Kickstart

Runs all things finance and accounting, including reporting, cash management, budgeting, and transaction structuring

Brings firsthand startup experience from her time at Hypercraft

BS, University of Utah, MBA + MA, Wharton + Lauder Institute

BA, Brigham Young University, MBA, Kellogg School of Management

Kickstart invests in early-stage startups in Utah and Colorado and provides pre-seed and seed venture capital to founders in the Mountain West.

Utah & Colorado's most active pre-seed & seed investors. Based in Salt Lake & Denver, Kickstart has backed 150+ startups with pre-seed & seed capital.

Gravwell releases version 5.10 with five AI agents that gather investigation context from live telemetry, detections, system state and saved searches through an MCP server. Three agents support analysts with case investigations, alert triage and daily summaries, while an Admin Agent answers deployment configuration questions and a read-only Audit Agent checks operational hygiene. The preview kit is available across Gravwell editions, including Community Edition, and shows which tools agents use and how they reach conclusions.

Sep 2026 · SiliconAngleNews article

Spiff raises $50 million in a Series C led by Salesforce Ventures, bringing its total funding to $117 million. The sales commission software company launches Spiff Designer, a model builder with hundreds of prebuilt commission models that lets sales teams manage commission programs without developers. Spiff plans to use the funding for a major overhaul of its core engine and further development of AI-powered, low-code tools.

May 2023 · TechCrunchNews article