# KCRise Fund

> KCRise Fund is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 74 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kansas City, United States
- Total investments: 74
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 7%
- Fund size: $41M
- Last fund: May 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kcrise-fund/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/KCRiseFund
- Website: https://kcrisefund.com/

KCRise Fund is a VC fund in Kansas City focused on Software and Information Technology. 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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$9M |
| Pre-Seed | $1M–$2.5M |
| Series A | $4M–$13M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 11% |
| Health Care | 7 | 9% |
| Automotive | 5 | 7% |

114 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 27 | 36% |
| Series A | 16 | 22% |
| Pre-Seed | 10 | 14% |
| Series B | 8 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 5% |

8 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Darcy Howe | Founder and Managing Director | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/darcy-howe |
| Caroline VanDeusen VanDeusen | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caroline-vandeusen-vandeusen |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Scout | Scout helps hospitals increase productivity, lower error rates, and recover lost income. |  | Pre-Seed | Nov 24, 2025 |  |
| CarePilot | CarePilot provides an AI-powered documentation and billing platform that aims to alleviate the administrative burdens faced by clinicians. | $2.5M | Seed | Jun 16, 2025 |  |
| Roz | SaaS AI Compliance Startup | $1.9M | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2025 |  |
| Daupler | Daupler develops a response management system for utilities, public works, and other service organizations. It is designed to reduce workload while collecting accurate data and insight into response operations. It coordinates and documents response efforts to water main breaks, power outages, gas leaks, sewer stoppages, street obstructions, andother service outages. | $15M | Series B | Mar 06, 2025 |  |
| dScribe AI | dScribe AI serves the function of analyzing any video online using only its link. dScribe AI takes care of the demanding work of managing audio and video content for social media, so you can concentrate on what matters for your business. dScribe AI has you covered, whether you're a developer wanting to incorporate social media analysis intoyour app, a business aiming to gain a better understanding of your audience, or an enterprise in need of mass brand protection. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Mar 05, 2025 |  |
| Invary | Invary is an Enterprise-grade cybersecurity platform focused on operating system runtime validation and security, detecting hidden malware and preventing costly ransomware attacks. | $3.5M | Seed | Feb 03, 2025 |  |
| Cariloop | 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 |  |
| Sailes | Saile uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help sales leaders spend less time searching and more time selling. Through Digital Labor, its patent-pending Sailebots reduce manual prospecting by millions of tasks each year, while increasing revenue opportunities. Sailebots are currently deployed in 29 countries and multiple languages, allowing salesleaders to automate their entire prospecting lifecycle, including finding contacts, setting meetings, cleansing data, and reading and summarizing prospective company reports and documents.Saile is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, and has employees all over the world. | $5.1M | Series A | Sep 14, 2023 |  |
| Outbound AI | Outbound is a technology company based at the Rensselaer Technology Park in Troy, New York. Outbound combines cloud-based dialing and email technology coupled with powerful data insights to create an end to end selling solution for B2B sales teams. | $16M | Seed | Jun 21, 2023 |  |
| PLOT | PLOT combines Logistic Mapping, Delivery Coordination, and Lead Time Management to take away the arduous and low-level tasks that Construction teams hate. | $2M | Seed | Jun 05, 2023 |  |

10 of 74 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rise-of-the-rest) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Royal Street Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/royal-street-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Cortado Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cortado-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
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- [Atento Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atento-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Revolution](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/revolution) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does KCRise Fund invest in?

KCRise Fund invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 74 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 KCRise Fund's check size?

KCRise Fund typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$9M at Seed, $1M–$2.5M at Pre-Seed and $4M–$13M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds KCRise Fund participates in.

### How do I contact KCRise Fund?

Public channels for KCRise Fund include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at KCRise Fund?

The team at KCRise Fund includes Darcy Howe (Founder and Managing Director) and Caroline VanDeusen VanDeusen (Principal). 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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