Kindling Ventures
Kindling Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Seattle, WA investing in SaaS, Other, AI / ML. The firm typically writes $250K–$750K checks and has 8 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $250K–$750K
- Portfolio
- 8 companies on record
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- SaaS, Other, AI / ML
- HQ
- Seattle, WA
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-05-25
Pre-Seed, Seed
$250K – $750K
8+ companies
Investment Thesis
Focused on backing founders building verticalized SaaS and automation tools for underserved SMB industries.
How Kindling Ventures invests
Kindling Ventures is a vc firm based in Seattle, WA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on SaaS, Other, AI / ML. It does not invest in Consumer Social, Media.
Kindling Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$750K per investment.
Kindling Ventures has backed 8 companies in our records, including ZenPayroll, FieldPulse, ARC Accelerator.
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Portfolio Companies (8)
Other
ZenPayroll
FieldPulse
ARC Accelerator
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ESRC/AHRC SHAPE Catalyst
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London Social Ventures Training
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Shared Technology Transfer Office STAGE Pilot
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