What does Kickstart invest in?
Kickstart invests most often at Venture and Seed (60% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology.
Kickstart highlights
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15 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Venture and Seed: 60% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 25 rounds, median $1.9M
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1 exits from the portfolio
What they do
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $500K – $4.0M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries A
- Sectors
- Artificial IntelligenceInformation Technology
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first143 appearances
- 2026
8 rounds
- Sept
- Jul
- Jun
- May
- Apr
- Mar
- Jan
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- 2025
29 rounds
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- 2024
19 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Dec
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 registration6 named
ATAlex Taylor SoffeCFO and CCO - Kickstart Capital, LLCiForm ADV
CMClarke MiyasakiManageriFiling they signed
GTGavin Taylor ChristensenManaging Director, Member, Manager - Kickstart Capital, LLCiForm ADV
KLKewsong LeeManaging PartneriFiling they signed
MCMegan CooleyController and Chief Compliance OfficeriFiling they signed
PKPeter KoManaging DirectoriFiling they signed
We also hold 9 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
$648Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Kickstart Capital, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 167541
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
60 of 60 we have independently watched raise
AervivoAlianzaAltitudeaiAlysioAnagramApalumaArtemishealthBandwangoBlerpBlyncsyBrainstormincCarecarCarputtyChargezoomChatbooksCheddarupClaravineClientbookColorfactoryConverusCotopaxiDataqualityco-opDegreedDirectscaleDiversifiEvisitGravwellHalloHavenlyHirevueHuckabuyIngomoneyKadenceKilnLucidMarketdialMoisesNitricNomihealthNursaOvationventuresPebblepostPhotopharmicsPodiumQuicktureQwickRackwareincRadaiRecyclopsReputationSaladSalesrabbitScholaSimplecitizenSondermindSpiffStanceSuralinkTaskeasyTavahealthand 54 more
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.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed1 in all
GroSocialBought by InfusionsoftUndisclosedJan 2013
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.