# Spencer Kimball

> Spencer Kimball is a seed investor at Cockroach Labs backing Software and Information Technology. See 36 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Cockroach Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cockroach-labs)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 36
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/spencerwkimball

Spencer Kimball is a seed investor at Cockroach Labs in New York focused on Software and Information Technology. Spencer Kimball is the co-founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs, where he maintains a delicate balance between a love for programming distributed systems and the excitement of helping the company grow smoothly. While in university, he was one of the original authors of the GIMP. He cut his teeth on databases during the dot com heyday, and had a frontrow seat at Google for a decade’s worth of their evolution.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$8.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $2M–$3.3M |
| Series A | $8.5M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 19 | 53% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 31% |
| Database | 9 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 25% |
| Developer Tools | 6 | 17% |

39 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 19 | 53% |
| Series A | 11 | 31% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 11% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 25 | 69% |
| Germany | 2 | 6% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ollama | Ollama is a software firm that develops local inference platform designed to run large language models. | $65M | Series B | Jul 09, 2026 |  |
| Blacksmith | Blacksmith is a company that helps businesses to conduct their continuous integration (CI) up to twice as quickly and at half the expense. Blacksmith accomplish this by running CI on powerful gaming CPUs. | $10M | Series A | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| Continua AI, Inc. | Continua AI is a startup that develops AI-powered personal agents designed to help people focus on what matters most by enhancing how they interact with information, services, and each other. The company offers personalized AI assistants that can join group chats (such as SMS, iMessage, or Discord), capturing and organizing key information,decisions, and plans in real time. Continua's technology can generate custom podcast feeds tailored to user interests and integrates with calendars, email, and live web data. | $8M | Seed | Aug 12, 2025 |  |
| Tensor9 | Tensor9 is a data security company. Tensor9 helps software and AI vendors run their products inside their customer's cloud — so sensitive customer data stays private. For vendors, this unlocks customers that can't share sensitive data. | $4M | Seed | May 14, 2025 |  |
| Blacksmith | Blacksmith is a company that helps businesses to conduct their continuous integration (CI) up to twice as quickly and at half the expense. Blacksmith accomplish this by running CI on powerful gaming CPUs. | $3.5M | Seed | May 01, 2025 |  |
| Bauplan | Bauplan provides Serverless functions + data branches directly over S3. We empower every Python developer to build AI and data applications that are portable, versioned, and reproducible with zero infrastructure management. Enterprise teams already use Bauplan to build analytics and AI applications that serve tens of millions of users daily. -Serverless. Developers can work with zero infrastructure overhead — never deal with provisioning, configuration, containers and dependency management ever again. - Designed for developers. Every developer can script the entire data lifecycle in pure Python without leaving their IDE — ingestion, transformation, modeling, testing, and CI/CD. - Built for S3 on open standards: bauplan leverages native Iceberg support for object storage, ensuring smooth integration with other data platforms and eliminating vendor lock-in. | $7.5M | Seed | Apr 16, 2025 |  |
| SkipLabs | SkipLabs builds infrastructure for reactive applications. | $8M | Seed | Mar 25, 2025 |  |
| WarpStream Labs | WarpStream Labs offers an object storage-based drop-in solution for Apache Kafka that does not require local drives. | $20M | Series A | Mar 14, 2024 |  |
| Espresso AI | Espresso AI is an internet-based company that specializes in generative AI for query optimization. The company's primary service is to help customers save on their Snowflake bills by speeding up queries. Espresso AI's technology is designed to optimize data warehouse operations, making it a valuable tool for businesses that rely heavilyon data analysis and storage. With a team of 7 employees, Espresso AI is committed to leveraging AI technology to improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of data management processes. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Quadratic | Quadratic is a data analysis platform that combines spreadsheet functionality with AI, code, and database connections. The system allows users to import and analyze data from sources such as CSV, Excel, and databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Snowflake. It supports natural language queries, AI-assisted insights, and code execution inPython, SQL, and JavaScript. Quadratic includes tools for collaborative data analysis and provides cloud-based and self-hosted deployment options. | $5M | Seed | Aug 17, 2023 |  |

10 of 36 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Amplify Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Firstminute Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firstminute-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Tapestry VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tapestryvc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Cockroach Labs

VC Fund · New York, United States

Cockroach Labs is behind Cockroach DB, the cloud-native, distributed SQL database to modern cloud applications. It helps companies of all sizes—and the apps they develop— to scale fast, survive anything, and thrive everywhere. CockroachDB is in use at some of the world's largest enterprises across all industries, including Equifax, Bose,Comcast, and some of the largest companies in banking, retail, and media.

5 contacts available at Cockroach Labs.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Peter Mattis | CTO and VP of Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-mattis |
| Aditya Singh | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aditya-singh-4 |
| Benjamin Darnell | Co-Founder & Chief Architect | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-darnell-2 |
| Dave Munichiello | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-munichiello |
| Jason Forget | Chief Revenue Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-forget |

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## FAQ

### What does Spencer Kimball invest in?

Spencer Kimball invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Database startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 36 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 Spencer Kimball's check size?

Spencer Kimball typically joins rounds of $2M–$8.3M at Seed, $2M–$3.3M at Pre-Seed and $8.5M–$20M 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 Spencer Kimball participates in.

### When did Spencer Kimball last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Spencer Kimball closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 36 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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