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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 86 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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