Kirby Harris
Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Base Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Kirby Harris is a seed investor at Base Ventures in San Francisco focused on Aerospace and Space Travel. Kirby D. Harris is based out of Oakland, California and is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Base Ventures. Kirby previously worked at Impact Capital Management as a Vice President. Kirby D. Harris attended the Morehouse College. Kirby D. Harris has received Kauffman Fellow in 2016 recognition in their career.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
Last updated:
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Industries Kirby Harris invests in
Stages Kirby Harris invests in
Countries Kirby Harris invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Aerospace 2 (29%)
- Space Travel 2 (29%)
- B2B 1 (14%)
- Sales 1 (14%)
- FinTech 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (71%)
- Series A 3 (43%)
- Series B 1 (14%)
Investments
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Space Perspective
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Space Perspective is a space travel company that was established so that humans would explore space for the betterment of all.Space Perspective’s first Operations Center is on Florida’s Space Coast, in the heart of the civil and commercial space programs at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Flights launch from the iconic runway where the Space Shuttlelanded upon its return from space. Additional planned launch locations include Cecil Spaceport in Florida, Hawaii, Alaska and elsewhere as we expand operations around the planet. | $41M / Series A / Oct 14, 2021 | |
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Space Perspective
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Space Perspective is a space travel company that was established so that humans would explore space for the betterment of all.Space Perspective’s first Operations Center is on Florida’s Space Coast, in the heart of the civil and commercial space programs at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Flights launch from the iconic runway where the Space Shuttlelanded upon its return from space. Additional planned launch locations include Cecil Spaceport in Florida, Hawaii, Alaska and elsewhere as we expand operations around the planet. | $7M / Seed / Nov 09, 2020 | |
Monsieur
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Monsieur is the leader in the automated bartending space and has been featured on CNN, TechCrunch, and Business Insider. Monsieur is an artificially intelligent robotic bartender that makes great-tasting cocktails that keep people happy and businesses profitable. | $2M / Seed / Oct 10, 2014 | |
6sense
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6sense reinvents the way organizations create, manage, and convert pipelines to revenue. 6sense Revenue AI captures anonymous buying signals, targets the right accounts, and recommends the channels and messages to boost revenue performance. Removing guesswork, friction, and wasted sales effort, 6sense empowers sales, marketing, and customer successteams to significantly improve pipeline quality, accelerate sales velocity, increase conversion rates, and grow revenue predictably. | Series A / May 20, 2014 | |
SpoonRocket
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SpoonRocket is a next-gen, ultra fast delivery platform that delivers high quality tasty meals to customers in 15 minutes or less. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Berkeley, California.The company is backed by Y Combinator, Foundation Capital, General Catalyst, and various other angels and funds. In March 2016, the company wasacquired by SpoonRocket. | Series A / May 15, 2014 | |
World View Enterprises
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At World View® Enterprises, Inc. we are pioneering a new frontier at the edge of space: the stratospheric economy. Over 115 successful stratospheric flights and 10,274,598 vertical feet flown (Nov 2022), World View has innovated exploration of the stratosphere through advanced research, discovery, and now human spaceflight. We have engineered andpatented sophisticated takeoff and landing systems and developed complex methodologies for controlling trajectories in the stratosphere. These innovations have earned us the trust of NASA and other government, scientific, and aerospace organizations. Our expertise enables us to bring edge-of-space travel to the public and stratospheric remote sensing to governments and businesses, as World View embarks on the mission to inspire, create, and explore new perspectives for a radically improved future.We are on a mission to inspire, create and explore new perspectives for a radically-improved future. Whether though our remote sensing vehicles called Stratollites® that can persist in the stratosphere over areas of interest for months at a time, or our space tourism and exploration services that are introducing meaningful space tourism to entirely new addressable market, World View is delivering the first purpose-first service offering from the stratosphere. | Seed / Oct 15, 2013 | |
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SpoonRocket
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SpoonRocket is a next-gen, ultra fast delivery platform that delivers high quality tasty meals to customers in 15 minutes or less. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Berkeley, California.The company is backed by Y Combinator, Foundation Capital, General Catalyst, and various other angels and funds. In March 2016, the company wasacquired by SpoonRocket. | $2.5M / Seed / Sep 21, 2013 |
Co-Investors
About Base Ventures
Base Ventures, founded by Erik Moore, is a seed-stage fund investing in technology companies. Current portfolio includes MOS, Blavity, Space Perspective, Genies, 6Sense Inc., AngelList, and others. Successful exits include Olly Nutrition (Acquired by Unilever) and Plangrid (acquired by Autodesk).
Base Ventures Contacts
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Erik Moore
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Kirby Harris
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Lisa Parks
Partner
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Ryan Diew
Partner
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Ryan Merket
Venture Partner
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What does Kirby Harris invest in?
Kirby Harris invests primarily in Aerospace, Space Travel and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 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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The most recent investment recorded for Kirby Harris closed in Oct 2021. Shizune tracks 7 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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