# Mitch Kapor

> Mitch Kapor is a seed investor at Kapor Center (San Francisco) backing Software and Mobile. See 83 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Kapor Center](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kapor-center-for-social-impact)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 83
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mitch-kapor/7/614/a80
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/mkapor
- Website: http://www.kapor.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089508346505

Mitch Kapor is a seed investor at Kapor Center in San Francisco focused on Software and Mobile. Mitchell Kapor is the Partner of Kapor Capital. He previously worked at Generation Investment Management as an Advisory Board Member. Mitchell Kapor attended MIT Sloan School of Management.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $600k–$4M |
| Angel | $300k–$1.3M |
| Series A | $2M–$27M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 12 | 14% |
| Mobile | 11 | 13% |
| Education | 10 | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 9 | 11% |
| Internet | 8 | 10% |

140 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 35 | 42% |
| Series A | 20 | 24% |
| Angel | 10 | 12% |
| Series B | 6 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 7% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 62 | 75% |
| Japan | 1 | 1% |
| Singapore | 1 | 1% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Redcar | Redcar is the easiest way for B2B companies to scale their sales teams. We provide building blocks to create AI Agents tailored to each company’s unique workflows, so human sales reps can focus on closing deals. | $5.3M | Seed | Apr 09, 2025 |  |
| Bitwise Industries | Bitwise Industries moves Fresno’s technology ecosystem forward by focusing on the key areas of education, execution, and place. Education is delivered via Geekwise Academy, an accelerated training program providing real-world technology skills to all ages. Bitwise Industries provides execution by way of its full-service, custom software developmentfirm, Shift3 Technologies. Bitwise Industries also offers paid apprenticeships to students to help them learn tech skills, connect them to meaningful tech opportunities, and build vibrant buildings in underserved cities to house their work. | $80M | Series C | Feb 28, 2023 |  |
| Promise | Promise streamlines government payments and benefits with secure technology, simplifying income verification and enabling flexible payment plans to improve revenue collection and accessibility.. | $25M | Series B | Feb 24, 2022 |  |
| Spreadsheet.com | Spreadsheet.com is a no-code platform for building spreadsheet-based applications and project management solutions. It was acquired by Veeva Systems in 2024 and is no longer available as a public service. | $5.5M | Seed | Jul 21, 2021 |  |
| Bitwise Industries | Bitwise Industries moves Fresno’s technology ecosystem forward by focusing on the key areas of education, execution, and place. Education is delivered via Geekwise Academy, an accelerated training program providing real-world technology skills to all ages. Bitwise Industries provides execution by way of its full-service, custom software developmentfirm, Shift3 Technologies. Bitwise Industries also offers paid apprenticeships to students to help them learn tech skills, connect them to meaningful tech opportunities, and build vibrant buildings in underserved cities to house their work. | $50M | Series B | Feb 24, 2021 |  |
| BlocPower | BlocPower is an energy technology startup that develops healthier, greener, and smarter buildings.It leverages advanced technologies, innovative electrification equipment, and structured finance to provide green heating and cooling to urban buildings. The company also connects government agencies, utilities, building owners, and smart equipmentproviders to identify unhealthy, energy-wasting buildings to retrofit. Its proprietary machine learning platform then determines which retrofits will produce the most energy savings at scale and uses the cloud and IoT to gather data and remotely monitor energy consumption. Since its founding, BlocPower has completed energy projects in nearly 1,000 buildings and delivered results ahead of schedule and under budget. It utilizes its proprietary software for analysis, leasing, project management, and monitoring of urban clean energy projects, and its customers are saving 20–40% on their energy bills each year. The company is backed by top investors, including Kapor Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, the American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact, AccelR8, the Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group, Elemental Excelerator, CityRock Venture Partners, the Schmidt Family Foundation, and Salesforce Ventures.Donnel Baird and Morris Cox co-founded the company in Brooklyn, New York in 2014. | $8M | Series A | Feb 22, 2021 |  |
| Promise | Promise streamlines government payments and benefits with secure technology, simplifying income verification and enabling flexible payment plans to improve revenue collection and accessibility.. | $20M | Series A | Feb 18, 2021 |  |
| Toybox Labs | Toybox is the ultimate 3d printing experience for kids. It enables children to print thousands of toys at the push of a button right at home. | $2.3M |  | Feb 01, 2021 |  |
| DuckDuckGo | At DuckDuckGo, we believe the best way to protect your personal information from hackers, scammers, and privacy-invasive companies is to stop it from being collected at all. That's why millions of people choose DuckDuckGo over Chrome and other browsers to search and browse online. Our built-in search engine is like Google but never tracks yoursearches. And our browsing protections, such as ad tracker blocking and cookie blocking, help stop other companies from collecting your data. Oh, and our browser is free — we make money from privacy-respecting search ads, not by exploiting your data. Take back control of your personal information with the browser designed for data protection, not data collection. | $100M | Secondary Market | Dec 01, 2020 |  |
| Toybox Labs | Toybox is the ultimate 3d printing experience for kids. It enables children to print thousands of toys at the push of a button right at home. | $2M | Seed | Feb 01, 2020 |  |

10 of 83 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Harrison Metal](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harrison-metal-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Motley Fool Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motley-fool-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Lowercase Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lowercase-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Kapor Center

VC Fund · Oakland, United States

Kapor Center for Social Impact pursues creative strategies that will leverage information technology for positive social impact. It primarily works with underrepresented communities, focusing on gap-closing endeavors and making the tech ecosystem and entrepreneurship more diverse, inclusive, and impactful. The company works to advance the body ofknowledge about the pipeline by conducting, disseminating, and evangelizing action-oriented research that leads to more effective, evidence-based solutions. It addresses the problem by fixing all of the leaks along the pipeline for underrepresented populations, aligning strategies and efforts between three organizations—the Kapor Centre, SMASH, and Kapor Capital—to provide a comprehensive approach to expanding tech inclusion. The company was founded in 1976 in Oakland, California.

5 contacts available at Kapor Center.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lili Gangas | Chief Technology Community Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lili-gangas |
| Mitch Kapor | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitch-kapor |
| Allison Scott | Chief Research Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allison-scott-73f4 |
| Freada Kapor Klein | Co-Chair | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/freada-klein-kapor |
| Gaurav Vashist | Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaurav-vashist |

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## FAQ

### What does Mitch Kapor invest in?

Mitch Kapor invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Education startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 83 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 Mitch Kapor's check size?

Mitch Kapor typically joins rounds of $600k–$4M at Seed, $300k–$1.3M at Angel and $2M–$27M 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 Mitch Kapor participates in.

### When did Mitch Kapor last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mitch Kapor closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 83 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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