DALTON
WRIGHT

Partner

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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Education & Affiliations

Member of the Kauffman Fellows Society

MBA from The Wharton School

M.A. in International Studies from The Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania

B.A. in Finance from the University of Utah (summa cum laude)

Boards

• Aervivo

• Angel Studios

• Artemis Health (Observer)

• Cake (Observer)

• Carputty

• DirectScale

• Graphite

• Rad AI

• Robotic Skies (Observer)

• Salad (Observer)

• Skip

• Tiled

• Vutiliti (Observer)

Exited

• Big Squid

• Blue Matador

• DSCO (by CommerceHub)

• Juxta Labs (by Twenty)

• Nanobox

• NUVI (by Brickfish)

• SpinGo

• WAVE (by Ideanomics Inc. NASDAQ: IDEX)