# Kemal Farid

> Kemal Farid is a seed investor at BlueVine Ventures (Houston) backing Oil and Gas and DIY. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [BlueVine Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bluevine-ventures)
- Location: Houston, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Aug 2021
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kemalfarid
- X (Twitter): https://mobile.twitter.com/kemalfarid
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kemal.farid

Kemal Farid is a seed investor at BlueVine Ventures in Houston focused on Oil and Gas and DIY. Kemal Farid is the General Partner of L37. He Previously worked at Merrick Systems as a Founder, CEO, Board of Directors Member. Kemal Farid attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $4M–$7.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Oil and Gas | 2 | 40% |
| DIY | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |
| Analytics | 1 | 20% |
| Real Time | 1 | 20% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |
| Series B | 1 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Data Gumbo | Data Gumbo’s mission is to empower enterprises and their business networks to transact securely, efficiently, and transparently. Data Gumbo provides the industry’s only smart contract platform enabling organizations, their customers, suppliers, and vendors to successfully incorporate real-time sensor level and field data to validate and automatetransactions—eliminating payment delays, disputes, and complicated reconciliations. Subscribers are able to increase operational efficiencies, accountability, transparency, contract, and cash flow certainty.Data Gumbo’s smart contract platform provides a unique combination of state-of-the-art distributed ledger technology, real-time IoT sensor data, and applications with APIs to eliminate the need for countless audits. This reduces friction to deliver streamlined operations and transactional certainty while maintaining security controls to protect our customers and their network. Created specifically for enterprises, Data Gumbo’s smart contract platform reinvents the way companies transact.Data Gumbo is a venture-backed organization that serves clients globally, across multiple industries. Learn more at www.datagumbo.com. | $7.7M | Series B | Aug 04, 2021 |  |
| Data Gumbo | Data Gumbo’s mission is to empower enterprises and their business networks to transact securely, efficiently, and transparently. Data Gumbo provides the industry’s only smart contract platform enabling organizations, their customers, suppliers, and vendors to successfully incorporate real-time sensor level and field data to validate and automatetransactions—eliminating payment delays, disputes, and complicated reconciliations. Subscribers are able to increase operational efficiencies, accountability, transparency, contract, and cash flow certainty.Data Gumbo’s smart contract platform provides a unique combination of state-of-the-art distributed ledger technology, real-time IoT sensor data, and applications with APIs to eliminate the need for countless audits. This reduces friction to deliver streamlined operations and transactional certainty while maintaining security controls to protect our customers and their network. Created specifically for enterprises, Data Gumbo’s smart contract platform reinvents the way companies transact.Data Gumbo is a venture-backed organization that serves clients globally, across multiple industries. Learn more at www.datagumbo.com. | $4M | Series B | Sep 24, 2020 |  |
| Seismos | Seismos, the K-wave Company™, is a data analytics company for production optimization providing proprietary solutions enabling real-time, underground fluid flow monitoring, inside the reservoir, during production. Monitoring fluid movement with conventional seismic technologies requires months for data acquisition and processing, disruptsproduction and costs millions. Seismos breaks this paradigm and solves all problems associated with conventional methods by providing real-time information, at a fraction of the cost, through its proprietary, cloud-based K-wave technology that is non-invasive to production and to surface operations. | $9.9M |  | Jul 12, 2018 |  |
| Seismos | Seismos, the K-wave Company™, is a data analytics company for production optimization providing proprietary solutions enabling real-time, underground fluid flow monitoring, inside the reservoir, during production. Monitoring fluid movement with conventional seismic technologies requires months for data acquisition and processing, disruptsproduction and costs millions. Seismos breaks this paradigm and solves all problems associated with conventional methods by providing real-time information, at a fraction of the cost, through its proprietary, cloud-based K-wave technology that is non-invasive to production and to surface operations. | $4M | Series A | Apr 08, 2015 |  |
| Kraftwurx | Kraftwurx is the world's platform for 3D printing in the cloud. With 74 materials and more than 121 production facilities worldwide, kraftwurx is the vanguard of the democratized manufacturing movement.Established in 2011, Kraftwurx is the brainchild of co founders Chris Norman and Kevin Hasley. kraftwurx is a spinout of Digital Reality, acompany established in April 2006 who first demonstrated mass customization using browser-based interactive controls with a website of the same name.Kraftwurx was awarded the first of several patents for mass customization in September 2011 called Made to Order Digital Manufacturing Enterprise. The patent claims priority filing date to provisional application filed in 2006. The patent is embodied in a product called Digital Factory. The company claims 6 additional co pending CIP applications scheduled to award in 2013-2014.Kraftwurx operates under the concept of an Edge Manufacturing Network which attempts to optimize cost and location of production using computerized algorithms that include decision making including load balancing, production scheduling, supply chain optimization, nesting, stacking and other quality parameters that collectively optimize production worldwide. All features covered by utility patent.Products in the system exist only as a 3D model stored on a computer hard drive until the item is requested to be produced on demand. This methodology creates both optimized manufacturing and disruptively lean manufacturing by eliminating inventory and providing limitless product variety without warehousing. | $960K | Seed | Aug 09, 2011 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saev) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Javelin Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/javelin-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ATP Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atp-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Austin Technology Incubator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atx-tech-incubator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Equinor Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/equinor-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Equinor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/equinor-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About BlueVine Ventures

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

BlueVine Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in manufacturing and technology companies.

2 contacts available at BlueVine Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kemal Farid | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kemal-farid |
| Vish Mishra | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vish-mishra |

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## FAQ

### What does Kemal Farid invest in?

Kemal Farid invests primarily in Oil and Gas, DIY and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 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 Kemal Farid's check size?

Kemal Farid typically joins rounds of $4M–$7.7M 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 Kemal Farid participates in.

### When did Kemal Farid last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kemal Farid closed in Aug 2021. Shizune tracks 5 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?

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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