We fund the trick nobody landed.
Early checks for founders building the thing that shouldn't work yet. Brand-forward. Hacker-built. Loud on purpose.
Pre-seed & seed
LA ⇄ NYC ⇄ wherever the signal is
Est. 2026
Thesis
Culture moves first. Capital follows.
The next big company looks like a joke for about eighteen months. We like the eighteen months.
No deck review. A conversation.
We back people who ship on a Tuesday, post it on a Wednesday, and have a waitlist by Friday. If your product is already a scene, we'd like to be in it.
Tricks
How we invest
KickflipFirst check. Pre-seed, pre-everything. You have a prototype and a point of view.$250K to $1M
Tre flipSeed. The scene exists and the numbers are starting to look suspicious in a good way.$1M to $3M
ImpossibleRapid scalers. Growth that makes the spreadsheet people nervous. We lead or we get out of the way.$3M+
NollieStudio. Sometimes we build the thing ourselves with a founder who's already in the room.Co-built
Skateboard of advisors
Names on request. Vibes on display.
Seven seats. Operators, artists, engineers and one person whose job is to tell us when we're being boring.
The one who built the thing
Engineering · shippedThe one who sold the thing
Distribution · exitedThe one who made it look like that
Brand · archived at the MoMAThe one everyone follows
Culture · no, you've heard of themThe one who wrote the contract
Legal · reads the fine print for sportThe one with the plane
Capital · bi-coastal by lunchThe one who says no
Taste · mostly rightSend it.
hello@kickflip.vc
No warm intro required. Send the link, the demo, the thread that went off. We read everything and reply to most of it within a week.