Kirk Holland
Managing Director @ Access Venture Partners
Boulder, United States
Kirk Holland is a Managing Director at Access Venture Partners, where he brings a long track record of successfully investing in, growing and exiting high growth technology and digital media companies. He also brings a broad history of operating experience across many functions, including general management, sales & marketing, businessdevelopment, operations and engineering with companies such as Procter & Gamble and Jupiter Media.Prior to joining Access Venture Partners, Kirk was a General Partner at Vista Ventures where he helped build the firm to deliver top-decile investment performance. Kirk led many of the firm's successful investments in software and digital media, including Dante Software (acquired by WebMethods), Rally Software, Thought Equity Motion, Umbria (acquired by McGraw Hill), Stratavia, StrionAir (acquired by United Technologies) and MXLogic (acquired by McAfee).Prior to Vista Ventures, Kirk helped launch Jupiter Media Ventures, where he was a pioneering investor in the digital media sector. At Jupiter, Kirk led several successful investments, including AuctionRover (acquired by Yahoo), Direct Response Technologies (acquired by Digital River), BackWire (acquired by Leap Wireless), Techtracker (acquired by CNet) and HowStuffWorks (acquired by Discovery). Previously, Kirk helped start Piper Jaffray's Software and Internet Media investment banking practice on the west coast where he worked on over $2 Billion in M&A and equity transactions.Kirk received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering with honors from University of Washington and an MBA degree from Stanford University. Kirk is very active in building entrepreneurship in the community as a board member of Colorado University's Deming Center of Entrepreneurship, Boulder Software Association, The Entrepreneur's Foundation and I Have a Dream Foundation. Kirk lives in Louisville, Colorado and enjoys coaching his daughters in basketball and playing any sport he can at his old age.
- Total investments:
- 26
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 35%
Last updated:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (23%)
- SaaS 3 (12%)
- Computer 3 (12%)
- Enterprise Software 2 (8%)
- Baby 1 (4%)
Stage
- Series B 6 (23%)
- Series A 5 (19%)
- Seed 2 (8%)
- Series D 2 (8%)
- Funding Round 2 (8%)
Investments
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| Rapta Supercharges US Manufacturing with an Agentic AI Platform that eliminates errors in real time and automates tasks 30x faster. The Platform eliminates errors in real time with cameras and sensor data to augment human expertise for smarter factory operations. - 100% customer generated content - 98% of errors prevented - Scales across anyprecision factory - Automate workflows 30x faster - Works with humans & robots | $8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| GoodBuy Gear is the leader in recommerce for families, on a mission to make recommerce the trusted way families shop for the ones they love most. Since 2016, GoodBuy Gear has helped save 1M+ items from landfills through its 35+ point quality inspection process and network of 65+ brand and retail partners. | $14M / Series B / Jun 20, 2023 | ||
| Bonusly is a fun and easy way to engage employees and improve collaboration, productivity, and retention at every level of organizations.Key Benefits -------------------- Save time with an employee engagement solution that’s efficient, effective, and enjoyable. Bonusly helps clients celebrate everyday contributions and key milestones, automatetime-consuming HR admin processes, incentivize participation in company initiatives, and offer digital rewards their employees will love.Get actionable data about your employee experience from powerful people analytics tools. Bonusly delivers unique insights on individual, team, and company levels so clients can make strategic decisions about culture, professional development, performance management, and retention.Build a greater sense of alignment and purpose. By making recognition social and engaging to everyone across teams, departments, and locations, Bonusly helps people understand what it means to embody the company's core values and how contributions of all kinds support their mission.Transform employee engagement with the highest-rated, most-reviewed recognition and rewards solution on the market. With a simple interface and nifty features that people love, Bonusly is an HR initiative employees will adopt quickly and use frequently: 89% of Bonusly users participate within their first month and 79% receive recognition at least once a month.Make it quick and easy for everyone to give recognition no matter where or how they work. Trusted by a wide variety of organizations, including startups, corporations, hotels, factories, and animal hospitals, Bonusly offers robust HRIS, SSO, and chat app integrations, highly-rated mobile apps, and customizable office display and kiosk options that fit seamlessly with your existing tools. | $18.9M / Series B / Feb 28, 2023 | ||
| GoodBuy Gear is the leader in recommerce for families, on a mission to make recommerce the trusted way families shop for the ones they love most. Since 2016, GoodBuy Gear has helped save 1M+ items from landfills through its 35+ point quality inspection process and network of 65+ brand and retail partners. | $6M / Series A / Oct 06, 2020 | ||
| Bonusly is a fun and easy way to engage employees and improve collaboration, productivity, and retention at every level of organizations.Key Benefits -------------------- Save time with an employee engagement solution that’s efficient, effective, and enjoyable. Bonusly helps clients celebrate everyday contributions and key milestones, automatetime-consuming HR admin processes, incentivize participation in company initiatives, and offer digital rewards their employees will love.Get actionable data about your employee experience from powerful people analytics tools. Bonusly delivers unique insights on individual, team, and company levels so clients can make strategic decisions about culture, professional development, performance management, and retention.Build a greater sense of alignment and purpose. By making recognition social and engaging to everyone across teams, departments, and locations, Bonusly helps people understand what it means to embody the company's core values and how contributions of all kinds support their mission.Transform employee engagement with the highest-rated, most-reviewed recognition and rewards solution on the market. With a simple interface and nifty features that people love, Bonusly is an HR initiative employees will adopt quickly and use frequently: 89% of Bonusly users participate within their first month and 79% receive recognition at least once a month.Make it quick and easy for everyone to give recognition no matter where or how they work. Trusted by a wide variety of organizations, including startups, corporations, hotels, factories, and animal hospitals, Bonusly offers robust HRIS, SSO, and chat app integrations, highly-rated mobile apps, and customizable office display and kiosk options that fit seamlessly with your existing tools. | $9M / Series A / Jun 01, 2020 | ||
| GoodBuy Gear is the leader in recommerce for families, on a mission to make recommerce the trusted way families shop for the ones they love most. Since 2016, GoodBuy Gear has helped save 1M+ items from landfills through its 35+ point quality inspection process and network of 65+ brand and retail partners. | $2M / Seed / Mar 11, 2019 | ||
| * Cactus is a mindfulness app for people who don't like meditation. Every day, it sends you a personalized question, prompting you to consider what really matters to you and write it down.* Cactus has similar benefits as meditation, but it’s as easy as texting and immediately gratifying, shows your progress instantly and over time, andpersonalizes questions to you as you use it.* As dozens of products compete for a slice of meditation’s 41% CAGR, Cactus is a different kind of mindfulness for the 60% of people who also want a better, healthier life, but just don’t want to meditate.* The Cactus team has years of experience working together on consumer apps (Blue Bottle Coffee, Craftsy, NBC). We do all of our own user interviews and research, branding and design, and full-stack development. | $475K / Pre-Seed / Dec 28, 2018 | ||
| opris Health, an intelligent clinical operations platform, offers a pioneering A.I. medical scribe technology to tackle clinical inefficiencies. The new app, now available on iOS to U.S. physicians and healthcare providers, proved to save time for physicians and reduce the stress of dictation, while making more time available to speak withpatients. | $3.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 20, 2018 | ||
| TurboTenant is a landlord and tenant software for online vacancy marketing, tenant screening, online rent payments, and rental applications. It also helps independent landlords improve the investment performance of their properties by offering them online tools that previously were only available to large property management companies. Thesefeatures include online rental applications, tenant credit, and background reports, property listings and automated marketing, and online rent payments.TurboTenant also provides products including digital rental application, customization property listing website, rental history reports, syndication to major listing sales, online rental marketing tools, rental maintenance requests, and tenant screening and credit & background checks. TurboTenant was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. | $2.2M / Sep 04, 2018 | ||
| GoodBuy Gear is the leader in recommerce for families, on a mission to make recommerce the trusted way families shop for the ones they love most. Since 2016, GoodBuy Gear has helped save 1M+ items from landfills through its 35+ point quality inspection process and network of 65+ brand and retail partners. | $750K / Seed / Nov 20, 2017 | ||
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About Access Venture Partners
Access Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in fiercely passionate founders leading visionary, early-stage technology companies. We seek to add significant value beyond simply the capital invested and throw our resources, decades of operating & investing expertise, broad networks, and every ounce of our emotional energy behind ourfounders' success. We actively help our portcos build and recruit teams, fundraise, develop business strategy, and advance to an exit. We typically make our initial investment as part of the first institutional round and we often continue investing in subsequent rounds. Access was founded in 1999 by
Access Venture Partners Contacts
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Elyse Kent
Head of Platform and Investor
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Frank Mendicino III
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Frank Mendicino III
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Jay Campion
Previous Founder and Managing Director
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What does Kirk Holland invest in?
Kirk Holland invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Computer startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 26 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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