Kern Venture Group

Kern Venture Group

Active

Venture Capital

Defense
Entertainment

David Higdon

Co-Founder

5001 California Ave
Bakersfield, CA 93309
USA

In sectors as diverse as transportation (the engineering genius of the Tehachapi Loop), aerospace (Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier and SpaceShipOne completing the first manned private space flight) agriculture (International Fruit Genetics changing the global table grape market by developing and licensing exotic new varieties) and energy (the use of steam to extract the high-viscous Kern river Crude) Kern County has been fertile ground for innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit for more than a century.Kern Venture Group was founded in 2018 by David Higdon and JP Lake, two men with deep roots in Kern County and extensive experience and expertise in business and bringing leading-edge ideas to fruition. Keenly aware of the area's tradition of developing revolutionary technologies, David and JP realized that entrepreneurs in the Central Valley needed access to capital to help them seed, grow and scale new growth companies.

12/5/2023