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🇺🇸 Anton Klingspor

छह साल की उम्र में बोर्ड मीटिंग में भाग लेना शुरू किया। अठारह की उम्र में वह कंपनी चला रहे थे।

Entrepreneur ने बताया कि Indicina Ventures, उनकी मियामी बीच स्थित इन्क्यूबेटर और वेंचर फर्म, 53 मिलियन डॉलर की संपत्ति रखती थी और उन संस्थापकों का समर्थन करती थी जिन्हें पारंपरिक वीसी अनदेखा कर देते थे।

एंटोन कलिंगस्पोर अपने परिवार के अपघर्षक (abrasives) निर्माण व्यवसाय की बोर्ड बैठकों में भाग लेते हुए बड़े हुए। उन्होंने Yeezy स्नीकर्स के आसपास एक वेबसाइट बनाई, फिर 2016 के अंत में Indicina Ventures लॉन्च की। अगस्त 2018 तक, 18 साल की उम्र में, Entrepreneur ने बताया कि मियामी बीच स्थित फर्म 53 मिलियन डॉलर की संपत्ति रखती थी और युवा संस्थापकों के लिए इन्क्यूबेटर और वेंचर फंड दोनों के रूप में काम करती थी, जिन्हें पारंपरिक निवेशक नजरअंदाज कर देते थे।

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What the record states

Entrepreneur's August 2018 profile of entrepreneurs under 20 placed Klingspor at 18, running Indicina Ventures as an incubator and venture capital firm aimed at young entrepreneurs who were being passed over by conventional investors. The magazine reported the firm holding $53 million in assets.

Its portfolio, as described, spanned artificial-intelligence startups and talent-management businesses, with an emphasis on companies built around YouTube and a Gen Z audience. His line on the whole enterprise was four words long: “Age isn’t a factor in innovation.”

A childhood in board meetings

The background Entrepreneur reported is unusual and explains a good deal. Klingspor attended board meetings at the family's abrasives manufacturing company as a child, from around the age of six. Whatever a six-year-old absorbs in such a room, the exposure normalises a vocabulary that most people first encounter in their twenties.

His first independent venture was smaller and entirely of his own generation: a website built around Yeezy sneakers, the Adidas line whose limited releases created a resale market. He launched Indicina in late 2016.

What $53 million in assets does and does not mean

The $53 million figure is the headline, and it needs care. Entrepreneur reported it; the article does not state whether it refers to capital committed by outside investors, family assets under the firm's management, or the combined value of holdings. Venture firms are private and are not required to publish audited figures, and a reported asset number is a claim rather than a filing.

The distinction matters because the two readings describe different things. A fund with third-party limited partners has raised money from strangers who expect returns. A family office deploying family capital has not. The source does not settle which of these Indicina was, and no page should claim it does.

Where Anton Klingspor is now

The last documented position is August 2018. Klingspor was 18, based in Miami Beach, looking for management partners to help run the firm while he compressed a bachelor's and a master's degree into four years.

Nothing in the sources used here records whether he completed those degrees, whether Indicina Ventures still operates, or what its investments returned. The claim sometimes attached to him, that he was the youngest venture capitalist in the world, does not appear in the source used on this page and should not be treated as established.

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The under-30 thesis, and its limits

Klingspor's stated position, that traditional venture capital overlooks the very young, is a description of how the industry allocates trust rather than capital. Investors back people they can underwrite, and the usual evidence is a track record, a network and a prior exit. A nineteen-year-old with an audience has none of those and may still have the most valuable asset in a consumer business: an instinct for what people their own age will use.

That is the argument for an age-targeted fund, and it is a real one. It also cuts both ways. The same lack of track record that makes young founders hard to underwrite makes a young firm hard to assess, and both problems are solved by the same slow thing: results, reported over years. In this case the reporting stopped before the years did.

Age 62006Age 162016Age 182018Age 18MILESTONES IN ORDERBORN 2000
Anton Klingspor — every milestone on this page, placed by age.
c. 2006
बोर्ड मीटिंग में शामिल होना शुरू कियापरिवार के अपघर्षक निर्माण व्यवसाय की बोर्ड बैठकों में भाग लेना शुरू किया
Late 2016
Indicina Ventures लॉन्च कीYeezy स्नीकर वेबसाइट चलाने के बाद Indicina Ventures लॉन्च की
2018
फर्म ने 53 मिलियन डॉलर की संपत्ति की सूचना दीफर्म ने 53 मिलियन डॉलर की संपत्ति की सूचना दी, AI, प्रतिभा प्रबंधन और जेन जेड YouTube कंपनियों का समर्थन किया (Entrepreneur)
Aug 2018
18 साल की उम्र में प्रोफाइल की गई18 वर्ष की आयु में प्रोफाइल की गई, चार वर्षों में स्नातक और मास्टर डिग्री हासिल करने के दौरान प्रबंधन भागीदारों की तलाश की
व्यक्तिदेशमील का पत्थरआयु / आँकड़ा
Sawsan Ahmedसंयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका12 साल की उम्र में, दिसंबर 2021 में ब्रोवर्ड कॉलेज की सबसे कम उम्र की स्नातक12 वर्ष
Arvind Mahankaliसंयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका13 साल की उम्र में 2013 स्क्रिप्स नेशनल स्पेलिंग बी जीती13 वर्ष
Kerry Closeसंयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका13 साल की उम्र में 2006 स्क्रिप्स नेशनल स्पेलिंग बी जीती13 वर्ष
Shania Muhammadसंयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका15 साल की उम्र में लैंगस्टन यूनिवर्सिटी की सबसे कम उम्र की स्नातक15 वर्ष
Anton Klingsporसंयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका18 साल की उम्र में Indicina Ventures चला रहे थे18 वर्ष

What is documented — and what is not

✓ Documented

  • Ran Indicina Ventures in Miami Beach at 18, launched late 2016 (Entrepreneur)
  • Firm reported holding $53 million in assets and backing AI, talent-management and Gen Z companies (Entrepreneur)
  • Attended family-business board meetings from about age six; earlier ran a Yeezy sneaker website (Entrepreneur)

? Unverified, disputed or wrong

  • The $53 million figure's composition is not specified and cannot be independently verified
  • No date of birth published
  • No reporting on the firm, his degrees or his investments after August 2018

Questions people ask about Anton Klingspor

How old is Anton Klingspor?

Entrepreneur described him as 18 in August 2018, placing his birth around 2000. No date of birth is published.

What is Indicina Ventures?

A Miami Beach incubator and venture capital firm Klingspor launched in late 2016 to back young entrepreneurs overlooked by traditional investors.

Is the $53 million figure verified?

It was reported by Entrepreneur in 2018. The article does not say whether it refers to outside capital, family assets or holdings, and private firms do not publish audited figures.

Is Anton Klingspor the youngest venture capitalist?

That claim does not appear in the source used here. Entrepreneur reported his age and his firm, not a record.

What does Indicina invest in?

Entrepreneur described AI startups and talent-management businesses, with a focus on Gen Z companies connected to YouTube.

Where is Anton Klingspor now?

Nothing after August 2018 appears in the sources used here. At that point he was seeking management partners and studying for two degrees in four years.

Is Anton Klingspor on Wikipedia?

No Wikipedia article on him was found.

What did he say about age?

Entrepreneur quoted him: “Age isn’t a factor in innovation.”

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Sources

  1. Meet the New Bosses: How These Entrepreneurs Under 20 Are Changing Industries — Entrepreneur, 2018-08-14

Checked by the Geniuses.club editorial team. Ages are given as of September 2026.

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