A.J. Manufacturing, Inc. (AJ) designs and manufactures a range of door, window, wall-panel, component part, and contract manufacturing services for the following markets: Post Frame Construction Industry, Commercial and Industrial HVAC (original equipment manufacturers), Air Supported Structures, Residential building products (distributed through home improvement centers), and Contract Manufacturing Services for a range of industries and products. Customers: Our customers are leaders in their respected industries. In all markets A..J serves, we have relationships that span decades in most cases. We accomplish this by applying the most rigorous expectations from our customers, across markets, into a single operating standard of quality, responsiveness, on-time delivery, product performance, and value. Capabilities: A full range of metal forming and processing from multiple roll formers, press brakes, turret presses, folding machines, and robotic welding stations, coupled with hundreds of proprietary tools and dies for working extruded aluminum profiles are core to our operation. Multiple polyurethane foam injecting stations and presses deliver structure, insulation, and rigidity to our doors and wall panels. . Contact: www.ajdoor.com (800) 328-9448
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Feb 2019
Weeks Service Co is a consumer services company based out of Tx-3 S, League City, TX, United States.
Board Member
May 2005
Technical. Elegant. Sun Protection You Wear®. Coolibar UPF 50+ fabrics block 98% of UVA/UVB rays, look good, wear well and protect for a lifetime. Welcome back to health, happiness and fun in the sun.
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Aug 2004
PMT Industries, LLC is an electrical/electronic manufacturing company based out of 2105 Schmiede St, Surgoinsville, Tennessee, United States.
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2026
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Jan 2026
CalCog, Inc. is a clinical supply services partner supporting early- to late-phase global trials. We deliver clinical supply solutions, including material procurement, GMP packaging and labeling, storage, and distribution, with a focus on complex and blinded trials, cold chain logistics, and Schedule I–V investigational product management. CalCog is guided by five strategic pillars that shape how we deliver clinical supply services: - Operational Excellence: We execute clinical supply programs with precision, consistency, and visibility, so trials stay on track. - Trusted Expertise: Our team helps sponsors and CROs navigate regulatory complexity with confidence and clear communication. - Focused Solutions: We concentrate on programs where we can deliver the most impact, ensuring resources are optimized. - Sustainable Growth: By delivering consistently and building credibility, we cultivate long-term client partnerships. - Agile Teams: Our teams respond flexibly yet disciplined, keeping clinical supply aligned, compliant, and on schedule. With precision, transparency, and intentional agility, CalCog helps sponsors and CROs optimize their clinical supply chain every step of the way.
Board Member
Jan 2026
CalCog is a vertically integrated clinical supply services company supporting early- to late-phase global clinical trials. We provide end-to-end clinical supply solutions including clinical trial material procurement, packaging, labeling, storage, and distribution ensuring reliability and compliance at every stage of the clinical supply chain. We specialize in complex and blinded clinical trials, offering advanced support for cold chain logistics and Schedule I–V investigational products. Our expertise helps sponsors and CROs navigate regulatory complexity while maintaining trial integrity and patient safety. Let CalCog optimize your clinical supply chain with precision, flexibility, and confidence.
2025
CCS Energy Services
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Jun 2025
CUSTOM CHEMICAL SOLUTIONS LLC
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Jun 2025
2024
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Nov 2024
Grignard Company is an innovative producer of specialized chemistry products tailored to the needs of customers worldwide. Our products, developed by our in-house R&D team and manufactured in the USA to the highest quality standards, deliver superior performance and value for a wide range of applications. Our ability to serve the distinct needs of customers in the Industrial, Entertainment, and Consumer Products sectors has led to a customer retention rate exceeding 95%.
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