# Kenneth Ballenegger

> Kenneth Ballenegger is a seed investor at Oyster Ventures backing Software and FinTech. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Oyster Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oyster-ventures)
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Dec 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://hk.linkedin.com/in/kennethballenegger
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/kob
- AngelList: https://angel.co/kb

Kenneth Ballenegger is a seed investor at Oyster Ventures focused on Software and FinTech. Kenneth Ballenegger

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 64% |
| FinTech | 6 | 55% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 55% |
| Finance | 3 | 27% |
| Marketplace | 3 | 27% |

60 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 136% |
| Series A | 3 | 27% |
| Angel | 1 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 127% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 18% |
| India | 1 | 9% |
| Mexico | 1 | 9% |
| Singapore | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Standard Cyborg | Build 3D scanning, analysis, and design into your digital and physical applications. | $2.4M | Seed | Dec 11, 2018 |  |
| Numerai | Numerai is a new kind of hedge fund built by a network of data scientists. It uses its cryptocurrency to incentivize tens of thousands of anonymous data scientists around the world to collaborate to create predictive models in history. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $6M | Series A | Dec 12, 2016 |  |
| Kite | Kite is an artificial pair programmer. It augments coding environment with internet’s programming knowledge and machine learning. It shows examples and documentation for the libraries and terminal commands being used. Kite even detects simple errors and offers to fix them for each users. | $4M | Seed | Apr 14, 2016 |  |
| Numerai | Numerai is a new kind of hedge fund built by a network of data scientists. It uses its cryptocurrency to incentivize tens of thousands of anonymous data scientists around the world to collaborate to create predictive models in history. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $7.5M |  | Apr 06, 2016 |  |
| Numerai | Numerai is a new kind of hedge fund built by a network of data scientists. It uses its cryptocurrency to incentivize tens of thousands of anonymous data scientists around the world to collaborate to create predictive models in history. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $1.5M | Seed | Apr 06, 2016 |  |
| Cozy | Cozy is an online property management service designed for landlords and renters. Its products is for rent payments, rental applications, and tenant screening. Cozy helps small and medium landlords and renters to get things done. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon. | $3.4M | Series A | Aug 21, 2015 |  |
| SourceDNA | SourceDNA is a web service that helps developers & service providers find who's using their code. It continually scans app stores and uploaded binaries for matches against the user's components. SourceDNA works cross-platform and with multiple source languages. It spots code included in iOS and Android apps, Windows software, andLinux services, using an existing build from a single platform as a reference. | $120K | Seed | Aug 18, 2015 |  |
| Smarking | Smarking is a group of MIT PhDs, stellar software engineers, and seasoned business professionals who set out on a journey to bring cutting edge solutions to the parking world. Frustrated that unlike many other industries, the $100 billion park industry (worldwide) still doesn’t have state of the art data analytics or yield management technologies,they are passionate about pushing the industry forward. In a short eighteen-month period, Smarking has attracted a tremendous amount of customers and grown their team into one with experts from both parking and tech. With great passion and continuous innovation, they are working on the frontier of the parking industry, shaping a bright future together with their customers. | $3M | Seed | May 13, 2015 |  |
| Clearbit | Clearbit develops business intelligence to help companies find more information of customers in order to increase sales and reduce fraud. Alex McCaw, Harlow Ward, and Rob Holland founded Clearbit in 2014, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 09, 2015 |  |
| Forge | Forge Global is a private securities marketplace that serves the complex and emerging needs of the private market ecosystem by forging new connections through its technology, data, and expertise. Founded in 2014, the firm empowers investors and shareholders by facilitating liquidity in the private markets. Forge is backed by top Silicon Valleyinvestors and large, global institutions including Deutsche Börse, Temasek, Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas, FT Partners, Draper Associates, Peter Thiel, Munich Re Ventures, and LUN Partners Group. | $500K | Angel | Jun 17, 2014 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Oyster Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oyster-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [137 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/137-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [7percent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/7-percent) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AAF Management Ltd.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aafmanagement) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AAF Management Ltd.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arabangel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Caffeinated Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caffeinated-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Oyster Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Oyster Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in exceptional new-frontier technology companies. They target companies that bring liquidity and efficiency to antiquated industries, companies that enable globalization, with leverage to massively scale. It also specializes in early-stage investments in startups in fintech, with a focus onblockchain, crypto, E-commerce, market place, artificial intelligence, fintech, media tech, and SaaS companies. Oyster Ventures was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

4 contacts available at Oyster Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sophie Liao | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sophie-liao |
| Dennis Liu | Principle | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dennis-liu-f12e |
| Kenneth Ballenegger | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kenneth-ballenegger-9ad3 |
| Kenneth Ballenegger | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kenneth-ballenegger |

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## FAQ

### What does Kenneth Ballenegger invest in?

Kenneth Ballenegger invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 11 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 Kenneth Ballenegger last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kenneth Ballenegger closed in Dec 2018. Shizune tracks 11 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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