Kim Kolt was most recently the Founder & President of For Good Ventures, which she built out of her family office in 2015. For Good Ventures was established to make investments into both companies and funds spanning across clean tech, climate technologies, health, education, and financial accessibility for underserved communities.
For Good Ventures stemmed from Kim’s hypothesis that the most successful companies in the future would have to solve critical problems for humanity and the environment, because the many costs of not doing so would inevitably accelerate. These solutions would need to be rapidly scalable and viable as a business to fit into a capitalistic world and to justify replacing incumbent technologies or inferior systems as a business. This thesis proved out much more quickly than anticipated.
Through For Good Ventures, Kim has also advised in the formation of other impact funds and their impact reporting rubrics in addition to her successful core direct investment strategy. Believing that impact investing would be most successful if collaborative, she has also invested in several other impact funds and impact accelerators. Kim has likewise consulted for other family offices, which hoped to build out a similar investing framework as her own, who remain co-investors and now supporters of Bay Bridge Ventures.
Kim is excited to join Bay Bridge Ventures as a General Partner on this groundbreaking impact fund launch. She found strong alignment with Andrew and Joe over the course of two years, along with near complete overlap of investments theses. Bay Bridge Ventures is the only Institutionally scaled fund she has found that is also committing to inclusivity (starting from leadership and continuing through the underlying investments) in addition to responsible stewardship (active, high-engagement investing through multiple stages of development) both of which are imperative to her.
Prior to For Good Ventures, Kim worked at Goldman Sachs in their Technology, Media and Telecom Investment Banking Groups in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and Deutsche Bank Mergers & Acquisitions Group in NYC. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration and received her MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Kim has held designations including USGBC LEED for sustainable development, CCIM, and Series 79 licenses.
Kim is a board member and early backer of Turntide Technologies, Legends of Learning, and the Sustainable Ocean Alliance, a non-profit accelerator. She is an advisor to numerous impact-focused companies, funds and nonprofits. Kim is also a member of Gratitude Railroad, member of Astia Angels, Nexus, X-Prize, Penn Venture Labs Judge, and a Summit Fellow.