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KITE AI
KITE AI
1 round invested
Sentio
Sentio
1 round invested
sec3
sec3
1 round invested

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Funding Rounds

Deals
3
Latest Round
Sep 2, 2025
KITE AI raised $18 million in a Series A funding round led by PayPal Ventures, General Catalyst with participation from Hao Min, GSR Ventures, Edwin Aoki, Avalanche Foundation, Navin Gupta, Essence Venture Capital, Animoca Ventures, Dispersion Capital, Alchemy Ventures, LayerZero, John Liu, Grigore Rosu, Vertex Ventures, Evan Cheng, Samsung NEXT, Alumni Ventures, HashKey Capital, 8VC, Hashed, SBI Group, Frank Chang (Uber), Bohan Zhang (OpenAI), Haiyan Huang (UC Berkeley), Sriram Vishwanath (Georgia Tech), and others.
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Co-Investors

Hao Min
VP of Engineering at Circle.
Hao Min
John Liu
Head of Product at AWS.
John Liu
Animoca Ventures
Ventures arm of Animoca Brands.
Animoca Ventures
Vertex Ventures
Building the next global giants in Southeast Asia and India.
Vertex Ventures