Kapor Capital
VC Fund
Oakland, United States
Kapor Capital is an investment firm that invests in early-stage tech-enabled startups. They are an Oakland-based fund that understands that startup companies have the ability to transform entire industries and to address urgent social needs as they do so. It was founded in 1999 and headquartered in Oakland, California.
- Total investments:
- 317
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
- Fund size:
- $126M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Kapor Capital invests in
Stages Kapor Capital invests in
Countries Kapor Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 9 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $800k–$5M
- Series A
- $3.3M–$20M
- Series B
- $5M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 53 (17%)
- Education 44 (14%)
- Health Care 32 (10%)
- SaaS 24 (8%)
- Financial Services 24 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 118 (37%)
- Series A 76 (24%)
- Series B 23 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 17 (5%)
- Pre-Seed 16 (5%)
Country
- United States 193 (61%)
- Kenya 2 (1%)
- Japan 1 (0%)
- Nigeria 1 (0%)
- United Arab Emirates 1 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alex Chen
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Batul Joffrey
Associate
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Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Brian Dixon
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Cliff Worley
Senior Director of Portfolio Growth Marketing
|
Senior Director of Portfolio Growth Marketing | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Eric M. Stone
Advisor
|
Advisor | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Hamlet
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Hamlet transforms local information into accessible insights you can use and shares it via newsletter. | $5M / Seed / Dec 05, 2025 | |
| Parento provides research on employee retention, recruitment, and satisfaction in parents enabling companies to retain and elevate working parents, especially working moms, through a holistic approach to paid parental designed to support the modern workforce at the most critical juncture in their professional and personal paths. | $5.9M / Seed / Sep 09, 2025 | ||
| Reportwell streamlines key compliance tasks and reporting requirements for authorizers, school districts, and government agencies that want stronger reporting, easier accountability, and simpler compliance for the schools or companies under their regulatory umbrella. | $3M / Seed / Jul 01, 2025 | ||
| Stretch is reimagining grocery shopping, helping everyday families save money in an increasingly complex shopping landscape. We’re building the first shopping intelligence platform designed to put consumer interests first, turning millions of individual shopping decisions into collective insights that deliver real savings. Our vision is a retailecosystem where consumer value and industry success grow together. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Jun 01, 2025 | ||
| Subscript is a platform that allows users to develop, understand, and manage subscription businesses. This enables members to update the database, calculate measures such as ARR, net revenue retention, CAC, LTV, ARPA, and so on, and analyze customer segments. | $15M / Series A / Feb 27, 2025 | ||
| Beanstack helps educators and librarians run reading challenges that engage more people and provide better data. | $1.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 22, 2025 | ||
| BrightBee connects schools with hourly support staff via an online platform that manages job postings and applicant matching. | Seed / Jan 01, 2025 | ||
| LiquiDonate matches and moves reclaimable items into nonprofit organizations. Their tech solution offers the matching algorithm and the Donation as a Service API. LiquiDonate provides the donation method for retailers, businesses, and downsizing organizations. | $3.8M / Seed / Sep 03, 2024 | ||
| We are the first personalized and tech powered financial mentor that provides real-world financial education for women at the starting line of life. We simulate and improve the 1:1 old-school advising model with step by step financial e-learning tools and money insights. We want every woman who doesn't have a financial mentor to have Penny,and for Penny to move the needle on how young women begin investing. | Seed / Aug 01, 2024 | ||
| Lumi Story operates as an artificial intelligence company that helps people clear there barriers. | $4M / Seed / Jul 25, 2024 | ||
| See all 317 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Kapor Capital invest in?
Kapor Capital invests primarily in Software, Education and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 317 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Kapor Capital's check size?
Kapor Capital typically joins rounds of $800k–$5M at Seed, $3.3M–$20M at Series A and $5M–$50M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kapor Capital participates in.
How do I contact Kapor Capital?
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Who are the partners at Kapor Capital?
The team at Kapor Capital includes Alex Chen (Principal), Batul Joffrey (Associate) and Brian Dixon (Managing Partner), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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