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 developing upstream strategic partnerships in the cacao value chain. Founded in 2023 in San Jose, Costa Rica.
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 and hands-on, project-based services to entrepreneurs and venture builders, leveraging our team’s practical experience and skills.
- Corporate Governance & Growth — Enterprise management, governance, venture building, B2B growth, international expansion, and strategic partnerships.
- Commerce & Value Chain — Digital marketing, e-commerce, experiential retail, and value-chain management.
- Technology & Engineering — Digital transformation, mechanical engineering, and visual storytelling.
Partner team
Four Partners, Two Generations
KAKK Partners brings together family ownership, four unique personalities, and four sets of unique capabilities.
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.
Founding Partner
Kristel Lankots
CEO and Head Chocolate Master at Chocokoo. Brings deep chocolate knowledge and skills, customer insights and business networks, founding perspective, family ownership continuity, and long-term commitment.
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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