VISION

After 25 years of investing in, advising and starting early stage technology companies KI was established in 2012 to take the insights it had acquired during this time period to design and implement a next generation corporate finance and advisory services platform.

A next generation corporate finance and advisory services platform that could provide a combination of services in such a way that KI could actually help accelerate the growth and increase the value of its early stage technology company clients in less time and at a lower cost.

Using a problem-oriented and research-driven approach - that focuses only on early stage technology companies solving the biggest problems in its focus market sectors with the next generation of advanced technologies - KI designed and implemented its next generation corporate finance and advisory services platform which now includes the addition of go-to-market planning and execution services for “crossing the chasm” and scaling up.

KI learned first-hand its problem-oriented and research-driven approach while working in the late 1990s at Hambrecht & Quist Investment Banking (H&Q) - the leading technology investment bank in the USA at the time located in San Francisco.

KI learned the beginnings of go-to-market planning and execution initially from the “Regis Touch” by Regis Mckenna in 1987 and later in 1991 from the “Crossing the Chasm - Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers” by Geoffrey Moore, Chairman of the Chasm Group.

KI added the go-to-market planning services provided in partnership with the Chasm Group in 2018 after extensive research had shown that 63% to 70% of the early stage technology companies fail to scale up in five years due to using to the wrong approach in selecting and targeting their initial market for their product or services.

This failure to scale up was leaving its previously fundable early stage technology company clients unfundable by VCs or through an IPO and unsaleable to a strategic buyer.

Rather than ignore this problem KI decided to take action by partnering with the Chasm Group to provide its early stage technology company clients with an option for improving their chances of scaling up.

Established in 1991 the Chasm Group has a proven record with 1500 engagements that resulted in 70% success rate in scaling up creating $11.2 billion in value.

KI believes it now has an unparalled corporate finance and advisory services platform that can meet its goal of accelerating the growth and increasing the value of its early-stage technology company clients in less time and at a lower cost.

No longer will its early-stage technology company clients experience the deacceleration of their growth trajectory and subsequent decline in value due to using conventional corporate finance and advisory services platforms that take more time at a higher cost.