Kickstart portfolio

Kickstart has 4 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding.

Website: kickstart.com.

Type: Venture capital.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 4.

Deals, last 12 months: 0.

Capital in their rounds: $60M.

Latest deal: Aumni · Aug 26, 2021.

About this page

It is a venture capital firm based in Salt Lake City, US, founded in 2008. Its most recent investment on record is Aumni's $50M Series B+ round in August 2021, alongside Prelude, Manhattan Venture Partners, Pelion Venture Partners and 7 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward Consumer and social (3) and Commerce and retail (2). It has co-invested with Prelude, SVB Financial Group and NEXT Frontier Capital, most often Prelude (2 rounds).

About Kickstart

Firm type: Venture capital.

Headquarters: Salt Lake City, US.

Founded: 2008.

Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Growth.

Sectors: AI & Machine Learning, Crypto & Web3, Data & Infrastructure, Healthtech, Sector Agnostic.

Check size: $250K to $3M.

Leads rounds: Yes.

Portfolio companies: 93.

Exits: 2.

Rounds led: 6.

Funds raised

Fund	Fund #	Size	Announced
KKickstart Utah	V	$110M	May 1, 2020 techcrunch.com
KKickstart Fund Utah	III	$39M	Jan 2015 tech.co
KKickstart Seed Fund Utah	II	$26M	Apr 2013 thenextweb.com

What Kickstart invests in

Consumer and social · 3 · 75%
Commerce and retail · 2 · 50%
Fintech · 1 · 25%
Data and analytics · 1 · 25%
Real estate and construction · 1 · 25%
Sales and marketing · 1 · 25%
Robotics and hardware · 1 · 25%

How Kickstart invests

Stage	Deals	Capital in rounds
Series B+	1 50%	$50M
Series A	1 50%	$10M

Year	Deals	Capital in rounds
2020	1 50%	$10M
2021	1 50%	$50M

Kickstart portfolio companies

AAumni$50MSeries B+ · Aug 2021
HHavenlybacker
RRedobacker
HHapWarebacker

Company	Round with Kickstart	Total raised	Latest raise
AAumni Fintech	Aug 26, 2021 Series B+ · $50M	$60M	Aug 26, 2021 Series B+
HHavenly Real estate and construction	backer	undisclosed	—
RRedo Sales and marketing	backer · source	$105M	Jun 24, 2026 Series B+
HHapWare Robotics and hardware	backer	$1.5M	Oct 19, 2026 Pre-seed

Most frequent co-investors

Similar investors

Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Consumer and social).

How this is counted

Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-09, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.

Venture funds Kickstart raised, from the list of new VC funds compiled by Shai Goldman (Brex). Each size links to the article that states it, or to that list where no article was found. All new funds: new VC funds.

Share is of the 2 rounds on Recent Funding that name Kickstart. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.

Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Kickstart, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/kickstart (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.