About KittyHawk Ventures
KittyHawk Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. It is primarily based out of Santa Monica, United States. As of Jan 2024, KittyHawk Ventures has invested in 27 companies. It primarily invests in Series A round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and HealthTech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series A round of Lykos Overall, KittyHawk Ventures portfolio has seen 4 acquisitions, namely Kezar Life Sciences and AMPLY. A lot of funds co-invest with KittyHawk Ventures, with names like True Ventures sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. KittyHawk Ventures has team of 22 people including 2 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Series A, Seed & 1 more
Portfolio Acquisitions
Portfolio Soonicorns
KittyHawk Ventures' List of Top Investments
KittyHawk Ventures has a portfolio of 27 companies. Their most notable investments are in MycoMedica and Xplore.Their portfolio spans across United States, Canada, Poland and 1 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, HealthTech and 19 other sectors, across stages such as Series A, Seed and 1 more. Here is the list of top investments by KittyHawk Ventures:1. Ripcord
Provider of AI-powered robotic document digitization and intelligent data extraction platform. The company combines proprietary robotics with optical character recognition, natural language processing, and machine learning to scan physical records, ingest digital files, classify structured and unstructured documents, and extract searchable data at scale. Its cloud content platform lets organizations access, search, and integrate this data into systems of record, enabling automated workflows, compliance, and analytics for sectors such as financial services, manufacturing, real estate, and the public sector.
Key facts about Ripcord
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: Hayward (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $147M
- Employee Count: 113 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Icon Ventures, Hone Capital and 23 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Apr 16, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Vytalize Health offers a mobile app that allows patients to book an on-demand house call at their own place. The patients are first screened by their nurse using a questionnaire to check the need for a home visit. After initial screening, a home visit is made by the doctor to the patient's convenience. Vytaliz charges a flat fee per home visit.
Key facts about Vytalize Health
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $170M
- Employee Count: 252 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Hudson River Capital Partners, Wavemaker 360 and 11 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Feb 22, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. 1QBit
1QB Information Technologies (1QBit) is a quantum computing software company which has created a hardware-agnostic platform (can be integrated with both classical and quantum computers) for performing quantum computation. Provides an API endpoint which the industry partners can integrate into their existing applications. Partnered with D-Wave Systems, its software reformulates optimization problems into the quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) format necessary to compute with D-Wave's quantum annealing processors. The company is primarily focused on applications such as computational finance, the energy industry, and the life sciences.
Key facts about 1QBit
- Founded Year: 2012
- Location: Vancouver (Canada)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $45M
- Employee Count: 51 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Gen 1 Capital, CME Group and 17 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, Jun 29, 2018, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Verity
AI-powered inventory tracking and management platform. It develops autonomous indoor drones. Its features include obstacle avoidance, autonomous navigation, error management, and inventory management. It caters to the logistics and warehousing industries.
Key facts about Verity
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: Zurich (Switzerland)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $76.1M
- Employee Count: 135 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Qualcomm Ventures, Exor and 10 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Jul 11, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Developer of drugs targeting protein homeostasis for autoimmune disorders. The company develops therapies that harness master regulators of cellular function to inhibit multiple drivers of disease via single, powerful targets. The product pipeline includes KZR-616 and KZR-261 for autoimmune disease and hematologic tumor types.
Key facts about Kezar Life Sciences
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $78.4M
- Employee Count: 20 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Amgen Business Development, BB Biotech and 15 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Jul 21, 2017, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
KittyHawk Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
KittyHawk Ventures has invested in 27 companies over the last 8 years, with an average of 2 new investments annually in the last 5 years. Its most recent first time investment was in Lykos and most recent follow-on round was in Vytalize Health.Year | No. of Investments | ||
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1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2022 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
KittyHawk Ventures' Investments by Stage
KittyHawk Ventures has made 7 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $36.4M, 3 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $7.37M and 1 investment in Series B stage with an average round size of $16.2M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Series A | 7 |
Seed | 3 |
Series B | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
KittyHawk Ventures' Investments by Sector
KittyHawk Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the High Tech, Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech, Consumer, Enterprise Applications and Healthcare. Notably, it has invested in 22 Tech companies, 20 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 11 Software companies and at least 7 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
High Tech | 5 |
Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech | 3 |
Consumer | 3 |
Enterprise Applications | 3 |
Healthcare | 2 |
Others | 13 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
KittyHawk Ventures' Investments by Geography
KittyHawk Ventures has made most investments in United States (10), followed by Switzerland where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 10 |
Switzerland | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
KittyHawk Ventures' recent investments
KittyHawk Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by KittyHawk Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Jan 05, 2024 | United States | Series A | 4521 | [+6] | |
Mar 06, 2023 | United States | Seed | 4072 | [+5] | |
Aug 30, 2022 | United States | Seed | 2667 | [+5] | |
Jun 01, 2022 | United States | Series A | 4630 | [+1] | |
Apr 11, 2022 | United States | Series B | 3855 |
Acquired companies in KittyHawk Ventures' Portfolio
4 companies from KittyHawk Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Kezar Life Sciences in Mar 2026 by Aurinia Pharmaceuticals for $*****.Here are KittyHawk Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 30, 2026 | - | - | 9924 | |
Aug 03, 2022 | - | - | 9441 | |
Dec 07, 2021 | Apr 24, 2020 | Series A | 2373 | |
Feb 19, 2020 | - | - | 3613 |
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Team profile of KittyHawk Ventures
KittyHawk Ventures has a team of 22 members including 2 Partners, 8 Venture Partners and 2 Principals located in United States and Italy. KittyHawk Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of top team members in KittyHawk Ventures:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
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Partner | - | - | - | |
Partner | San Antonio | - | ||
Venture Partner | United States | - | - | |
Venture Partner | San Francisco | - | - | |
Venture Partner | Saint Vincent | - | - | |
Venture Partner | United States | - | - | |
Venture Partner | United States | - | ||
Venture Partner | Seattle | - | - | |
Venture Partner | - | - | - | |
Venture Partner | - | - | - | |
Principal | - | - | - |
Co-investors of KittyHawk Ventures
Over the past 8 years, 57 investors have co-invested in KittyHawk Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before KittyHawk Ventures: Hudson River Capital Partners and Dreamit have invested in rounds before KittyHawk Ventures. There is 1 company where Hudson River Capital Partners has invested before KittyHawk Ventures and 1 company where Dreamit has invested before KittyHawk Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of KittyHawk Ventures: 47 investors entered a company along with KittyHawk Ventures. These include investors like True Ventures (2 companies).
- Invested after KittyHawk Ventures: A total of 8 investors have invested in KittyHawk Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Enhanced Healthcare Partners (1 company), Monroe Capital (1 company) and Qualcomm Ventures (1 company).
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