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Kickstart

Kickstart

Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals

Cottonwood Heights, Utah 16,213 followers

Partnering with founders in Utah, Colorado, and the Mountain West since 2008.

About us

We partner with great early-stage companies based in Utah, Colorado, and the broader Mountain West. Some of those greats we've supported at the pre-seed and seed stage over last the 17 years include Lucid, Podium, Angel Studios, Galileo, Spiff, Cotopaxi, Music AI, Nomi Health, Pura, Rad AI, Nursa, Sondermind, Self, and Alianza. Find out more here: https://www.kickstart.com/

Website
https://www.kickstart.com/
Industry
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Company size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Cottonwood Heights, Utah
Type
Privately Held
Founded
2008
Specialties
Seed Investing, Venture Capital, SaaS, Consumer, Pre Seed Investing, Early Stage Investing, B2B SaaS, Marketplaces, Fintech, Healthtech, and Hardware

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  • Kickstart reposted this

    Want to know the truth about websites? Check out what we’ve been cooking at Anagram. Anyone who works on a website has felt the same frustration. Every day, thousands of people visit your site, and every single one sees the exact same thing. Most of them leave without finding what they’re looking for. At Anagram, we’re changing that. Today, we’re announcing our new platform, the Anagram Studio. The Anagram Studio is the easiest way to create AI agents for personalized experiences on your site. This isn’t a one-size-fits-all chatbot (we hate those). It’s a platform where you can craft an on-brand custom agent for any idea you have, without any technical expertise. Want to help your visitors find the perfect product? Collect and qualify leads? Just make your site more fun and engaging? With the Anagram Studio, you can create an experience that feels native and meets every one of your customers where they are. We’ve been piloting the Studio with dozens of companies. Now we’re opening up access for anyone to build with it. Sign up for early access with the link below. We can’t wait to see what you build. https://lnkd.in/g4mRdAVg

  • Excited to see the Anagram team take the next step with the launch of Anagram Studio. What started as a way to answer shopper questions has evolved into something much bigger: giving brands the ability to build intelligent, personalized onsite experiences, without engineering bottlenecks or heavy lift. From recommendations and surveys to sizing help and dealer locators, this is about making ecommerce feel more human and more helpful at scale. Huge credit to the team for listening closely to customers and building where real demand exists. Congrats to the Anagram crew on opening the Studio waitlist! We can’t wait to see what brands create next.

    Since Bryce DeFigueiredo, Jeremy Fischer, and I launched our V1 two years ago, Anagram has answered millions of live shopper questions from “Can I cook with real wood on this Gozney pizza oven?” to “What bindings fit these Armada ARV 106 skis?”. What did we learn along the way? To start, fast and personal answers drive better engagement and conversion rates. But product answers were just the first stop. We’re lucky to work with some truly epic marketing and ecom leaders with endless ideas to reinvent the most uninspired and tired parts of their sites. That’s why we’re launching Anagram Studio. With Anagram Studio, anyone can build AI-powered experiences without writing a single line of code. Anagram Experiences start with simple goals. Do you want to capture more emails or leads? Do you want to help shoppers narrow down large catalogs to a few personalized recommendations? Or, what about thoughtfully helping each shopper find the right size, or even find a place to try on in real life? From hyper-personalized recommendations, customer surveys, bundle builders, dealer locators and smart pop-ups, marketers are making their onsite experience more intelligent and interactive, without any extra development resources or expensive agencies. It’s been a blast to see so many world class brands use Anagram so far and it's time for us to open up the Anagram Studio waitlist. You can sign up now for early access. Link in comments.

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    In GTM, AI is only as good as the data behind it. That’s why today I'm proud to announce a strategic partnership with ZoomInfo! Alysio puts your entire go-to-market tech stack in conversation mode. GTM teams can ask questions, get answers, and take action across their tools using natural language. Now, with ZoomInfo’s real-time B2B intelligence built directly into Alysio, every answer is grounded in the most accurate and up-to-date data so teams can act faster, smarter, and with more precision. Find, enrich, target, and reach your most important personas in seconds. No exports. No switching tools. From question to action, instantly. Your GTM stack, unified and intelligent. Thanks to James Roth for seeing our unified vision from the very beginning and looking forward to illustrating what modern GTM looks like: Trusted data meets intelligent execution.

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  • Most AI GTM tools don’t fail because of AI. They fail because the data is wrong. That’s why what Alysio is building with ZoomInfo matters: real-time B2B intelligence, embedded directly into how teams think and act. This is what modern GTM should look like.

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    AI is only as good as the data behind it. That’s why we’re excited to partner with ZoomInfo. Alysio puts your entire go-to-market tech stack in conversation mode. GTM teams can ask questions, get answers, and take action across their tools using natural language. With ZoomInfo’s real-time B2B intelligence built directly into Alysio, every answer is grounded in the most accurate and up-to-date data so teams can act faster, smarter, and with more precision. Find, enrich, target, and reach your most important personas in seconds. No exports. No switching tools. From question to action, instantly. This is what modern GTM looks like: trusted data meets intelligent execution.

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  • AI regulation is evolving fast and founders need to understand what’s coming. Join Gavin Christensen and Margaret Busse on Dec 10 at 9 AM MT for a Silicon Slopes Chamber discussion on how emerging AI policies will impact innovation, compliance, and company-building in Utah and beyond. If you’re a tech leader, investor, or operator, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss. 👉 Register: https://lnkd.in/gwhq5eg8

  • Corporate finance teams deserve better than endless CSV exports and manual reconciliation. They deserve time for real strategic thinking. If you’re a finance leader ready to level up your team’s time and impact, Luca is worth a look. SOC2 certified and already delivering ROI for high-growth teams!

    Corporate finance teams spend too much time exporting CSVs, cleaning data, and reconciling numbers, and not enough time doing what they truly want: data-driven strategic thinking. Today, we’re excited to publicly introduce Luca — an AI FP&A and strategic finance analyst on your team that can save you 400+ hours a year and unlock strategic finance at scale. With Luca, teams can work in our embedded spreadsheet environment or via chat to get rich, finance-ready outputs: commentaries, graphs, and tables that tie back to the underlying data. And Luca is not just an Excel agent. We set up secure, encrypted, read-only data pipelines to your ERP, CRM, HRIS, online store, payments platform, or data warehouse. You can also give Luca more context with files in our Context area. Our team then models this data with you, so it’s AI-ready. The result: Luca can write detailed analyses and commentary using journal-entry–level data while confidently incorporating context from your other key systems. One CFO of a $75–120M revenue company told me after a demo a couple months ago: “You’ve got to build this, Wil! You just have to!” We’d love to see how you’ll put Luca to work — especially if you’re a CFO, VP Finance, Head of FP&A, or Head of Strategic Finance. We are SOC2 Certified. 👉 Learn more at https://payflow.ai or message me (or anyone on our team) to chat. cc: Stephen Hutchens Sam Rosman Austin Herold Bennett Bishop Payflow

  • Exciting news! 🎉 Crew, the fintech building the world’s most powerful checking account, just announced a $3.8M seed round. Crew is reimagining how people bank, budget, and save by combining high-yield banking with proactive budgeting—all in one simple, easy-to-use app. Congratulations, team! 🍾

  • Kickstart reposted this

    Wrapped up a great trip to Colorado last week! Always energizing to spend time with founders, friends, and our Kickstart team there. Colorado continues to be one of the fastest-growing innovation hubs in the Mountain West. The combination of talent, lifestyle, and entrepreneurial drive is fueling a startup ecosystem that’s only getting stronger. We’re thrilled to be part of it. Over the years, we’ve been fortunate to back some incredible Colorado companies. And in 2025 alone, we’ve added new investments in Nitric, Pluto Bio, Venvee, a testament to the energy and momentum we’re seeing in the market. Big thanks to Dalton Wright and Matt Smith for their leadership and partnership on the ground. We’re bullish on Colorado. The entrepreneurs building here are tackling meaningful problems with grit, vision, and creativity. Excited for what’s ahead and proud to be building alongside this community. Highlighting our previously backed CO companies: Havenly, SonderMind, Idaciti, Cheddar Up, Nomad, Federated Computer, LifeSpot, LIT, Straddle, Sweater

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