Kelly Perdew
Managing General Partner at Moonshots Capital
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & Managing General Partner
2014 - Current
Moonshots Capital invests in extraordinary leadership with world-changing ideas and was founded by two West Point graduates—Kelly Perdew and Craig Cummings. We lean in heavily when military veterans are a part of the founding team. Chapter 1 - Angel Investor since 2004. Chapter 2 - Moonshots Capital Syndicates since 2014. Chapter 3 - Moonshots Capital Fund 1, 2, .... Both Kelly and Craig have operated start-up companies as founders and members of the senior management team. As operators, they raised in excess of $100M in angel capital, ventured capital, and debt and participated in eight operating exits between them. Select investments: ID.me Cart.com Olive.ai Gretel Carta GrubMarket Pacaso Nok Backtracks Harvest.ai (acquired by AMZN) Bitium (acquired by GOOG) Pray PlushCare (acquired by Accolade) Fair ProducePay Slack Threatcare (acquired by ReliaQuest) Shep (acquired by Flight Centre)
Investor
2024
Figure's mission is to expand human capabilities through advanced AI.
Figure Robotics is an AI robotics company that is building a multi-purpose humanoid form robot.
Raised $854,000,000.00 from Quantum Angels, Bossa Invest, ARK Venture Fund, Aliya Capital Partners, Evolution VC Partners, Bold Capital Partners, NVIDIA, Bezos Expeditions, Boscolo Intervest and Amazon.com.incs Ltd.
Investor
2024
The Modern, Mission Browser for the Classified Web
Investor and Advisor
2023
Building games for five billion ⚽ fans.
Matchday combines video games, sports, and Web3 in order to create an ecosystem of casual football (soccer) games.
Raised $21,000,000.00 from Kyber Knight Capital, A'Z Angels, Greylock, Hack VC, Founders, Inc., Capricorn Investment Group, Courtside Ventures, Moonshots Capital, Play Time Ventures and Horizons Ventures.
Investor
2023
Proteus builds small satellites to help America win the new space race.
Investor
2022
Outpost is the sustainable space company. Outpost enables precision Earth Return of satellites and orbital payload missions.
Outpost is a space company that provides earth return satellites and orbital payload missions.
Raised $7,100,000.00 from Draper Associates, AIR Capital, Moonshots Capital, Starburst Ventures, FJ Labs, KittyHawk, Starlight Ventures, Shasta Ventures and KittyHawk.
Investor & Board Member
2022
The all-in-one Employee Experience platform for hybrid teams.
Cleary is an employee experience platform for hybrid teams.
Raised $7,500,000.00 from The R-Group, Crosslink Capital, SeaChange, Quiet Capital, Moonshots Capital and Liberty City Ventures.
Investor
2022
Reverse Logistics and Analytics for Serious Ecommerce Brands.
Investor
2022
WIRELESS BUILT AND OWNED BY THE PEOPLE.
REALLY is the world’s first fully encrypted and privacy-focused phone service.
Raised $18,000,000.00 from Polychain, Alumni Ventures, Moonshots Capital, Habitat Partners and Mike Maples Jr.
Investor
2022
Cartwheel specializes in delivery management software for in-house, outsourced, and hybrid deliveries.
Raised $5,491,500.00 from Eudemian Ventures, Synetro Group, Act One Ventures, Chingona Ventures, TenOneTen Ventures, 37 Angels, Chingona Ventures, Moonshots Capital, Pitbull Ventures and Act One Ventures.