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Kira Krauss

Venture Partner at Artisanal Ventures

United States

Overview 

Kira Krauss is a Partner at Artisanal Talent, specializing in social media, film production, and television. With a background in executive recruitment and venture partnerships, Kira has excelled in talent management and business development within the entertainment industry.

Work Experience 

  • Partner - GTM Practice

    2019 - Current

    Artisanal Talent is an ultra high touch, low volume executive search firm. We focus only on b2b software, and our Partners are specialists-only, who operate from VP to Board, in product, engineering, sales/marketing/customer success and general management/CEO functions. We're the industry's first specialists-only firm with a hybrid search and investing platform.

  • Venture Partner

    2021

Artisanal Ventures is an investment firm that focuses on investing in various cloud startups.

  • VP, People

    2019 - 2019

Zwift operates an online fitness platform used to transform monotonous solo indoor cycling into dynamic and social adventures.

Raised $619,500,000.00 from Permira, True., Ilkka Paananen, Amazon Alexa Fund, Highland Europe, Zone 5 Ventures, Novator, Causeway Media Partners, Illusian Founder Office and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

  • Executive Recruiter

    2013 - 2018

Founded by Paul Daversa, Daversa Partners builds the executive teams for growth stage and venture backed companies.

  • Production Coordinator

    2011 - 2013

Park Pictures focuses on discovering and mentoring film-making talent and infusing projects with big screen production values.

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