Paul Kedrosky
Managing Partner @ SK Ventures
San Diego, United States
Paul Kedrosky is a seed investor at SK Ventures in San Diego focused on Software and Events. Dr. Kedrosky is a co-founder and managing partner at SK Ventures, an early-stage venture firm. He has more than two dozen investments in drones, mobile, software as a service, and other areas. He has sold companies to Cisco, Twitter, and many others.He is currently a contributing editor at Bloomberg, where he comments regularly on early-stagetechnology & startups. He has been an advisor to the Kauffman Foundation, and remains an advisor to OMERS Ventures, a large Canadian venture investor. He was previously a venture partner with Venture West, a $500m venture capital firm. Dr Kedrosky began his career in technology sales & marketing, before becoming a technology equity research analyst at various major investment banks. He has an undergraduate degree in engineering, a master's in finance, and PhD in information technology.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Paul Kedrosky invests in
Stages Paul Kedrosky invests in
Countries Paul Kedrosky invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $713k–$1M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (33%)
- Events 1 (17%)
- Mobile 1 (17%)
- Fashion 1 (17%)
- FinTech 1 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (67%)
- Series C 1 (17%)
Country
- United States 4 (67%)
- Canada 1 (17%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Wealthfront
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Wealthfront integrates investing and saving products to help young professionals build long-term wealth in any market condition. Through the power of software, the company delivers high-yield saving, diversified investing, and low-cost loans to help both sophisticated and new investors learn, lower costs, and grow wealth. Wealthfront is one of thehighest rated financial apps in the Apple App Store and has been named Best Automated Investment App, Best Overall Robo-Advisor, and Best Robo-Advisor for Goal Planning by Investopedia (2022), Best Cash Management Account and Best Investing App by Bankrate (2023), Best Robo-Advisor for Portfolio Options by NerdWallet (2023), and Best Robo-Advisor for DIY Financial Planning by Forbes (2023). The company currently oversees more than $30 billion for over 500,000 clients in the US. | $35M / Series C / Apr 02, 2014 | |
Wantering
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Wantering is a fashion discovery tool that allows you to discover and buy clothing from across a curated list of boutiques, flash sales sites, and major retailers all in one place. | $810K / Seed / Feb 01, 2014 | |
ONtheGO Platforms
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ONtheGO Platforms is a developer of software applications for smart glasses. It offers a gesture recognition software that turns any mobile device with a standard camera into a gesture interface, for runners, and endurance athletes. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. | $713.2K / Seed / Jan 06, 2014 | |
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ONtheGO Platforms
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ONtheGO Platforms is a developer of software applications for smart glasses. It offers a gesture recognition software that turns any mobile device with a standard camera into a gesture interface, for runners, and endurance athletes. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. | $713.2K / Seed / Jan 01, 2014 | |
Keen
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Keen is the embedded analytics API that makes shipping custom user-facing analytics easy and seamless. It develops tools and infrastructure to help developers deliver in-product analytics to their customers. Its platform can handle all aspects of event data management, from collection to application. Keen enables users to stream, store, query, andpresent data all in one place and get a competitive advantage over the competition. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. | $750K / Seed / Jun 10, 2012 | |
CoverItLive
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CoveritLive is a live events platform used by publishers, broadcasters and brands worldwide. It gives organizations like these the ability to cover live events while adding their own editorial perspective and providing managed audience participation. The result is an engaging and interactive audience experience, with real-time expert or celebritycommentary, audience feedback and discussion, integration of photos and video, incorporation of Twitter and other external content, polls and gaming. CoveritLive events are typically accessible from a page on the host’s Web site or Facebook page. The service is also optimized for mobile Web browsers. | $1M / Seed / Jan 29, 2009 |
Co-Investors
About SK Ventures
A seed stage firm that focuses on investing in science-driven startups.
SK Ventures Contacts
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Eric Norlin
General Partner
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Paul Kedrosky
Managing Partner
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FAQ
What does Paul Kedrosky invest in?
Paul Kedrosky invests primarily in Software, Events and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series C stage. Most of the 6 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 Paul Kedrosky's check size?
Paul Kedrosky typically joins rounds of $713k–$1M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Paul Kedrosky participates in.
When did Paul Kedrosky last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Paul Kedrosky closed in Apr 2014. Shizune tracks 6 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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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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