# Dalton Wright

> Dalton Wright is a seed investor at Federated Computer backing Software. See 43 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Federated Computer](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/federated-computer)
- Location: Salt Lake City, United States
- Total investments: 43
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 37%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daltonjwright/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/vcdalton
- Website: https://www.kickstartfund.com/

Dalton Wright is a seed investor at Federated Computer in Salt Lake City focused on Software and Information Technology. Dalton Wright is based out of Denver, Colorado and is the General Partner of Kickstart. Dalton previously worked at LifeSpot as a Director. Dalton Wright attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 23% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 14% |
| Health Care | 4 | 9% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 9% |
| Finance | 3 | 7% |

60 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 22 | 51% |
| Series A | 6 | 14% |
| Series B | 3 | 7% |
| Series C | 2 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pluto Biosciences | Pluto is a B2B SaaS platform that empowers researchers to explore their data and make high-quality, meaningful discoveries in a fraction of the time. For biology labs, Pluto is the single source of truth, a secure home for organizing all of their experimental data, analysis, and figures. Researchers can upload data and run statistics- and machinelearning-based analyses easily in their browser, with no coding required. Unique share links enable private sharing between collaborators, as well as public sharing of Pluto Projects to support full reproducibility of scientific manuscripts. The Pluto platform also allows researchers to compare their own results against a database of thousands of published experiments, bringing the global scientific community closer so that more life-changing discoveries can reach the world. | $3.6M | Seed | May 13, 2025 |  |
| Rad AI | Rad AI develops an artificial intelligence automated report generation platform to automate repetitive tasks for radiologists. Its platform integrates with existing workflow, automating repetitive tasks, and enabling radiologists to improve radiology workflow that maximizes efficiency and accuracy while reducing burnout for radiologists andimproving patient care. | $60M | Series C | Jan 25, 2025 |  |
| Rad AI | Rad AI develops an artificial intelligence automated report generation platform to automate repetitive tasks for radiologists. Its platform integrates with existing workflow, automating repetitive tasks, and enabling radiologists to improve radiology workflow that maximizes efficiency and accuracy while reducing burnout for radiologists andimproving patient care. | $50M | Series B | May 07, 2024 |  |
| LifeSpot | LifeSpot has built an app-integrated safety technology for schools, churches, hospitals, communities, and corporations nationally and globally. LifeSpot is fundamentally built to change the way emergency response systems are conducted with more speed and efficiency. Most importantly, LifeSpot solves the issue of response time, notification, andcommunication in emergent situations unlike any other technology currently available. |  | Seed | Jan 30, 2024 |  |
| Venvee, Inc. | About Venvee:Venvee’s spatial AI provides an end-to-end understanding of customer journeys unlike anything the retail industry has seen before. Our CAPEX-free solution pioneers the latest advances in spatial deep learning, computer vision and digital twin construction to produce precise customer pathing and action insight using only a retailer’sexisting infrastructural/loss prevention cameras. The result is a continuous, uninterrupted story about a customer’s complete in-store experience from entry to exit, inclusive of precise moment-to-moment location and impressions and interactions with product categories and advertisements.This rich, biometrics-free dataset is used by retailers and brands, in conjunction with POS and loyalty program data, to produce new revenue streams from in-store traffic by increasing the value of in-store media with standardized audience metrics and by precisely retargeting customers online based on in-store intent. | $1.4M | Seed | Jan 04, 2024 |  |
| Upside Cooperative | Align incentives and share upside potential. Ownership and retention platform for teams, advisors, ambassadors, consumers, and more. | $4.6M | Seed | Jan 17, 2023 |  |
| Carputty | Carputty is a consumer automotive startup that provides car loan services to its clients. The company's transparent and easy-to-use line of credit puts the customer in the driver’s seat, while its proprietary, predictive valuation tool knows the perfect time to buy and sell and teaches owners to see their vehicle as an asset.Carputty wasfounded by Patrick Bayliss and Joshua Tatum in 2020. | $12.3M | Series A | Dec 06, 2022 |  |
| Vitazi.ai | Vitazi.ai is leading the way in Oculomics, harnessing the power of the eye to provide insights into whole-body health through our revolutionary platform, OculoInsights. | $1.9M | Seed | Dec 01, 2022 |  |
| Aervivo | Aervivo’s mission is to democratize the ISP industry, enabling fiber-grade connectivity at a fraction of the cost. It partners with multi-family community owners and new entrants, empowering them to quickly launch new connectivity services to the residents they server. Our industry-leading hybrid fiber and wireless mesh technology, cloud-basedservice platform and SaaS business model allows our partners to quickly deliver affordable, high-speed connectivity with an industry-leading customer experience. | $3M | Seed | Oct 31, 2022 |  |
| Rook Capital | Rook Capital enables everyone to acquire a house while also providing current homeowners with inexpensive access to their equity. They bring together homeowners and investors. Rook Capital is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado and was founded in 2021. | $4.1M | Seed | Sep 22, 2022 |  |

10 of 43 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Peterson Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peterson-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Aries Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aries-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Forward Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forward-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Gradient](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gradient-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [OCV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ocv) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Origin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/origin-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Federated Computer

VC Fund · Colorado Springs, United States

Federated Computer provides open-source storage services using node.js technology. The company is located in Colorado Springs.

2 contacts available at Federated Computer.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dalton Wright | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dalton-justin-wright |
| David Young | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-young |

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## FAQ

### What does Dalton Wright invest in?

Dalton Wright invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 43 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Dalton Wright last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dalton Wright closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 43 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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