Kinetic Venture Partners is a disciplined investor-operator, actively seeking partnership with a single business to steward the next era of growth, reputability and profitability

Owner-first mindset to building a business for multi-decade prosperity

Kinetic Venture Partners is a self-funded Search Fund that:

  • is hungry to solve hard problems that result in outsized rewards for customers, investors and employees

  • wants to inherit simple, but not easy problems that require a differentiated thinking towards business building

  • finds satisfaction in knowing that on this journey, we will grow holistically alongside the business in meaningful ways

Investment Criteria

Target Industries

KVP is focused on a primarily service-oriented business, across:

  • Business and General Applications

  • Technical Manufacturing

  • Utilities & Maintenance (Water, Electricity)

  • Medical and Non-medical Testing

  • Healthcare

  • Construction and Material Handling

  • Financial

Target Firm Criteria

About the Team

Amit Deshpande

Founder and Managing Partner

Amit Deshpande is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kinetic Venture Partners. He has a 9-year career spanning Finance and Technology (Product Management).

During his career so far, he:

  • Led valuation and deal execution for $15bn+ of M&A, IPO, and private capital deals across the Technology, Business Services, Industrials and Consumer industries while at J.P. Morgan

  • Grew end-market revenue by ~5x by establishing a strategic product roadmap and building high-value, industry-specific functional software improvements during his time at DealCloud/Intapp

  • Launched AI software feature from 0-1 in 6 months, impacting 85% of the client base, and contributed to 50%+ of revenue in contract renewals with the largest strategic clients at Tegus

Over the past 20 years, he has watched his father start and grow a professional services business, which has instilled in him a deep appreciation for entrepreneurship, and the challenges of operating and scaling a family-owned business.

Amit graduated from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business with a BBA and B.S. in Economics.

In his free time, Amit likes cooking, horology, working out, playing tennis (or any outdoor sport) and hiking new trails in the NY area.

He grew up in Singapore, Netherlands, Hong Kong and the US.

Why KVP?

Kinetic Venture is designed with full alignment of incentives between internal and external stakeholders, and our new business employees:

Business

  • Our primary goal is to ensure a successful transition of a business, preserving the quality of service, reputation, and relationships

  • We will reward employees with financial incentives to participate in the long-term health of the business

Operational

  • We work side-by-side with existing employees to improve customer-oriented operations with modern tooling and practices to allow them to focus on high-value areas for client and personal development

  • Focus on increasing the quality and value of service by staffing projects/assignments with customer satisfaction in mind

Financial

  • Align expectations with financial stakeholders on the long-term nature of this endeavor upfront

  • Reinvest excess free cash flow into the business for technology investments, employee development and new business lines