Mark Kendall
Investment Partners play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Minnesota Investment Partners. We have tried to select a variety of different types of investors across a variety of niches.
This list is designed to show off the investors with exceptional track records, industry experience and a unique understanding of the ecosystem.
Top Minnesota Investment Partners
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Russell Siegelman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Russell Siegelman is a Lecturer at the Stanford University.
Patrick O’Shaughnessy
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Patrick O’Shaughnessy is the Chief Executive Officer at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management.
Brett Brohl
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Brett Brohl – Managing Partner @ Bread and Butter Ventures
Justin Kaufenberg
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Justin has more than 20 years of strategic operating experience in high-technology, including deep expertise in Saas, payments and network e…
Ryan Broshar
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ryan is Founder and Managing Director for Matchstick Ventures. Founding Matchstick 2013, Ryan created a vehicle to support and interact with…
Bennie Bray
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Bennie Bray – Co-Founder @ Monarch Capital Partners
Juan Sabater
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Juan Sabater serves as a Managing Director at Valor. Juan Sabater’s responsibilities include investment structuring and execution, due dili…
Gene Munster
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Gene Munster is the Managing Partner at Loup Ventures.
Robert Weber
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Robert Weber joined Great North Ventures as Co-Founder & Managing Partner in 2017.
Jeff Hinck
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Jeff has been a venture capitalist since 1997 and has focused on early-stage business technology companies throughout his career. Jeff co-fo…
Stephen Oesterle
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Stephen Oesterle
Christer Gardell
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Main occupation: CEO Christer co-founded Cevian Capital in 2002 and has since worked as a Managing Partner in the company. From 1996 to 200…
Jim Simons
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jim Simons is the Managing Director Split Rock Partners.
Andrew Clarke
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Andrew Clarke – Chief Financial Officer @ C.H. Robinson
Steven Anderson
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Steven Anderson is the Chief Scientific Officer of Covance. In the CSO role he will lead the development and implementation of scientific st…
Tony Miller
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Tony Miller began his career at UnitedHealth. He joined Deloitte Consulting, focusing on strategic business development, mergers and acquisi…
Yuval Almog
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Yuval’s contributions span across all stages of the enterprise building process including: strategy, operations, financing, M&A and corporat…
Ryan Weber
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Ryan is co-founder of NativeX. Ryan’s focus is to combine NativeX’s sales and marketing initiatives with cutting-edge technology by leading …
Kathleen A. Tune
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Kathy joined Thomas, McNerney & Partners from Piper Jaffray, where she was a health care analyst focused on medical technology companies. Wh…
Patrick Meenan
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Patrick Meenan is a Partner at Arthur Ventures. Patrick joined Arthur Ventures from Microsoft where he spent time in its Corporate Developme…
Mudit Jain
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mudit has nearly two decades of operational experience in various functional roles including research, product development, business develop…
Kuk Yi
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Kuk earned a B.S. in Finance from the University of Maryland at College Park.Outside of work, Kuk enjoys spending time with his family while…
Carl Casale
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
President and Chief Executive Officer of CHS Inc., a leading integrated agricultural company. Director of Ecolab since 2013. Member of the A…
Joy Lindsay
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Joy Lindsay is President and co-founder of StarTec Investments, LLC, a private venture capital firm that has been investing in high-tech com…
Greg Beaufait
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Greg joined Dundee in 2013 and now leads our team’s efforts in Minneapolis. Greg first spent a year as an intern with Dundee VC, analyzing p…
Christopher Smith
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Christopher Smith is a co-founder and CEO of Kipsu, a growth stage technology company based in Minneapolis. Prior to launching Kipsu, Chris …
Bukata Hayes
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Bukata Hayes VP of Racial and Health Equity at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
Jake Kleiner
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jake Kleiner is an Investment Partner at Bettor Capital.
Michael Gorman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Michael Gorman is a founding Managing Director of Split Rock Partners. Gorman focuses on investments in software and internet services compa…
Deb Frodl
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Deb Frodl – Board of Directors @ Spring Valley Acquisition
Luc Bondar
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Luc Bondar – Vice President – Loyalty @ United Airlines
Rob Barmann
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Rob is a Senior Investment Director at Endeavour Vision, focused on medical technology investments. Rob joined Endeavour Vision after 15 ye…
Elizabeth Canis
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Elizabeth Canis is a Vice President, Emerging Businesses & Partnerships at Anthem, Inc.
B. Kristine Johnson
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
B. Kristine Johnson – General Partner @ Affinity Capital Management
Preston McKenzie
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Preston McKenzie is the Operating Partner of General Atlantic
Mike Gerend
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mike joined NEP in 2017 bringing more than 25 years of active lifestyle and consumer executive leadership experience. As an operating partne…
Thomas Schnettler
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Thomas Schnettler, is serves as Managing Director of Piper Jaffray Merchant Banking.
Robert Rinek
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Robert Rinek is a Managing Director and Partner of the Piper Sandler Merchant Banking Group.
Partha Mishra
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Partha Mishra Partner at DNA Capital,
Mary Quist
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mary Quist – Vice President for Finance @ Medica
Andy Cantwell
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Prior to joining NEP in 2006, Andy was with Northwestern Investment Management in the firm’s Private Equity and Mezzanine Group. Andy execut…
John Haugen
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
John Haugen – Founder, Vice President & Managing Director @ 301
Dave Mao
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Managing Director of Come Up Capital, a Minneapolis-based venture capital fund specializing in early stage investments in IoT, Smart Devices…
Tim Kuehl
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Prior to joining NEP in 1998 as an associate, Tim was with a middle market investment bank where he specialized in M&A transactions. In addi…
Reed Robinson
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Reed Robinson is a Founder & Partner at Groove Capital.
Dawn Owens
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dawn Owens is the President of the firm, with broad responsibility across TT Capital Partners’ principal investing and TripleTree’s investme…
Kip Knelman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Kip Knelman – Board of Directors @ TradeAir
Ryan Engle
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
A principal at TT Capital Partners, Ryan has more than 15 years of investing and transaction experience across several industries, including…
Ben Wright
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ben has served in a variety of roles within 3M, giving him a broad range of expertise including Corporate Venture Capital, Business Building…
Ryan Kruizenga
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ryan Kruizenga is a Partner at Arthur Ventures.
Craig Bunker
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Craig Bunker
Conor Green
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Conor Green
Sandra Peterson
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Sandra Peterson – Director, Human Resources @ StoneArch
Nicholas Smith
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Nicholas Smith
John Wade
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
John Wade
Dimitrios Smyrnios
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dimitrios Smyrnios – CEO @ Schwan’s Company
Mark Thom
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mark Thom – Operating Partner @ Norwest Equity Partners (NEP)
Kari Cierzan
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Kari joined NxThera in 2012. She has over 15 years of global marketing and product management experience in the medical device field, worki…
Kam Kielhorn
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Kam joined Tonka Bay in 2015. He was previously a Manager in the Minneapolis office of Ernst & Young where he served in their Transaction Ad…
Walter White
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Walter White is president and CEO of Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (Allianz Life). Prior to assuming his position as CEO, …
Michael Sweeney
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Michael Sweeney
Steve Soderling
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Steve Soderling is a Partner at Tonka Bay Equity Partners.
Shane Slominski
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Shane Slominski
Mark Wilf
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Venture
Mark Wilf
Amy Ronneberg
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Amy Ronneberg
Chuck Warta
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Chuck Warta is the group leader for the newly formed Cargill Health Technologies Group, responsible for growing Cargill’s human and animal h…
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