Kim Tennican

Retired

2022

Investor, Member

2018

Investment fund formed to provide a uniquely collaborative and interactive platform for member-directed investments in Pacific Northwest start-up and early-stage, growth-oriented businesses.

Angel Investor

2015

Angel investment fund focused on investments in the Pacific Northwest.

Co-Founder

2015

Women investing in women-founded social impact companies

Angel Investor

2015

Portfolia and Next Wave Ventures seek to narrow the gender gap in angel investing by providing women the education and training they need to become sophisticated angel investors, while offering them a unique learning opportunity that allows them to build a diversified portfolio of investments, receive mentoring by women who are experienced angel investors, as well a diversified online education & training program and opportunities for local, regional, and national events, including a women’s investor summit in Boulder, Colorado in 2016, which is sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation.

Member, Seattle Inaugural Class Fellow

2014

Pipeline Angels, (http://pipelineangels.com), a network of new and seasoned women investors, is changing the face of angel investing and creating capital for women social entrepreneurs. Pipeline Angels holds a signature bootcamp for new investors and a signature pitch summit for startups looking for funding. 180+ women have graduated from our signature angel investing bootcamp, 20+ companies have secured funding from Pipeline Angels, we had our first exit in under five years, and Pipeline Angels have invested over US$1.7M in women-led for-profit social ventures via our signature pitch summit process

Managing Director

2021 - 2022

Owner, Principal, CPA, MS(Tax)

1989 - 2021

Berntson Porter & Company is a leading tax, accounting and business advisory firm in the Puget Sound area. Our mission is to assist clients in identifying, clarifying and achieving their goals. We accomplish this by caring about our clients' families and companies as if they were our own. • Advisory services include state and local taxes; business valuations and mergers/acquisitions; forensic accounting and litigation; estate and financial planning; life/disability insurance services; wealth management. • We serve a variety of industries with a particular focus in the areas of construction, real estate, manufacturing, distribution, transportation, medical and other professional services. • We proactively work closely with our clients throughout the year. • We are a mid-sized firm of 95 people, which is large enough to offer a broad array of services and resources, yet small enough to allow the principals to maintain a close, personal connection with our clients. • I have advised clients in the real estate, wholesale, manufacturing and professional service industries for over 25 years. I emphasize the importance of proactive planning, and maintain a close relationship with my clients throughout the year. Working together with the client, their attorney and other client advisors to achieve the best possible result is my goal. • We are an energized, growing firm. Give me a call to experience the difference. Specialties: My specialties include entity selection planning, purchase and sale structuring, acquisition & development finance consulting, capital gain characterization strategies, profit allocation/cost allocation strategies, cost segregation studies to maximize depreciation write-offs, passive versus active participation planning, like-kind exchange planning, estate and transition planning and wealth management consulting.