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Kickstart Fund
Cottonwood Heights, United States
Kickstart Fund invests in early‑stage startups founded in the Mountain West (Utah, Colorado, Arizona and surrounding states). Their focus is on enterprise and SMB software, fintech, healthtech, marketplaces, and consumer...
Portfolio
22+
Employees
30+
Founded
2008
AUM
≈ $480.0M
Investment focus
Stages
Pre-Seed → Series A
Industries
Software OnlyCommerce & ShoppingDigital HealthFinancial Technology
Geographic scope
North America
Fund details
Funds
K1
$8.2M
K2
$26.3M
K3
$39.2M
K4
$74.3M
K5
$110.0M
K6
$230.0M
Sources
Kickstart Fund
Kickstart Fund invests in early‑stage startups founded in the Mountain West (Utah, Colorado, Arizona and surrounding states). Their focus is on enterprise and SMB software, fintech, healthtech, marketplaces, and consumer SaaS. They aim to be low‑ego, high‑conviction partners and typically lead pre‑seed and seed rounds.
Portfolio
22+
Employees
30+
Founded
2008
AUM
≈ $480.0M
Funds
K1 · $8.2M
K2 · $26.3M
K3 · $39.2M
K4 · $74.3M
K5 · $110.0M
K6 · $230.0M
Stages
Pre-Seed → Series A
Industries
Software OnlyCommerce & ShoppingDigital HealthFinancial Technology
Geographic scope
North America
Sources
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Alianza provides a cloud‑native Intelligent Communications Fabric that abstracts legacy voice infrastructure into a programmable, multi‑tenant platform for communications service providers. The fabric offers open REST and gRPC APIs, built‑in AI inference for speech analytics and dynamic routing, and migration adapters for SS7/SIP, enabling rapid provisioning, scaling, and monetization of AI‑driven voice services while reducing operational costs.
500+
7K+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $12.5M
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Funding: $12.5M
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Provides a platform for creators and viewers to produce and fund high-quality TV shows and films independently of traditional Hollywood studios. By leveraging community-driven voting, funding, and distribution, it enables over 25 million users to support and access content that aligns with their values, while offering tools like the Angel app for streaming, merchandise, and direct project funding.
Funding: $11.3M
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Funding: $11.3M
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Chargezoom offers an AI-powered Open Payments Platform that automates accounts receivable processes, enabling businesses to receive payments instantly through preferred digital methods. By eliminating manual invoicing and paper checks, Chargezoom reduces administrative workload by 50% and accelerates cash flow, guaranteeing faster payments or your money back.
Funding: $18.5M
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Funding: $18.5M
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Clientbook offers a digital sales assistant platform that utilizes AI-driven client recommendations and automated outreach tools to enhance sales and customer retention for luxury retail businesses. By providing personalized messaging and actionable analytics, Clientbook enables retail teams to efficiently manage client relationships and significantly increase sales performance.
Funding: $18.0M
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Funding: $18.0M
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Crew is a financial technology platform offering high-yield checking and savings accounts designed specifically for families, with a 3.95% annual percentage yield and no minimum balance requirements. The platform enables parents to manage their finances while providing children with their own accounts, promoting financial literacy and responsible money management from an early age.
Funding: $2.5M
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Funding: $2.5M
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Havenly provides an online platform that connects users with professional interior designers to create personalized room designs, utilizing 3D rendering technology for visualizing spaces. The service addresses the challenge of affordable and accessible interior design by offering tailored solutions that fit individual styles and budgets, with a straightforward checkout process for sourcing furniture from over 100 brands.
Kadence is a workplace management platform that helps companies optimize hybrid work environments. It provides tools for desk booking, meeting room scheduling, and team presence visibility, enabling efficient space utilization and improved employee collaboration.
Funding: $10.0M
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Funding: $10.0M
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Lucid provides a cloud‑based Visual Collaboration Suite that unifies whiteboarding (Lucidspark) and diagramming (Lucidchart) with AI assistance. Teams can generate diagrams, summarize content, link live data, and collaborate in real time or asynchronously, while integrations with tools like Jira, Azure DevOps, Slack, and Microsoft 365 keep workflows connected. The platform offers enterprise‑grade security and compliance, delivering a single source of truth for engineering, product, IT, and other business functions.
Funding: $500.0M
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Funding: $500.0M
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Moises utilizes machine learning and AI-driven audio separation technology to enable users to isolate or remove vocals and instruments from any song, facilitating personalized music practice. The platform addresses the challenge of musicians needing to adjust pitch, speed, and access real-time chord detection, enhancing their learning and performance experience.
Funding: $50.3M
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Funding: $50.3M
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Nav offers a cloud‑based platform that consolidates D&B, Experian, Equifax and TransUnion business credit data into a single dashboard with real‑time alerts and automated tradeline reporting via its Nav Prime charge card. The service also provides bookkeeping integration, cash‑flow tools, and access to the FICO SBSS eligibility score to help U.S. small‑business owners monitor and improve their commercial credit for financing.
Funding: $5.0M
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Funding: $5.0M
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Nitric is an open-source backend framework that allows developers to define cloud infrastructure as code, automating deployment across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. It enables rapid development and testing of serverless applications while eliminating vendor lock-in and reducing cloud costs through local development capabilities.
Funding: $3.1M
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Funding: $3.1M
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Nursa is a healthcare staffing platform that connects licensed nurses with facilities needing short-term staffing, enabling real-time scheduling of per diem shifts. This approach addresses the staffing shortages in healthcare by allowing facilities to fill shifts quickly, often within 15 minutes, while providing nurses with flexible work opportunities.
Funding: $103.2M
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Funding: $103.2M
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Pluto Biosciences offers a collaborative platform for biological data management, enabling real-time interdisciplinary teamwork in preclinical and translational research. The platform streamlines data visualization and analysis for multi-omics studies, enhancing the efficiency of target identification and biomarker discovery while ensuring traceability of results.
Funding: $7.3M
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Funding: $7.3M
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Podium provides a multi-product platform that utilizes AI to manage customer communications, capture leads, and automate review requests for local businesses. By responding to inquiries in under one minute and following up with customers, Podium increases lead conversion rates by over 45% and drives repeat sales, enhancing overall business performance.
Funding: $419.1M
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Funding: $419.1M
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Pura offers Wi‑Fi‑enabled ultrasonic diffusers that can be controlled via a mobile app and integrated with smart‑home assistants for precise scent intensity, scheduling, and OTA firmware updates. Users access a curated marketplace of interchangeable fragrance cartridges for home and vehicle use, with a subscription service that automates refills and delivers usage‑based scent recommendations through cloud‑synced analytics.
Rad AI develops AI-driven software that automates the generation of radiology reports and impressions, allowing radiologists to dictate findings without the need for full sentence construction. This technology reduces report preparation time by over 60 minutes per shift and significantly decreases radiologist burnout by minimizing repetitive tasks.
Funding: $105.9M
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Funding: $105.9M
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Spiff is a commission management platform that automates complex commission calculations and provides real-time visibility into earnings for sales teams. By integrating with existing tools, it eliminates errors and streamlines workflows, enhancing trust and motivation among sales personnel.
The startup offers a sponsorship development platform that enables properties and brands to manage sponsorship details, including accounts, contacts, and agreements, in a single interface. This software enhances communication and engagement, providing visibility into sold and available inventory assets, which streamlines sponsorship management and collaboration.
Funding: $3.8M
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Funding: $3.8M
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Provides a payment processing platform that enables secure, account-to-account transactions through a single API, integrating ACH, RTP, and FedNow for faster settlements. By combining real-time fraud detection, identity verification, and regulatory compliance, it reduces payment delays, eliminates interchange fees, and protects businesses from fraudulent activities.
Vector provides warfighters with rapidly integrated, cutting-edge technology and battlefield-proven insights as a service. The company leverages real-world insights from veteran special operators to enhance tech relevance for U.S. and allied forces. This focus supports tactical integration and advanced training necessary to dominate near-peer adversaries.
Zencastr provides a complete audio and video platform that enables users to record high-quality remote interviews with double-ended recording technology, ensuring optimal sound quality regardless of internet conditions. The platform also includes intuitive editing tools and AI-driven features for content growth and distribution, making it suitable for both novice and professional podcasters and video creators.
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