Kelly Perdew
Managing General Partner at Moonshots Capital
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & Managing General Partner
2014 - Current
Moonshots Capital invests in extraordinary leadership with world-changing ideas and was founded by two West Point graduates—Kelly Perdew and Craig Cummings. We lean in heavily when military veterans are a part of the founding team. Chapter 1 - Angel Investor since 2004. Chapter 2 - Moonshots Capital Syndicates since 2014. Chapter 3 - Moonshots Capital Fund 1, 2, 3.... Both Kelly and Craig have operated start-up companies as founders and members of the senior management team. As operators, they raised in excess of $100M in angel capital, ventured capital, and debt and participated in eight operating exits between them. Select investments: ID.me Apptronik StockApp X.ai Figure.ai SandboxAQ Cart.com Gretel Carta GrubMarket Pacaso Nok Harvest.ai (acquired by AMZN) Bitium (acquired by GOOG) Pray PlushCare (acquired by Accolade) ProducePay Slack (IPO) Threatcare (acquired by ReliaQuest) TrueCar (IPO)
Investor
2025
Robots have the potential to reshape our existence. Our mission is to leverage robotics to improve universal quality of life. Robots will become one of the most impactful and effective tools humanity has ever created. We believe robots should do the work humans don’t want to do. We pursue ambitious goals to make this a reality. We’re not satisfied making incremental improvements to the status quo but are driven to change the paradigm altogether. Our robots are versatile, capable of solving numerous tasks with a single embodiment. Join us on the next phase of our journey as we get our systems out into the world to do the most meaningful work.
Investor & Board Member
2025
In January 2025, Derek Wall co-founded a stealth startup and quietly secured $10 million in pre-seed funding with his co-founder Matthew Mengerink, former CTO of X.commerce at eBay and PayPal, Vice President of Engineering at YouTube-Google, and Vice President of Infrastructure at Uber. Their startup is currently incubating at (StartX P25) at Stanford University.
Investor
2024
Gallatin is building a logistics platform based on the needs and constraints of today's defense industry. Gallatin's platform creates actionable insights across the tactical, operational, and strategic levels providing integrated capabilities for first, middle, and last mile solutions where they're needed most.
Investor
2024
Leveraging AQ - the powerful compound effects of AI + Quantum technology
SandboxAQ is an enterprise SaaS company that provides AI and quantum solutions.
Raised $525,000,000.00 from Michael J. Fox Foundation.
Investor
2024
XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery.
Raised $12,384,679,312.00 from Valor Equity Partners, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Qatar Investment Authority and CoreNest Capital.
Investor
2024
Figure's mission is to expand human capabilities through advanced AI.
Figure Robotics is an AI robotics company that is building a multi-purpose humanoid form robot.
Raised $854,000,000.00 from Quantum Angels, Bossa Invest, ARK Venture Fund, Aliya Capital Partners, Evolution VC Partners, Bold Capital Partners, NVIDIA, Bezos Expeditions, Boscolo Intervest and Amazon.com.incs Ltd.
Investor
2024
The Modern, Mission Browser for the Classified Web
Investor and Advisor
2023
Building games for five billion ⚽ fans.
Matchday combines video games, sports, and Web3 in order to create an ecosystem of casual football (soccer) games.
Raised $21,000,000.00 from Kyber Knight Capital, A'Z Angels, Greylock, Hack VC, Founders, Inc., Capricorn Investment Group, Courtside Ventures, Moonshots Capital, Play Time Ventures and Horizons Ventures.
Investor
2023
Proteus builds small satellites to help America win the new space race.