KAKK Partners
We Build Our Businesses for Generations
KAKK Partners is an Estonian family-owned holding and a hands-on business development company. We build our business ecosystem around craft chocolate, experiential retail, the cacao value chain, and digital and engineering discipline. This framework serves as the backbone bridging sustainable traditions with operational excellence and modern innovation. KAKK Partners offers strategic advisory and hands-on, project-based services to entrepreneurs.
Brand ecosystem
Our Holding Portfolio & Brands
The ecosystem around craft chocolate, experiential retail, the cacao value chain, and digital and engineering discipline.
Holding company
Advisory services
KAKK Partners
Holder of the long-term ownership, the strategic partnerships, and the 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.
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 cacao plantation undertaking in Costa Rica. Founded in 2023 in San Jose, Costa Rica.
Growth prospects
Join us to co-develop and execute the Chocokoo Origin-to-Experience growth strategy
KAKK Partners is exploring selected growth paths where our ownership, operating experience, brand assets, and value-chain relationships can support the next stage of development. The Costa Rica cacao farm strengthens the origin side of the concept, while Chocokoo Berlin explores the experience, retail, and market-entry side.
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 the KAKK Partners platform from a business development and strategic partnership perspective, connecting ownership thinking with practical venture building and digital skills.
Junior Partner
Karl Lankots
Engineering student at Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in Copenhagen, contributing engineering thinking, systems perspective, and analytical problem-solving. Has practical chocolate making experience.
Junior Partner
Karmo Lankots
Visual content creation, visual storytelling. Has practical chocolate making experience.
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