# Klee Irwin

> Klee Irwin is a Series A investor backing Aerospace and Education. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: May 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/klee-irwin/13/11/643
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Kleeirwin
- Website: http://www.kleeirwin.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/klee.irwin.3

Klee Irwin is a Series A investor in Los Angeles focused on Aerospace and Education. Klee Irwin is the Founder, CEO, and Chairman of Irwin Naturals. He previously worked at Hana Tropicals as a Co-Owner.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aerospace | 1 | 33% |
| Education | 1 | 33% |
| Publishing | 1 | 33% |
| Social Media | 1 | 33% |
| Space Travel | 1 | 33% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 67% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Singularity University | Singularity University is a benefit corporation that provides educational programs, innovative partnerships, and a startup accelerator to help individuals, businesses, institutions, investors, NGOs, and governments understand cutting-edge technologies and how to utilize these technologies to positively impact billions of people.SingularityUniversity permits individuals from more than 85 countries to apply growing technologies, including artificial intelligence and robotics, biotechnology, nanotechnology and digital fabrication, networks and computing systems, and medicine and neuroscience in order to address humanity’s major challenges such as education, energy, environment, food, global health, poverty, security, space, and water. Its educational programs consist of the graduate studies program, <a href="https://www.dissertationcorp.co.uk/">Dissertation Help</a> , the executive program, and exponential conferences.Singularity University was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in NASA Research Park, Silicon Valley. |  | Series A | May 01, 2016 | https://su.org |
| Moon Express | Moon Express is a privately financed commercial space company blazing a trail to the Moon. Their prime directive is to open up the Moon’s vast resources for humanity and establish new avenues for commercial space activities beyond Earth orbit. They begin with profitable on-ramps by disrupting space transportation with innovative, flexible, andscalable new spacecraft that will radically reduce the cost of commercial robotic space activities. In doing so they will extend the economic sphere of Earth and make the resources of the Moon and asteroids accessible.They have a team of driven, visionary people merging the best practices of traditional aerospace know-how with the innovation and entrepreneurial culture of Silicon Valley. They have partnerships with NASA as both collaborators and customers. They have signed a contract with NASA for lunar cargo delivery, and NASA has selected Moon Express as a partner in developing lunar landers to put the U.S. back on the surface of the Moon.The company was founded by Dr. Bob Richards, Naveen Jain, and Dr. Barney Pell in August 2010 and was quickly selected by NASA for its $30M Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) program. Moon Express entered and became the recognized leader in the $30M Google Lunar XPRIZE competition in October of that same year, and in 2014 was selected by NASA for its Lunar CATALYST program focused on a U.S. return to the Moon. Moon Express is headquartered at the NASA Ames Research Park in Mountain View, California, with facilities and operations in Huntsville, Alberta, and at the Kenneday Space Center and Cape Canaveral, Florida. | $12.5M |  | Dec 01, 2013 | http://moonexpress.com |
| Upworthy | Lots of media companies have a mission. But Upworthy is on a mission to change what the world pays attention to. We believe that stories about important issues can and should be great stories — stories for everyone, stories that connect us and sometimes even change the world —because we’re all part of the same story. | $8M | Series A | Sep 16, 2013 | http://www.upworthy.com |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alpaca VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpaca-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Autodesk](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/autodesk) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bold Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bold-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [B37 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bridge-37-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Catamount Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catamount-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Flight Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flight-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Klee Irwin invest in?

Klee Irwin invests primarily in Aerospace, Education and Publishing startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 3 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 Klee Irwin?

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### When did Klee Irwin last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Klee Irwin closed in May 2016. Shizune tracks 3 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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