KittyHawk Ventures

KittyHawk, an investment firm focused on leading edge seed to late stage pre-IPO companies. The firm is named after Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, where the Wright Brothers embarked on an extraordinary entrepreneurial journey, creating the world’s first airplane and launching a new era in human mobility.KittyHawk supports extraordinary, mission driven entrepreneurs in their quest to build world changing organizations. The firm operates two primary strategies: - KittyHawk Frontier focuses on seed stage investments at the frontiers of technology including AI, Quantum, Aerospace, Healthcare, Longevity, Climate, Web 3 and more. - KittyHawk Secondaries are pre-IPO secondary funds that leverage a deep relationship with Nasdaq Private Markets to access investment opportunities in the world’s leading late-stage companies. The firm was founded in 2015 and is run by former Singularity University Executive Director, Will Weisman.

Carol Grunberg

Venture Partner

42 past transactions

Glass is a Silicon Valley e-Commerce startup revolutionizing how governments buy. Our pioneering product —Glass Commerce— powers government marketplaces for small purchases without bids or paperwork, a market comprising 50% of government transactions and estimated at $800 Billion in the US and $3.7 Trillion globally. We've helped government agencies procure over 5.5 million items from verified businesses, leveraging procurement data and streamlining operations across 22 Federal, State and Local agencies including the State of Illinois and the City of Seattle. Our work has been ranked in GovCIO's Top 10 e-Governance Solutions, shortlisted in SXSW's Top 5 Startup of the Year, and featured on Bloomberg News, Business Insider and Crunchbase. We are creating a new blueprint for agile government procurement, aligned with our vision of unlocking the next breakthrough in public procurement systems. Learn more about our government marketplaces at www.discover.glass

Outpost

Seed Round in 2022
With $37 million in government and civil awards, we are developing a transportation platform called CarryAll, a space-rated shipping container capable of carrying up to 10 tons of cargo. It launches aboard rockets like SpaceX’s Falcon or Starship, reaches low Earth orbit in under 10 minutes, and returns to Earth within 45–90 minutes of command. It lands autonomously within five meters of its target using guided parafoils, GPS, and onboard targeting systems. This delivery vehicle redefines how goods move across Earth and how products are manufactured in space. The ability to deliver large, critical cargo anywhere on Earth within 90 minutes will fundamentally reshape global logistics, enabling a new era of supply chains, emergency response and commercial access to space. Also, some of the most valuable technologies of the coming decades will be manufactured in orbit, where zero gravity, vacuum, and stable thermal conditions make it possible to create materials that can't be made on Earth.
Founded by world-renowned mycologist Paul Stamets, MycoMedica, PBC is a lifesciences company developing therapeutic drugs derived from fungi to help people live healthier, better lives. Our breakthrough innovation, the Stamets Stack, uses a novel combination of ingredients – not found together in nature – to unlock the potential effectiveness of psilocybin in the prevention and treatment of psychiatric and neurological disorders. More information is available at www.mycomedica.bio.

Vytalize Health

Series B in 2022
Vytalize Health is a new kind of Medicare ACO. Vytalize partners with primary care practices and power them through bold financial incentives and smart technology. By specializing in Medicare services, it provides an all-in-one solution that is efficient and effective. Vytalize collaborates with practice partners to help them deliver the best medical care to their Medicare patients, while simultaneously lowering the overall cost of care. In 2018, Vytalize wrapped up a successful clinical care model with an enhanced business model that allowed us and our physician partners to share in the cost savings that were generated for Medicare. Today, its care delivery model transforms the healthcare experience for tens of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries across 14 states by helping them take control of their chronic conditions in collaboration with their doctors. Vytalize's multidisciplinary clinical team serves as an extension of each physician to design custom-tailored care plans for each of their Medicare patients that are proven to prevent and reduce hospitalizations and improve quality of life. As of 2022, the company has 500+ physicians throughout the US, 65K Medicare patients, and manages $2B in medical spending.

Inner Cosmos

Seed Round in 2022
Inner Cosmos is the neurotechnology company that creates Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) - NeuroMedicine for rebalancing brain networks using imperceptible microstimulation.

jiritsu.network

Seed Round in 2022
Jiritsu is a decentralized protocol enabling verifiable compute.

Pingpod

Series A in 2022
PingPod uses technology to make fun, healthy experiences accessible to everyone. The company has built a network of autonomous ping pong studios in dense urban areas.

Collab Health

Seed Round in 2022
When your students are seeking mental health help, Collab has you covered. Their platform helps you support students who aren’t reaching out and balances demand from students who are seeking counselling services.

QRails

Series A in 2022
QRails enables payroll service providers, fintech, banks, insurance companies, and other financial services businesses in North America and Europe to deploy innovative payment solutions. QRails clients benefit from purpose-built technology offering secure and flexible APIs as well as easy access to an expert team committed to delivering responsive customer service. QRails solution is the world’s first vertically integrated provider of on-demand payment solutions. Founded in 2016, QRails, Inc., together with its subsidiary QRails, Ltd., is privately held by a group of industry leaders and leading investors.

Mintus

Seed Round in 2021
Mintus is an online art investment platform that provides a novel way to purchase shares and invest in exceptional contemporary art. Its management team has extensive experience in the creation, development, and management of globally recognized businesses.

Sequoia Games

Series A in 2021
Sequoia Games, Inc. is an officially-licensed sports gaming company, creating games that seamlessly connect physical and digital experiences. FLEX NBA, the company’s first product, is an officially-licensed board game created in partnership with the NBA and National Basketball Players Association. The battle tile game fuses professional sports, the latest in augmented reality (AR) technology through the game’s mobile companion app, and a registration system that identifies and tracks ownership of player tiles, called Flexagons.

Progressive Therapeutics Inc

Seed Round in 2021
Progressive Therapeutics is a life sciences company developing novel psychoactive and psychedelic therapeutics.

CytoSPAR

Series A in 2021
CytoSPAR is a biomolecular engineering and diagnostic testing company. The company's platform is a cell-based targeting technique that is highly sensitive and produces results in less than 10 minutes. It is easily trained to recognize a broad spectrum of microbes, viruses, proteins, and antibodies.

Sceye

Series B in 2021
Sceye is a material science company that is leading the development of a new generation of high-altitude platform stations. Sceye can be found in Moriarty, New Mexico.

Orbify

Seed Round in 2021
Orbify allows users to create own applications and digital solutions without codes. It offers various online services that users can choose from to make a personalized online tool. Orbify is based in Cracow, Poland.

Figure

Series D in 2021
Figure provides consumer financial solutions intended for home improvement, debt consolidation, and retirement planning. Its financial services include provide home equity release services such as home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, and home buy-lease back offerings for retirement leveraging through blockchain, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics, enabling customers to access capital in as few as five days.

Colossal Biosciences

Seed Round in 2021
Colossal Biosciences is a bioscience and genetic engineering company focused on restoring extinct species and protecting endangered ones. Utilizing advanced gene editing technologies like CRISPR, the company aims to revive species such as the woolly mammoth and enhance ecosystems. Through innovative approaches, Colossal seeks to address the urgent challenges of extinction and biodiversity loss.

Verity

Convertible Note in 2020
Verity Studios AG, founded in 2014 and based in Zurich, Switzerland, develops and supplies advanced indoor drone systems tailored for the live entertainment industry. The company specializes in creating interactive and autonomous flying machines, including synthetic swarms and stage flyers. Verity Studios offers end-to-end drone show production services for a variety of events, theatrical productions, and entertainment shows. Its innovative technology has been showcased at prominent events, such as the TED 2016 conference, the Broadway show PARAMOUR by Cirque du Soleil, Metallica’s arena tour, and New York Knicks pre-game shows at Madison Square Garden. Through the integration of technological innovation and artistic design, Verity Studios is redefining the possibilities of drone performances in live settings.

Vytalize

Series A in 2020
Developer of an enablement platform designed to help primary care doctors strengthen relationships with their patients through data-driven and personalized care. The company's care delivery model transforms the healthcare experience for beneficiaries by helping them manage their chronic conditions in collaboration with their doctors and also provides software including value-based incentives, smart technology, and a virtual clinic, enabling small and large independent practices to succeed in value-based care arrangements.

GPR

Seed Round in 2020
GPR they provides technology for autonomous vehicles to navigate on any road in any condition.

Envel

Seed Round in 2019
Envel is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of consumer banking, fintech, money management, and wealth management. It features and an autopilot software platform that uses the power of Artificial Intelligence to guide your finances in real-time. Envel has developed patent-pending AI banking tech to help take care of personal finances 24/7 in a way that benefits the user’s pockets and not the middleman. The company's unique behavioral science-driven technology formulates and implements the best savings and spending model for its customers to ensure there is little unnecessary spending. Through its Envel Money Management System, each user's Spending DNA™ is defined and tracked by a system that learns individuals' habits over time and automatically adjusts account splits and friction accordingly. Envel is initially geared towards helping keep college students cash in check, and aim to eventually help more than one million college students get out of debt.

Komposite

Angel Round in 2019
Next generation apparel company.

Amply Power

Seed Round in 2019
Amply Power provides commercial fleet operations a charging-as-a-service approach to help fleets transaction to electric vehicles. It delivers a scalable solution for EV Fleet Charging, as a fleet moves from a pilot project to production scale, that accelerates the zero-emission goals of the business and the EV fleet managers. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Vim

Series B in 2019
Founded in 2015, Vim connects data to workflow at health care’s “last mile”: within clinical operations at the point of patient care. Health plans, patients, and medical providers of every size – from independent practitioners to integrated delivery systems – use Vim software to connect data and care across the health system. Vim’s mission is to power affordable, high quality health care through seamless connectivity. For more information, please visit getvim.com.
Glass is a Silicon Valley e-Commerce startup revolutionizing how governments buy. Our pioneering product —Glass Commerce— powers government marketplaces for small purchases without bids or paperwork, a market comprising 50% of government transactions and estimated at $800 Billion in the US and $3.7 Trillion globally. We've helped government agencies procure over 5.5 million items from verified businesses, leveraging procurement data and streamlining operations across 22 Federal, State and Local agencies including the State of Illinois and the City of Seattle. Our work has been ranked in GovCIO's Top 10 e-Governance Solutions, shortlisted in SXSW's Top 5 Startup of the Year, and featured on Bloomberg News, Business Insider and Crunchbase. We are creating a new blueprint for agile government procurement, aligned with our vision of unlocking the next breakthrough in public procurement systems. Learn more about our government marketplaces at www.discover.glass
Glass is a Silicon Valley e-Commerce startup revolutionizing how governments buy. Our pioneering product —Glass Commerce— powers government marketplaces for small purchases without bids or paperwork, a market comprising 50% of government transactions and estimated at $800 Billion in the US and $3.7 Trillion globally. We've helped government agencies procure over 5.5 million items from verified businesses, leveraging procurement data and streamlining operations across 22 Federal, State and Local agencies including the State of Illinois and the City of Seattle. Our work has been ranked in GovCIO's Top 10 e-Governance Solutions, shortlisted in SXSW's Top 5 Startup of the Year, and featured on Bloomberg News, Business Insider and Crunchbase. We are creating a new blueprint for agile government procurement, aligned with our vision of unlocking the next breakthrough in public procurement systems. Learn more about our government marketplaces at www.discover.glass

Totum Labs

Seed Round in 2019
Totum Labs is a low-cost tracking and monitoring solution. The via the rest API and secure portal includes hierarchical access, activation, configuration, and firmware updates. The tracker or monitoring system delivers long battery life. The cloud interfaces and portal enable quick startup. The subscription and billing information includes accounting logs, service plans, and payment network status by region and service.

Spiral Health

Seed Round in 2019
Spiral Health offers therapies to assist people in living pain-free lives. Customers have two primary options for pain management, thanks to the company's revolutionary approach. Customers can first participate in Zoom exercise therapy sessions, which are led by expert therapists and are intended to relieve pain and improve overall wellness. Customers can also use Spiral Health's self-guided digital health app, which includes a variety of tools and resources to help with pain management and overall health. Customers can take control of their pain and enjoy a higher quality of life with Spiral Health's innovative solutions.

Provenance Blockchain

Seed Round in 2019
Provenance Blockchain is the administrator for the Provenance.io blockchain,financial institutions have transacted over $1B in assets on Provenance, realizing over 130 bps of savings through improved execution in loan origination, financing and trading.

Neutrino8

Seed Round in 2019
Neutrino8 is a stealth company that provides a data-driven, cloud-based platform to enable global, affordable internet connectivity. The company building AI-driven solutions that capture and analyze data in real-time at any point of access, transforming connectivity from a cost center into a revenue-generating asset. They leveraging AI-driven analytics, value-added Over-the-Top services, and open systems, neutrino8 has upended the traditional wireless connectivity equation by gutting the cost of connectivity while transforming it into a revenue-generating asset for any organization.

Polyverse

Series A in 2018
Concurix builds data and visual analytics tools that allow developers to achieve breakthrough software performance. By applying big data analysis techniques to software development, Concurix developed the most advanced production tracing service for Node.js. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.

Openwater

Seed Round in 2018
Openwater is a startup developing a medical technology system focused on treating diseases at the cellular level. The company's device uses advanced optoelectronics to replace MRI technology. It has LCDs with small pixels to create holographic images that reduce scattering and achieve MRI-like resolution. This helps physicians diagnose and treat diseases by targeting individual cells without affecting surrounding tissue.

Amply Power

Seed Round in 2018
Amply Power provides commercial fleet operations a charging-as-a-service approach to help fleets transaction to electric vehicles. It delivers a scalable solution for EV Fleet Charging, as a fleet moves from a pilot project to production scale, that accelerates the zero-emission goals of the business and the EV fleet managers. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Polyverse

Seed Round in 2017
Concurix builds data and visual analytics tools that allow developers to achieve breakthrough software performance. By applying big data analysis techniques to software development, Concurix developed the most advanced production tracing service for Node.js. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.

Medal

Seed Round in 2017
Extract, transport, translate, and share medical information faster for review, coordination, referral, analysis, billing, and auditing.

Vytalize

Seed Round in 2017
Developer of an enablement platform designed to help primary care doctors strengthen relationships with their patients through data-driven and personalized care. The company's care delivery model transforms the healthcare experience for beneficiaries by helping them manage their chronic conditions in collaboration with their doctors and also provides software including value-based incentives, smart technology, and a virtual clinic, enabling small and large independent practices to succeed in value-based care arrangements.

Jetti Resources

Series A in 2017
Jetti makes it possible to extract copper from low-grade primary sulfides, such as chalcopyrite, the world’s most abundant copper mineral ore. Jetti’s commercially proven and proprietary catalytic technology addresses the key technical problem preventing the recovery of trillions of dollars of trapped resources. We apply our catalysts to hundreds of millions of tons of ore, and significantly increase copper yields in a cost-effective and environmentally responsible manner.

Ripcord

Series A in 2017
Ripcord, Inc., a robotic digitization company, develops automation software for robotic digitization. It offers Canopy, a solution that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to capture, enrich, and organize its customers’ important content; and enables enterprises to streamline their business processes. Ripcord, Inc. was formerly known as Ripcord Digital, Inc. and changed its name to Ripcord, Inc. in June 2017. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Kezar Life Sciences

Series A in 2015
Kezar Life Sciences company focused on the discovery and development of drugs targeting protein homeostasis for autoimmune disorders. In parallel with this work, Christopher and Kezar co-founder Jack Taunton, Ph.D. collaborated on several research projects involving protein secretion. This collaboration inspired a belief in the strong synergies between protein degradation and protein secretion, two fertile areas for drug discovery with platform potential.

1QBit

Series A in 2015
1QB Information Technologies is a quantum computing software company. 1QBit solves computational challenges by recasting problems to harness the power of quantum computing.
Spot something off? Help us improve by flagging any incorrect or outdated information. Just email us at support@teaserclub.com. Your feedback is most welcome.