Kickstart

Kickstart is a seed-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Cottonwood Heights, Utah, established in 2008. The firm focuses on investing in early-stage companies across various sectors, including B2B, B2C, healthcare, financial services, information technology, life sciences, e-commerce, and health technology, specifically within the Mountain West region. Kickstart aims to support the growth of promising companies by providing capital, fostering a connected community, and offering expert guidance. Over its 17 years of operation, the firm has invested in more than 100 companies, including notable names such as Lucid, Podium, and Nomi Health.

Gavin Christensen

Founder and Managing Partner

Kat Kennedy

General Partner

Clarke Miyasaki

Venture Partner

Serene Papenfuss

Principal

Tanner Potter

Partner

Curt Roberts

Partner

Matt Smith

Principal

Alex Soffe

Administrative Partner

Dalton Wright

General Partner

Karen Zelnick

Senior Director Of Platform

Past deals in Sales Automation

SponsorCX

Venture Round in 2025
SponsorCX is a leader in sponsorship management within the sports, entertainment, causes, arts, and events industries. It is a complete sponsorship management tool to assist in managing sales, fulfillment, and inventory to maximize sponsorship revenue.

Alysio

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Alysio is an artificial intelligence-based platform designed to enhance the performance of sales teams through effective visualization. The platform enables companies to monitor daily key performance indicators (KPIs), gather relevant data, and derive insights that facilitate rewards management. By providing recognition and incentives, Alysio aims to boost productivity, improve individual performance, and ensure reliable revenue forecasting for businesses.

Spiff

Series C in 2023
Spiff Inc. is a software company that specializes in sales commission automation through its SaaS platform. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sandy, Utah, with an office in Mountain View, California, Spiff offers a comprehensive solution that allows organizations to design, manage, and optimize their sales commission plans. The platform enables users to create and modify commission structures, automate data integration from various systems such as ERP and payroll, and provide sales teams with personalized dashboards to track their performance. Spiff’s software streamlines complex commission processes, enhances accuracy by eliminating errors, and supports advanced features like modeling new plans and generating detailed payroll reports. The company primarily serves finance and sales operations, sales and marketing teams, managers, and executives, facilitating improved sales performance through real-time insights and automation.

OpenGTM

Seed Round in 2023
OpenGTM specializes in developing AI-powered revenue intelligence software that enhances the efficiency of sales and marketing teams. By synthesizing data from customer relationship management (CRM) systems and go-to-market (GTM) technology stacks, the software provides a clear understanding of customer personas and accurate revenue predictions. It prioritizes opportunities, enabling teams such as sales, capture, and revenue operations to focus on the most promising prospects while optimizing resource allocation. Through this advanced machine learning approach, OpenGTM aims to improve decision-making processes and drive overall business success.

Staq

Pre Seed Round in 2022
A Smarter Way to Reactivate Your Customer. Your churned customer list isn’t just a lost cause – it’s a goldmine of untapped revenue waiting to be discovered. With Staq, we’ve got the tools to help you tap into that potential and turn churn into profit.

Spiff

Series B in 2021
Spiff Inc. is a software company that specializes in sales commission automation through its SaaS platform. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sandy, Utah, with an office in Mountain View, California, Spiff offers a comprehensive solution that allows organizations to design, manage, and optimize their sales commission plans. The platform enables users to create and modify commission structures, automate data integration from various systems such as ERP and payroll, and provide sales teams with personalized dashboards to track their performance. Spiff’s software streamlines complex commission processes, enhances accuracy by eliminating errors, and supports advanced features like modeling new plans and generating detailed payroll reports. The company primarily serves finance and sales operations, sales and marketing teams, managers, and executives, facilitating improved sales performance through real-time insights and automation.

'nuffsaid

Seed Round in 2020
Nuffsaid helps people focus on the work that matters. Our product centralizes your work apps—email, chat, Salesforce, Jira, and more—and uses AI to prioritize the work that will move the needle in your role. We offer a Personal package and Teams upgrade.

Spiff

Series A in 2020
Spiff Inc. is a software company that specializes in sales commission automation through its SaaS platform. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sandy, Utah, with an office in Mountain View, California, Spiff offers a comprehensive solution that allows organizations to design, manage, and optimize their sales commission plans. The platform enables users to create and modify commission structures, automate data integration from various systems such as ERP and payroll, and provide sales teams with personalized dashboards to track their performance. Spiff’s software streamlines complex commission processes, enhances accuracy by eliminating errors, and supports advanced features like modeling new plans and generating detailed payroll reports. The company primarily serves finance and sales operations, sales and marketing teams, managers, and executives, facilitating improved sales performance through real-time insights and automation.

'nuffsaid

Seed Round in 2020
Nuffsaid helps people focus on the work that matters. Our product centralizes your work apps—email, chat, Salesforce, Jira, and more—and uses AI to prioritize the work that will move the needle in your role. We offer a Personal package and Teams upgrade.

Spiff

Seed Round in 2019
Spiff Inc. is a software company that specializes in sales commission automation through its SaaS platform. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sandy, Utah, with an office in Mountain View, California, Spiff offers a comprehensive solution that allows organizations to design, manage, and optimize their sales commission plans. The platform enables users to create and modify commission structures, automate data integration from various systems such as ERP and payroll, and provide sales teams with personalized dashboards to track their performance. Spiff’s software streamlines complex commission processes, enhances accuracy by eliminating errors, and supports advanced features like modeling new plans and generating detailed payroll reports. The company primarily serves finance and sales operations, sales and marketing teams, managers, and executives, facilitating improved sales performance through real-time insights and automation.

Spiff

Seed Round in 2019
Spiff Inc. is a software company that specializes in sales commission automation through its SaaS platform. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sandy, Utah, with an office in Mountain View, California, Spiff offers a comprehensive solution that allows organizations to design, manage, and optimize their sales commission plans. The platform enables users to create and modify commission structures, automate data integration from various systems such as ERP and payroll, and provide sales teams with personalized dashboards to track their performance. Spiff’s software streamlines complex commission processes, enhances accuracy by eliminating errors, and supports advanced features like modeling new plans and generating detailed payroll reports. The company primarily serves finance and sales operations, sales and marketing teams, managers, and executives, facilitating improved sales performance through real-time insights and automation.

Keap

Seed Round in 2014
Keap is a software company that specializes in sales and marketing automation solutions tailored for small businesses. Founded in 2001 and based in Chandler, Arizona, Keap offers a comprehensive platform that includes contact management, client management, customer resource management (CRM), email marketing, task management, and e-commerce services. This platform enables users to streamline operations, enhance customer relationships, and automate various business processes, including invoicing and billing. Keap also provides training and support services to help businesses maximize the effectiveness of their software. The company, which was formerly known as Infusionsoft, Inc., rebranded to Keap in January 2019 and has additional offices in Atlanta, San Francisco, Welwyn Garden City in the United Kingdom, and Sydney in Australia.

OUTRO

Seed Round in 2014
Referral Automation: Unlock the Hidden Value of Your Relationships Say goodbye to the manual process of making or receiving referrals and introductions for sales and recruiting. Their platform and algorithm will do the heavy lifting and streamlines the full process. Outro quickly finds and connects you to new potential clients, employees, partners, investors, & more, within your organization's immediate and extended network, as well as the global Outro community. You have employees, customers, advisors, partners, family & friends who are all willing to make referrals for you, but never have the time or the ability to do it. Outro shows them the people in their networks that match your Request, & gives them the ability to quickly make personalized, high quality introductions, with only a few clicks. Outro makes it incredibly easy for the people who know, trust, & love your business to make high-quality referrals, via our Triple Opt-in™ process - all three individuals pre-approve each introduction. Create your Request to identify whom you would like intros to, and for what purpose. Outro shows your "Connectors" (the people willing to make referrals for you) the "Prospects" in their networks that match your Request. You confirm the match as a good fit (opt-in 1), the Connector approves your Request (opt-in 2), & the Prospect replies "Yes, I'm interested" (opt-in 3), & the introduction is made. Generate Leads, find new Employees, get introduced to Investors and Advisors, recruit Volunteers and Donors, drive traffic to your App or Website, all through trusted friends. Outro Pro includes: • Unlimited user licenses • Unlimited referrals within your company's immediate and extended network of contacts • The ability to upload, automatically enhance, and export your improved Contact data • A built-in Thank You and Rewards Program • CRM Integration • Team Management & Reports Contact them for a demo at www.outro.com/pro Specialties Referral Automation, B2B Leads, Employee Referrals, Sales Referrals, Lead Generation, Triple Opt-in Introductions, Referrals, Sales Automation
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