At KM Growth, we provide bespoke advisory and consulting services for family offices, corporations, venture funds, and startups.
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Our Services
For Family Offices
Ecosystem and Pipeline Development
Strategic Deal Flow- US VC and Direct Investments Access
Company Incubation
New Vertical and/or Market Expansion Strategy for Legacy Businesses
Thought Leadership Development
For Corporations
Business Development Support
US Market Expansion - Strategic Partnership Development
Access & Collaboration with US Startups and VCs
Platform Development
New Company Incubation
Vetting, Contract Negotiation with Vendors
For Venture Funds & Startups
Sales & Marketing Support: 0 to 1 Growth (Go-to-Market, Product-Market-Fit)
Hiring, Interim/Fractional COO/CMO/CGO Services
US Market Entry Support
LP & Deal Flow Pipeline Development
Platform Development
Founder & Managing Partner
Ms. Kay E. Makishi is a Japanese-American advisor/consultant to family offices, corporations, venture funds, and startups. Kay is a former founder with 10+ years operating experience driving revenue for Fortune 500s and startups backed by Sequoia, ICONIQ and more. KM Growth is the vehicle where Kay Makishi conducts her various advisory/consulting work.
Kay is Vice President to a NYC-based single family office, early-stage VC Investor at Oxonian Ventures as well as Advisor to Mount Sinai Innovation Partners, Advisor to OIST Foundation, Executive Committee Member at Oxford Alumni Association of New York, Ambassador to Invest Tokyo amongst other roles.
Previously, Kay was funded by the European Union Entrepreneurs Program to scale EU businesses to the US and Japan, founder of a women’s sustainable clothing company, and data analyst at Digitas (acq’d $1.3B by Publicis). She received her masters from the University of Oxford (fully funded) and bachelors from the Pennsylvania State University. Kay was born and raised in Amish County Pennsylvania, and via 70+ countries, currently resides in NYC.
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Fun Facts:I solo cycled the Silk Road once (5000 miles, 5 months, 5 countries)
I have a family history stemming back 600 years rooted in Okinawa Japan
I’m currently training for an ultramarathon — Marathon des Sables (160 miles / 250 km) across the Sahara Desert in Morocco
Kay’s IVY+ Tech Group
Kay’s IVY+ Tech Group is a non-profit community 2,000+ persons strong mainly comprising of founders, investors, operators, and family offices based in NYC interested in tech, startups, and venture capital. Our mission is to accelerate doing good things in our world.
We achieve our mission by collaborating with alumni from Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, Stanford, and Harvard to hold frequent networking events. Our events are intentional environments to foster deeper relationships and genuine connections with the aim of enabling great people with good ideas to accelerate action that is good for our people and planet. Sometimes we hold exclusive more intimate salon gatherings inviting high-level speakers such as the former CTO of US Department of Health and Human Services at various volunteer community members’ Manhattan penthouses.
Community members and event guests do not need to have graduated from an ivy school to join Kay’s IVY+ Tech gatherings. Folks who might fit in our community culture are good, kind, smart, ambitious people driven by integrity, growth, curiosity, openness, and fun.
Individuals do need to embody and uphold the 5 core values of our community which are: (1) high integrity (2) open mindedness (3) kindness (4) respect and (5) to give more than you take from our community which translates to always leading with “how can I help you?” whenever you meet someone new if you attend one of our networking events.
If this resonates with you and you are interested in joining Kay’s IVY+ Tech Group or one of our gatherings, please fill out this form here. Membership is free and you will be added to our email list of upcoming gatherings.
If you are a company interested in sponsoring one of our events, please email sponsorship@kmgrowth.com.
If you are an individual interested in hosting one of our more curated and exclusive salon gatherings at your private residence, please email host@kmgrowth.com.
I believe changing our world starts with one person, one conversation, one project at a time. We each have a purpose and a place. Thank you for allowing me to serve as the creator and convener of this community. Onward!
Warmly,
Kay Makishi
Creator of Kay’s IVY+ Tech Group
Contact Us
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