KIX.Pitch us
Fog rolling through the golden foothills above Silicon Valley at dawn

Venture Capital — Menlo Park, California

The first check for founders who see it before everyone else.

KIX leads pre-seed and seed rounds for technical founders in AI, developer tools, fintech, climate and health — and stays for the decade it takes.

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Assets under management
$420M
Companies backed
64
Exits to date
11
Median time to decision
72h

Our thesis

Small fund.
Big conviction.

We back a handful of companies each year, so every founder gets a partner's full attention — not an associate's calendar slot.

  1. 01

    First check, first call.

    We lead pre-seed and seed rounds and write the first institutional check. When something breaks at 2am, we want to be the first number you dial.

  2. 02

    Conviction over consensus.

    One partner championing a deal is enough. We decide in days, not quarters, and we tell you why — yes or no.

  3. 03

    Operators, not observers.

    Every partner has built and scaled a company. We help with the unglamorous work: first hires, pricing, the second fundraise.

  4. 04

    Ten-year horizons.

    Category-defining companies take a decade. Our fund structure and reserves are built to stay with you through every round.

Portfolio

Companies we
were early to.

  • AI InfrastructureSeed · 2023

    Lattice Labs

    GPU scheduling for teams training frontier-scale models.

  • FintechPre-seed · 2022

    NorthwindAcquired

    Treasury automation for internet-native businesses.

  • Developer ToolsSeed · 2024

    Parallax

    Deterministic replay for distributed systems.

  • ClimateSeries A · 2021

    Halcyon Grid

    Software-defined batteries for the commercial grid.

  • HealthSeed · 2023

    Ostia

    Clinical-grade sensing from consumer wearables.

  • AI InfrastructurePre-seed · 2025

    Vector Nine

    Evaluation infrastructure for agentic software.

  • Developer ToolsPre-seed · 2022

    QuarryAcquired

    The data warehouse that lives in your repo.

  • FintechSeries A · 2020

    Meridian PayIPO

    Cross-border payroll rails for global teams.

  • ClimateSeed · 2024

    Tidewater

    Ocean-based carbon removal, measured to the ton.

  • AI InfrastructureSeed · 2024

    Kestrel

    Inference at the edge for robotics fleets.

  • HealthPre-seed · 2025

    Brightline Bio

    Generative design for antibody therapeutics.

  • Developer ToolsSeries A · 2021

    Foundry OS

    The control plane for internal platforms.

Showing 12 of 12 companies

Team

Built by people
who've built.

The KIX studio in Menlo Park, overlooking the foothills
  • MO

    Maya Okafor

    Founding Partner

    Previously co-founded a developer platform acquired by a public cloud provider.

  • DR

    Daniel Reyes

    General Partner

    Former VP Engineering; scaled infrastructure from ten to ten thousand servers.

  • PN

    Priya Natarajan

    General Partner

    Fintech operator and early product lead at two payments unicorns.

  • TL

    Theo Lindqvist

    Partner, Climate & Hard Tech

    PhD in materials science; built and sold a grid-storage startup.

Pitch us

No warm intro
required.

Some of our best investments came through a cold email. Tell us what you're building — a partner reads every submission personally.

Check size
$500K – $5M
Response
Within 7 days