KittyHawk
VC Fund
Los Angeles, United States
KittyHawk is a VC fund in Los Angeles focused on Software and Health Care. KittyHawk, an investment firm focused on leading edge seed to late stage pre-IPO companies. The firm is named after Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, where the Wright Brothers embarked on an extraordinary entrepreneurial journey, creating the world’s first airplane and launching a new era in human mobility.KittyHawk supports extraordinary, mission drivenentrepreneurs in their quest to build world changing organizations. The firm operates two primary strategies: - KittyHawk Frontier focuses on seed stage investments at the frontiers of technology including AI, Quantum, Aerospace, Healthcare, Longevity, Climate, Web 3 and more. - KittyHawk Secondaries are pre-IPO secondary funds that leverage a deep relationship with Nasdaq Private Markets to access investment opportunities in the world’s leading late-stage companies. The firm was founded in 2015 and is run by former Singularity University Executive Director, Will Weisman.
- Total investments:
- 110
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 32%
- Fund size:
- $15M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries KittyHawk invests in
Stages KittyHawk invests in
Countries KittyHawk invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $600k–$10M
- Series A
- $3M–$60M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 11 (10%)
- Health Care 11 (10%)
- Information Technology 9 (8%)
- Artificial Intelligence 9 (8%)
- FinTech 4 (4%)
Stage
- Seed 34 (31%)
- Series A 15 (14%)
- Pre-Seed 6 (5%)
- Series B 5 (5%)
- Funding Round 5 (5%)
Country
- United States 35 (32%)
- Chile 1 (1%)
- Brazil 1 (1%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- France 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Paul Burgon
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Will Weisman
Founder & Managing Partner
|
Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 76 | Find email | |
Alexandra Peterson Cart
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Carol Grunberg
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
John Pearce
COO
|
COO | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
MycoMedica Life Sciences, PBC
|
Psychedelic Medicines | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 24, 2026 | |
| AI-driven infrastructure intelligence | Feb 24, 2026 | ||
| Solubag is a packaging products manufacturing company. | Series A / Dec 30, 2025 | ||
| Pryon is an artificial intelligence company focused on enterprise knowledge management. Its natural language processing platform transforms unstructured data into experiences that increase productivity with unmatched accuracy and speed. Pryon’s automated machine learning engines deliver rapid time to value by enriching existing content. Thisno-code approach prevents operational disruption and allows organizations to quickly maximize the business value trapped within their information assets. Pryon was founded by Igor Jablokov, whose previous company defined the state of the art for AI assistants and was acquired by Amazon to form the basis for Alexa. | Convertible Note / Dec 11, 2025 | ||
| At Anthropogenic Inc, we’re laying the groundwork for a new generation of financial products, where both the Investment Rate of Return + Impact Rate of Return or as we like to say, IRR² are the norm. Join us and help ensure that superior profits and planetary health co-exist for maximum ROI. | Pre-Seed / Jun 05, 2025 | ||
| Lykos Therapeutics' goal is to revolutionize the way mental health is addressed. By creating innovative medicines and therapeutic techniques to treat mental health disorders, we hope to upend the status quo. With over thirty years of expertise investigating therapies aided by psychedelics, we continue to be committed to adhering to rigorousscience so that we can create and market innovative treatment alternatives. | $50M / Series B / May 30, 2025 | ||
| Airpost is an AI advertising agency platform that provides video templates, editing tools, and automated UGC video ads. | Seed / Apr 01, 2025 | ||
| xNilio synthesizes all product data to guide engineers in defining their prototype's design intent. Engineers set cost and performance goals; xNilio automatically generates the manufacturing data and plans to meet them. xNilio seamlessly fits into existing workflows, instantly regenerating manufacturing data for new CAD features and customerrequests. Cut down your product development time by 10x with xNilio. | Pre-Seed / Feb 10, 2025 | ||
| The Robot is an AI-driven company developing a blockchain platform. | Pre-Seed / Feb 08, 2025 | ||
|
geCKo Materials
|
Next Industrial Velcro | Seed / Dec 31, 2024 | |
| See all 110 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does KittyHawk invest in?
KittyHawk invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 110 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 KittyHawk's check size?
KittyHawk typically joins rounds of $600k–$10M at Seed and $3M–$60M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds KittyHawk participates in.
How do I contact KittyHawk?
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Who are the partners at KittyHawk?
The team at KittyHawk includes Paul Burgon (Partner), Will Weisman (Founder & Managing Partner) and Alexandra Peterson Cart (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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