Entrepreneur; founder of Ranku and Cluster · Cluster; Ranku (acquired by John Wiley & Sons) · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Kim Taylor
Wisconsin-raised entrepreneur (Madison-born, Milwaukee roots); former Milwaukee Bucks dancer; co-founded Ranku (Mark Cuban–backed, sold to Wiley) and founded Cluster. Not Kimberly Taylor, Pathways High school director in Milwaukee.
Net worth
$5 million+
September 3, 2026
About
Kim Taylor is a Wisconsin-raised entrepreneur who turned Milwaukee roots and a Bucks dance season into a national startup career.
Born in Madison and schooled in part at Marquette before finishing a journalism degree at Arizona State, she appeared on Bravo's Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, then co-founded Ranku—an online-degree marketplace backed by Mark Cuban—and sold it to John Wiley & Sons in 2016 for a reported $25 million.
She later founded Cluster, a labor marketplace matching hardware and manufacturing companies with engineers, raising a Mark Cuban–backed seed round and operating from the Los Angeles area. Public profiles emphasize growing up around Wisconsin manufacturing and returning to that industrial skills-gap story with Cluster.
Milwaukee remains the origin city on her Wisconsin page: early career, Bucks season, and the manufacturing culture that shaped Cluster, even as her recent operating base has been California.
Companies and affiliations
- Ranku
- Cluster
Notable facts
Born Madison, WI; attended Marquette, then Arizona State B.A. 2005; Milwaukee Bucks dancer for a season.
Co-founded Ranku with Mark Cuban as lead investor; acquired by John Wiley & Sons in 2016 for a reported $25 million.
Founded Cluster, a hardware and manufacturing engineering hiring marketplace, with LA-area operations.
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- What makes Kim Taylor notable?
- Kim Taylor is a Wisconsin-raised entrepreneur who turned Milwaukee roots and a Bucks dance season into a national startup career. Born in Madison and schooled in part at Marquette before finishing a journalism degree at Arizona State, she appeared on Bravo's Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, then co-founded Ranku—an…
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- Kim Taylor's estimated net worth is $5 million+ as of 2026-09-03.