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What does KCRise Fund invest in?
KCRise Fund invests most often at Venture and Seed (62% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Biotechnology, Climate & Impact and ClimateTech & CleanTech.
KCRise Fund highlights
- 01
2 cheques in the last 12 months
- 02
Mostly Venture and Seed: 62% of its rounds
- 03
Sole investor in 8 rounds, median $3.1M
What they do
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Up to $1.0M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- BiotechnologyClimate & ImpactClimateTech & CleanTech
- Based in
- Kansas City, United States
- Cold pitches
- Accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first49 appearances
- 2026
2 rounds
- May
- Apr
- 2025
7 rounds
- Aug
- Jun
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Feb
- 2024
6 rounds
- Sept
- May
- May
- Apr
- Feb
- Jan
- 2023
13 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Nov
- Sept
- Sept
- Jun
- Jun
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Mar
- Jan
- 2022
4 rounds
- Nov
- Aug
- May
- Mar
- 2021
4 rounds
- Dec
- Aug
- Mar
- Jan
- 2020
2 rounds
- Dec
- Jul
- 2019
4 rounds
- Dec
- Sept
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration4 named
DADarcy Ann HoweMANAGING DIRECTOR OF GENERAL PARTNER AND EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF INVESTMENT MANAGERiFiling they signed
ESEdward Steven FrindtDirector of Kcrise Fund II GP, LLC and Kcrise Fund III GP, LLCiForm ADV
RARonald A. LeMayDirector of the ManageriFiling they signed
TAToby A. RushDirector of the ManageriFiling they signed
We also hold 11 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$94Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Kcrise Capital, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 305683
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
3 of 10 we have independently watched raise
BenefitbayCarepilotPineappleacademyBigrigClick-insGetrozGoldfinchhealthOutboundRebulkScoutapp
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.