WHAT WE DO
Kentucky Fried Ventures scales tech for the rest.We're an operator-led growth firm backing tech-forward flyover founders building the businesses that run the country. While coastal VCs fund future possibilities, we're building today's reality. We roll up our sleeves alongside founders whose primary focus is revenue and real world impact.We're in it with you, not just behind you. Our operators have actually built organizations and understand the operating systems that help companies scale. Growth capital only works if you have a scalable system. We don't just cut the check and cut out. We roll up our sleeves, because that's how the everyman enterprise actually gets built.
WHO WE'VE WORKED WITH
Over the last 25 years, our team has invested, advised, and operated alongside some of the brightest minds in the country.
THE FOUNDER
In 2025, Jackson Andrews founded 'Kentucky Fried Ventures' to double-down on great entrepreneurs and technology in the interior U.S.; where atoms and bits meet in the real world. In 2014, Jackson Andrews founded one of the earliest Endeavor Global U.S. offices alongside the Founder of Humana, serving as Managing Director and on the Board of Directors. Founded in 1997, Endeavor Global supports high-growth entrepreneurs in overlooked markets, operating in 45 countries and 8 U.S. markets. His office sourced, supported, and led one of the highest growth U.S. portfolios within Endeavor including companies like SkuVault (exit to PE), BehaVR (exit to strategic), Rubicon (IPO), LISNR, AppHarvest (IPO), Handle Global, Rabbit Hole (exit to strategic), RxLightning (exit to PE), SoLo Funds, AboutBit, and more. He has previously served on the client solutions advisory council for Legg Mason Asset Management and has been named to the Milken Institute’s Global Young Leaders Circle. He holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for The Swaim Foundation. Jackson is a graduate of Centre College where he also serves on the Alumni Board of Directors. He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School (PLDA). He and his wife Liz are active in the community and have two children, Jack & Catherine.Connect with Jackson on LinkedIn and follow Kentucky Fried Ventures on LinkedIn.
