Pete Karabas
Founding Partner at KEY Investment Partners
Chicago, Illinois
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2019 - Current
KEY Investment Partners is an investment management firm focused on providing growth capital to early-stage cannabis companies. The firm invests opportunistically across all sub-sectors of the cannabis industry, with the intent of identifying high-growth, market-leading companies that are backed by exceptional management teams.
Chairman Of The Board
2019
BDS Analytics provides businesses with comprehensive, actionable, and accurate cannabinoid market intelligence and consumer research. The company provides a holistic understanding of the cannabinoid market by producing insights from tracking and categorizing millions of individual consumer transactions, extensive and detailed consumer research and generating market-wide cannabinoid industry financial projections, all delivered through its market-leading GreenEdge™ platform.
BDSA offers business intelligence, market share tracking, market intelligence and consumer research.
Board of Directors, Observer
2020
Front Range Biosciences is an agricultural biotechnology company that specializes in tissue culture propagation and breeding of high-value crops at industrial scale to improve consistency and efficiency for clone and seed production. FRB developed the first Clean Stock® program for cannabis and hemp and has an advanced breeding program for identifying and improving commercially relevant traits. The company has global reach through its facilities in Colorado, California, and Wisconsin, as well as its partnership with the Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics in Barcelona, Spain.
Private Real Estate Group
2016 - 2019
Partners Group AG (SIX: PGHN) is a global private markets management firm with over USD 100 billion in assets under management in private equity, private infrastructure, private real estate and private debt. The firm manages a broad range of funds, structured products and customized portfolios for an international clientele of institutional investors, private banks and other financial institutions. Founded in 1996, the firm is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland with offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, New York, São Paulo, London, Guernsey, Paris, Luxembourg, Milan, Munich, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Manila, Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo and Sydney.
Investments Group
2014 - 2016
Equity Residential (EQR) is a member of the S&P 500, a publicly traded real estate investment trust based in Chicago, Illinois. The company owns or has investments in 400+ properties consisting of over 112,000 apartment units. Equity Residential is focused on the acquisition, development, and management of high quality apartments in top U.S. growth markets. It also sells condominiums, and operates a corporate housing division.
Acquisitions/Asset Management
2013 - 2014
Senior Lifestyle, founded in 1985, is a family owned business that is based in Chicago, Illinois. Since '85 Senior Lifestyle has been dedicated exclusively to serving seniors and their families. Senior Lifestyle is an owner, operator and developer of senior living communities. With a portfolio of more than 115 communities, located throughout 22-states, Senior Lifestyle offers independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing for the luxury, moderate and affordable segments.