Our Mission

We help companies that have outgrown spreadsheets but aren't ready for McKinsey. By combining deep expertise in data engineering, automation, and AI, we deliver tangible growth outcomes without the enterprise price tag.

Leadership

Joe K — Founder & CEO

Data engineer turned automation architect. 10+ years building scalable systems, leading enterprise AI implementations, and helping founders optimize growth. Passionate about turning technical complexity into competitive advantage.

Our Values

Outcome-Obsessed

Every recommendation is tied to measurable business impact.

Radically Transparent

No jargon, no overselling. You always know what's real and what's potential.

Build to Last

Sustainable systems that compound in value over time.

Client-First

Your success is our success. We invest in long-term relationships.

Impact by Numbers

40+

Client Companies

$30M+

Revenue Influenced

14

Industries Served

100%

Retention Rate

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About JMK Ventures

Built by an
operator.
Built for ROI.

JMK Ventures is an AI strategy and automation firm led by a founder who's actually run the systems — from bootstrapped storefronts to a $150M revenue engine, and consulting engagements with Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies.

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FounderJoe Khoury
FoundedWilmington, DE
FocusAI · Automation · Growth
13+ years operating
Founder & CEO
Joe Khoury, founder of JMK Ventures
Joe KhouryData & AI Executive · SaaS Builder
Revenue Engine Built$150M+Annual revenue · MariMed

$250M+

Revenue Generated for Clients

13+

Years in Entrepreneurship & Enterprise

$45M+

In Operating Expenses Saved

F100/500

Fortune 100 & 500 Consulting Engagements

The Backstory

Built On Operator Experience

JMK Ventures wasn't founded — it was assembled. Years of running revenue systems, shipping product, and operating in the seat gave us a clear-eyed view of where AI, data, and automation actually deliver versus where they just generate slideware.

The early work was informal. Friends running companies hit walls — a CRM full of bad data, an ops team buried in spreadsheets, an analytics stack that nobody trusted. We helped because we'd seen the same problems from the inside. Every fix turned into a referral. Every referral turned into a relationship.

Today we still grow the same way. No outbound, no agency theater, no pitch decks designed to win on aesthetics. Just operators sending other operators our way, because the work holds up.

Joe Khoury speaking at an industry event
Our Vision

Where innovation
meets ROI.

Most AI work today is theatre — pilots that never ship, dashboards no one opens, "transformations" that quietly stall. We're after something different.

Our vision is to bridge the gap between innovation and impact. Technology, applied strategically, doesn't just streamline operations — it generates new revenue, sharper decision-making, and long-term profitability.

"JMK Ventures exists to make that future accessible for every business today — not just the ones with eight-figure consulting budgets."

That's the throughline behind every engagement: ship the system, prove the return, compound the advantage.

Joe Khoury, founder of JMK Ventures
Founder · OperatorJoe Khoury
Led by a Proven Founder & Operator

The story
behind JMK.

JMK Ventures was built on the entrepreneurial expertise of our founder, Joe Khoury — a seasoned data and AI executive, SaaS builder, and serial entrepreneur with 13+ years spanning the smallest bootstrapped businesses to $150M+ enterprises.

Joe has launched and scaled multiple ventures, including a packaging startup acquired by MariMed, while also architecting MariMed's $150M annual revenue engine. He's consulted for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies — building the same enterprise-grade systems for mid-market operators who can't justify a McKinsey retainer.

From enterprise tech stacks that saved $45M in costs, to SaaS platforms driving double-digit monthly revenue growth, to leading exits that unlocked long-term profitability — Joe blends technical depth, business strategy, and execution in a way most consultancies can't.

  • 13+ years in entrepreneurship & enterprise tech
  • Architected a $150M revenue engine at MariMed
  • Consulted with Fortune 100 & 500 companies
  • Successful startup exit (acquired by MariMed)
  • $45M+ in operating expenses eliminated
  • SaaS platforms with double-digit monthly growth
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The Arc

From bootstrapped to enterprise.

13 years across every operating altitude — the smallest businesses you can imagine, mid-market scale-ups, and the Fortune 100. Each one taught us something the next one needed.

2012 — 2017
01
Bootstrapped Operator

Smallest businesses, hardest constraints.

Built and ran ventures from zero — where every dollar of marketing, every hour of dev time, every system had to pay for itself or die.

2017 — 2020
02
Founder · Successful Exit

Packaging startup acquired by MariMed.

Founded, scaled, and exited a packaging venture — landing inside MariMed and learning what enterprise-grade actually demands at the seam.

2020 — 2024
03
Enterprise Architect

$150M revenue engine architected.

Led data, AI, and SaaS systems at MariMed — architecting the $150M annual revenue engine and saving $45M+ in operating expenses.

2024 — Now
04
JMK Ventures · F500/100

Bringing it to every other operator.

Consulting Fortune 100 & 500 companies while making the same enterprise-grade systems accessible to mid-market operators through JMK Ventures.

FROM THE OPERATOR

$850 Million Later, Here's How It Happened

$850 million in cannabis transactions processed, one startup acquired by MariMed Inc. — this is the playbook before JMK existed. The same operator lens we now apply to every engagement, recorded at a recent industry talk.

How We Operate

Three principles, no exceptions.

Every engagement runs through the same operating discipline — the one that's compounded across 13 years of building, breaking, and shipping real systems.

01 / Operator's Lens

Built by people who've actually run the system.

We've owned the P&L, signed the vendor contracts, and stayed up the night a launch went sideways. Strategy from operators reads differently from strategy from spectators — because it has to survive Monday morning.

02 / ROI Over Theatrics

Every initiative tied to a measurable outcome.

Slide decks don't generate revenue and dashboards don't replace decisions. Every engagement starts with the bottom-line metric we're moving — and ends with the proof that we moved it.

03 / Compounding Speed

Strategy is cheap. Deployed systems compound.

We ship working systems on weekly cadences — not 200-page strategy docs that age in a Drive folder. The advantage stacks every time the system runs without you.

In the Press

Recent media coverage.

Selected features, interviews, and bylines on AI strategy, automation, and operator-led growth.

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Announcement
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GreenSpace via GLOBE NEWSWIRE
Mar 14, 2025Interview

GreenSpace Appoints Industry Veteran Joe Khoury as Chief Digital Officer to Accelerate Next-Stage Growth

Joe joins GreenSpace as CDO — applying the same operator lens to scale a secure compliance platform for regulated industries.

Read articleNov 25, 2025
Video
YT
YouTube
Feb 03, 2025Op-Ed

Scaling Cannabis Tech with Data with Joe Khoury

Joe's industry talk on the cannabis-tech operator arc — dorm-room prototype to MariMed exit. Embedded in the section above.

Watch on YouTubeWatch
Acquisition
MM
MariMed Inc.
Jan 18, 2025Podcast

MariMed Acquires iRollie to Support MariMed Brands, Expand into Ancillary Cannabis Service Offerings

MariMed's 2018 acquisition of Joe's first venture, iRollie — the founding chapter of the operator playbook now behind JMK.

Read releaseJul 24, 2018
Joe Khoury presenting at an industry conference
Who We Are

We Take The Work Seriously. Not Ourselves.

The systems we build are serious — they touch revenue, hiring, customer retention, board reporting. The people building them don't have to be. We've found that the best engagements happen when there's room to laugh at the absurdity of the AI hype cycle, share the meme that perfectly captures Q4 planning, and admit when a "transformation" is really just three people, a spreadsheet, and a shared Notion page.

If you want a vendor in a suit, we're not the right fit. If you want operators who'll show up, get the work done, and crack a joke about the state of the industry on the way, you're in the right place.

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