Kickstart Fund
kickstart.com Direct investor
Kickstart Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Salt Lake City, Utah, with an office in Denver, Colorado. It invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies in the Mountain West region, focusing on founders building enduring companies.
Kickstart Fund is a venture capital firm headquartered in Salt Lake City, United States, founded in 2008. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in enterprise SaaS, SMB SaaS, fintech and healthtech & Biotech.
“We are building Kickstart to help overlooked founders in our region win, regardless of what type of business they are building.”
— Kickstart Fund, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Salt Lake City, United States
- Invests in
- Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico
- Sectors
- Enterprise SaaS, SMB SaaS, Fintech, Healthtech & Biotech, Marketplace, Frontier Tech & Physical AI, Ecommerce & Consumer, Other
- Founded
- 2008
Team, as Kickstart Fund publishes it
- Gavin Christensen Founder & General Partner
- Kat Kennedy General Partner
- Dalton Wright General Partner
- Alex Soffe General Partner & CFO
- Tanner Potter Partner
- Kristin Gonzalez Director of Finance
- Matt Smith Principal
- Anna Sophia Rowe Associate
- Kimball Palmer Associate
- Karen Zelnick Senior Director of Platform
- Rebecca Trusty Executive Assistant
Names and roles exactly as listed on kickstart.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 86 co-investors found.
- Park City Angels 13 shared companies: nursa.com, pronto.io, blyncsy.com, dsco.io…
- Salt VC 12 shared companies: grow.com, cotopaxi.com, lucid.co, nomihealth.com…
- Run Ventures 8 shared companies: pronto.io, chatbooks.com, bandwango.com, trycrew.com…
- Peterson Partners 6 shared companies: grow.com, cotopaxi.com, blyncsy.com, chatbooks.com…
- Silverton Partners 4 shared companies: claravine.com, pluto.bio, salesrabbit.com, self.inc
- Greycroft 2 shared companies: cotopaxi.com, pebblepost.com
- Escalate Capital Partners 2 shared companies: pebblepost.com, ingomoney.com
- Origin Ventures 2 shared companies: pronto.io, salad.com
- Alkeon Capital Management, LLC 2 shared companies: lucid.co, podium.com
- Acadian Ventures Management, LLC 2 shared companies: nomihealth.com, degreed.com
and 76 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Kickstart Fund publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://kickstart.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, stage_min, stage_max, description, founded, status, confidence
- https://kickstart.com/aboutinvests_in_geographies, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://kickstart.com/portfoliosectors
- https://kickstart.com/teampeople
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Record 797 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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