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 (42% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $10.1M (across 75 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
57
Fund Size
$230M
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
1
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
79 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 SponsorCX | Unknown | $4.6M | Aug 2026 |
 Apaluma | Seed | $5.5M | Jan 2026 |
 Quickture | Seed | $4.5M | Jan 2026 |
| Quickture | Pre-Seed | $1.9M | Jan 2026 |
 Nursa | Series B | $80M | 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 |
 Treasury 4 | Seed | $20M | Sep 2023 |
 Boombox | Series A | $7M | May 2023 |
| Treasury 4 | Seed | $20M | Jan 2023 |
| SSaVia | Seed | $8.5M | Dec 2022 |
 Salad Technologies | Series A | $17M | Apr 2022 |
 Upside Cooperative | Seed | $4.6M | Jan 2022 |
| Salad Technologies | Series A | $17M | Jan 2022 |
 SaVia Health | Seed | $8.5M | Jan 2022 |
 Qwick | Series B | $40M | Jan 2022 |
 Gravwell | Seed | $3M | Oct 2021 |
 Tiled | Series A | $13.7M | Sep 2021 |
 Clientbook | Series A | $4.5M | Jul 2021 |
 Zencastr | Seed | $4.6M | Feb 2021 |
| Salad Technologies | Seed | $3.2M | Dec 2020 |
 Spiff | Series A | $10M | Jun 2020 |
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Top Co-Investors
Peterson Ventures12 shared
Pelion Venture Partners7 shared
Silverton Partners5 shared
Service Provider Capital5 shared
Run Ventures5 shared
Kickstart Ventures4 shared
Techstars4 shared
University Growth Fund4 shared
Toba Capital3 shared
Crosslink Capital3 shared
Origin Ventures3 shared
Endeavor3 shared
Album VC3 shared
Left Lane Capital3 shared
Carthona Capital3 shared
F-Prime Capital3 shared
Kleiner Perkins2 shared
NextWorld Capital2 shared
Y Combinator2 shared
Monashees2 shared
Last updated: 20 October 2026