Nate Purdum

Nate Purdum is a Director at Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), Koch's venture investment arm, where he builds commercial partnerships between KDT portfolio companies and enterprise customers — including Koch's own operating companies — across software, financial services, energy, healthcare and supply chain. He works as an extension of portfolio go-to-market, business development and sales teams, putting founders in front of the right buyers at the right time.

Nate is a board observer at Cohere Technologies, previously served as a board observer at weavix and OneLayer, and is an advisory board member and mentor at Arkade in Bentonville. Before KDT, he spent more than a decade inside Koch, leading supplier strategies for Koch and working in market risk, supply chain and procurement at Flint Hills Resources. He holds a BBA in Economics and International Business from Wichita State University.