Kurt Keilhacker is a longtime company builder turned investor who personally co-founded and served as Chairman, CEO, or CFO of multiple Silicon Valley and international tech companies before joining Elementum Ventures. He combines unusually broad academic credentials—including degrees from the University of Chicago, Stanford, and Harvard spanning business, humanities, and theology—with hands-on experience investing in more than 50 U.S. and European startups as Managing Partner at TechFund Capital and TechFund Europe.
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Deeptech / Hardware, AI, Biotech, Climate, Enterprise
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Seed
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$250K - $1.5M
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Elementum Ventures is a bespoke seed investor whose three general partners are all multi-exit founder-operators willing to step into unexpected operating roles like "COO, CFO, sales rep, headhunter, janitor" for their portfolio companies. The fund focuses on pre-seed deep technology startups building around differentiated IP, backing frontier deep tech companies that are both mission-heavy and technically ambitious across categories like defense, carbon conversion, space, fusion, and advanced biotech.
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