KittyHawk Ventures

If KittyHawk sounds like a good fit for your moonshot, we hope to hear from you and look forward to working together to positively change the world and bring your vision to life

Learn More About Our Team We have a growth mindset and love to learn Here are some of our favorite areas

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

Our first order bit We want to work with extraordinary leaders and teams Passion, smarts, a focused and unwavering team; that’s where the magic happens

Deep IP or other competitive advantages that create moats around your business and enable you to win in the long run.

If we’re going to work hard on something together, let’s burn the midnight oil to create something that can be HUGE!

We’re attracted to companies that are solving hard problems. Not Riemann Hypothesis kind of hard, but close is good.

Exceptional humans with big visions. We love it when our minds are blown and an entrepreneur has discovered something that changes the way we look at what is possible.

While we’re not an “Impact fund”, we are very focused on positive change and believe that technology can be a force multiplier for good.

We write first checks, but our sweet spot is late seed and Series A. Ideally there’s a core team in place and a product or service in, or about to be, in market.

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets: Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!” KittyHawk is proud to have partnered with these bold organizations and their founders

1QBit redefines intractable problems by reframing them to achieve superior results using the most effective quantum and classical processors built to date 1QBit works with partners to build industry applications on their hardware-agnostic platform to produce the best available results today, while continually improving these results through the ability to switch the underlying solver as new releases and hardware architectures are developed

Amply simplifies electrification by providing easy and convenient charging solutions and infrastructure for enterprises and municipalities The company’s mission is to make charging fast and hassle-free, with charging stations that have been used over 35M times, enabling around 200M miles of zero tailpipe emission driving The company has been rebranded as BP Pulse after being acquired

Collab Health is building a global health research engine powered and guided by you to make holistic, precise, unbiased, and personalized health optimization guidance available to every connected person Their gamified D2C self-care experience rewards the biohackers, health optimizers, worried well, and complex disease sufferers who conduct personal research for self-improvement and makes their anonymized data available for research & analysis

Colossal, a bioscience and genetics company, spun out of George Church’s lab at Harvard, is focused on rapidly advancing the field of species de-extinction Using CRISPR and other genome editing technologies Colossal will pioneer a practical, working model of de-extinction to apply to the Woolly Mammoth and other species

Cornelis Networks is a technology leader delivering purpose-built high-performance fabrics for High Performance Computing (HPC), High Performance Data Analytics (HPDA), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to leading commercial, scientific, academic, and government organizations Their product offering, Omni-Path, is built on ~$1 bn investment over 20 years that combines the best aspects of two of the incumbent high-speed interconnects in the market - Cray Aries and InfiniBand, to deliver a solution superior to both

CytoSPAR is a bio-molecular engineering company CytoSPAR is currently developing and commercializing the proprietary Surface Programmable Activation Receptor (SPAR™) diagnostic and therapeutic platform designed to detect deadly viruses and bacteria The company's platform is a cell-based targeting system that is highly sensitive and provides results in less than 10 minutes, enabling doctors to detect deadly viruses at comparably low costs

Envel is a revolutionary, AI-driven, mobile-only bank that allows users to automate the management of their money with zero effort to build toward personal prosperity The company was founded at Harvard, has funding from MIT, and is driven by a desire to help millions of young Americans avoid the pitfalls of bad money management, starting with the least challenging cohort of 18-21 year-olds and as their AI systems become smarter, they aim to address the entire lifecycle of a user

Figure is transforming financial services through blockchain, bringing speed, efficiency and savings to both consumers and institutions Figure continues to unveil a series of fintech firsts across the capital markets, investment management, and banking and payments sectors Figure leverages Provenance Blockchain (a proof-of-stake blockchain) for loan origination, servicing, financing and now private fund services

Form Bio spun-out from Colossal Biosciences and is comprise of Colossal's software business It is a cutting-edge research and discovery platform for individuals and enterprises in life sciences, dedicated to empowering scientists to harness the proliferation of data and computing power that has transformed the science of discovery Form offers end-to-end integration of the discovery process with intuitive and easy-to-use software applications, combined with an open and adaptable collaborative environment

Founded by Fulbright Scholar and Matternet co-founder, Paola Santana, GLASS is in business to revolutionize how governments buy by helping Local, State and Federal agencies make inclusive, sustainable, and compliant purchases through our government-exclusive marketplace A cloud-based platform enabling compliant transactions between government buyers and pre-verified vendors without bids or paperwork

GPR (formerly WaveSense) is introducing Ground Positioning Radar™—the product that defines the reliable operation of advanced driver assist systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles (AVs) in areas where others fail Accurate within centimeters, it enables accurate and predictable vehicle positioning by mapping and tracking to subterranean features

Inner Cosmos is building a brand new “minimally invasive” class of brain-computer interfaces to treat depression ' The “Digital Pill”, the smallest, most advanced brain chip in the world, is a hyper-personalised, precise, and subtle electricity-based solution that uses your natural brain communication to disrupt depression pathways The company is reharmonising the mind with higher efficacy than pharmaceuticals, without the side effects of drugs

Jetti makes it possible to extract copper from low-grade primary sulfides, such as chalcopyrite, the world’s most abundant copper mineral ore Jetti’s commercially proven and proprietary catalytic technology addresses the key technical problem preventing recovery of trillions of dollars of trapped resources The company applies its catalysts to hundreds of millions of tons of ore, and significantly increase copper yields in a cost effective and environmentally responsible manner

Jiritsu provides verifiable compute for smart contracts by delivering a no-code trustless computer enabled by consensus A decentralized solution and protocol utilize flexible pre-built connectors and tasks to augment smart contracts with off-chain computers The Jiritsu blockchain elevates the “black box” of computed algorithms by illuminating the decision system that is inside — making AI and compute transparent and trustless

Kezar Life Sciences is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company discovering and developing breakthrough treatments for immune-mediated and oncologic disorders The company is pioneering first-in-class, small-molecule therapies that harness master regulators of cellular function to inhibit multiple drivers of disease via single, powerful targets Zetomipzomib, its lead development asset, a selective immunoproteasome inhibitor is in a Phase 2 clinical trial in lupus nephritis, also holding the potential to address multiple chronic immune-mediated diseases

Laetro is an infinitely scalable virtual creative studio powered by the world's top creative talent Laetro is on a mission to commission digital art from the world's best artists Its proprietary technology allows you to order creative on-demand, anytime you need it Laetro connects talent with business teams where they work, seamlessly facilitating project management for the entire creative process end-to-end, enabling the team to deliver high quality creative on-time and on-budget