Kevin Hartz is the co-founder and managing partner of A* Capital, an early-stage venture firm. See portfolio and contact routes.
Kevin Hartz is the co-founder and managing partner of A* Capital, an early-stage venture firm, and previously served as CEO of Eventbrite and Xoom, which was acquired by PayPal for $1.1 billion[1][2][5]. His investment thesis focuses on seed and early-stage companies in marketplaces, platforms, payments, fintech infrastructure, and enterprise software with network effects, primarily in the United States[2][7]. He typically invests $100,000 to $10 million with a sweet spot around $3 million, often leading seed rounds and doubling down in follow-on rounds as companies succeed[2][7][12]. Notable portfolio companies include Airbnb, Uber, Pinterest, PayPal, SpaceX, Palantir, and OpenSea, many of which he invested in at the seed stage[2][5][7]. Hartz distinguishes himself by prioritizing infrastructure over applications and advocating for long-term value creation in category-defining platforms, a perspective he has articulated in public interviews and writings on platform thinking[7][13].
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