Kyber Knight Capital

Founder and Managing Partner Linus Liang, Partner Sunny Dhillon, and investor Afnaan Hashmi make investment decisions. Liang brings experience from Andreessen Horowitz, Zynga, and Signia Ventures. Dhillon was an early investor in Cruise and Manscaped and worked at JB Pritzker's family office. Hashmi supports sourcing and diligence with a background in computer science from Stanford. All three are disclosed on the firm’s team page.

The firm’s primary sourcing mechanism is its luminary LP network of over 50 Fortune 500 CEOs, unicorn founders, and entertainment executives. These LPs actively open their networks for portfolio companies, which gives Kyber Knight an inside track on founders operating in commerce, AI, defense, and the built environment. The LP base also operates as an early-access reference network that can validate founders and markets faster than a cold outreach model.

Kyber Knight operates as a traditional venture capital firm raising third-party capital, but its capital base includes a dense concentration of individual operators rather than purely institutional LPs. This structure occupies a middle ground: it is a commingled fund, yet the LP roster functions like a curated operator-syndicate. The firm’s own materials describe it as an early-stage venture firm, not a family office.

Kyber Knight invests directly in companies at the pre-seed and seed stages. The firm's website and portfolio disclosures show no fund-of-funds activity. All named positions — from SpaceX and Anduril to BitGo and a Meta-acquired agent platform — represent direct equity stakes in operating companies, with co-investors listed alongside each deal.

The firm states it is hyper-focused on pre-seed and seed-stage investing. It takes a low-volume, highly concentrated approach, which lets a small team remain deeply involved with each company post-investment. The portfolio includes businesses that later attracted growth-stage co-investors such as Softbank, General Catalyst, and Kleiner Perkins, but Kyber Knight‘s own entry point is at the earliest rounds.

The firm identifies four thesis areas: the future of commerce, AI, labor, and the built environment. Disclosed portfolio holdings map onto AI-powered legal and tax software (legaltech), autonomous defense systems, reusable rocketry, carbon removal, digital-asset infrastructure, and consumer internet. The website does not list exclusionary sectors, but the portfolio density clusters around applied AI, frontier hardware, and enterprise infrastructure.

Kyber Knight actively co-invests and publicly names its co-investors across portfolio companies. Disclosed co-investors include Founders Fund, Benchmark, Felicis, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, Union Square Ventures, DCVC, Mubadala, Winklevoss Capital, and Multicoin Capital. The listing behavior suggests a high willingness to syndicate with both multi-stage and sector-focused firms.