Eric Kohlmann
Managing Partner at KGS Ventures
United Kingdom
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2023 - Current
KGS is a deep tech venture capital firm partnering with entrepreneurs who are looking to leverage cutting-edge, IP-centered technology to solve some of humanity's greatest challenges, including applications in neuro-tech, bioengineering, advanced materials, clean energy, and photonics. The firm is deeply embedded in global networks of next-generation entrepreneurs, VCs, industry experts, and world-leading academic institutions. With over 30 years of combined venture capital and entrepreneurship experience across multiple continents, its founders understand both sides of investing and building, creating a uniquely global and founder-support-centric firm.
Venture Partner
2024
HOF Capital is a multi-stage venture capital firm. Backed by over 200 influential, industry leaders, we look for relentlessly ambitious founders and help them build generational companies. HOF supports entrepreneurs by providing them with long-term-focused capital from idea to IPO, and helping them structure meaningful partnerships with enterprises in its LP network.
HOF Capital is a global multistage VC firm with $1 billion in AUM that partners with ambitious entrepreneurs from idea to IPO.
Strategic Advisor
2024
- GMI helps AI companies access GPUs at 2x the speed. - Leading GPU cloud provider serving top AI customers in the US and Asia. H100s available across 3 global locations. - Backed by Headline and HOF Capital
GMI Cloud provides GPU cloud access for generative AI applications.
Raised $82,000,000.00 from Wistron Corporation, Banpu NEXT and Headline Asia (formerly Infinity Ventures).
Board Member, Investor
2022
Investor
2022
Canaery is builds a neural interface for analyzing an object’s scent fingerprint to identify dangerous compounds.
Raised $4,000,000.00 from Florida Opportunity Fund, DeepWork Capital, Arkitekt Ventures, KdT Ventures, Breakout Ventures, IndieBio, Dolby Family Ventures, SOSV, Asymmetry Ventures and SOSV.
Investor
2020
Omneky is a leading generative AI company.
Omneky generates personalized ads at scale.
Raised $13,000,000.00 from Orbit Venture Partners, Lennox Capital Partners, DG Daiwa Ventures, Cadron Capital Partners, John Donovan, Nomura, Charlie Feng, FAST — by GETTYLAB, Darius Contractor and Gene Farrell.
Investor
2018
◦ Investor and engaged in regular, strategic discussions with the founders. CTRL-labs announced its sale to Facebook for ~$1B in September 2019.
Investor
2016
SQream makes it possible to ask bigger questions of extremely large, complicated data sets.
Raised $122,005,000.00 from Blumberg Capital, World Trade Ventures, George Kaiser Family Foundation, Schusterman Family Investments, Freddy & Helen Holdings. and ICON Continuity Fund.
Co-Founder, Board Member
2013
◦ Invested in numerous technology startups including CTRL-labs, Sqream DB, Teralytics, Bloom Diagnostics, Omneky, Sania Therapeutics and Canaery among others. ◦ Co-investor with many leading international VC firms such as Google Ventures, Amazon Alexa Fund, Spark Capital, LUX Capital, Matrix Partners, Breyer Capital, Atomico, Horizons Ventures (Li Ka-shing) and Lakestar.
Co-Founder, Advisor
2013
◦ Smart diagnostics startup currently in FDA approval process. ◦ Raised > $30MM of outside capital to date.
Education
Master's Degree
2014 - 2015
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
2010 - 2012
A-Level
2006 - 2008