Kickstart is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 and headquartered in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. It is the most active pre-seed and seed investor in the Mountain West region (Utah, Colorado), having backed 150+ startups across SaaS, fintech, healthcare, and consumer technology.
Their most common stage is seed (41% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $10.6M (across 36 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
30
Fund Size
$230M
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
5
Team
AS
Alex Soffe
General Partner & CFO
DW
Dalton Wright
General Partner
GC
Gavin Christensen
Founder & General Partner
TP
Tanner Potter
Partner
KZ
Karen Zelnick
Senior Director of Platform
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
39 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 SponsorCX | Unknown | $4.6M | Aug 2026 |
 Redo | Series B | $81M | Jun 2026 |
 Apaluma | Seed | $5.5M | Jan 2026 |
 Quickture | Seed | $4.5M | Jan 2026 |
| Quickture | Pre-Seed | $1.9M | Jan 2026 |
| SponsorCX | Unknown | $4.6M | Apr 2025 |
 Moises | Series A | $40M | Jan 2025 |
 Music AI | Series A | $40M | Jan 2025 |
 Photopharmics | Series B | $6M | Jan 2025 |
 Kadence | Series A | $20M | Jan 2025 |
| SSaVia | Seed | $8.5M | Dec 2022 |
 Upside Cooperative | Seed | $4.6M | Jan 2022 |
 SaVia Health | Seed | $8.5M | Jan 2022 |
 Pura | Seed | $4.4M | Feb 2020 |
 Blerp | Unknown | $150K | Jan 2020 |
 RackWare | Unknown | $4M | Jan 2019 |
 MarketDial | Series A | $7.5M | Sep 2018 |
 Grow | Series B | $16M | Feb 2018 |
 Cake | Seed | $5M | Jan 2018 |
| Blerp | Unknown | $15K | Jan 2018 |
 Nav | Series B | $38M | May 2017 |
| RackWare | Series B | $10M | Jan 2016 |
| RackWare | Seed | $2.3M | Jan 2014 |
 TaskEasy | Series A | $7M | Jan 2014 |
| RackWare | Series A | $3M | Jan 2013 |
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Top Co-Investors
Peterson Ventures7 shared
Pelion Venture Partners6 shared
Toba Capital3 shared
Service Provider Capital3 shared
Crosslink Capital2 shared
Y Combinator2 shared
Monashees2 shared
Mindset Ventures2 shared
Samsung Next2 shared
Intel Capital2 shared
Sorenson Capital2 shared
Techstars2 shared
HubSpot Ventures1 shared
The Slack Fund1 shared
Acrew Capital1 shared
NextWorld Capital1 shared
Founder Collective1 shared
Silicon Valley Bank1 shared
Peak XV Partners1 shared
Origin Ventures1 shared
Last updated: 8 September 2026