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Allison Kopf
Chief Executive Officer at TRACT
Amsterdam, North Holland
Overview
Allison Kopf is the CEO of TRACT based in Amsterdam, North Holland, with a background in physics from Santa Clara University. She has a strong track record in sustainability and renewable energy, having held key roles such as Chief Growth Officer at IUNU and Founder & CEO at Artemis, and has made successful investments in companies like Nalu Bio and Nextmv.
Kopf's career highlights include leading TRACT as CEO and making impactful investments in early-stage companies, demonstrating expertise in sustainability, solar energy, and agtech sectors.
Work Experience
Chief Executive Officer
2024 - Current
TRACT is a transformative sustainability performance measurement platform with aligned methodologies and metrics across multiple product categories, developed by and for the Ag and Food industry. We visualise supply chain sustainability performance, utilising industry-aligned methods to generate insights, allowing customers to focus on creating positive impact.
Investment Partner
2018
Portfolio (Goss, nextmv, Hugh&Grace, Nalu bio, Ami Cole, Begin Health) XFactor Ventures is looking for tenacious female founders and mixed-gender founding teams attacking billion-dollar market opportunities. We invest $150k into pre-seed or seed stage rounds and provide advice, mentorship, and connections to help our companies succeed. The XFactor investing partners are current successful operators, collectively raising over $500M in capital, hiring thousands of employees, but who are still in the trenches every day. If you're a female founder working on a big idea, let's connect! (I review all inbound, including cold outreach) Areas of interest: B2B, Enterprise SaaS, Agtech, Future of Work, Deep tech
Advisor
2022 - 2024
Based in New York City, Synonym builds essential infrastructure for the biomanufacturing revolution: a worldwide network of facilities, where Synonym partners create different products, at a large scale, using standardized processes. Synonym facilities, located all over the globe, will become an iconic infrastructure for biomanufacturing.
Synonym is a financing and development platform for essential biomanufacturing infrastructure.
Raised $6,300,000.00 from Blue Horizon Corporation, Ron Zori, Andreessen Horowitz, Thia Ventures, Zero Infinity Partners, Giant Ventures, Giant Ventures and FJ Labs.
Chief Growth Officer
2022 - 2024
Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Data Products
2021 - 2022
IUNU (pronounced “you-knew”) is building the future of the controlled environment agriculture (CEA) industry. The company's AI-driven LUNA platform enables growers to develop a feedback loop between capturing data and managing processes to create precise, predictable production.
IUNU is an industrial computer vision company that connects plants, facilities, and people through a single interface.
Raised $45,706,954.00 from S2G Ventures, Lewis & Clark AgriFood, Astanor Ventures, Ceres Partners and S2G Ventures.
EDGE Advisor
2020 - 2024
Cargill is a global leader in food and agriculture with $100 billion in sales and 150,000 employees in 70 countries. To accelerate its digital transformation, Cargill is launching an internal incubator-accelerator to identify, support, and scale internal digital start-ups: EDGE (Entrepreneurial Digital Growth Engine).
Cargill - Global Flavors Business offers fruit and sweet-based preparations to the food industry.
Entrepreneur In Residence
2021 - 2022
The NDRC is Ireland’s national startup accelerator program for globally ambitious entrepreneurs. Its mission is to help startups succeed at every stage of their journey through coaching and mentoring, with a founder-first approach delivered by international experts. NDRC is funded by the Irish Government and is operated by Dogpatch Labs, based in Dublin, in partnership with a network of leading regional hubs around the country (Portershed in Galway, RDI Hub in Kerry, and Republic of Work in Cork).
Founder & CEO
2015 - 2021
Artemis (acq. by IUNU, Inc.) is a Cultivation Management Platform (CMP) that enables growers to manage people, plants, process, and compliance all in one place creating a virtually risk-free operation. Artemis provides a bird’s eye view of productivity and compliance from seed to harvest, helping farms compete in a low-margin business. It’s easier than ever to monitor and manage multiple facility operations across your network remotely from your desktop, mobile or tablet.
Artemis operates an intelligence platform for indoor farms.
Raised $12,386,822.00 from New York Ventures, Fresh Source Capital, Talis Capital, Astanor Ventures, iSelect Fund and New York Ventures.
Advisor
2018 - 2020
Blockrize (acq. by Gemini) is building the first-ever credit card with cryptocurrency rewards. Our card will be the simplest and lowest-risk fiat onramp for the 74 million U.S. consumers interested in acquiring crypto. Over the past year, we've validated product demand through extensive market research, built a first-of-its-kind rewards platform to power the crypto rewards, and found a bank excited to help us launch the card. We're a team of crypto enthusiasts passionately focused on product with extensive experience in the credit card space and primed to capitalize on this multi-billion market opportunity.
Blockrize is a Cryptocurrency platform creating the first credit card with Bitcoin rewards.
Real Estate and Government Relations Manager
2011 - 2015
BrightFarms (acq. Cox Enterprises) builds and operates high-tech greenhouse farms to eliminate time, distance and costs from their produce supply chain. They are creating the first national brand of local produce, and were included on the 2017 Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies (10th among all food companies on the Inc. 500 and are the only produce company to be included in the list).
BrightFarms is an indoor farming company that specializes in providing locally grown packaged salads.
Raised $212,900,000.00 from Catalyst Investors and Cox Enterprises.