Kyber Knight Capital, a San Francisco, CA-based new venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in early stage technology startups, launched with a $120M inaugural fund.
Investors included:
- Alphabet, Inc. Chairman John Hennessy;
- Bain Consulting’s global head Manny Maceda;
- former Dreamworks Animation President Chris DeFaria;
- former President and CEO of eBay and Hewlett Packard Meg Whitman;
- former MGM Chairman and CEO Gary Barber;
- previous Warner Brothers Chairman and CEO Kevin Tsujihara,
- former Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company Michael Eisner,
- Joe Gebbia of Airbnb,
- Michael Mente of Revolve,
- PayPal’s David Sacks,
- Zynga’s Mark Pincus.
Kyber Knight is also supported by institutional investors including McKinsey, the Smithsonian Museum Endowment and a major California pension fund, among others.
Co-founded by Sunny Dhillon and Linus Liang, Kyber Knight focuses on pre-seed and seed investing in companies that are building across commerce, AI, and labor. Ccompanies and founders will access to influential executives that can help them establish a framework of scalable success. The team also includes David Bloom, who has worked with the co-founders for five years and leads the built world and labor automation focuses, and Ary Vaidya, who leads the AI and commerce focuses at the fund.
The firm has already invested in 12 soon-to-launch companies. Investments range from robotics and automation in traditional manufacturing and construction to sales enablement, e-commerce and AI technology.
Kyber Knight plans to invest in approximately 40 to 50 companies with its debut fund.