Joel Kantor
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- Full Name
- Joel B. (Bernard) Kantor
- Title
- Managing Partner, Mimosa Tree Capital Partners, LLC; Partner / Financial Planner, Pinnacle Investment Advisors
- Firm
- Mimosa Tree Capital Partners, LLC
- Firm Type
- Angel / early-stage private investment firm
- Investment Stage
- Seed and early stage (including turnaround financing)
- Check Size
- Not publicly disclosed
- Target Company Profile
- Early-stage companies with minimal revenue; also opportunistic later-stage and turnaround situations
- Sector Focus
- Information technology and cybersecurity (notably University of Tulsa–linked tech), plus opportunistic bets in real estate, food/hospitality, media, and urban agriculture
- Sector Focus
- Technology / cybersecurity, with a broad opportunistic mandate
- Geographic Focus
- Oklahoma (Tulsa region)
- Location
- Tulsa, Oklahoma
Background
Joel B. Kantor is a Tulsa, Oklahoma–based investor and financial planner. He earned a B.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Oklahoma in 1978 and completed the Certified Financial Planner examination in 2000. Per his advisory records, he has roughly 24 years of experience across various brokerage firms and about a decade as a financial planner and investment advisor.
Kantor is a Managing Partner of Mimosa Tree Capital Partners, LLC, a private investment firm he runs with lifelong friend and native Tulsan P. Vincent LoVoi. The pair named the firm after mimosa trees they played in as children in Tulsa. Mimosa Tree makes seed, early-stage, and turnaround investments, historically concentrated in the Oklahoma region. Kantor has served as a partner/manager of angel- and venture-investing entities since around 2000.
In parallel with his venture work, Kantor is a Partner and Financial Planner at Pinnacle Investment Advisors in Tulsa, which he joined in 2005. There his responsibilities include financial planning, portfolio management, and new business development. He is a registered investment advisor and a past CFP designee.
Kantor has been active in Tulsa civic and nonprofit life, with past board service including the Tulsa Jewish Retirement Center, the Tulsa Jewish Federation, Tulsa Metropolitan Ministries, the Day Center for the Homeless, and (reflecting a fly-fishing interest) the Federation of Fly Fishers and Trout Unlimited.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Invests through Mimosa Tree Capital Partners in seed / early-stage ventures, plus selective turnaround / early-stage financing situations.
- Strong Oklahoma / Tulsa regional focus — the firm states it plans to focus future investments in the Oklahoma region.
- Technology-leaning but opportunistic: information-technology and cybersecurity companies (including ventures tied to the University of Tulsa's cybersecurity program), alongside non-tech bets such as a money-management firm, real estate, urban agriculture, hospitality, and media.
- Operates as a small, relationship-driven private partnership (two managing partners), funded in part from proceeds after selling an aerospace company around 2008 — implying patient, personal-capital-style decision-making rather than a fixed institutional fund thesis.
Notable Investments
- Saltus Technologies — technology/business-productivity software company (reported Mimosa Tree portfolio company).
- Grocio — services / technology company (reported Mimosa Tree portfolio company).
- This Land Press — Tulsa-based media/publishing venture.
- McNellie's Group — Tulsa hospitality/restaurant group.
- University of Tulsa cybersecurity–related technology companies — early-stage tech tied to the university's cyber program.
- Urban agriculture enterprise in north Tulsa — local food/agriculture venture.
- Additional reported holdings across a money-management firm and real estate.
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