Knudsen Capital

Knudsen Capital is a family investment office based in Los Gatos, California, established in 2016 by Brent Knudsen and Webb Knudsen. The firm focuses on investing in early-stage, high-growth companies, guided by three primary criteria: purpose, people, and profit.

Webb Knudsen

Partner

23 past transactions

Cerebelly

Series A in 2023
Cerebelly is a company that produces organic baby food designed to support healthy brain development in infants and young children. Its veggie-first, farm-fresh, science-backed nutrition is sold online, and the company also offers a subscription tracking platform that delivers Cerebelly pouches every two weeks and lets parents track milestones and tailor nutrients to their child's growth. Founded in 2017 and based in Los Gatos, California, the business was renamed Cerebelly in 2018 from Brainy Baby Food.

Bambino

Seed Round in 2021
Bambino is an app that connects parents with trusted babysitters from their local community. It leverages Facebook integration and personal networks to find recommended sitters, ensuring reliable care for children.

Auddy

Seed Round in 2020
Auddy is a platform and service provider for podcasts and audio content that supports creators and organizations with strategy, production, distribution, marketing, monetization, and advertising. It combines editorial input, data insights and analytics, and promotional services to help build audiences and generate revenue, including royalties for creators. Auddy also operates an audio platform that organizes audiobooks, shows, and original podcasts and develops original premium podcasts for consumer audiences and organizations, enabling creators and organizations to achieve business growth.

Pilates Metrics

Convertible Note in 2020
Pilates Metrics develops a digital fitness platform that enables instructors to track, chart, and share client progress, delivering data-driven coaching for Pilates, yoga, and body movements with health suggestions, sessions, and tracking. Founded by Joseph and Karinne Quinn of Real People Pilates in Berkeley, California, the company built a proprietary algorithm that translates Pilates exercise into biomechanics to capture mobility data from the global Pilates community, and this algorithm forms the core of an iOS instructor app. Its mission is to improve the studio experience for instructors and clients through intuitive software, demonstrate Pilates' health benefits through aggregated data, and normalize Pilates within the traditional health community.

Bambino

Seed Round in 2020
Bambino is an app that connects parents with trusted babysitters from their local community. It leverages Facebook integration and personal networks to find recommended sitters, ensuring reliable care for children.

Lasso

Convertible Note in 2020
Lasso is an apparel company based in Los Angeles, California, that specializes in manufacturing athletic compression socks aimed at enhancing ankle mobility and joint support. Founded in 2017, the company integrates scientific research with aesthetic design to create products that support both performance and recovery for athletes. Lasso's socks are medically backed and utilize patented technology, mimicking Kinesio taping to allow unrestricted ankle movement, prevent injuries, and improve overall athletic performance. The company serves a diverse clientele, including men, women, children, and medical professionals, focusing on the needs of modern athletes both on and off the field.

Playper

Seed Round in 2020
Playper is a company founded in 2018 that specializes in creating innovative subscription boxes for children, merging physical toys with digital games and stories. Its products include paper toys made from eco-friendly, recyclable materials that children can easily assemble, promoting creativity and imaginative play. The toys come to life through augmented reality, enhancing the play experience and providing quality entertainment while also offering educational value. Playper focuses on delivering safe, sustainable, and environmentally friendly play experiences for children, allowing parents to engage their kids in creative activities with minimal environmental impact.

Movr

Seed Round in 2020
movr measurably improves how people move through personalized movement health assessments, recommendations and insights. movr provides movement-health-as-a-service through its Assess, Prescribe, and Analyze products, working with leading organizations across health, tactical and digital fitness. Backed by lululemon and Fitt Insider, movr makes movement health accessible for everybody and every body. To learn more, please visit: www.movewithmovr.com.

Curbside Health

Convertible Note in 2019
Curbside Health develops clinical decision support software that aligns health systems and clinicians to more efficiently deliver optimal care. The company was founded by physicians and technologists to combine the best of clinical evidence with the realities of healthcare delivery and with opportunities of modern web technology. We support health systems and hospitals to expand their clinical content library (e.g. clinical pathways, protocols, guidelines, A3s, checklists, etc) and enhance the utilization of these resources at the point-of-care. Together, the components of Curbside's platform enable a hospital to improve clinical outcomes and operational efficiencies. Product development is informed by working closely with patients, clinicians, engineers, physicians, healthcare administrators, and payors. Our mission is hiding in plain sight within our name, and those in healthcare will understand: every medical decision is informed in real-time by the world's expert of that particular situation, while simultaneously accounting for hospital policy and all relevant patient-specific data. Essentially, Curbside is on a never-ending quest to perfect medical decision making.

Lovevery

Series B in 2019
Lovevery, Inc. is a Boise, Idaho-based company that specializes in creating educational play products for infants and toddlers. Founded in 2015, Lovevery offers a range of stage-based learning kits designed by child development experts to enhance key skills such as spatial awareness, language development, and problem-solving. Its flagship product, the Play Gym, includes various toys like balls, teething rings, and activity cards that cater to the developmental needs of babies at different stages. Lovevery's commitment to early learning extends beyond physical products, as it also provides resources and multi-channel content for parents, facilitating a holistic approach to childhood education. The company has received recognition from notable publications and is supported by several prominent investors.

Bambino

Seed Round in 2019
Bambino is an app that connects parents with trusted babysitters from their local community. It leverages Facebook integration and personal networks to find recommended sitters, ensuring reliable care for children.

Wild Friends

Seed Round in 2019
Wild Friends Foods, Inc. is a Portland, Oregon-based company founded in 2011 that specializes in producing and selling non-GMO nut and seed butters, as well as nut butter-based breakfast items. The company offers a range of products, including peanut and almond butters, and is known for its innovative Nut Butter Oats, which are among the first of their kind in the market. Wild Friends emphasizes clean label practices, ensuring that their products are free from emulsifiers and made with high-quality ingredients. The company distributes its products through grocery stores across the United States and also sells items online, including apparel. Wild Friends aims to enhance the nutritional value and taste of traditional foods while promoting sustainability and supporting its partners and employees.

Axcend

Series A in 2019
Axcend develops compact high-performance liquid chromatography systems, specializing in capillary LC to deliver portability, ease of operation, rapid deployment, and compatibility with other analytical platforms. Its flagship Focus LC emphasizes transportability without sacrificing HPLC robustness, enabling reliable separations in smaller lab spaces. The system is designed for seamless coupling to mass spectrometry, auto-samplers, and other testing systems, supporting fast, accurate chromatographic results. The product lineage traces to development at Brigham Young University led by Dr. Milton L. Lee and his research team, reflecting an emphasis on simplicity and robustness. Axcend serves pharmaceutical, life sciences, and analytical laboratories seeking portable, cost-efficient chromatography solutions for routine analysis and method development.

Cerebelly

Seed Round in 2019
Cerebelly is a company that produces organic baby food designed to support healthy brain development in infants and young children. Its veggie-first, farm-fresh, science-backed nutrition is sold online, and the company also offers a subscription tracking platform that delivers Cerebelly pouches every two weeks and lets parents track milestones and tailor nutrients to their child's growth. Founded in 2017 and based in Los Gatos, California, the business was renamed Cerebelly in 2018 from Brainy Baby Food.

Playper

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Playper is a company founded in 2018 that specializes in creating innovative subscription boxes for children, merging physical toys with digital games and stories. Its products include paper toys made from eco-friendly, recyclable materials that children can easily assemble, promoting creativity and imaginative play. The toys come to life through augmented reality, enhancing the play experience and providing quality entertainment while also offering educational value. Playper focuses on delivering safe, sustainable, and environmentally friendly play experiences for children, allowing parents to engage their kids in creative activities with minimal environmental impact.

Cerebelly

Seed Round in 2018
Cerebelly is a company that produces organic baby food designed to support healthy brain development in infants and young children. Its veggie-first, farm-fresh, science-backed nutrition is sold online, and the company also offers a subscription tracking platform that delivers Cerebelly pouches every two weeks and lets parents track milestones and tailor nutrients to their child's growth. Founded in 2017 and based in Los Gatos, California, the business was renamed Cerebelly in 2018 from Brainy Baby Food.

Actiview

Convertible Note in 2018
Actiview Inc. is a technology company based in Berkeley, California, founded in 2016, dedicated to enhancing accessibility in the entertainment industry. The company has developed a mobile application that provides an all-in-one solution for individuals who are deaf, blind, or speak foreign languages, facilitating their access to movies. The application requires no setup and offers features such as closed captioning, descriptive narration, and assistive audio, ensuring that users can enjoy films seamlessly in theaters or at home. Actiview's mission is to simplify the movie-going experience for people with different accessibility needs, making entertainment more inclusive and enjoyable for all.

Lovevery

Series A in 2018
Lovevery, Inc. is a Boise, Idaho-based company that specializes in creating educational play products for infants and toddlers. Founded in 2015, Lovevery offers a range of stage-based learning kits designed by child development experts to enhance key skills such as spatial awareness, language development, and problem-solving. Its flagship product, the Play Gym, includes various toys like balls, teething rings, and activity cards that cater to the developmental needs of babies at different stages. Lovevery's commitment to early learning extends beyond physical products, as it also provides resources and multi-channel content for parents, facilitating a holistic approach to childhood education. The company has received recognition from notable publications and is supported by several prominent investors.

Lovevery

Seed Round in 2018
Lovevery, Inc. is a Boise, Idaho-based company that specializes in creating educational play products for infants and toddlers. Founded in 2015, Lovevery offers a range of stage-based learning kits designed by child development experts to enhance key skills such as spatial awareness, language development, and problem-solving. Its flagship product, the Play Gym, includes various toys like balls, teething rings, and activity cards that cater to the developmental needs of babies at different stages. Lovevery's commitment to early learning extends beyond physical products, as it also provides resources and multi-channel content for parents, facilitating a holistic approach to childhood education. The company has received recognition from notable publications and is supported by several prominent investors.

Wild Friends

Series A in 2018
Wild Friends Foods, Inc. is a Portland, Oregon-based company founded in 2011 that specializes in producing and selling non-GMO nut and seed butters, as well as nut butter-based breakfast items. The company offers a range of products, including peanut and almond butters, and is known for its innovative Nut Butter Oats, which are among the first of their kind in the market. Wild Friends emphasizes clean label practices, ensuring that their products are free from emulsifiers and made with high-quality ingredients. The company distributes its products through grocery stores across the United States and also sells items online, including apparel. Wild Friends aims to enhance the nutritional value and taste of traditional foods while promoting sustainability and supporting its partners and employees.

Auddy

Convertible Note in 2017
Auddy is a platform and service provider for podcasts and audio content that supports creators and organizations with strategy, production, distribution, marketing, monetization, and advertising. It combines editorial input, data insights and analytics, and promotional services to help build audiences and generate revenue, including royalties for creators. Auddy also operates an audio platform that organizes audiobooks, shows, and original podcasts and develops original premium podcasts for consumer audiences and organizations, enabling creators and organizations to achieve business growth.

Cairn

Convertible Note in 2017
Cairn Outdoors LLC, based in Bend, Oregon, specializes in gift box subscription services tailored for outdoor and recreational enthusiasts. Founded in 2013, the company curates a variety of products that enhance outdoor experiences, including hydration supplies, headlamps, cookware, hiking apparel, energy snacks, and sun protection items. Cairn also offers essential gear such as first-aid kits and compasses. In addition to its subscription services, the company provides demographic insights and product review data to content suppliers, aiding them in understanding market trends.
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