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Kickstart Seed Fund

2750 E Cottonwood Parkway Suite 160, Salt Lake City, UT, 84121, United States

Overview

We invest in great early-stage companies based in the Mountain West. Some of those greats we've supported over last the 17 years include Lucid, Podium, Angel Studios, Galileo, Spiff, Nomi Health, Havenly, Pura, Rad AI, and Alianza. Find out more here: https://www.kickstartfund.com/

Total investments
128
Lead investments
45
Investments · 12mo
6
Active investors
8

Sector focus

  • Business Development
  • Finance
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Apaluma

    Led · Seed · Jul 2026

    Apaluma offers a platform that converts fragmented regulatory records—PDFs, scanned ledgers and legacy databases—into structured, searchable intelligence linked by a data ontology. The product maps records to real-world locations, connects monitoring feeds and sensor data to permitting history, and preserves cited sources for answers. Apaluma also connects legacy agency systems without rip-and-replace, and its platform was used to ingest and normalize the New Mexico Environment Department's entire public archive. The company targets users such as permit reviewers, compliance officers, analysts, scientists and regulators who need faster access to regulatory context. Apaluma announced plans to scale the platform following its $5.55 million seed raise. The company is led by founder and CEO Alicia J. Keyes, who previously ran economic development for the state of New Mexico.

  • SponsorCX

    Led · Series A · May 2026

    SponsorCX offers a centralized partnership-operations platform that combines spreadsheet-like capabilities with automation to help teams manage sponsorship inventory, track fulfillment and demonstrate partner value. The system targets organizations that sell sponsorships and the brands that invest in them, aiming to replace manual tracking with a unified solution. The company reports momentum and increasing customer adoption across the industry. SponsorCX plans to use new funding to expand operations, accelerate product development—including AI capabilities across its ecosystem—and deepen enterprise features. It also intends to support continued global expansion. SponsorCX is led by CEO Jason Smith and is based in Lehi, Utah.

  • RevBind

    Participated · Seed · Apr 2026

    RevBind builds an integrated sales system for insurance agents that sources leads via a proprietary marketplace, applies AI to score prospects instantly, and automatically engages and nurtures prospects until they are ready to close. The company was co-founded by Jeremy Stringham, who brings over 15 years of experience as an insurance agent, and Evan Barnes. RevBind positions its product as a fully integrated automation and AI-driven sales workflow for the insurance industry. The startup recently raised $1M in pre-seed funding from Translink Capital, Rightside Capital, and Kickstart Seed Fund to support product development and company build-out. The team has stated plans to accelerate development and roll the platform out to agents in the near term.

  • Crew

    Led · Seed · Nov 2025

    Crew’s core product is a mobile “pre-spend” banking platform that merges checking, savings, and budgeting so users can allocate funds before making purchases. Through a partnership with Bangor Savings Bank (Member FDIC), the app offers a checking account paying 3.2% APY—about 45 × the U.S. average for interest-bearing checking. The company debuted in early 2024 with a family-focused version featuring child accounts, automated allowances, and shared budgets, and has since broadened to general consumers with unlimited pockets, paycheck automation, and virtual cards that carry configurable spending limits. Crew reports that daily active users and debit-card transaction volume both doubled in the last month, signaling early traction. Founded by former Divvy product leaders Gentry Davies and Steve Domino, the startup emphasizes security, scale, and ease of use. Its app is available nationwide on the App Store and Google Play. The firm continues to lean on its bank partner’s 170-year compliance track record to differentiate itself from other neobanks.

  • Kadence

    Participated · Series A · Oct 2025

    Kadence provides a workplace operations platform designed to help enterprises coordinate people and spaces through a single system that combines space management, team scheduling, occupancy insights, and AI-powered automation. The company’s software delivers real-time data and tools that enable organizations to optimize how offices are used and how teams collaborate. In October 2025 Kadence launched SpaceOps, an AI-driven module that lets enterprises model, test, and execute space decisions rapidly. SpaceOps offers scenario planning to forecast costs and capacity, intelligent move-management to orchestrate relocations, and dynamic stack planning with drag-and-drop floor-plan layouts. These features aim to reduce disruption, improve efficiency, and provide financial clarity before changes are made. Fresh capital will be directed toward expanding operations and accelerating product development. The article did not disclose revenue, user numbers, or other operating metrics.

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