# Travis Kalanick

> Travis Kalanick is a seed investor at City Storage Systems backing Software and Internet. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [City Storage Systems](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/city-storage-systems)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/traviskalanick
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/travisk
- Website: https://x.com/travisk
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/traviskal/

Travis Kalanick is a seed investor at City Storage Systems in San Francisco focused on Software and Internet. Travis Kalanick is the Founder of CloudKitchens. He previously worked at Uber as a CEO, and co-founder. Travis Kalanick attended UCLA.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $200k–$15M |
| Series A | $800k–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 29% |
| Internet | 3 | 13% |
| Communities | 3 | 13% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 13% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 38% |
| Series A | 6 | 25% |
| Angel | 1 | 4% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 4% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 17 | 71% |
| Peru | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Casa | Casa is a subscription-based home service platform that simplifies the repairs and maintenance tasks needed by homeowners through technology (AI) and expert handymen. | $20M | Series A | Jan 01, 2026 |  |
| Polymarket | fka Union.market | $150M | Series C | Jul 15, 2025 |  |
| goop Kitchen | goop Kitchen provides teriyaki bowl, salad, spring roll salad, chinese chicken, and arugula salad. Their customers contact them through phone, email, and online applications. | $15M | Seed | Sep 05, 2024 |  |
| MegaBite Food | MegaBite is a multibrand cloud kitchen restaurant that operates premium gastronomic brands and sells them at midrange prices to middle class of LATAM. We receive orders only through digital channels that integrated with our kitchen software and hardware and operate out of rented, ready to use dark-kitchens. Our modular growth model makes usultrascalable, like no other restaurant business model before: We can open a new kitchen with 10x to 20x less CAPEX and 6 to 9 times faster than a comparable traditional restaurant that can sell the same amount of orders. We currently operate in Mexico and Peru and have been growing at an average of 30% MoM in our 13 months since start of operations. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Oct 18, 2021 |  |
| Beacon | Beacon is a digital supply chain and freight platform developed to optimize supply chains with insights and visibility. It offers a freight forwarding service across all modes integrated with its end-to-end visibility platform, connecting each stage of the supply chain to deliver a record of all the information teams need. From bookings to ordermanagement, live tracking, and document management, Beacon will move goods with transparency and efficiency, whilst the secure cloud-based software improves accuracy and saves time.The company was founded in 2018 by Fraser Robinson and Dmitri Izmailov and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom. | $15M | Series A | Jun 01, 2020 |  |
| Habitas | HABITAS is an experience driven hospitality company with a global membership community. Locations include clubhouses in New York City, LA and a hotel in Tulum, Mexico. Additional locations are under construction in Malibu, the Bahamas and Namibia. HABITAS maintains a charitable impact organization in Uganda called RISE. | $20M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 09, 2020 |  |
| Luminous Computing | Luminous Computing develops photonics chips to handle workloads required by the artificial intelligence industry. The company's product is an AI training and inference chip that fits the computing power of supercomputers into a single chip, allowing businesses to avoid major bottlenecks that traditional processors face.The company wasfounded in 2018 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. | $9M | Seed | Jun 04, 2019 |  |
| Beacon | Beacon is a digital supply chain and freight platform developed to optimize supply chains with insights and visibility. It offers a freight forwarding service across all modes integrated with its end-to-end visibility platform, connecting each stage of the supply chain to deliver a record of all the information teams need. From bookings to ordermanagement, live tracking, and document management, Beacon will move goods with transparency and efficiency, whilst the secure cloud-based software improves accuracy and saves time.The company was founded in 2018 by Fraser Robinson and Dmitri Izmailov and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom. |  | Seed | Apr 01, 2019 |  |
| Kareo | Kareo is the leading cloud-based, clinical and business management platform designed specifically for the independent practice. Kareo’s integrated modules work together as part of a seamless platform, so independent practices have helpful tools to tackle their toughest administrative challenges. These tools include electronic health records,practice management, billing, marketing and patient engagement software. Plus, proven, integrated third-party applications and services in Kareo Marketplace to make delivering care even easier. Today we help over 50,000 providers in all 50 states run more efficient and profitable practices, while delivering outstanding patient care. Kareo has received extensive industry recognition, including being awarded the 2018 United States Ambulatory EHR Enabling Technology Leadership Award from Frost and Sullivan, Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Inc. 5000 and Black Book’s #1 Integrated EHR, Practice Management and Medical Billing Vendor. With offices across the country, our mission is to help independent practices succeed in an ever-changing healthcare market. | $55.4M | Series G | Jul 28, 2015 |  |
| StyleSeat | StyleSeat is a platform that connects beauty and wellness professionals with clients. Professionals can use it to showcase their work, manage their business, and attract new clients. The platform also allows clients to discover services and book appointments. | $775K | Seed | Mar 15, 2012 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Hillsven Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hillsven-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Greycroft](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greycroft) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [CRV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crvvc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cue Ball](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cue-ball) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pathfinder](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ff-angel-llc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About City Storage Systems

VC Fund · Los Angeles, United States

City Storage Systems is a Los Angeles-based startup that focuses on repurposing distressed real estate assets like parking lots or abandoned strip malls and turning them into spaces suited for new industries, such as food delivery or online retail.

2 contacts available at City Storage Systems.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sky Dayton | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sky-dayton |
| Travis Kalanick | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/travis-kalanick |

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## FAQ

### What does Travis Kalanick invest in?

Travis Kalanick invests primarily in Software, Internet and Communities startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 24 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 Travis Kalanick's check size?

Travis Kalanick typically joins rounds of $200k–$15M at Seed and $800k–$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 Travis Kalanick participates in.

### When did Travis Kalanick last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Travis Kalanick closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 24 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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