Kenneth U. Johnson is the founder and managing director of Kegonsa Capital Partners, a Madison. See sector focus and contact routes.
Kenneth U. Johnson is the founder and managing director of Kegonsa Capital Partners, a Madison, Wisconsin venture capital firm, and previously worked as a chemical engineer and licensing manager at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation before becoming an early-stage investor. Kegonsa’s niche is investing $500,000 as the first capital into Wisconsin-based entrepreneurial startups, while Johnson also serves as a partner in the Badger Fund of Funds, which supports first-time venture managers in the state. The firm typically leads initial $500,000 investments in early-stage Wisconsin startups, though Johnson’s broader fund-of-funds role involves coinvesting in later rounds (two through four) led by larger regional or national VCs with check sizes of $5–20 million per round. Notable portfolio companies include Semb Biosciences (acquired by Tosoh Biosciences) and other Wisconsin startups that have collectively raised over $54 million in follow-on funding after initial Badger Fund investments. Johnson is described as a serial entrepreneur with multiple successful exits and focuses on growing Wisconsin’s entrepreneurship ecosystem rather than pursuing a distinctive
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