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KCRise Fund stages, portfolio and investment profile
Kansas City–focused early-stage venture firm founded in 2016 by Darcy Howe. Co-invests in pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds (typically rounds of at least $1M) for B2B tech companies with a strategic connection to Kansas or the western half of Missouri. Firm materials and LinkedIn have cited over $100M AUM — verify current figures. HQ Kansas City, MO.
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Stage-based planning range
$1M–$10M
This is a planning range inferred from stage coverage, not a firm-disclosed check size.
Methodology: Stage bucket inferred from the rounds a fund leads or invests in.
No firm-specific check-size disclosure is recorded.
Investment stages
Leads: Seed, Series A
Participates: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Sector focus
enterprise-saas · fintech · healthtech · ai-ml · generalist-tech
Geography
Kansas City, MO
Founded 2016
Fund size / AUM
Not recorded
A separate fund-size evidence record is not yet available.
Portfolio in our directory
2
Linked startup profiles
Latest fund vehicle
Not recorded
Vehicle name, size, and vintage are not yet structured.
Recent tracked investment
Not recorded
No dated round explicitly links this fund.
Rounds they lead
Rounds they invest
Last verified: Not recorded. Check-size evidence is labeled by basis so planning estimates are not presented as firm disclosures.
Portfolio companies we track
Startups in our directory that list KCRise Fund as an investor (2 total).
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