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Allison Kopf

CEO of TRACT

Amsterdam, North Holland

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $150,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $125,000.00

Skills

Sustainability
Solar Energy
Public Speaking
Research
Renewable Energy
Sustainable Development
Microsoft Office
Data Analysis
Energy Efficiency
Project Development
Urban Agriculture
Project Management
Engineering
Energy Policy
Environmental Awareness
Business Development
Management
Physics
Sustainable Energy
Energy

Education

Work Experience

2024

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2024

    TRACT is a transformative sustainability performance measurement platform with aligned methodologies and metrics across multiple product categories, developed by and for the Ag and Food industry. We visualise supply chain sustainability performance, utilising industry-aligned methods to generate insights, allowing customers to focus on creating positive impact.

  • Investment Partner

    2018

    Portfolio (Goss, nextmv, Hugh&Grace, Nalu bio, Ami Cole, Begin Health) XFactor Ventures is looking for tenacious female founders and mixed-gender founding teams attacking billion-dollar market opportunities. We invest $150k into pre-seed or seed stage rounds and provide advice, mentorship, and connections to help our companies succeed. The XFactor investing partners are current successful operators, collectively raising over $500M in capital, hiring thousands of employees, but who are still in the trenches every day. If you're a female founder working on a big idea, let's connect! (I review all inbound, including cold outreach) Areas of interest: B2B, Enterprise SaaS, Agtech, Future of Work, Deep tech

2022 - 2024

  • Advisor

    2022 - 2024

    Based in New York City, Synonym builds essential infrastructure for the biomanufacturing revolution: a worldwide network of facilities, where Synonym partners create different products, at a large scale, using standardized processes. Synonym facilities, located all over the globe, will become an iconic infrastructure for biomanufacturing.

2021 - 2024

  • Chief Growth Officer

    2022 - 2024

  • Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Data Products

    2021 - 2022

    IUNU (pronounced “you-knew”) is building the future of the controlled environment agriculture (CEA) industry. The company's AI-driven LUNA platform enables growers to develop a feedback loop between capturing data and managing processes to create precise, predictable production.

2020 - 2024

  • EDGE Advisor

    2020 - 2024

    Cargill is a global leader in food and agriculture with $100 billion in sales and 150,000 employees in 70 countries. To accelerate its digital transformation, Cargill is launching an internal incubator-accelerator to identify, support, and scale internal digital start-ups: EDGE (Entrepreneurial Digital Growth Engine).

2021 - 2022

  • Entrepreneur In Residence

    2021 - 2022

    The NDRC is Ireland’s national startup accelerator program for globally ambitious entrepreneurs. Its mission is to help startups succeed at every stage of their journey through coaching and mentoring, with a founder-first approach delivered by international experts. NDRC is funded by the Irish Government and is operated by Dogpatch Labs, based in Dublin, in partnership with a network of leading regional hubs around the country (Portershed in Galway, RDI Hub in Kerry, and Republic of Work in Cork).

2015 - 2021

  • Founder & CEO

    2015 - 2021

    Artemis (acq. by IUNU, Inc.) is a Cultivation Management Platform (CMP) that enables growers to manage people, plants, process, and compliance all in one place creating a virtually risk-free operation. Artemis provides a bird’s eye view of productivity and compliance from seed to harvest, helping farms compete in a low-margin business. It’s easier than ever to monitor and manage multiple facility operations across your network remotely from your desktop, mobile or tablet.

2018 - 2020

  • Advisor

    2018 - 2020

    Blockrize (acq. by Gemini) is building the first-ever credit card with cryptocurrency rewards. Our card will be the simplest and lowest-risk fiat onramp for the 74 million U.S. consumers interested in acquiring crypto. Over the past year, we've validated product demand through extensive market research, built a first-of-its-kind rewards platform to power the crypto rewards, and found a bank excited to help us launch the card. We're a team of crypto enthusiasts passionately focused on product with extensive experience in the credit card space and primed to capitalize on this multi-billion market opportunity.

2011 - 2015

  • Real Estate and Government Relations Manager

    2011 - 2015

    BrightFarms (acq. Cox Enterprises) builds and operates high-tech greenhouse farms to eliminate time, distance and costs from their produce supply chain. They are creating the first national brand of local produce, and were included on the 2017 Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies (10th among all food companies on the Inc. 500 and are the only produce company to be included in the list).