# Kevin Johnson

> Kevin Johnson is a seed investor at Evolution Fresh (San Francisco) backing SaaS and Travel. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Evolution Fresh](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evolution-fresh)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Sep 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinhjohnson
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/kevin_johnson

Kevin Johnson is a seed investor at Evolution Fresh in San Francisco focused on SaaS and Travel. Kevin Johnson is the CEO of Evolution Fresh. He previously worked at Juniper Networks as a CEO. Kevin Johnson attended New Mexico State University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| Travel | 1 | 25% |
| FinTech | 1 | 25% |
| Finance | 1 | 25% |
| Consumer | 1 | 25% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Angel | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Checkmate | Checkmate's a browser extension that generates you personalized deals based on who you are at 100k online stores. Your data's everywhere. Put it to work. Tell Checkmate about yourself in 30 seconds and start saving everywhere. | $5M | Seed | Sep 26, 2022 |  |
| Sounding Board, Inc | Sounding Board offers a full-stack software platform for enterprises to scale coaching initiatives organization-wide, overnight and a high-quality coach network to serve on-demand coaching needs. It offers a modern user experience that adapts to the learning styles of people, a comprehensive set of automation tools for easy administration, and arobust data visualization capability to view the enterprise-wide impact of coaching. Serving several global enterprises in 11 countries with an NPS score of 81. Sounding Board aims to be the first coaching experience layer for enterprises worldwide.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Foster City, California. | $13.1M | Series A | Jan 22, 2021 |  |
| Birch | Birch is a new way to make sense of your credit card rewards. Birch is simple. Connect your reward based credit cards and the platform gets to work, retroactively finding ways that you could improved your actual spending to earn more rewards. Every purchase is categorized and compared to thousands of categories and merchants on hundreds of cardsthat earn rewards. Our approach is straightforward:Make sense of your current wallet -> Earn the most rewards and redeem for the things you like at the best value -> Trust Birch to make recommendations that can help you earn even more. When you're ready for a new card, Birch compares your spending history to hundreds of cards to calculate potential rewards had you used one of the cards for the same purchases. It's truly a risk free, no strings attached way of finding the right card. We're also launching the Birch mobile app and Chrome extensions shortly. That means real time recommendations for when you're shopping in-store or online. | $1M | Seed | Jan 18, 2018 |  |
| Birch | Birch is a new way to make sense of your credit card rewards. Birch is simple. Connect your reward based credit cards and the platform gets to work, retroactively finding ways that you could improved your actual spending to earn more rewards. Every purchase is categorized and compared to thousands of categories and merchants on hundreds of cardsthat earn rewards. Our approach is straightforward:Make sense of your current wallet -> Earn the most rewards and redeem for the things you like at the best value -> Trust Birch to make recommendations that can help you earn even more. When you're ready for a new card, Birch compares your spending history to hundreds of cards to calculate potential rewards had you used one of the cards for the same purchases. It's truly a risk free, no strings attached way of finding the right card. We're also launching the Birch mobile app and Chrome extensions shortly. That means real time recommendations for when you're shopping in-store or online. |  | Angel | Feb 01, 2016 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Scribble Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scribble-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Blackbird Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackbird-ventures-australia) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bloomberg Beta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bloomberg-beta) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Canaan Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canaan-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Correlation Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/correlation-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [f7 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/f7-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Evolution Fresh

VC Fund · Rancho Cucamonga, United States

Evolution Fresh peels, presses, and squeezes raw fruits and vegetables.

5 contacts available at Evolution Fresh.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kevin Johnson | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-johnson-5 |
| Jeff Grad | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-grad-7a24 |
| Jimmy Rosenberg | Founder and Chief Juice Officier | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jimmy-rosenberg-f462 |
| Kevin Johnson | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-johnson-d0e2 |
| Kevin Johnson | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-johnson |

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## FAQ

### What does Kevin Johnson invest in?

Kevin Johnson invests primarily in SaaS, Travel and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 4 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 Kevin Johnson's check size?

Kevin Johnson typically joins rounds of $1M–$5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kevin Johnson participates in.

### When did Kevin Johnson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kevin Johnson closed in Sep 2022. Shizune tracks 4 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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