San Francisco · Pre-Seed–Seed · 2 people tracked
Also known as KEARNY JACKSON VC, LLC · KEARNY JACKSON, LLC
Investment thesis
Kearny Jackson positions itself as the first investor for ambitious, relentless technology founders, specializing in the earliest stages of company building. The firm emphasizes hands-on support from day zero, transparent communication, and moving quickly to help founders navigate the challenges of scaling. Its investment approach is product-first, looking for the spark that drives founders to build. The firm invests across consumer, robotics, AI/SaaS, infrastructure, and fintech, backing companies such as Cognition, Gong, Figma, and Notion as they grow from inception into enduring industry leaders.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 25, 2026.
Team · 2 people
from the firm's website
What they invest in
from 15 of 15 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×11Enterprise Software ×9SaaS ×9Data & Infrastructure ×4Developer Tools ×3Cloud Computing ×2Consumer ×2Fintech ×2
HQs:United States×11Italy×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 8 portfolio companiesFounding team size:2 founders×23 founders×34+ founders×3
Where their founders studiedfrom 17 founders with education data
DTU - Technical University of Denmark ×3Università degli Studi di Padova ×3University of Pennsylvania ×3Harvard University ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 20 founders with career history
McKinsey & Company ×34XP Collective ×2Addepar ×2DTU Fotonik ×2Evertale ×2Greylock Partners ×2Twilio ×2
Investments · 15 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 12020 · 13 dated
Bending Spoons acquires established digital products—including Vimeo, Evernote, WeTransfer, Meetup, and Brightcove—to own and operate them long-term, developing new features and AI capabilities across them.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerSaaSMilan (Mi), IT
Luca Ferrari(Executive Officer, Director)inLuca Querella(Director)inMatteo Danieli(Director)inFrancesco Patarnello(Vice President and Executive Director)inTomasz Greber(Co-Founder)inDavide Giorgio Andrea Scarpazza(Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer)
Co-investorsEndeavor CatalystHighland EuropeNimble PartnersPositive Sum CapitalSocium Ventures
Figma is a collaborative design platform that enables teams to create apps, websites, and products through shared design tools integrated with development workflows and AI-powered design assistance.
Developer ToolsSaaSSan Francisco, US
Evan Wallace(Co-Founder (former Chief Technology Officer))Dylan Field(Co-founder & CEO)inPraveer Melwani(Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer)Kris Rasmussen(Chief Technology Officer)Shaunt Voskanian(Chief Revenue Officer)Brendan Mulligan(General Counsel & Secretary)
Co-investors137 VenturesAlkeon InnovationAndreessen HorowitzAtlassian VenturesBase PartnersCoatue Management+26 more
AngelList's investor management platform provides tools for venture capital and private equity firms to streamline LP interactions, automate fund operations, and deliver reporting and portfolio updates through a branded digital experience.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Avlok Kohli(CEO)
Co-investorsAccelerator VenturesAccompliceAltra VentureAngel Collective Opportunity FundAtacama VenturesBase Venture Management, Inc.+39 more
Bedrock Robotics develops autonomous robotic systems for construction sites, applying self-driving vehicle technology to address skilled labor shortages in building, energy, data centers, and factories.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechRobotics
Boris Sofman(Founder & CEO)inKevin Peterson(Founder)Ajay Gummalla(Founder)Tom Eliaz(Founder)in
Co-investors8VCC4 VenturesCapitalGDeviation CapitalEclipse VenturesEmergence Capital Partners+6 more
Cara develops domain-specific AI software for insurance agencies and brokerages, combining insurance industry expertise with artificial intelligence to modernize insurance operations.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareInsurTech
Co-investorsNew Stack VenturesV1 VCValia Ventures
Cognition develops Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer agent that plans, writes, tests, and deploys production code within existing development environments to augment human engineering teams.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Scott Wu(Co-founder & CEO)inWalden Yan(Founder)Steven Hao(Founder)in
Co-investors137 Ventures8VCAbstract VenturesAlpha Wave GlobalAntiAvenir Growth Capital+11 more
Cortex provides a platform for SRE teams to enforce production readiness standards, prevent incidents through automated monitoring and ownership tracking, and resolve issues faster during outages.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Ganesh Datta(Founder)inAnish Dhar(Founder)inNikhil Unni(Founder)in
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundCross Creek AdvisorsIVP (Institutional Venture Partners)SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)Scale Venture PartnersSequoia Capital+1 more
Genesis Computing builds an agentic data engineering system that enables enterprises to design, reason about, and evolve data workflows faster using AI agents that understand complex data landscapes.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareNew York City, US
Justin Langseth(Chief Technology Officer)inMatthew J. Glickman(Founder)Matt Glickman(Chief Executive Officer)inAnton Gorshkov(Head of Engineering)in
Co-investors.406 VenturesNextGen Venture Partners
Gong provides AI agents for revenue teams that automate sales workflows including coaching, forecasting, deal management, and customer engagement.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US
Amit Bendov(CEO & Founder)inEilon Reshef(Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder)
Co-investorsBattery VenturesCisco InvestmentsCoatue ManagementIndex VenturesNorwest Venture PartnersSalesforce Ventures+2 more
MotherDuck provides a serverless cloud analytics database built on DuckDB, enabling users to query and understand their data more easily.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureSeattle, US
Jordan Tigani(Co-founder and Chief Duck-Herder)inHannes Mühleisen(Co-founder)Mark Raasveldt(Co-founder)Tino TereshkoRyan Boyd(Founder)in
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersAndreessen HorowitzEastlink Capital PartnersFelicis VenturesFirestreak VenturesMadrona Venture Group+7 more
Notion offers a workspace platform for teams to manage projects, documentation, and tasks through customizable views like Gantt charts and Kanban boards.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSSan Francisco, US
Co-investorsA.Capital VenturesA*Draft Ventures LlcFirst Round CapitalLong Journey VenturesNight Capital+10 more
Sandstone provides AI-driven intake, triage, and matter management software that captures requests from channels like Slack, email, and ticketing systems, automatically handles routine clarifications, and routes work by type, urgency, value, and risk.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechSaaSNew York, US
Nick Fleisher(Co-founder)inJarryd Strydom(Co-founder)inLiam Germain(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsSequoia CapitalLightspeed Venture PartnersMantis CapitalWebb Investment Network
Speak is an AI-powered language learning platform that uses a proprietary curriculum to teach users conversational language through personalized lessons, practice exercises, and real-time interaction with a tutor.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerEdTechSocialSan Francisco, US
Andrew Hsu(Founder)in
Co-investorsAccelAngel Collective Opportunity FundCollaborative FundFirebolt Ventures Management Company, LlcGSV VenturesKhosla Ventures+6 more
Unit provides financial infrastructure and embedded finance technology that lets companies build and offer banking products such as accounts, cards, and payments.
Data & InfrastructureEnergyFintechSaaSTulsa, US
Itai Damti(CEO)G. Leslie Austin(Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer)David P. Dunham(Senior Vice President - Business Development)David T. Merrill(President, Chief Executive Officer and Director)Robert Anderson(Director)Alan Carr(Director)
Co-investorsAccelAlephBetter Tomorrow VenturesOperator StackTLV PartnersAFG Partners+2 more
Voiceops is an AI platform that analyzes customer conversations across calls, email, SMS, and chat to generate structured business intelligence.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechNew York City, US
Ethan Barhydt(Founder/CEO)in
Co-investorsBonfire VenturesFour Acres CapitalTwelve BelowY CombinatorLowercase CapitalMana Ventures+3 more
Exits · 2
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioBending SpoonsNASDAQ: BSPFigmaNYSE: FIG
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Cognition AI · techcrunch.com · Aug 19, 2026
Bending Spoons · blog.pragmaticengineer.com · Aug 5, 2026
AngelList · axios.com · Jul 18, 2026
Figma · news.crunchbase.com · Jul 17, 2026
Notion · finsmes.com · Jul 16, 2026
Bedrock Robotics · techcrunch.com · Jul 5, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Kearny Jackson made?
- Kearny Jackson has 9 tracked investments, 2 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO.
- What stage does Kearny Jackson invest at?
- Kearny Jackson invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What is Kearny Jackson's typical check size?
- Kearny Jackson typically writes checks of $200K – $2M.
- What sectors does Kearny Jackson focus on?
- Kearny Jackson focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Consumer, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Robotics, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Kearny Jackson located?
- Kearny Jackson is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Does Kearny Jackson lead rounds?
- Kearny Jackson typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does Kearny Jackson co-invest with?
- Kearny Jackson most often shares deals with Sequoia Capital, 8VC, Andreessen Horowitz, among 74 tracked co-investors.
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Co-investors · 86
Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm that partners with founders to build technology companies.
Angel Collective Opportunity Fund (ACOF) is a generalist 'collaborative' opportunity fund built on top of several microfunds, enabling select emerging managers to deploy follow-on capital into their top companies from a pooled vehicle rather than raising individual SPVs.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, known for pioneering the platform model with a large team of operators supporting founders across stages.
Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies focused on technology, mobile, and clean energy sectors, including biotechnology applications. The firm provides capital and strategic support to entrepreneurs developing breakthrough technologies across multiple markets.
First Round Capital is an early-stage venture firm that backs companies at their earliest moments, often before they are named, across enterprise, AI, consumer, healthcare, fintech and hardware sectors.
Mana Ventures is a venture capital firm backing founders building companies in advanced AI and other frontier technologies, supported by an LP network of founders, investors, executives, operators, and specialists.
Redpoint Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 1999 by former partners from leading venture firms, focusing on early-stage technology companies across multiple sectors. The firm leverages its partners' technology investment experience and an extensive network of entrepreneurs and industry contacts to support portfolio company growth.
Long Journey Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that backs unconventional, 'magically weird' founders and ideas, positioning itself as a hands-on, community-oriented partner to its companies.
Norwest Venture Partners is an investment firm whose growth equity team backs private, profitable, fast-growing companies, providing capital and hands-on support through its 'invited guest' approach.
Battery Ventures is a global investment firm that has backed more than 450 companies over its 40-year history, operating its investment staff as a single global unit.
Amplify Partners is a venture capital firm that backs technical founders — engineers, researchers, and scientists — building companies across AI/ML, data infrastructure, developer tools, and life sciences.
Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund is an early-stage investment vehicle run by founders Todd Goldberg and Rahul Vohra, who write $300k-$500k checks into early-stage startups and help with product/market fit, go-to-market, and future fundraising.
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Not Boring CapitalWingConversion CapitalLudlow VenturesGeneral CatalystGV (Google Ventures)Founder CollectiveNotable CapitalUncork CapitalBenchmarkUberKrakenAtomicoBalderton CapitalFirstMark CapitalOffline VenturesRRE VenturesLiquid VenturesNextView VenturesSignalFireLookout VenturesSoftBank Vision FundMeritech Capital PartnersBond Capital ManagementStride VCAcrew CapitalSierra VenturesBuckley Ventures Management Company LlcParadigmWEEKENDBanana CapitalTq Ventures LlcEQT VenturesTribe Capital FirstlookArray Ventures Management LlcUnusual VenturesAwesome People VenturesBetaworks Ventures Management, Llcboldstart venturesPoint72 VenturesAcequia Capital (AceCap)Earl Grey CapitalShrug CapitalNewView CapitalHOF CapitalDig Ventures Management LimitedIVCMischiefBasementSeed Club VenturesKickstartcLabsSolana VenturesDivergenceRTP GlobalPeterson VenturesLife BiosciencesNational Science FoundationSID Venture PartnersStripeEthereal Ventures Management Ltd.Fontinalis PartnersHashedVenture Catalysts | India's First Integrated IncubatorMusha VenturesSlack FundCambrian VenturesSommet ABAsymmetric Capital PartnersAtlantic LabsTrail Run CapitalGround Up VenturesAnfaYOBE Ventures
Firms observed investing alongside Kearny Jackson, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Kearny Jackson's recorded portfolio.
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