Kevin Dick

Kevin Dick is a co-founder and Managing Director of Right Side Capital Management, a San Francisco–based venture firm that invests exclusively at the pre-seed stage. He has been with RSCM since its founding, bringing roughly two decades of experience in mathematical, data, and process modeling to the firm's quantitative approach to early-stage investing. Under his and his partners' leadership, RSCM has built one of the most prolific early-stage portfolios in venture, backing 2,000+ companies since it began deploying its data-driven strategy, with well over 1,000 still active.

Before RSCM, Dick founded and served as CEO of Network Resonance, a network-security and data-integrity technology company. His technical background is deep and hands-on: he is a named inventor on patents spanning derivative-trading systems, automated statistical modeling, and network-security devices, and he is described by the firm as an expert in software development and mathematical modeling — the skill set that underpins RSCM's formula-driven valuation and selection process.

Dick was educated at Stanford University, where he earned an AB in Economics and an MS in Engineering-Economic Systems (roughly 1989–1991). That quantitative, systems-oriented training is reflected directly in RSCM's thesis that success at the earliest stage cannot be reliably hand-picked and is better approached statistically across a large, diversified portfolio.

He works alongside fellow Managing Directors Dave Lambert (former founder/CEO of Acorn Computer and WorkMetro) and Jeff Pomeranz (a 20-year financial-services veteran and founder of Hotovec, Pomeranz & Co.), supported by a broader team of analysts, growth/venture partners, and investor-relations staff.

• Pre-seed only, by design. RSCM invests exclusively in the earliest, "pre-VC" round — a segment the firm says the professional-investor world largely ignores because the round sizes are too small for traditional VCs.
• Quantitative, formula-driven selection. The firm's founding belief is that no one can reliably predict which seed-stage company will succeed, so it relies on a data-driven process and a diversified, high-volume portfolio rather than deep single-company conviction.
• Valuation by formula. Pre-money valuations are set by a formula that scores the founders' backgrounds and how developed the idea is — as the firm puts it, "an idea on a napkin gets fewer points than a working prototype."
• Small rounds, capital efficiency. Sweet spot is companies raising ≤ $500K that are capital-efficient and already generating (or very close to) revenue — typically ~$5K–$30K+ MRR.
• Check size: roughly $150K–$300K into $150K–$500K rounds; RSCM is comfortable being an early institutional check.
• Fast, transparent process. RSCM markets a rapid, low-friction funding decision — a deliberate contrast to lengthy VC diligence — which is possible precisely because the decision is largely data- and formula-driven.
• Beyond capital: the firm offers B2B sales and marketing mentorship and access to a network of 1,200+ later-stage investors to help portfolio companies raise their next round.