Kickstart

Kickstart Fund is a seed-stage venture capital firm located in Salt Lake City, Utah, focused on supporting technology-related companies in the United States. Established in 2008, Kickstart aims to foster the growth of promising businesses in Utah and the Mountain West by offering not only financial investment but also access to a network of resources and expert guidance. The firm has successfully invested in over 100 companies since its inception, emphasizing its commitment to nurturing innovation and entrepreneurship in the region.

Brandon Beck

Principal

Sydnie Keddington

Senior Associate

Kat Kennedy

General Partner

Jason Ockey

Senior Associate

Serene Papenfuss

Principal

Tanner Potter

Principal

Curt Roberts

Partner

Matt Smith

Associate

Alex Soffe

CFO and Partner

Dalton Wright

Partner

Past deals in Colorado

Nomad

Series A in 2022
Nomad makes renting better for our property owner customers and for the residents of Nomad properties. Our property owner customers don’t have to worry about painful, expensive vacancy or delinquency costs again and can experience the ease and freedom that come from having an aligned partner. Our residents experience professionalism, thoughtfulness, and perks that make renting better than ever. Nomad began serving customers in 2019 and we are backed by top investors.

Keys

Seed Round in 2021
Keys is a technology company focused on enhancing communication through innovative solutions. It utilizes artificial intelligence, specifically leveraging GPT-3, to facilitate anticipatory communication. By analyzing user intent, Keys provides suggestions that help individuals write more effectively, quickly, and accurately, addressing common challenges associated with texting, the most widely used communication channel. Founded in 2018 and based in Missoula, Montana, Keys aims to transform the way people communicate, making interactions smoother and more efficient.

SonderMind

Series C in 2021
SonderMind Inc. provides mental health services through a digital network of therapists and care providers. Its solution connects consumers with a therapist for video telehealth or in-person sessions. Its service areas include ADHD, addiction, anorexia, anxiety, binge eating, bipolar disorder, bulimia, depression, eating disorders, grief and loss, LGBTQ, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), PTSD, postpartum, and schizophrenia. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Havenly

Series C in 2021
Havenly, Inc. specializes in providing online interior design services that cater to a diverse range of budgets. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with an additional location in Boston, Massachusetts, Havenly connects users with professional interior designers who create personalized designs based on individual style and space. Clients complete online style surveys and can upload photos of their spaces for consultation. Following the design process, users can purchase furniture and decorative items directly through Havenly's platform, which features a wide selection from numerous retailers at competitive prices. The company is recognized as a leading player in the online interior design market, working with a large network of vetted designers across the United States.

Nomad

Seed Round in 2021
Nomad makes renting better for our property owner customers and for the residents of Nomad properties. Our property owner customers don’t have to worry about painful, expensive vacancy or delinquency costs again and can experience the ease and freedom that come from having an aligned partner. Our residents experience professionalism, thoughtfulness, and perks that make renting better than ever. Nomad began serving customers in 2019 and we are backed by top investors.

EnVision

Seed Round in 2021
EnVision is bringing the success tool of visualization to the world through an easy to use mobile app. Visualization is a success practice widely used by business leaders, athletes, entrepreneurs, celebrities and speakers to increase their performance, achieve their goals and make the internal changes necessary to create the levels of success they aspire to. It helps all of us create a vision for the life we truly want for ourselves and our loved ones. We can then use specific visualizations to empower us to make that vision a reality. What we’ve done here at EnVision is taken out the complexity of how to use visualization to create real change in your life, maximized its effectiveness and simplified it for you through a mobile app. Instead of hiring an expensive performance coach or trying to create your own practice from complicated and abstract books, all you need to do is find the EnVision content you want and press play. We have a unique combination of science-backed techniques that go far beyond simple visualization. Our content is able to be tailored to the individual and address specific problems and purposes. We offer over 150 10-15 minute audio guided visualization sessions. The EnVision app is a free app and we offer free introductory content for everyone to learn the basics. If a user wants to continue their journey after the initial series, then they can subscribe to a paid premium subscription. After proving out our core product of visualization over the last two years, EnVision is now evolving into being a Success Coach In Your Pocket. We are building an AI content recommendation tool as well as a chatbot user interface to help people identify what they want, as well as what they need in order to achieve their goals. We will be layering on goal tracking features on top of this to give people a complete tool to help them achieve holistic success in their life.

Pomp

Seed Round in 2021
Pomp connects you with licensed estheticians virtually so you can shop personally recommended skincare. The company's estheticians recommend skincare via chat based on the consumer's skin type and concerns. It also provides personal service and curated skincare products, hand-selected by expert estheticians. Pomp Beauty was founded in 2019 and is based Denver, Colorado.

Beanstalk

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Beanstalk is offering live interactive kids classes from home, designed for each specific age group.The company's platform offers on-demand interactive kids classes by experienced teachers, enabling children to take learning classes anytime from anywhere.

Nomad

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Nomad makes renting better for our property owner customers and for the residents of Nomad properties. Our property owner customers don’t have to worry about painful, expensive vacancy or delinquency costs again and can experience the ease and freedom that come from having an aligned partner. Our residents experience professionalism, thoughtfulness, and perks that make renting better than ever. Nomad began serving customers in 2019 and we are backed by top investors.

SonderMind

Series B in 2020
SonderMind Inc. provides mental health services through a digital network of therapists and care providers. Its solution connects consumers with a therapist for video telehealth or in-person sessions. Its service areas include ADHD, addiction, anorexia, anxiety, binge eating, bipolar disorder, bulimia, depression, eating disorders, grief and loss, LGBTQ, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), PTSD, postpartum, and schizophrenia. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

SonderMind

Series A in 2019
SonderMind Inc. provides mental health services through a digital network of therapists and care providers. Its solution connects consumers with a therapist for video telehealth or in-person sessions. Its service areas include ADHD, addiction, anorexia, anxiety, binge eating, bipolar disorder, bulimia, depression, eating disorders, grief and loss, LGBTQ, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), PTSD, postpartum, and schizophrenia. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

SonderMind

Venture Round in 2018
SonderMind Inc. provides mental health services through a digital network of therapists and care providers. Its solution connects consumers with a therapist for video telehealth or in-person sessions. Its service areas include ADHD, addiction, anorexia, anxiety, binge eating, bipolar disorder, bulimia, depression, eating disorders, grief and loss, LGBTQ, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), PTSD, postpartum, and schizophrenia. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Havenly

Series B in 2018
Havenly, Inc. specializes in providing online interior design services that cater to a diverse range of budgets. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with an additional location in Boston, Massachusetts, Havenly connects users with professional interior designers who create personalized designs based on individual style and space. Clients complete online style surveys and can upload photos of their spaces for consultation. Following the design process, users can purchase furniture and decorative items directly through Havenly's platform, which features a wide selection from numerous retailers at competitive prices. The company is recognized as a leading player in the online interior design market, working with a large network of vetted designers across the United States.

Cheddar Up

Venture Round in 2017
Cheddar Up, LLC, founded in 2012 and based in Denver, Colorado, offers an online platform designed for easy collection of payments and information. The service allows users to manage group collections without the need for paper forms or traditional banking methods. Cheddar Up enables individuals and organizations to create collections quickly, share them, and receive payments from anyone, regardless of whether they have an account with the platform. In addition to facilitating payments, users can collect additional information such as t-shirt sizes or contact details, making it a versatile solution for various needs, including events, gifts, and fees. The platform streamlines the collection process, allowing users to focus on more important tasks.

Zerista

Seed Round in 2010
Zerista is a communication and collaboration app for meetings and events. As the first app in the industry to sync up native mobile apps with a web community platform, Zerista powers Customer Centric Events, making it easier for everyone to engage with whatever is most valuable to them at events on any device, any time and from anywhere in the world. Based in Denver, Colorado, Zerista powers hundreds of meetings and events around the world. Zerista is backed by a team of experienced marketers and event professionals who help event producers create digital experiences that add value and revenue to live events.