Darcy Howe
Founder and Managing Director @ KCRise Fund
Kansas City, United States
Darcy Howe is a Series A investor at KCRise Fund in Kansas City focused on Software and Information Technology. Darcy A. Howe is based out of Kansas City, Missouri and is the Founder, Managing Director of KCRise Fund. Darcy previously worked at Women's Capital Connection as a Founding Member, Board Chair, Post-Investment Committee Chair. Darcy Howe attended the Indiana University - Kelley School of Business. Darcy A. Howe has been named Barron’s Top 100women advisors.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Darcy Howe invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (25%)
- Information Technology 2 (25%)
- GPS 1 (13%)
- Apps 1 (13%)
- Wellness 1 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (50%)
- Seed 2 (25%)
- Series B 1 (13%)
- Series C 1 (13%)
Investments
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| Cariloop is a B2B Dallas-based company that helps families manage their loved ones' care needs by connecting them to a comprehensive caregiver support platform. Our experienced Care Coaches provide personalized guidance and professional support, while our digital platform provides easy access to robust collaboration tools and criticalcaregiving resources. We help reduce stress and burnout for caregivers, and helps employers drive increased employee productivity, reduced absenteeism, and 2x ROI. | $20M / Series C / Apr 09, 2024 | ||
| Realto is an online real estate investment marketplace that helps people invest in real estate properties. The company also offers a platform that facilitates secondary trading of traditionally illiquid real estate and alternative securities, helping investors to transform and democratize real estate assets through liquidity and transparency. | $4.5M / Series A / May 05, 2022 | ||
| Vytelle is a company with a deeper purpose and revolutionary technology that helps to advance bovine, deer and buffalo genetics faster by redefining reproduction. | $13.2M / Series A / Sep 28, 2021 | ||
| eHawk is a monitoring platform that helps supervise criminal defendants. The company RePath App is utilized to electronically supervise the criminal justice population previously omitted from any electronic monitoring platform. It leverages the power of the internet and smartphone technology with its proprietary algorithm to create a completely newway to manage large populations of individuals at an extremely affordable price. Using an installed app on an offender's phone, RePath collects verification and location data for each enrollee. | $199.8K / Seed / Aug 02, 2021 | ||
| Cariloop is a B2B Dallas-based company that helps families manage their loved ones' care needs by connecting them to a comprehensive caregiver support platform. Our experienced Care Coaches provide personalized guidance and professional support, while our digital platform provides easy access to robust collaboration tools and criticalcaregiving resources. We help reduce stress and burnout for caregivers, and helps employers drive increased employee productivity, reduced absenteeism, and 2x ROI. | $6M / Series A / May 26, 2020 | ||
| BacklotCars allows auto dealers, auto finance, and rental car companies to transact without having to go to physical auctions. Through BacklotCars, auto dealers, auto finance, and rental car companies can transact without having to go to physical auctions. The company’s end to end solution is truly seamless for dealers as BacklotCars providesvehicle inspections, transportation, and inventory finance services.The online marketplace offers a 24-7 “bid-ask” marketplace along with vehicle inspections and is used by dealers in 46 states. It’s designed to make the process of selling cars easier for both buyers and sellers by addressing longstanding pain points of online transactions like certified inspections.BacklotCars was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. | $25M / Series B / Apr 15, 2019 | ||
| BacklotCars allows auto dealers, auto finance, and rental car companies to transact without having to go to physical auctions. Through BacklotCars, auto dealers, auto finance, and rental car companies can transact without having to go to physical auctions. The company’s end to end solution is truly seamless for dealers as BacklotCars providesvehicle inspections, transportation, and inventory finance services.The online marketplace offers a 24-7 “bid-ask” marketplace along with vehicle inspections and is used by dealers in 46 states. It’s designed to make the process of selling cars easier for both buyers and sellers by addressing longstanding pain points of online transactions like certified inspections.BacklotCars was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. | $8M / Series A / Dec 07, 2018 | ||
| BacklotCars allows auto dealers, auto finance, and rental car companies to transact without having to go to physical auctions. Through BacklotCars, auto dealers, auto finance, and rental car companies can transact without having to go to physical auctions. The company’s end to end solution is truly seamless for dealers as BacklotCars providesvehicle inspections, transportation, and inventory finance services.The online marketplace offers a 24-7 “bid-ask” marketplace along with vehicle inspections and is used by dealers in 46 states. It’s designed to make the process of selling cars easier for both buyers and sellers by addressing longstanding pain points of online transactions like certified inspections.BacklotCars was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. | $4.8M / Seed / May 01, 2017 |
Co-Investors
About KCRise Fund
Founded by Darcy Howe, KCRise Fund launched in 2016 as an initiative of KCRising, a long term vision for the greater Kansas City region to build capacity, bring existing businesses to scale, and fully realize the KC region’s potential. Decidedly for-profit, KCRise Fund is a traditional venture capital fund which invests side-by-side with otherinstitutional VC investors in early stage companies based in Kansas and western half of Missouri. Our investors include corporations, university endowments, family offices and prominent business leaders in the region. In 2019, KCRise launched KCRise Fund II, and KCRise currently has $70 million in committed capital under management.
KCRise Fund Contacts
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Darcy Howe
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Caroline VanDeusen VanDeusen
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What does Darcy Howe invest in?
Darcy Howe invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and GPS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Darcy Howe closed in Apr 2024. Shizune tracks 8 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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