What public records exist for CKF Group, LLC and its founder(s)?
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Executive summary
Public reporting identifies a businessman named Carl (Kent) Frantzve as the founder/manager of a private investment vehicle called CKF Group, LLC, and several state corporate filings show multiple distinct entities using “CKF” in their names (CKF Ventures LLC, CKF Consulting LLC, CKF Investment Properties LLC), but the provided documents do not include a direct, primary incorporation record for a specific “CKF Group, LLC” in a state registry [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6].
1. What reporters say about the founder and CKF Group
Multiple news outlets summarize public records and biographical details stating that Carl Kenneth (also reported as Kent) Frantzve is an American businessman who founded and manages CKF Group, LLC and has ties to finance, venture capital and organizations connected to his son-in-law’s network; these summaries appear in ZoomBangla and related reprints that explicitly state “public records show he founded and manages CKF Group, LLC” and that he has served on organizational boards [1] [2] [7].
2. Direct corporate filings found in the reporting
The search results provided include state-level corporate detail pages for companies that use the CKF initials—examples include CKF VENTURES LLC (Florida filing number L19000266369), CKF CONSULTING LLC (Florida filing L23000347497 with an address in Miami Beach), and CKF INVESTMENT PROPERTIES LLC (Florida filing L11000007179 with an EIN listed)—these are concrete filing records surfaced in the source set [3] [4] [5].
3. A common-name pitfall: CKF Inc. (Canada) is a separate, well-documented company
A separate corporate entity, CKF Inc. (Canadian Keyes Fibre Company, founded 1933), has an active corporate website, profiles on Datanyze/ZoomInfo and Dun & Bradstreet, and public “about” pages describing its manufacturing history—those records are real and cited in the reporting, but they appear to be unrelated to CKF Group, LLC or Frantzve unless additional linking evidence is produced [6] [8] [9] [10] [11].
4. Conflicting names and identities in secondary reporting
The secondary stories recycle similar claims—Frantzve’s business background, ties to venture capital and to political boards—and they sometimes use different first names (Carl vs. Kent) and conflate board service or support for groups tied to public figures, which raises the risk that aggregation sites have introduced inconsistencies or simplified nuance from the underlying records [1] [2] [7].
5. What the provided records do not show (transparency gaps)
Among the materials offered there is no direct snapshot of a state corporate filing explicitly titled “CKF Group, LLC” with associated formation documents, registered agent, or full ownership filings, nor are there SEC disclosures or other regulatory filings in this packet tying a named founder definitively to a specific CKF Group corporate charter; the reporting instead cites that “public records show” this connection without reproducing the primary document in the provided sources [1] [2].
6. How to interpret these public-record traces and potential agendas
Given that article sources are news aggregation sites and state registry search snippets, the prudent reading is that there are verifiable state filings for CKF-branded entities in Florida and a well-documented Canadian manufacturer named CKF Inc., while the specific linkage of a named founder to an entity called “CKF Group, LLC” rests on secondary reportage that paraphrases unnamed public records—readers should note the possibility of name conflation or promotional framing by outlets with an interest in the associated public figures [3] [4] [5] [6] [1].
7. Bottom line and next documentary steps
The available public traces include journalistic summaries claiming Frantzve founded and manages CKF Group, LLC [1] [2], Florida state filings for similarly named CKF entities [3] [4] [5], and independent corporate material for an unrelated CKF Inc. in Canada [6] [8]; however, the primary incorporation record for “CKF Group, LLC” and any comprehensive ownership or governance filings are not included among the provided sources and therefore remain to be directly obtained from state registries, federal disclosure databases, or the primary documents cited by the articles [1] [2] [3].