# Kevin Novak

> Kevin Novak is a seed investor at Rackhouse Venture Capital backing SaaS. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Rackhouse Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rackhouse-venture-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/novakkm
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/novakkm
- Website: https://x.com/novakkm

Kevin Novak is a seed investor at Rackhouse Venture Capital in San Francisco focused on SaaS and Logistics. Kevin Novak is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Managing Partner and Founder of Rackhouse VC. Kevin previously worked at Uber as a Head of Data Science.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 30% |
| Logistics | 3 | 30% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 30% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 30% |
| Retail | 2 | 20% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 70% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Arvist | Manufacturing industry transformed rapidly over past decades with automation and digitalization leading this transformation, while safety process around manufacturing is still manual and outdated. One consequence of this is that over 85% of near-misses and incidents are not even captured. These near-misses and incidents are in-fact the pre-cursorsto safety incidents, unsafe behavior, and fatal accidents.The financial impact of not working safely can be calculated by tracking both the direct and indirect costs associated with not only injuries (including first aid cases and near misses, which is close to 200 Billion USD annually), but also the ancillary costs within the infrastructure that is required to react to the problems that so often accompany an unsafe workplace. True costs of poor workplace safety go far beyond simple direct costs such as OSHA fines, medical treatments, workers’ compensation, legal or insurance fees, etc. but include also many hidden indirect costs such as public relations costs, loss of reputation, loss of efficiency and productivity, workers’ morale, or their mental health, just to name a few.This is the challenge Be Global Safety addresses. Be Global Safety (BGS) captures and reports these near-misses and incidents in real-time, using Artificial Intelligence. Using existing infrastructure like cameras and sensors, the BGS AI systems assists in immediate and real-time identification of unsafe acts. Date reporting and dashboard integrates seamlessly with other incident management systems or allows the users to use the in-build one. And finally, the data analytics platform also allows the users to take pro-active safety measures to prevent future accidents and incidents. Our mission is to create an intelligent safety solution which can be implemented anywhere human interaction is involved and make the world a safer place. | $4M | Seed | Sep 16, 2025 | https://beglobalsafety.com/ |
| Prelude | Prelude provides a supply chain platform to distribute cannabis to retailers. Its platform helps to keep the dispensary stocked with the products that customers want and reduces out-of-stock and overstocked products. | $5.2M | Seed | Nov 28, 2023 | https://www.prelude.pro |
| Syrup Tech | Syrup Tech is a machine-learning decision-support engine for inventory in commerce. The company uses advanced demand forecasting and stochastic optimizations. Syrup Tech's software empowers brands and retailers to significantly increase full-priced inventory sell-through by (1) preventing stock-outs and end-of-season markdowns, (2) decreaseunnecessary excess inventory and reduce overproduction, and (3) reduce the time spent on manual tasks for stretched merchandising and planning teams. | $6.3M | Seed | Jul 13, 2022 | https://syrup.tech |
| Fishtail | Fishtail is a provider of a solution that allows freight forwarders to offer financing to their customers within minutes. | $4.5M | Seed | Mar 22, 2022 | https://fishtail.ai |
| Sauce | Sauce boosts restaurant delivery sales by up to 40% with dynamic pricing. | $3M | Seed | Nov 02, 2021 | https://www.saucepricing.com/ |
| Nana Academy | Nana is a vertically integrated student-to-operator trade skills school, today focused on Appliance Repair. We work with some of the 35 million people who will lose their jobs by 2030 to tech automation, teaching them trade skills, building their experience through our mentorship program, and connecting them to good jobs on our marketplace. Byperfecting this pipeline and teaching life skills to a new generation of tradespeople, we are accelerating the retooling of America’s workforce and creating millions of economic opportunities. | $17.5M | Series A | May 25, 2021 | https://nanaacademy.org |
| Unstruk Data | Unstruk Data was started on the premise that expert domain knowledge is being lost at an alarming rate, as employees leave and projects end.For companies that manage and track real-world assets, as the volume of their acquired spatial and unstructured data rises, the amount of hidden or "dark" data increases even more rapidly.Unstrukoffers a full-stack knowledge platform which leverages no-code machine learning and a user-friendly spatial data analytics interface.With the Unstruk Data Portal, geo-enabled businesses can catalog, correlate and search their video, audio, 3D point clouds, shape files, orthographic images, PDFs, emails (and more) - to make data-driven decisions more easily and without coding required. Data can be further enriched and correlated via external integrations with ESRI ArcGIS, satellite imagery providers, databases and other API-based services. | $3.6M | Seed | Apr 30, 2021 | https://www.unstruk.com |
| TruckMap | The Mobile App For Truck Drivers |  | Seed | Oct 20, 2020 | https://truckmap.com |
| Nana Academy | Nana is a vertically integrated student-to-operator trade skills school, today focused on Appliance Repair. We work with some of the 35 million people who will lose their jobs by 2030 to tech automation, teaching them trade skills, building their experience through our mentorship program, and connecting them to good jobs on our marketplace. Byperfecting this pipeline and teaching life skills to a new generation of tradespeople, we are accelerating the retooling of America’s workforce and creating millions of economic opportunities. | $4.7M | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2020 | https://nanaacademy.org |
| TruckMap | The Mobile App For Truck Drivers |  | Seed | Feb 14, 2019 | https://truckmap.com |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Firstminute Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firstminute-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Flybridge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flybridge-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Great Oaks Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/great-oaks-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Karman Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karman-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Karman Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/moving-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Precursor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/precursor-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Rackhouse Venture Capital

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

We’re an early-stage venture capital fund that backs data founders, regardless of sector or geography.

1 contacts available at Rackhouse Venture Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kevin Novak | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-novak |

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## FAQ

### What does Kevin Novak invest in?

Kevin Novak invests primarily in SaaS, Logistics and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Kevin Novak last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kevin Novak closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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