At a Glance
KittyHawk Ventures is a stage-agnostic venture firm founded in 2015 at Singularity University's campus in NASA Ames Research Park, named for the North Carolina town where the Wright brothers first flew. It invests across the capital stack, from frontier seed rounds through pre-IPO growth equity, in transformative technology companies spanning fintech, enterprise software and aerospace, and describes its mandate as supporting extraordinary, mission-driven entrepreneurs building companies that change the world. The firm focuses on seed, Series A and Series B and later rounds across digital health, biotech, robotics, and aerospace and defense.
The platform runs on two tracks. KH Frontier makes early-stage seed investments in AI and quantum computing, healthcare and biotech, robotics, energy, web3 and aerospace. KH Secondaries buys late-stage private positions, including through KittyHawk Nasdaq Top 20, a structured vehicle built with Nasdaq Private Market that offers exposure to leading private companies. A heavy single-company SPV program sits alongside both, letting the firm concentrate into individual names round after round rather than spreading thin across a large index of positions.
Portfolio companies include Figure Technologies, quantum software company 1QBit, networking silicon maker Cornelis Networks, Kezar Life Sciences, Jetti Resources, Form Bio, Gecko Materials and Jiritsu. What distinguishes KittyHawk is the combination of a modest commingled fund program with an unusually deep deal-by-deal and secondaries practice, and a partnership stacked with institutional allocators rather than career seed investors. That is how a firm of this size ends up underwriting both frontier seed rounds and pre-IPO secondaries out of the same shop.
“Targets frontier seed and pre-IPO investments in deep technology sectors.”
KittyHawk has raised a series of named funds since Will Weisman started the firm in 2015 at Singularity University's campus in NASA Ames Research Park. SEC filings show KittyHawk Ventures Two, LP was organized in 2018 and took its first capital in January 2019; successive amendments reported $1.65 million, then $5.1 million, and a final $6.35 million sold when the offering closed in March 2020. KittyHawk Ventures Three, LP followed in January 2021 with a $50 million target and names William Weisman and Randall Mays as executive officers. KittyHawk Ventures IV, LP was organized in 2023, took its first sale in March 2024, and reported $10.2 million sold on an open-ended offering.
Alongside the commingled funds, KittyHawk runs an unusually large deal-by-deal program. More than a dozen series of KittyHawk Ventures Master LLC carry single-company vehicles for Vytalize Health, Ripcord, WaveSense, Polyverse, Totum Labs, Envel and Laetro, and a newer KittyHawk Heavy series of SPVs has been filing since 2024. The late-stage secondaries strategy, KittyHawk Nasdaq Top 20, is run with Nasdaq Private Market.
KittyHawk Ventures primarily invests at the Seed, Series A, Series B+ stages. This means they focus on companies that are building their initial product and finding product-market fit.
KittyHawk Ventures is headquartered in New York, NY. Many of their portfolio companies are also based in this region, though they invest across geographies.
KittyHawk Ventures focuses on investments in Digital Health, Biotech, Robotics, Aerospace & Defense. Their portfolio reflects deep expertise and networks within these sectors.
KittyHawk Ventures's typical investment check size ranges from $250K to $15M. Actual amounts may vary based on the stage, sector, and specific opportunity.
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