Dalton is a technological optimist who loves his role in venture capital where he gets to meet and support a wide variety of extraordinarily talented entrepreneurs who endeavor to build consequential companies. His expertise is founder support on the early startup journey, including ideation, opportunity identification, product/market fit, business model, team-building, fundraising, and GTM strategies. Dalton’s roots with Kickstart go back to the beginning in 2008 when he helped launch the fund and, later, Kickstart’s student-run Campus Founders Fund (CFF). Dalton also assisted in founding Mexico’s first early-stage tech fund. Today, his investment focus centers around data networks, analytics, ML/AI, blockchain, and health IT. His superpower is his openness to new ideas, people and possibilities and wishes he could live far into the future to see what we are building.
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Kickstart
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$311M AUM fund founded in 2008. Kickstart is the first seed fund in Utah that invests in early-stage startups in Utah, Colorado, and the Mountain West.
Kickstart also has a Campus Founders Fund, a student-run VC fund sponsored by Kickstart that invests solely in student entrepreneurs.
Kickstart also has a Campus Founders Fund, a student-run VC fund sponsored by Kickstart that invests solely in student entrepreneurs.
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