Karl Kerksiek
Founding Partner at Endeavor8
Redwood City, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2021 - Current
Endeavor8 is an early stage tech innovation impacting food value chain.
Investor
2023
Robigo is a biomanufacturing company engineering microbes to create more sustainable crop protection solutions.
Raised $8,000,000.00 from Aera VC, Good Growth Capital, Congruent Ventures, First Star Ventures and Endeavor8.
Investor
2022
Investor
2022
Salient combines novel ocean and land-surface data with AI and climate expertise to deliver the world’s most accurate S2S weather forecasts.
Raised $11,822,187.00 from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Rose Rock Bridge.
Investor
2022
Apparo is a food processing technology intended to process crops in order to maximize the yield of available nutrients.
Raised $4,500,000.00 from Blue Horizon Corporation, Finistere Ventures and Endeavor8.
Investor
2022
MarketDial offers a platform that supports comprehensive testing of business initiatives related to promotions, operations, and more.
Raised $9,594,991.00 from Endeavor8, Peterson Ventures, Kickstart, Crosslink Capital and Silicon Valley Bank.
Investor
2022
Investor
2022
Investor
2021
Placer.ai offers a traffic analytics platform that allows anyone to generate insights into any property.
Raised $267,505,641.00 from GEM REALTY CAPITAL.
Investor
2021
Hi Fidelity Genetics is a start up based in Durham, NC.
Raised $11,500,000.00 from Endeavor8.