# Ken Arnold

> Ken Arnold is a seed investor at Band of Angels backing Software. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Band of Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/band-of-angels)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Apr 2017
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenarnoldsf
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ken.arnold.sanfran

Ken Arnold is a seed investor at Band of Angels in San Francisco focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Ken Arnold - Member of the Board of Directors @ Peloton Technology

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $251k–$5.2M |
| Series A | $7M–$16M |
| Series B | $53M–$60M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 33% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 25% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 17% |
| Virtualization | 2 | 17% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 17% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 67% |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Series B | 2 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 67% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Peloton Technology | Peloton Technology was founded in 2011 by a team of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to address major pain points of today’s trucking fleets – accidents and fuel costs.Peloton's system uses radar and DSRC vehicle-to-vehicle communications to link active safety systems between pairs of trucks, reducing collision-related expenses and fuel costs.The drivers remain fully engaged and retain steering control, while the system controls acceleration and braking similar to adaptive cruise control. The dramatic reduction in aerodynamic drag in these platoons provides substantial improvements in fuel economy for both the trailing and leading trucks: with on-road testing showing average savings of over 7% between the two trucks. | $60M | Series B | Apr 05, 2017 | http://www.peloton-tech.com |
| Comeet | Comeet is a cloud-based collaborative hiring platform that offers structured, streamlined workflows to help businesses make better hires more quickly. The system is built on a collaborative approach that includes the entire hiring team, not just the recruiters. They provide an elegantly simple, user-friendly design that is simple for businesses todeploy and customize for hiring teams to use with little to no training. | $470K | Seed | Jun 26, 2016 | https://www.comeet.com/ |
| Ginkgo Bioworks | Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotechnology firm. It is a developer of biological engineering products and custom microbes across multiple markets. It designs, engineer, develops, tests, and licenses organisms. It discovers molecules in flavors, sweeteners, cosmetic ingredients, crop treatments, and pharmaceuticals. It also provides probiotic bacteria toprotect the body from dangerous infections, and it generates libraries of molecules. It serves cultured ingredients, carbon mitigation, probiotics, and natural product discovery markets. | $53.3M | Series B | Jul 23, 2015 | http://ginkgobioworks.com |
| Peloton Technology | Peloton Technology was founded in 2011 by a team of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to address major pain points of today’s trucking fleets – accidents and fuel costs.Peloton's system uses radar and DSRC vehicle-to-vehicle communications to link active safety systems between pairs of trucks, reducing collision-related expenses and fuel costs.The drivers remain fully engaged and retain steering control, while the system controls acceleration and braking similar to adaptive cruise control. The dramatic reduction in aerodynamic drag in these platoons provides substantial improvements in fuel economy for both the trailing and leading trucks: with on-road testing showing average savings of over 7% between the two trucks. | $16M | Series A | Apr 22, 2015 | http://www.peloton-tech.com |
| 3TEN8 | 3TEN8 develops a cloud SaaS-based platform that helps mobile operators to understand and optimize their wireless networks and subscriber's experience. They creating cognitive operations technology (AIOps) for closed-loop, self-healing, and self-operating networks in 4G, 5G, and beyond. Its software provides insights and analytics for mobilecarriers. The company 's self-learning artificial intelligence technology predicts outages and network degradations and delivers self-healing actionable insights focused on preventing customer impact. Amr Salem, Naresh Guntupalli, and Elica Rahdar founded 3TEN8 on August 15, 2014. It has its headquarters in Santa Clara in California. | $1.7M | Seed | Apr 15, 2015 | https://3ten8.com |
| AltspaceVR | AltspaceVR is a virtual reality software company. AltspaceVR is bringing two-dimensional web content into shared virtual spaces, and extending the web to create fully holographic experiences. Through the software users will be able to watch streaming video, play games, and get work done, together and entirely inside of virtual reality. The softwareis powered by, and fully embraces, the modern open web. | $5.2M | Seed | Sep 11, 2014 | http://altvr.com/ |
| Ginkgo Bioworks | Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotechnology firm. It is a developer of biological engineering products and custom microbes across multiple markets. It designs, engineer, develops, tests, and licenses organisms. It discovers molecules in flavors, sweeteners, cosmetic ingredients, crop treatments, and pharmaceuticals. It also provides probiotic bacteria toprotect the body from dangerous infections, and it generates libraries of molecules. It serves cultured ingredients, carbon mitigation, probiotics, and natural product discovery markets. | $1M | Seed | Jul 16, 2014 | http://ginkgobioworks.com |
| 3DPrinterOS | 3DPrinterOS is the world’s first operating system for 3D printers. Enterprises, Schools and Service Bureaus use their cloud-based 3D printing management platform to prepare, fix, securely store, and stream 3D designs to 3D printers with data tracking and analytics. Unlike their competition, they have a working platform with 16,000+ hours ofuse, over ~70% of OEM's supported, and 30,000+ hours of experience developing 3D printing software. They have users in over 94 countries and their current clients include Jabil Circuit Inc., Duke, Purdue and Florida State University. 3DPrinterOS graduated from VentureBeat’s “2013 Accelerator of the Year” Alchemist Accelerator in the San Francisco bay area and was seed-round backed by Vulcan Capital and other private investors. Founded in 2013, 3DPrinterOS is based in San Francisco. www.3dprinteros.com |  | Seed | Nov 10, 2013 | http://www.3DPrinterOS.com |
| nanopay | nanopay is a global payments technology company offering payment and liquidity management products for businesses and banks. Our technology differentiates us. Our platform is built on hybrid blockchain technology that improves throughput, simplifies governance, and reduces cost.Our mission inspires us. Our long-term goal is to lead the world’stransition to digital cash. | $251K | Seed | Oct 05, 2013 | http://www.nanopay.net |
| Jetlore | Based out of Silicon Valley and founded by Stanford computer scientists, Jetlore’s AI-powered platform maps consumer behavior into structured predictive attributes, like size, color, fit, or style preferences, making it the only customer data platform for B2C businesses in the market. This structured data allows top tier retailers and largehospitality and media companies to optimize content and communication for the consumers, make better merchandising decisions, optimize search, and empower the next generation of customer service. Five of the top 20 retailers, as well as top 100 omni-channel retailers in every vertical, are using Jetlore's AI-powered Prediction Platform to optimize hundreds of millions of experiences every month. Jetlore’s customers, which include eBay, LG, Nordstrom Rack, Uniqlo, Secret Escapes and more, are seeing up to 80% revenue increases from the CRM channels. | $7M | Series A | Jun 30, 2013 | http://www.jetlore.com |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Birchmere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/birchmere-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [11.2 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/112capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Band of Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/band-of-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Denso](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/denso) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lockheed Martin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lockheed-martin-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Band of Angels

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Band of Angels is an investment firm that offers financial and advisory services to start-up companies. Band members have founded companies such as Symantec, Logitech, and National Semiconductor and been senior executives at the likes of Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, and Intuit.

5 contacts available at Band of Angels.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Art Reidel | Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/art-reidel |
| Christian Dahlen | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-dahlen |
| Manthi Nguyen | Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manthi-nguyen |
| Tom Carroux | Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-carroux |
| VK Rajaram | Member & Screening Committee Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vk-rajaram |

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## FAQ

### What does Ken Arnold invest in?

Ken Arnold invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Manufacturing startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 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 Ken Arnold's check size?

Ken Arnold typically joins rounds of $251k–$5.2M at Seed, $7M–$16M at Series A and $53M–$60M 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 Ken Arnold participates in.

### How do I contact Ken Arnold?

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### When did Ken Arnold last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ken Arnold closed in Apr 2017. Shizune tracks 12 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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