# Kingston

> Kingston is a VC fund in Fountain Valley backing Software and Hardware. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Fountain Valley, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Apr 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kingston/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/kingstontech
- Website: http://www.kingston.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/KingstonTechnologyEurope

Kingston is a technology company that designs and manufactures memory and flash products for servers, desktops, notebooks, workstations, printers, personal digital assistants, hand-held PCs, graphic cards, digital cameras, and mobile phones. It serves as an international network of distributors, resellers, retailers, online retailers, and OEMcustomers. It offers a range of products: SD cards, memory cards, memory modules, solid-state drives, and USB flash drives; datatraveler USB drives, such as personal, encrypted secure, and Windows to go drives; flash cards, including photo and video SD cards, microSD cards, high-end photo cards, and card readers; and wireless drives and readers. Other than the above products, Kingston also provides contract manufacturing and supply chain management services for semiconductor manufacturers and system OEMs; and technical support, warranty and return, and customer services. Kingston has been ISO 9001 certified since 1994. It manufacturers system-specific customized memory to meet the memory requirements of the computer system for which the module is designed. Kingston was founded in 1987 and is based in Fountain Valley, California with manufacturing facilities in the United States, Taiwan, and China. Its additional offices are situated in Sydney, Australia; Paris, France; Munich, Germany; Beijing, China; and Mexico City, Mexico.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 75% |
| Hardware | 2 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 50% |
| Computer | 1 | 25% |
| Internet | 1 | 25% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 25% |
| Series G | 1 | 25% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Kelley | Vice President, HyperX Corporate Marketing | 0 | — |
| John Terpening | Director of Engineering - Embedded Products | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nantero | Nantero is a next-generation memory technology that, packs massive amounts of storage and is nonvolatile. Its main focus is the commercial introduction of NRAM – a high-density high-speed nonvolatile random access storage device. The applications for the nonvolatile RAM Nantero is developing include smartphones, tablets, enterprise systems,notebook and desktop computers, as well as applications in the automotive and industrial arena. NRAM can be manufactured for both standalone and embedded memory applications. Nantero is also working with licensees on the development of additional applications of Nantero’s core nanotube-based technology. | $29.7M | Series G | Apr 09, 2018 |  |
| Liqid | Liqid is an IT company that provides comprehensive, software-defined composable infrastructure solutions and services. The company composable infrastructure platform empowers users to manage, scale, and configure physical, bare-metal server systems in seconds and then reallocate core data center devices on-demand as workflows and business needsevolve. The Command Center software enables users to dynamically right-size their IT resources on-the-fly.Liqid intuitive GUI, REST API, or CLI enables an end-user to create servers in seconds from those resource pools to deploy applications on-demand. The company’s software disaggregates the server components in your datacenter—CPU, GPU, FPGA, NVMe, Optane, and NICs and places them into resource pools. | $11.7M | Series A | May 10, 2017 |  |
| Liqid | Liqid is an IT company that provides comprehensive, software-defined composable infrastructure solutions and services. The company composable infrastructure platform empowers users to manage, scale, and configure physical, bare-metal server systems in seconds and then reallocate core data center devices on-demand as workflows and business needsevolve. The Command Center software enables users to dynamically right-size their IT resources on-the-fly.Liqid intuitive GUI, REST API, or CLI enables an end-user to create servers in seconds from those resource pools to deploy applications on-demand. The company’s software disaggregates the server components in your datacenter—CPU, GPU, FPGA, NVMe, Optane, and NICs and places them into resource pools. | $9.5M | Seed | May 20, 2015 |  |
| Amplify.net | Amplify.net develops bandwidth management software solutions for corporate IT departments, ISPs, and content providers. The company offers iProvidence, a broadband access enabling solution that supports multiple services; and Surf, an end-to-end IP service management solution for service providers to manage IP service offerings.Amplify.net isbased in Fremont, California, with an additional location in Hong Kong. | $6.1M | Series B | Dec 08, 1999 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DH Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dh-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- 3Com — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- ABR Capital Management — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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## FAQ

### What does Kingston invest in?

Kingston invests primarily in Software, Hardware and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.

### How do I contact Kingston?

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### Who are the partners at Kingston?

The team at Kingston includes Daniel Kelley (Vice President, HyperX Corporate Marketing) and John Terpening (Director of Engineering - Embedded Products). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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