San Francisco · Pre-Seed–Seed · 5 people tracked
Also known as KEARNY JACKSON VC, LLC · KEARNY JACKSON, LLC
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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 Sep 15, 2026.
Team · 5 people
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What they invest in
from 21 of 24 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×14SaaS ×14Enterprise Software ×12Data & Infrastructure ×4Developer Tools ×4Cloud Computing ×3Fintech ×3Sales Tech ×3
HQs:United States×15Germany×1Italy×1Pakistan×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 9 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×12 founders×23 founders×34+ founders×3
Where their founders studiedfrom 21 founders with education data
DTU - Technical University of Denmark ×3Harvard University ×3Università degli Studi di Padova ×3University of Pennsylvania ×3Tel Aviv University ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 22 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×15Engineering ×8
Where their founders worked beforefrom 24 founders with career history
McKinsey & Company ×3Waymo ×34XP Collective ×2Addepar ×2Carnegie Mellon University ×2DTU Fotonik ×2Evertale ×2Twilio ×2
2 founders hold a PhD (of 23 with degree data)
Investments · 24 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 42025 · 12023 · 12022 · 22021 · 22020 · 12018 · 213 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)inKris Rasmussen(Chief Technology Officer)inShaunt Voskanian(Chief Revenue Officer)inBrendan Mulligan(General Counsel & Secretary)in
Co-investors137 Ventures1517Alkeon InnovationAmplify.LAAndreessen HorowitzAtlassian Ventures+41 more
Aircall is an AI-powered cloud platform that combines intelligent voice agents, automated workflows, and real-time coaching for sales and support teams.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York, US
Xavier Durand(Founder)inJonathan AnguelovinOlivier PailhesinPierre-Baptiste BéchuinQuentin NickmansinScott Chancellor(CEO)in
Co-investors3founders500 GlobalBalderton CapitalFJ LabsFundersClubHemisphere Ventures LLC+12 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)in
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)inAjay Gummalla(Founder)inTom Eliaz(Founder)in
Co-investors8VCC4 VenturesCapitalGDeviation CapitalEclipse VenturesEmergence Capital Partners+6 more
Cara is an AI platform that automates sales and servicing workflows for insurance agencies, brokerages and wholesalers.
Co-investorsConnecticut InnovationsRho Capital PartnersRho Ventures
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
Cara Care builds a digital therapy program for irritable bowel syndrome and other digestive problems, combining gastroenterology and psychological research into a personalized treatment.
Digital HealthHealthtechMedical DevicesWellness & FitnessBerlin, DE
Co-investorsBrick Capital 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)inSteven Hao(Founder)in
Co-investors137 Ventures8VCAbstract VenturesAlpha Wave GlobalAndreessen HorowitzAnti+12 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(CTO and co-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+5 more
CreditBook provides embedded financial infrastructure—including banking, lending, and financing tools with white-label UI, SDKs, and APIs—that platforms and partners can integrate to offer financial services to small businesses.
FintechSaaS
Hisham Adamjee(Founder)inHasib Malik(Founder)in
Co-investorsAmaana CapitalBetter Tomorrow VenturesFlucas VenturesKube VCVentureSouq
The page shows a product offering (Prism Enterprise Analytics) but the content provided appears to be marketing copy from a different product (QueryPal).
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundEngineering CapitalWebb Investment NetworkLightspeed Venture PartnersSequoia Capital
Genesis Computing builds an agentic data engineering system ("Genesis Data Agents") of AI workers that run inside customer-managed environments alongside platforms such as Snowflake, AWS, and Databricks to accelerate the enterprise data lifecycle and preserve institutional knowledge.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareWilmington, US
Justin Langseth(Co-founder & CTO)inMatt Glickman(Co-founder & CEO)inAnton Gorshkov(Head of Engineering)inVince Trotta(Head of Sales)Margarita Barrera(Chief Operating Officer)in
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BoardBen Holzman(Director)
Co-investors.406 VenturesNextGen Venture Partners
Goldcast provides an AI-powered platform for creating and repurposing video content such as webinars, field events, video podcasts, and customer testimonials, using agentic workflows to turn long-form video into clips, blogs, emails, and social posts.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSNew York, US
Kishore Kothandaraman(Cofounder)inPalash Soni(Co-Founder & CEO)inKishore K(Co-Founder)Aashish Srinivas(CTO)inKelly Cheng(CMO)inLauren Creedon(Chief Product Officer)in
Co-investorsAfore CapitalHubSpot VenturesNewBuild.VCUnderscore VCUnusual VenturesArray Ventures Management Llc
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 & Co-Founder)inEilon Reshef(Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder at Gong)in
Co-investorsBattery VenturesCisco InvestmentsCoatue ManagementIndex VenturesLeonis CapitalNorwest Venture Partners+6 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 TereshkoinRyan Boyd(Founder)in
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersAndreessen HorowitzBattery VenturesEastlink Capital PartnersFelicis VenturesFirestreak Ventures+8 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
Ivan Zhao(Founder)in
Co-investorsA.Capital VenturesA*Draft Ventures LlcFirst Round CapitalLong Journey VenturesNight Capital+11 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+7 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)inG. 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
UtilizeCore is a software platform for service companies that manage subcontractor networks, offering tools for operations, accounts receivable and payable, contractor onboarding and compliance, and proposals.
Construction TechEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSNew York, US
Jason Kwait(Executive Officer, Director)inRyan Matthew Gottfried(Founder)inJohnny Zhu(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardSteven Gottfried(Chairman)in
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity Fundboldstart venturesMantis Capital
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 CapitalRiverPark VenturesTwelve BelowY CombinatorFlare Capital Partners+5 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
Cycle AppHeadSpin
Exits · 2
2 IPOsBending SpoonsNASDAQ: BSPFigmaNYSE: FIG
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Cortex · forgeglobal.com · Sep 12, 2026
Bending Spoons · techcrunch.com · Sep 10, 2026
Cara · blog.cara.app · Aug 27, 2026
Cognition AI · techcrunch.com · Aug 19, 2026
Genesis Computing · intelligence360.news · Aug 6, 2026
AngelList · axios.com · Jul 18, 2026
Figma · news.crunchbase.com · Jul 17, 2026
Notion · finsmes.com · Jul 16, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Kearny Jackson made?
- Kearny Jackson has 24 tracked investments, 2 of which have exited, including 5 dated in the last 24 months.
- 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, Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, among 79 tracked co-investors.
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Co-investors · 86
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.
Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm that partners with founders to build technology companies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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General Catalyst is a venture capital firm operating as a partnership focused on company building and accelerating the growth of the businesses it backs.
Since 1999, Redpoint Ventures has partnered with visionary founders to create new markets and redefine existing ones. The firm invests early in startups building category-defining companies, from AI and infrastructure to security. Redpoint has backed hundreds of companies, including Netflix, Snowflake, Stripe, Ramp, Twilio, Ramp, and Hims, and today backs the next generation of AI leaders like OpenAI, Legora, Modal, Abridge and Physical Intelligence. Redpoint is based in San Francisco and has offices in New York City and Woodside. For more information visit: http://www.redpoint.com/
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.
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Balderton CapitalTodd and Rahul’s Angel FundBuckley Ventures Management Company LlcNot Boring CapitalWingArray Ventures Management LlcUnusual Venturesboldstart venturesNewView CapitalHOF CapitalConversion CapitalPeterson VenturesLudlow VenturesYOBE VenturesGV (Google Ventures)Founder CollectiveNotable CapitalUncork CapitalBenchmarkUberKrakenAtomicoFirstMark CapitalOffline VenturesRRE VenturesLiquid VenturesNextView VenturesSignalFireLookout VenturesSoftBank Vision FundMeritech Capital PartnersBond Capital ManagementStride VCAcrew CapitalSierra VenturesParadigmWEEKENDBanana CapitalTq Ventures LlcEQT VenturesTribe Capital FirstlookAwesome People VenturesBetaworks Ventures Management, LlcPoint72 VenturesAcequia Capital (AceCap)Earl Grey CapitalShrug CapitalDig Ventures Management LimitedIVCMischiefBasementSeed Club VenturesKickstartcLabsSolana VenturesDivergenceRTP GlobalLife 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 VenturesAnfa
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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