Katya Kohen

Board Member

2021 - Current

Co-Founder, COO

2019 - 2021

Investor, Advisor, NED

2015

As a Partner at KGroup Family Office, I invest in direct funds, long/short equity, credit, special situations (mergers and acquisitions, distressed debt, etc.), real estate, crypto, and join co-investments. I hold Board positions, advise other FOs, corporations, and startups. Personally, as an angel investor, I back female founders, immigrants, and extraordinary founders across different verticals & continents. Recent investments include: Funds: New Order Ventures (2023); Harmonix Fund (2023);FuelArts (2020- 2024: Board Advisor, NED) Guil "Kaufmann Ventures" (2022- Board Member, Advisor) and others. Startups: Classtag (2023 exit); Ettitude; Maivino; Giftpack; LegionGames, and others.

Investment Management & M&A, Portfolio Services, ED

2021 - 2024

I work with portfolio companies post-accelerator seed investment, support their success, and advise with fundraising/exits and more. I've built portfolio investment management strategy and ops, and additionally created M&A practice to scale the support for more than 4000 porfolio companies. Since 2006, Techstars has invested in more than 4,400 companies, today the portfolio has a market cap of $115.7 Billion. There are ~600+ companies that Techstars invests in at the accelerator stage (<$5M Market Cap) and at the following rounds, ~60% of companies raise $1M+ in additional capital to grow their companies. Total lifetime raised post program $27.9B; 20 companies at $1B+ valuation, 484 exited companies. Portfolio Services Team has helped raise more than $400M for portfolio companies in equity and debt capital, built partnerships to scale companies growth.

Advisory Board Member

2020 - 2024

Supporting the Managing Partners in scaling a Web3 accelerator and VC fund for Art+Tech & NFT, investing in early and growth stage startups.

Contributor

2017 - 2023

Mentor, EIR, Advisor

2020 - 2022

I mentored during various global accelerator programs across Singapore, Taiwan, Korea & the USA on topics such as Fundraising processes, Investor Relations, GTS, Sales & Marketing in the US. Since its inception in Silicon Valley, 500 Global has invested in over 2,300 companies via its 5 global funds and 15 thematic funds dedicated to either specific geographic markets or verticals. Its 100+ team members are located in 20 countries around the world in order to support the 500 Global portfolio of investments which spans more than 75 countries.

Founding Partner, CEO

2015 - 2019

As a co-founder and CEO of Starta Accelerator, I created the vision, strategy and executed on bringing the strategy to life from scratch and later on, building an international hub and VC fund under one umbrella of Starta Ventures. During this journey, I have amassed a portfolio of 100+ early-stage startups with $90M in VC funding and crypto assets. Under my management, Starta Ventures achieved its first exit within two (2) years of deploying capital providing a 10x return; Starta later achieved four (4) exits within three (3) years of the fund's launch. The scope of my responsibilities included both non-tangible as being heart, soul and a public champion for the business with both internal and external stakeholders and the following tangible responsibilities: • In 3.5 years built an ecosystem of 10,000+ founders and investors in the CRM, high-influence advisors, coaching mentors (high caliber professionals), ambassadors and ventures scouts in 15 countries • 106 companies in the portfolio and 96 accelerated in NYC-based program, with 4 exits in 2 years • Lead corporate development initiatives (e.g.: raised $5M through ICO, fund securitization, liqvest.com -fund’s co-investment platform) • Set up Starta Accelerator from ground up (legal structure, processes, tools, resources) to run 2 batches per year, 20 companies each batch, program structure and curriculum • Speaker for conferences (i.e. Transformation Conference in Europe with 30K attendees), author and contributor of yearly corporate reports and contributor for media outlets like Forbes, iHeartRadio and more

Co-founder, CBDO

2012 - 2015

Helped ambitious marketers at leading Wall Street brokerage and investment firms along with major brands like American Express, Disney, MSN, Beeline, Teva, Hotels.com to optimize multi-million dollar campaigns and accelerate marketing ROI through our proprietary tech solution.

Head of Marketing and Product

2011 - 2013

Deputy Director, Product Marketing

2010 - 2011