Senior Director of Platform
KickstartCheck size: The firm does not publish a person-specific check-size range on its current official website.
Karen Zelnick is part of Kickstart's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back outlier founders early in Utah, Colorado, and the broader Mountain West, pairing patient capital with an operator community.
The firm publicly emphasizes back outlier founders early in Utah, Colorado, and the broader Mountain West, pairing patient capital with an operator community.
No person-specific pass list is public. Opportunities outside the firm's published stage, sector, geography, or traction criteria appear less aligned.
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Karen Zelnick is Senior Director of Platform at Kickstart, according to the firm's current official roster. To avoid mistaken identity, no unsupported prior employment, education, or portfolio attribution has been inferred.