Wayne D. Kimmel is the Founder and Managing Partner of Artists & Instigators, a venture capital company that he founded in 1999 that invests in consumer product and services companies. Some of Wayne’s most successful investments include:
- SeamlessWeb (acquired by ARAMARK)
- Take Care Health Systems (acquired by Walgreens), and
- NutriSystem (NTRI), (top performing stock in the U.S. for 5 consecutive years).
His business partners at Artists & Instigators are
Marc Eckō &
Tony Bifano. In 2012,
Philadelphia Magazine named Wayne as one of the “
Top Innovators” in the Philadelphia region. Wayne was also named by
Philadelphia Magazine as one of “Philly’s People to Watch”: “one of 76 fascinating people whose moves, ideas, innovations and boldness will shape — and change — our lives over the next decade.”
Wayne lives in Philadelphia, PA with his wife and their two children.
Read more about Wayne and his fund’s current investments here.
