Gavin Christensen

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Mr. Gavin Christensen is the Founder and serves as General Partner at Kickstart Seed Fund. He also serves as a Board Member at Elements, Nursa, PhotoPharmics, Zight, RackWare, Nomad, Lucid, Lera Investment Technologies, Chatbooks, Claravine, Localfluence, Moises, and the National Venture Capital Association. He is an Angel Investor. He serves as a Board Observer at Monarx. He currently sits on the boards of CloudApp and Qzzr. He served as a Board Member at Banyan, Chargeback, AdWallet, JackRabbit Systems, Spiff, Grow, ZenPrint, and Zencastr. Since founding Kickstart in 2008, he has been responsible for all aspects of managing the firm in addition to leading due diligence and investment decisions in conjunction with Kickstart's Investment Committee. He recognized the need for both leadership and seed-stage capital in the region, so he launched Kickstart to fill this gap. Starting a seed-stage firm away from the coasts amidst the Great Recession was not easy, to say the least. But this experience means he understands what it's like to see a vision for the future that few others do and he knows what it takes to make that vision a reality. His guidance to founders is born of first-hand experience and a desire to build not just a fund but an entire ecosystem. He loves being part of the startup journey for entrepreneurs. Before Kickstart, he was an analyst, associate, and principal at vSpring (now Signal Peak). Before vSpring Capital, he also worked as a Vertical Strategy Associate for Google and as a consultant in Monitor Group's Cambridge office where he advised clients on a range of strategic, operational, and organizational improvements. He began his career at Fidelity Investments as an investment representative. He received a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management and a B.S. in Economics (with Honors), cum laude, from Brigham Young University.