Kelly invests with his business partner and fellow West Point graduate, Craig Cummings, via their company, Moonshots Capital. Kelly and Craig invest in exceptional entrepreneurs with world-changing ideas. They bring a disciplined approach to the investment process to identify companies with exceptional growth potential. They form close working relationships with the companies they back to help them achieve their critical milestones and frequently take on Board seats or formal advisory roles.
Kelly and Craig, both successful serial entrepreneurs, have worked and invested together for over ten years. They invest a minimum of $25K into the first round of every deal they syndicate and look to back 8-10 companies a year. They often back companies led by military veteran entrepreneurs.
Both Kelly and Craig have operated start-up companies as founders and members of the senior management team. They’ve raised in excess of $100M in angel capital, ventured capital, and debt and participated in eight exits between them. Their full operational backgrounds can be seen on LinkedIn.
Kelly’s LinkedIn profile. www.linkedin.com/in/kellyperdew/
Craig’s LinkedIn profile. www.linkedin.com/in/unleashcraig/
Moonshots Capital. www.moonshotscapital.com
Here’s a look at Kelly’s investment track record:
TrueCar (IPO NASDAQ: TRUE)
Klout (Acquired by Lithium Technologies)
RideScout (Acquired by Daimler)
ID.me ($10M Series A led by USAA)
Lettrs (Closed seed round)
FlipTu (Closed seed round)
Social Rewards (Closed seed round)
Scopely (Anthem and NEA led institutional round)
Bitium ($6.5M Series A led by Polaris)
Nimble (Closed seed round)
Thrively (Closed seed round)
APX-labs ($10M Series A led by NEA)
Boomtown Inc. (Closed seed round)
en*theos (Closed seed round)
HiQ Labs (Closed seed round)
Arx Pax (Closed seed round)
Life360 (Series C via syndicate)
ForceField (Closed seed round)
Automatic (Closed Series B round)
Shelvspace (via syndicate)
And Craig’s:
CrossChx (Investor, $5M Series A led by Drive Capital)
lettrs (Investor, Advisor, Closed Seed Round)
405labs (Investor, Advisor, $2.3M Seed Series led by Trinity)
edbacker (Investor, Advisor, $400K Seed Round)
id.me (Investor, $10M Series A led by USAA)
Social Toaster (Investor, $1.975 Series A led by Blu Venture)
Parking Panda (Investor, $4.8M Series A, multiple investors)
MeeGenius (Investor, $2.4M Series A led by Sunrise Capital)
Bitium (Investor, $6.5M Series A led by Polaris)
Arx Pax (Investor, Closed Seed Round)
Yet Analytics (Investor, $450K Seed Round)
Create (Advisor, $700K Seed Round)
Kelly and Craig focus on brilliant teams with BIG ideas in the following areas: Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Social Media, Lead Generation, Sports Media, Defense, Online Gaming, Cloud Gaming, Mobile, Digital Media, E-Commerce, Social Games, Education, Analytics, Location Based Services, Performance Marketing, and Social Commerce.
