5 investors at Kickstart, based in Salt Lake City, UT with $100M under management.
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General Partner & CFO, Kickstart
Gavin Christensen is an early pioneer who deliberately stayed in Utah to build a seed ecosystem in the Mountain West rather than relocating to established venture centers like Silicon Valley, and he built Kickstart from scratch while fundraising and proving the region's potential. He's known for playing the long game with founders through multi-year relationship building and patience, and he openly shares his personal experiences with health challenges to help entrepreneurs understand resilience and moving forward under pressure.

General Partner, Kickstart
Gavin Christensen is an early pioneer who deliberately stayed in Utah to build a seed ecosystem in the Mountain West rather than relocating to established venture centers like Silicon Valley, and he built Kickstart from scratch while fundraising and proving the region's potential. He's known for playing the long game with founders through multi-year relationship building and patience, and he openly shares his personal experiences with health challenges to help entrepreneurs understand resilience and moving forward under pressure.

Founder & General Partner, Kickstart
Gavin Christensen is an early pioneer who deliberately stayed in Utah to build a seed ecosystem in the Mountain West rather than relocating to established venture centers like Silicon Valley, and he built Kickstart from scratch while fundraising and proving the region's potential. He's known for playing the long game with founders through multi-year relationship building and patience, and he openly shares his personal experiences with health challenges to help entrepreneurs understand resilience and moving forward under pressure.

General Partner, Kickstart
Gavin Christensen is an early pioneer who deliberately stayed in Utah to build a seed ecosystem in the Mountain West rather than relocating to established venture centers like Silicon Valley, and he built Kickstart from scratch while fundraising and proving the region's potential. He's known for playing the long game with founders through multi-year relationship building and patience, and he openly shares his personal experiences with health challenges to help entrepreneurs understand resilience and moving forward under pressure.

Principal, Kickstart
Gavin Christensen is an early pioneer who deliberately stayed in Utah to build a seed ecosystem in the Mountain West rather than relocating to established venture centers like Silicon Valley, and he built Kickstart from scratch while fundraising and proving the region's potential. He's known for playing the long game with founders through multi-year relationship building and patience, and he openly shares his personal experiences with health challenges to help entrepreneurs understand resilience and moving forward under pressure.
Kickstart's investment team consists of 5 professionals, headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT and managing $100M in assets. The team brings diverse backgrounds and specialized expertise to evaluate and support portfolio companies.
Across the team, Kickstart's investors cover expertise in Enterprise, Fintech, AI, Digital Health, SaaS. This breadth of sector knowledge enables the firm to evaluate opportunities across multiple verticals and provide specialized post-investment support to founders.
Kickstart has 5 investors and partners on their team, based in Salt Lake City, UT. Each team member brings specialized expertise across different sectors and investment stages.
Kickstart's team consists of 5 investment professionals. View individual investor profiles above for detailed backgrounds, focus areas, and portfolio companies.
Kickstart manages approximately $100M in assets under management with a team of 5 investment professionals, headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.
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