KAKK Partners
We Build Our Businesses for Generations
KAKK Partners is an Estonian family-owned holding and hands-on business development company. We own and develop businesses across craft chocolate, experiential retail and the cacao value chain, supported by practical capabilities in management, digital development and engineering. Alongside our own ventures, we undertake selected advisory and project-based engagements where our operating experience can create practical value.
Brand ecosystem
Our Holding Portfolio & Brands
The ecosystem around craft chocolate, experiential retail, the cacao value chain, and digital and engineering discipline.
Chocolate craft
Experiential Retail
Chocokoo Chocolate Maker & Chocolatier
The award-winning Chocokoo in Estonia, connecting bean-to-bar chocolate experience, chocolate workshops and tastings, the art and rich taste palettes of bonbons and truffles, and premium gifting. Founded in 2015 in Tallinn, Estonia.
Cacao Value Chain
Chocokoo Eco
Chocokoo Eco in Costa Rica procures fine-flavour cacao beans and organic raw materials for bean-to-bar chocolate makers, while managing upstream strategic partnerships in the cacao value chain. Develops Chocokoo’s fine-flavour cacao and agroforestry undertaking in Costa Rica. Founded in 2023 in San José, Costa Rica.
Holding Company
Advisory Services
KAKK Partners
Holds the long-term ownership interests, strategic partnerships, and shared digital and engineering capabilities. Offers strategic advisory and hands-on, project-based services to entrepreneurs and venture builders, leveraging our team’s practical experience and qualifications. Founded in 2023 in Tallinn, Estonia.
Growth prospects
Partner with us to scale our vertically integrated cacao ecosystem: Chocokoo Origin-To-Experience strategy
KAKK Partners is developing selected growth opportunities where our ownership perspective, operating experience, brand assets and value-chain relationships can create long-term advantage. Our current priorities are the development of fine-flavour cacao and agroforestry capabilities in Costa Rica and the evaluation of a Chocokoo flagship retail concept in Berlin. We are interested in discussions with aligned investors, operating partners and specialist advisers who can contribute relevant capital, expertise, networks or local execution capacity.
Chocokoo Berlin
A potential market-entry and retail-development path for bringing Chocokoo’s chocolate craft, workshops, premium gifting, and experience-led retail concept to Berlin.
- Strategic thesis — extend Chocokoo from Estonia into a larger urban market with strong food, craft, gifting, and experience culture.
- Development path — validate location logic, operating model, partner structure, brand positioning, and phased launch economics.
- Partner fit — relevant for retail partners, local operators, brand collaborators, and selected investors with consumer-market experience.
Chocokoo Eco fine-flavour cacao farm in Costa Rica
A long-term origin-side development prospect for fine-flavour cacao agroforestry, post-harvest and fermentation, organic raw materials, traceability and compliance, and stronger upstream participation in the cacao value chain.
- Strategic thesis — connect Chocokoo’s chocolate-making knowledge with origin-side cacao development and long-term supply-chain learning.
- Development path — structure land, cultivation, partnerships, operating model, certification logic, and cacao-quality learning loops.
- Partner fit — relevant for land partners, agronomy partners, cacao specialists, sustainability partners, and patient long-term capital.
These prospects are presented as business-development themes. Any partnership, investment, or operating structure would require separate discussion, due diligence, and appropriate legal and financial review.
Working model
Hands-on Business Development & Capabilities
Over time, our team has acquired different academic qualifications, a wide range of experience and practical skills while advancing in our professional careers and developing our own businesses.
Own ventures
Building inside-out
We are actively involved in our businesses daily, managing, building, and supporting them through a hands-on operational approach. You can find us engaging with customers, collaborating locally with strategic partners in Costa Rica, running chocolate workshops in Tallinn, or managing our e-commerce and digital marketing platforms.
our capabilities
Advisory & project-based services
We provide both strategic advisory services and hands-on, project-based services to entrepreneurs and venture builders, leveraging our team’s practical experience and skills.
- Commerce & Value Chain — Digital marketing, e-commerce, experiential retail, and value-chain management, mechanical engineering, and visual storytelling.
- Technology & Engineering — AI tools and solution building for SMEs, digital transformation, CAD and modelling.
- Corporate Governance & Growth — Enterprise management, governance, venture building, B2B growth, international expansion, and strategic partnerships.
Partner team
Four Partners, Two Generations
KAKK Partners brings together family ownership, four unique personalities, and four sets of unique capabilities.
Founding Partner
Kristel Lankots
CEO and Chief Chocolate Officer at Chocokoo. Brings deep chocolate knowledge and skills, customer insights and business networks, founding perspective, family ownership continuity, and long-term commitment.
Managing Partner
Asso Lankots | MSc, MBA
Leads business development, international expansion and strategic alliances across KAKK Partners and its portfolio. Connects owner-level strategy with hands-on management, digital development and operational execution, including the cacao value-chain development in Costa Rica and prospective retail expansion in Berlin.
Junior Partner
Karl Lankots
Contributes mechanical-engineering analysis, CAD modelling and structured technical problem-solving to product, process and infrastructure development. Studies engineering at the Technical University of Denmark and also brings practical chocolate-production experience.
Junior Partner
Karmo Lankots
Visual content creation, visual storytelling. Has practical chocolate making experience.
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