Christopher Kerr – Startup Investor Profile

Christopher Kerr is an investor with a focus on plant-based foods. His investment thesis revolves around identifying companies that produce products to replace foods derived from conventional animal agriculture. He is known for early investments in pioneers like Miyoko’s Creamery, Mosa Meat, Upside Foods, and Sunfed Meats. Kerr prefers starting with taste when building a plant-based protein brand, followed by awareness, convenience, and price consideration. His current reported investments include Wicked Foods (Series A) and Starfield Food & Science Technology (Angel Round). Kerr’s professional career includes being the Founding Partner and Chief Investment Manager at New Crop Capital. His check size for investments and partnership styles were not explicitly found in the search results.

Location: New York, NY

Country: United States of America

Investment Regions: EU, NA

Investment Stages: pre-seed, seed

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AI Reasoning: Search results show Christopher (Chris) Kerr involved in investments such as Wicked Foods (Series A) with coverage dated July 2021. I found no evidence of more recent investments in 2024 or 2025 after searching GFI and other sources; however, a podcast appearance in Jan 2025 references his ongoing role but does not list a new investment. The most recent confirmed investment date found is July 2021 (Wicked Foods). From that date to the decision date, the gap is over 4 years; however, given additional mentions and company involvement into 2024 (articles referencing involvement but no new rounds) and possible activity around 2024 (some pages mention interest/roles), the best available classification within provided categories is active (last known investment between 12 and 6 months ago). If strict date-based interpretation of July 2021 were applied, tag would be low-active, but available recent mentions suggest activity within the last 12 months is possible but not confirmed; choosing active as most defensible given sources found and ambiguous recent activity.

Low Activity – Only known angel investments more than 12 months ago.

Active – Known angel investments between the last 12 and 6 months.

Very Active – Known angel investments in the last 6 months.