Kevin Ober
Managing Director Khasm Capital | Investor
Kirkland, Washington
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2020 - Current
Khasm Labs is backed by some of the largest technology companies in the world, including Microsoft, Intel, Dell, AT&T, Comcast, Accenture, and many others. All these companies see the power and transformative nature of edge computing and the unique opportunities facilitated by the Lab. Recent Investments include, Graphiant, Zededa, Synadia Cloud, Ocient Technologies, and Symbl AI. The Lab has built an ever-growing developer-centric ecosystem at the intersection of edge computing and AI technologies that will rewrite the rules of what is possible for application developers and accelerate growth of markets generating over $3.4 trillion in new spending last year alone (Gartner estimate).
Investor
2023
NATS is a simple, flexible, and secure high performance messaging solution.
Investor
2023
Zero Trust Isolation Platform that confines ransomware to a single device.
Raised $13,400,000.00 from Engineering Capital, Cervin Ventures, Sorenson Ventures, Storm Ventures, Robert Tinker, Josh Leslie, Anuj Kapur and Manoj Apte.
Investor
2023
Pano uses deep learning AI and computer vision to automatically detect, verify and classify wildfire events in real time.
Raised $45,000,000.00 from January Ventures, 5G Open Innovation Lab, Convective Capital, T-Mobile Ventures, Jade Van Doren, Congruent Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Initialized Capital, Salesforce Ventures and Kevin Mahaffey.
Investor
2022
ZEDEDA is a provider of distributed orchestration and virtualization software for Edge AI Compute.
Raised $129,484,000.00 from Almaz Capital, The Hillman Company, Rockwell Automation, Juniper Networks, Coast Range Capital, Forward Investments, LDV Partners, Chevron Technology Ventures, Emerson Ventures and Endeavor Catalyst.
Investor
2022
Ocient is a hyper-scale data analytics company that allows organizations to unlock value by analyzing petabyte to exabyte scale data sets.
Raised $114,400,000.00 from Buoyant Ventures, OCA Ventures, Riverwalk Holdings, Alumni Ventures, Levy Family Partners, Wolf Capital Ventures, Greycroft, Gaingels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and PSP Capital Partners.
Managing Partner
2002
DIVERGENT IS NO LONGER MAKING NEW INVESTMENTS Kevin founded Divergent Venture Partners, a firm with four funds spanning 15 years. He invested $13 million of the firm's $27 million in 10 companies, returning $24 million, or 1.9x invested capital. Notable winners in the Divergent portfolio include Flashsoft—an 8.5x return investment, Pliant Technologies—a 6x return investment, and PushSpring—a 1.8x return investment
Investor and Board Observer
2015 - 2024
PushSpring is the leading independent provider of device level targeting data for verified iOS and Android mobile app audiences.
Raised $6,525,000.00 from Divergent Ventures, Trilogy Equity Partners and Scout Ventures.
Investor and Board Observer
2014 - 2024
Shippable helps companies ship code faster by giving them a powerful continuous integration platform built natively on Docker.
Raised $10,168,000.00 from Madrona, Divergent Ventures, Founders' Co-op and Vulcan Capital.
Investor and Board Observer
2011 - 2015
Piston is the OpenStack® orchestration company.
Raised $28,830,989.00 from Cisco, DCVC, Divergent Ventures, Swisscom Ventures, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, True Ventures, Swisscom Ventures, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, True Ventures and Cisco.