Sunny Dhillon
Partner at Kyber Knight Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2023 - Current
Backed by luminaries such as the Chairman of Alphabet, CEO’s of Disney, Warner Bros, MGM, DreamWorks Animation, eBay, HP, Nexon, Match Group, Bain Consulting, and the founders of Airbnb, Yammer, Zynga, Oaktree, KKR, and NEA, Kyber Knight is a debut $120m venture capital fund focused on pre/seed technology investments.
Board Observer
2022
Led the seed round for Lavender, the leading generative AI company focused on empowering B2B sales teams. Series A shortly thereafter led by Norwest.
Investor
2018
First investor; combined with my Signia partner, we are the largest investors in this men's personal care brand. They are the fastest growing men's personal care brand in the country at present.
MANSCAPED creates a dynamic educational movement and culture focused on the importance of men’s health, hygiene, and refinement.
Raised $500,000.00 from Banner Capital Management, LLC, Smash Ventures and Pure Imagination Brands.
Founding Investor
2017
We co-founded Skale, a leading layer 2 ethereum platform, in early 2017. $SKL
SKALE Labs is a blockchain scalability platform that provides high speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts.
Raised $22,100,000.00 from ICONIUM.
Partner
2012 - 2022
Preseed/Seed/SeriesA fund Investments: Cruise Automation (acq by General Motors), Tenor (acquired by Google), Phoenix Labs (acquired by SEA Garena), Manscaped, Boxed (NASDAQ: BOXD), Sendoso, Landis, 9Count, StriVR, The Wave, Shadows, Neurogum, Sway app, PortalOne, Spot, TLDR, Valence Community, Sunroom, Dfinity, Skale Labs, Polkadot
Signia Venture Partners is an early stage fund helping passionate entrepreneurs build impactful world-changing companies.
Investor / Board Observer
2014 - 2021
NASDAQ: BOXD Series A investor: E-commerce B2B/B2C marketplace; Co-investors include Greycroft, GGV, and First Round.
Boxed is an online bulk grocery retailer used to offer wholesale club experience for modern shoppers.
Raised $365,853,889.00 from Brigade Capital Management, LP, Onex Credit and Avanda Investment Management.
Investor / Board Observer
2014 - 2020
Acquired by SEA Garena (NYSE: SE) in January 2020 Seed investor: Ex League of Legends & Mass Effect game developers behind the hit cross platform action role playing game, Dauntless. Co-investors included GGV and Sapphire Ventures
Investor
2014 - 2016
(Acquired by General Motors in May 2016) Autonomous vehicle tech; We were the largest investors in the company's seed round
Co-founder, Head of Product
2011 - 2012
- One of the first dating apps in the App Store; a social, local, mobile app (like Tinder before Tinder) - Helps connect nearby students at the same school, with similar interests & friends in common
Venture capital Associate
2012 - 2012
- Worked with the now governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, @ Pritzker Group, a $6bn venture and PE fund, on early stage digital media investments (online video, e-commerce, gaming, mobile): from seed opportunities through to larger $1m+ Series A in LA - My investments included Big Frame (YouTube MCN acquired by Dream Works Animation) & Kingmaker (YouTube ecommerce company acquired by Accel-backed Joyus Media)
Pritzker Group Venture Capital is a trusted partner helping entrepreneurs build market-leading technology companies