Todd Knichel

CEO at Ultimate Trading

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 2 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2024
Angel investor🌍 United States
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Jun 2024
La Leyenda, a meticulously crafted spirit, emerges once a year from a secluded family estate in Zacatecas, Mexico, carrying the legacy of four generations. This craft mezcal distinguishes itself from the widespread, mass-produced spirits of Jalisco and Oaxaca by utilizing fully matured blue weber agave. These plants, requiring over six years to reach full maturity, yield a mere 7-10 bottles each, ensuring exclusivity and quality. Characterized by its smooth texture, subtle earthy notes, and clean finish, La Leyenda boasts a natural purity, free from additives, celebrities, or misleading promotions. It’s the pride of an independent family enterprise, committed to authenticity. By embracing modern technology, the founders of La Leyenda are revitalizing a 400-year-old tradition, celebrating the rich, untainted flavors of 100% mature blue weber agave. Join the Legends Club
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2024
Investor & Advisor
Jun 2024
La Leyenda, a meticulously crafted spirit, emerges once a year from a secluded family estate in Zacatecas, Mexico, carrying the legacy of four generations. This craft mezcal distinguishes itself from the widespread, mass-produced spirits of Jalisco and Oaxaca by utilizing fully matured blue weber agave. These plants, requiring over six years to reach full maturity, yield a mere 7-10 bottles each, ensuring exclusivity and quality. Characterized by its smooth texture, subtle earthy notes, and clean finish, La Leyenda boasts a natural purity, free from additives, celebrities, or misleading promotions. It’s the pride of an independent family enterprise, committed to authenticity. By embracing modern technology, the founders of La Leyenda are revitalizing a 400-year-old tradition, celebrating the rich, untainted flavors of 100% mature blue weber agave. Join the Legends Club
2015
Business Partner
Aug 2015
Oriental Gemco is a quintessential, one of a kind jewelry company that creates enticing designs infused with excellent craftsmanship. The company got its start in the early 1970s when Narendra Kumar Nigam, president and founder, set up a small precious stone cutting business in India, to provide high quality precious stones for jewelers. By the 1990s, the company had grown to become a major supplier of precious stones in the global market and in 1996 opened an office in New York City and in early 2000 the Oriental Gemco launched its fine Jewelry division. From cutting stones to manufacturing fine jewelry pieces and everything in between, Oriental Gemco specializes in creating exotic, one of a kind designs that are adored by all who wear them. As one of the very few companies in the industry that are vertically integrated, Oriental Gemco and the Nigam family has used its experience and in-depth knowledge to set up one of the most creative and efficient design houses; from cutting exotic precious stones in unique shapes to creatively designing one of a kind jewelry pieces, which are then worked upon by master craftsman in our state of the art in-house facility; thereby ensuring the highest quality every step of the way.