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Sunny Dhillon

Partner at Kyber Knight Capital

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $250,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $2,500,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $800,000.00

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2023

    Backed by luminaries such as the Chairman of Alphabet, CEO’s of Disney, Warner Bros, MGM, DreamWorks Animation, eBay, HP, Nexon, Match Group, Bain Consulting, and the founders of Airbnb, Yammer, Zynga, Oaktree, KKR, and NEA, Kyber Knight is a debut $120m venture capital fund focused on pre/seed technology investments.

  • Board Observer

    2022

    Led the seed round for Lavender, the leading generative AI company focused on empowering B2B sales teams. Series A shortly thereafter led by Norwest.

2018

  • Investor

    2018

    First investor; combined with my Signia partner, we are the largest investors in this men's personal care brand. They are the fastest growing men's personal care brand in the country at present.

2017

  • Founding Investor

    2017

    We co-founded Skale, a leading layer 2 ethereum platform, in early 2017. $SKL

  • Partner

    2012 - 2022

    Preseed/Seed/SeriesA fund Investments: Cruise Automation (acq by General Motors), Tenor (acquired by Google), Phoenix Labs (acquired by SEA Garena), Manscaped, Boxed (NASDAQ: BOXD), Sendoso, Landis, 9Count, StriVR, The Wave, Shadows, Neurogum, Sway app, PortalOne, Spot, TLDR, Valence Community, Sunroom, Dfinity, Skale Labs, Polkadot

2014 - 2021

  • Investor / Board Observer

    2014 - 2021

    NASDAQ: BOXD Series A investor: E-commerce B2B/B2C marketplace; Co-investors include Greycroft, GGV, and First Round.

2014 - 2020

  • Investor / Board Observer

    2014 - 2020

    Acquired by SEA Garena (NYSE: SE) in January 2020 Seed investor: Ex League of Legends & Mass Effect game developers behind the hit cross platform action role playing game, Dauntless. Co-investors included GGV and Sapphire Ventures

  • Investor

    2014 - 2016

    (Acquired by General Motors in May 2016) Autonomous vehicle tech; We were the largest investors in the company's seed round

2011 - 2012

  • Co-founder, Head of Product

    2011 - 2012

    - One of the first dating apps in the App Store; a social, local, mobile app (like Tinder before Tinder) - Helps connect nearby students at the same school, with similar interests & friends in common

2012 - 2012

  • Venture capital Associate

    2012 - 2012

    - Worked with the now governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, @ Pritzker Group, a $6bn venture and PE fund, on early stage digital media investments (online video, e-commerce, gaming, mobile): from seed opportunities through to larger $1m+ Series A in LA - My investments included Big Frame (YouTube MCN acquired by Dream Works Animation) & Kingmaker (YouTube ecommerce company acquired by Accel-backed Joyus Media)