Kyle Wild

Kyle Wild: Founder & Managing Partner at Root System

Kyle Wild is an experienced entrepreneur, investor, and consultant who currently serves as the Founder & Managing Partner of Root System.1234 Some key facts about Kyle Wild:

• He co-founded and was CEO of Keen.io, a cloud-based API platform for event data ingestion and analytics, from 2012-2017. The company grew to over 6K customers, 60K developers, $30M in funding, and was acquired by Scaleworks in 2017.2

• In July 2020, he founded Root System, a new kind of venture firm that provides sweat equity to early-stage startups in exchange for discounted consulting services. The firm is composed of veteran founders, CTOs, developers, and product leaders who help de-risk startups' products and technology.1234

• He has been an Entrepreneur in Residence at Start Co., a Limited Partner at Techstars, and currently holds LP positions at Untapped Ventures and Practical Venture Capital.2

• Prior to founding Keen.io, he was a game designer, engineer, and "jack of all trades" at FableLabs from 2009-2011, where he worked on social games for Facebook.2

• He is described as a "rare jack of all trades who understands engineering, product, and sales".2 His LinkedIn profile username is kylewild.

In summary, Kyle Wild is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor who now helps early-stage startups build high-quality software and engineering teams through his firm Root System. He brings extensive experience founding and growing his own successful startup.1234