King Tide

King Tide is a venture and product design studio in Los Angeles. It backs early-stage founders with capital and hands-on help, and places design and engineering talent with growing teams.

What King Tide offers

• Venture building — investment plus practical support to build products from scratch.
• Embedded product teams — designers and engineers who join a client team.
• UX, UI and product design — design for web and mobile products.
• Web and mobile apps — engineering of digital products.
• Workshops and investor decks — sessions and pitch materials for founders.

Who it works with

King Tide has worked with startups, enterprises, universities and governments in healthtech, fintech, climate tech and blockchain. Projects include the Findigs renting platform, a portfolio dashboard called Raziel, a tenant screening product for a New York proptech firm, phone financing for a Mexican fintech and a student expense-sharing app.

Key facts

• Based in: Los Angeles, with a team in Mexico City
• Founded: 2014
• Team: more than 40 product, design and engineering staff