# Jim Whims

> Jim Whims is a Series A investor at Alsop Louie Partners backing Hardware and Electronics. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Alsop Louie Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alsop-louie-partners)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Mar 2019
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimwhims/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jim.whims

Jim Whims is a Partner of Alsop-Louie. For the last decade, Jim was a partner at Techfund Capital in the U.S. and Europe, where he invested in companies like 3DFX and Portal Player. Jim was a co-founder of Worlds of Wonder and was a key executive at Software Toolworks and Sony Computer Entertainment. In 1996, Adweek and Brandweek recognized himas the Marketing Executive of the Year for driving revenues from zero to $1B in one year at Sony, where Jim managed the launch of the Playstation in North America. Jim also serves on the Board of Directors at THQ and Synaptics. He received his MBA in Finance from the University of Arizona and a BS from Northwestern University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hardware | 2 | 33% |
| Electronics | 2 | 33% |
| FinTech | 1 | 17% |
| Big Data | 1 | 17% |
| Payments | 1 | 17% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 50% |
| Series B | 2 | 33% |
| Series C | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kuprion | Kuprion’s™ revolutionary, copper based nanotechnology is a highly electrically conductive material enabling a new generation of printable electronics and integrated circuit chips. Connections between chip-to-chip or chip-to-board are up to 10 times the electrical and thermal conductivity of existing materials - perfect for smaller and more powerfulproducts from phones to electric cars.Our nanoCopper technology is based on work that began at Lockheed Martin in 2008. They were researching ways to replace traditional solder with a high-performance, RoHS- compliant alternative for high-power, high-reliability applications. With widespread interest from the commercial sector, all rights and patents were transferred to Kuprion in 2019 to commercialize the family of pastes and inks. Since then, Kuprion has garnered Fortune 100 customers, 20 patents, and VC funding with offices and manufacturing in San Jose, CA | $5M | Series A | Mar 29, 2019 |  |
| Keyssa | Keyssa reinvented the connector with Kiss Connectivity. It’s a tiny solid-state system thatmakes device-to-device data flow simple, secure and instantaneous - freeing product designersand consumers from metal connectors, cables and wireless networks.Kiss Connectivity is a new way to transmit huge amounts of data and video rapidly betweendevices in close proximity, with virtually no battery drain. Keyssa’s coffee bean-sized connectorcombines breakthroughs in mechanical design, electromagnetics, materials science, andsemiconductor technologies. Because this tiny system uses extremely high frequency (EHF)signals to transmit information securely using standard protocols, it avoids the manufacturingand consumer challenges of today’s other wired or wireless-network options for connectingdevices. | $15M | Series C | Aug 21, 2017 |  |
| Karmic Labs | Karmic (http://www.karmic.com), a leader in the convergence of payment cards and mobile software, has developed a robust, integrated payment and expense management solution that gives businesses the power to save time and money. Karmic is committed to developing reliable platform solutions that power simple and state-of-the-art financialapplications. Offering ease of enrollment, payments and expense management along with a real-time mobile experience, "Powered by Karmic" solutions help anyone manage their expenses. | $17.2M | Series B | Jul 19, 2017 |  |
| Phizzle | Phizzle EDGMaker - Unlocking & Digitizing the Most Valuable Scientific Data in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing. ​Phizzle is the only IoT solution to remotely operate and automate multi-vendor particle counters for scientific data applications in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Clear Air, and Food Manufacturing. The EDGMaker software stack offersfully digitized testing and compliance processes to reduce labor, human error, and wasted batches in regulated manufacturing. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $3M | Series A | Jul 26, 2011 |  |
| Keyssa | Keyssa reinvented the connector with Kiss Connectivity. It’s a tiny solid-state system thatmakes device-to-device data flow simple, secure and instantaneous - freeing product designersand consumers from metal connectors, cables and wireless networks.Kiss Connectivity is a new way to transmit huge amounts of data and video rapidly betweendevices in close proximity, with virtually no battery drain. Keyssa’s coffee bean-sized connectorcombines breakthroughs in mechanical design, electromagnetics, materials science, andsemiconductor technologies. Because this tiny system uses extremely high frequency (EHF)signals to transmit information securely using standard protocols, it avoids the manufacturingand consumer challenges of today’s other wired or wireless-network options for connectingdevices. | $5M | Series B | Jul 01, 2011 |  |
| Canesta | Canesta is the inventor of revolutionary, low-cost electronic perception technology that is the foundation for the "other side of 3-D" – true 3-D perception as input to everyday devices, rather than the widely-understood 3-D representational technologies as output.Canesta's 3-D input technology, based upon tiny, CMOS 3-Dimaging chips or "sensors", enables fine-grained, 3-dimensional depth-perception in virtually any kind of consumer device such as PCs, TVs, game consoles, and mobile phones, as well as automotive, industrial, and other products. Such products can then react on sight to the actions or motions of individuals and objects in their field of view, gaining levels of functionality and ease of use that were simply not possible in an era when such devices were blind.Numerous applications are under active development by Canesta's OEM customers and partners, including consumer electronics, PC, TV, building automation, security, robotics, automotive, and others. Such customers and partners include Hitachi, Honda, Optex, Optronic, Quanta, SMSC, and others which have yet to be announced.Canesta is located in Sunnyvale, CA. The company has filed in excess of fifty patents, 40 of which have been granted so farThe company was founded in 1999 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. | $3.3M | Series A | Aug 16, 2000 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Startup Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startup-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accelerator Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accelerator-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Dolby Family Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dolby-family-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Greycroft](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greycroft) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [LaunchCapital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launchcapital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Levensohn Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/levensohn-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Alsop Louie Partners

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Alsop Louie Partners focuses on identifying the most promising entrepreneurs and working with information technology companies specializing in traditional VC parlance and early-stage technology investments. The firm prefers to follow the instincts and experience of the entrepreneurs and invest in all kinds of technology-based ventures. It believesthat it is not the job of venture investors to fund companies that require large amounts of capital, more than $20M, to create a stable, validated business operation.

5 contacts available at Alsop Louie Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jason Preston | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-preston-2 |
| Jim Ward | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-ward |
| Jim Whims | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-whims |
| Mark G Fields | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-fields-2 |
| William Crowell | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/william-p-crowell |

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## FAQ

### What does Jim Whims invest in?

Jim Whims invests primarily in Hardware, Electronics and FinTech startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 6 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 Jim Whims last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jim Whims closed in Mar 2019. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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