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Kickstart
Venture capital · Cottonwood Heights, UT, United States · North America
Kickstart is an early-stage venture capital firm that leads pre-seed and seed rounds, sets terms, syndicates rounds, and typically takes board seats at a company's first priced round. It was founded in 2008 and operates offices in Utah and Colorado, with a presence in Arizona, Idaho, Montana, and New Mexico.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsearly-stageseedpre-seedrocky-mountaingeneralistsaas
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Or find every investor that fitsKickstart lists 113 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (20%), Enterprise Software (13%) and Healthcare & Biotech (12%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Frazier VC, Salt VC and Forward Venture Capital.
No funding round on record names Kickstart yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Kickstart's whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 113. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 20% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 13% | 8% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 12% | 15% |
| Fintech | 10% | 12% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 10% | 6% |
| Media & Entertainment | 7% | 4% |
| Education | 7% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 4% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Frazier VC | 18 |
| Salt VC | 15 |
| Forward Venture Capital | 11 |
| Peterson Partners | 10 |
| Run Ventures | 10 |
| Album VC | 9 |
| Pelion Venture Partners | 8 |
| University Growth Fund | 8 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 96th | 113 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 17th | 20% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers10694%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company76%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Kickstart head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
113 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aervivo provides a platform for community-wide gigabit managed WiFi | Media & EntertainmentHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Alianza provides a cloud communications platform for service providers | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company delivers mission-critical technology and equipment as a service to enterprises across 50+ countries. | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Altitude AI provides an AI platform for industrial automation, assisting system integrators, OEMs, and manufacturers with tasks such as reading documents and making changes to projects. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Alysio provides an AI-native platform for revenue and sales teams to manage their data and workflows | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Anagram helps brands meet customer questions and provide helpful answers to improve their site and AI visibility. | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Angel is a streaming platform that offers movies and TV shows for the whole family | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Apaluma transforms fragmented regulatory records into one connected ecosystem | Healthcare & BiotechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Artemis Health provides data intelligence to guide healthcare business decisions | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Bandwango provides a mobile pass that drives visitors and revenue into communities. | Legal & ComplianceE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Blerp provides tools for creators to build personalized interactive alerts and chat commands for various streaming platforms | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Blyncsy helps cities and state Departments of Transportation automate their roadway maintenance and asset inventory activities | AI & Machine LearningMobility & Logistics | Portfolio page | ||
| BrainStorm helps every employee turn AI into how work gets done, meaningfully and securely | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Campus Founders Fund is a student-run venture fund that invests in student-run businesses | FintechEducation | Portfolio page | ||
EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | |||
| CareCar works with payers to support members by connecting them with a reliable network of committed caregivers. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Carputty provides auto financing options to individuals through its lending partner, Westlake Direct. | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Carta provides an end-to-end suite for managing private capital, including equity management, fund administration, and legal operations. | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Chargezoom provides an AI agent for accounts receivable to automate and manage invoice presentment, collections, payment acceptance, and dispute resolution | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Chatbooks creates custom photo books and offers a subscription service that turns camera roll photos into monthly books. | Media & EntertainmentE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- kickstart.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 113
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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