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Kyber Knight Capital
Linus Liang's Kyber Knight Capital turns 50+ CEO and unicorn-founder LPs into a proprietary customer-access network for pre-seed and seed-stage startups.
Kyber Knight Capital
Kyber Knight Capital is an exempt reporting adviser, established in 2023. It provides investment advice to clients.
General information
Firm type
Asset Manager
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
San Francisco
Corporate office
San Francisco, CA, United States
Principals
Linus Liang
Founder and Managing Partner
Sunny Dhillon
Partner
Afnaan Hashmi
Investor
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
How does Kyber Knight source proprietary deal flow?
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.
Does Kyber Knight participate in fund commitments or only direct deals?
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.
What investment stages does Kyber Knight typically target?
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.
Which sectors does Kyber Knight explicitly prioritize?
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.
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