Kasper Sage

Managing Partner at BMW i Ventures

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 31 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2026
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Aug 2026
CodeRabbit is an innovative, AI-driven platform that transforms the way code reviews are done. It delivers context-aware, human-like reviews, improving code quality, reducing the time and effort required for thorough manual code reviews, and enabling teams to ship software faster. Trusted by over a thousand organizations, including The Economist, Life360, ConsumerAffairs, Hasura, and many more, to improve their code review workflow. CodeRabbit is SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR certified, and doesnt train on customers proprietary code.
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Jan 2026
Sevii’s Agentic AI platform stops cyber attackers in minutes—without needing humans in the loop—delivering a Cyber ROI of reducing risk, costs, and your team’s workload.” Our modular Autonomous Defense & Remediation (ADR) platform integrates with your security stack, deploying autonomous “AI Cyber Warriors” to process detections, hunt, reverse engineer, remediate, and document at machine speeds, with out the need for human intervention.
Board Observer
Sep 2025
Rive is a new way to design, build, and ship UI for apps, products, websites, and games. It combines an interactive design tool, a new stateful graphics format, a lightweight multi-platform runtime, and a blazing-fast vector renderer — so you can build custom UI with killer performance.
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Dec 2024
Phoenix Tailings is pioneering the future of clean mining and metals production. We are dedicated to building the world’s first fully clean mining and refining company, producing the critical metals needed for the next generation of technology and infrastructure. By harvesting valuable materials directly from mining tailings, we eliminate waste streams while creating a sustainable and domestic supply of rare earths and other essential resources. We are already commercially shipping rare earth metals and alloys to magnet customers today, proving both the scalability and impact of our approach. Our breakthrough refining model provides a clean and reliable supply chain, empowering industries from defense and aerospace to electric vehicles, renewable energy, and medical technologies. Phoenix Tailings has been commercially shipping rare earth metal products since 2023, demonstrating our leadership in bringing sustainable solutions to market.
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Sep 2024
RunSafe Security delivers automated software hardening for critical infrastructure from source to runtime, protecting embedded systems against common and devastating memory safety attacks without compromising performance or requiring code rewrites. The RunSafe Security Platform includes an SBOM generator specifically designed for embedded systems and C/C++ projects, vulnerability identification and risk quantification, unique memory relocation techniques to mitigate memory-based vulnerabilities, and pre-hardened open-source packages and containers for immediate protection. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with an office in Huntsville, Alabama, RunSafe Security’s customers span the aerospace, defense, energy, industrial, and national security verticals. Learn more at: https://runsafesecurity.com/.
Board Observer
Feb 2024
Skylo Technologies is a global Non-Terrestrial Network service provider based in Mountain View, CA, offering a service that allows smartphones and IoT cellular devices to connect directly over existing satellites. Devices connected over satellite are managed and served by Skylos commercial NTN vRAN, featuring a 3GPP standards-based cloud-native base station and core. Skylo works with existing satellite operators, network operators, and device makers to provide subscribers an anywhere, anytime connectivity solution between terrestrial and satellite networks. Skylos focus is on enabling connected services for people outdoors and connected workflows for machines at work across critical industries such as agriculture, maritime, logistics, mining, and others, in addition to mass-market consumer devices. We’re a global, fast-growing team, with offices in California, India and Finland. For more information, visit www.skylo.tech.
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Apr 2023
Cyclic Materials transforms yesterday’s waste into tomorrow’s critical materials. We’re creating a circular supply chain for the rare earth elements and critical materials that power our global economy, without compromising quality or environmental impact. Our proprietary two-phase process is unlocking value from discarded waste. Our REEPure™ technology simplifies the separation of rare earth magnets and critical metals from end-of-life electric vehicles, consumer electronics, wind turbines, and MRIs. Then our REEPure™ technology restores those valuable materials back to their raw form, unlocking new revenue streams for metal buyers and feedstock companies. We are the only high-tech recycling company offering a scalable, efficient, and low-carbon recycling solution that complements mining on both quality and cost, and mitigates the risks associated with extraction. Cyclic Materials is setting a high bar for sustainable resource recovery. We’ve solved the barriers to creating a circular economy for rare earths, and our transparent, data-driven approach ensures the highest standards of sustainability and traceability, including rigorous Scope 3 carbon tracking and water efficiency. With USD $83.5M in funding, including USD $53M in Series B funding backed by partners like Microsoft and BMW i Ventures, we’re scaling our recycling infrastructure across North America and Canada to meet global demand. Cyclic Materials is establishing a more resilient, domestic supply chain for rare earths and critical metals, providing opportunity and value for global industries.
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Dec 2022
Jetti makes it possible to extract copper from low-grade primary sulfides, such as chalcopyrite, the world’s most abundant copper mineral ore. Jetti’s commercially proven and proprietary catalytic technology addresses the key technical problem preventing recovery of trillions of dollars of trapped resources. We apply our catalysts to hundreds of millions of tons of ore, and significantly increase copper yields in a cost effective and environmentally responsible manner.
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Board Observer
Oct 2022
Fox Robotics is mid-stage startup working on warehouse automation. Our automated forklifts have the most advanced technology in the industry and are the only equipment capable of more complicated tasks such as trailer unloading. The team behind our products is incredible and growing quickly. We’re based in Austin, TX.
Board Observer
May 2022
Mangrove Lithium, a Vancouver based Company, has developed a breakthrough platform for the most cost-effective production of battery grade lithium hydroxide from diverse input streams and assets. Mangrove’s modular solution can be scaled to any capacity and co-located with upstream lithium producers or cathode and cell manufacturers. The platform technology is also being commercialized for conversion of waste brines to chemicals and desalinated water.
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Apr 2022
KINEXON stands for connected and automated operations in manufacturing, logistics, sports and media organizations. Our full IoT-stack, which includes state-of-the-art cloud solutions, translates physical worlds into digital twins and provides intuitive tools to identify, optimize and automate processes. Through our leading solutions we enable our customers to achieve next-level performance, efficiency and sustainability. 360-degree connectivity also seamlessly integrates into existing IT infrastructures and allows to realize individual applications. As a full-stack provider, KINEXON covers the entire range of sensors, cloud-software, consulting, and service. In addition, KINEXON possesses profound vertical expertise in manufacturing, logistics, professional sports, and media. Among the clients are top international sports clubs from the NBA, NHL, NFL, Bundesliga, DEL, BBL, and HBL, globally active companies including BMW, Continental, Zalando, and Red Bull, as well as high-reach media enterprises such as Red Bull Mediahouse and Sky. KINEXON has received several awards for its innovative solutions – for example, KINEXON won the awards for most innovative tech company in Bavaria, several IoT Awards in the US, and and "best young tech company" at the "Factory of the Year" awards, organized by A.T. Kearney and the industry journal “Die Produktion.” KINEXON was founded by Dr. Alexander Hüttenbrink and Dr. Oliver Trinchera, former scientists of the Technical University of Munich. The headquarters in Munich, as well as the US offices in Chicago currently employ around 300 people. For more information check https://kinexon.com/ Imprint: https://kinexon.com/imprint/
Board Observer
Jan 2022
We make charging infrastructure cost less (up to 40%) while making it work better (100% reliable communication), eliminating the biggest blockers to scaling charging globally. Our patent-pending technology makes EV charging work anywhere -- underground, in a city, or on a mountaintop -- without the need for internet! At the same time, we save labor, material, equipment, and operational costs. Its a true win-win for operators and for EV drivers. Property managers / operators 👉 Well plan and operate infrastructure using our SecureCharge platform. This gives you the lowest cost, and your tenants a pure digital experience that works underground! Charging operators / travel booking platforms / fleet operators / parking operators 👉 Our flexible combination of turnkey hardware/software plus SDK, HDK, and EV charger retrofit kits allow you to build your business on our unique technology, offering a differentiated product in a crowded market!
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Nov 2021
Upstream delivers a cloud-based, AI-powered data management platform purpose-built for connected vehicles, smart mobility, and IoT ecosystem. The Upstream Platform transforms fragmented, distributed mobility data into centralized, structured, and contextualized data lakes, unlocking its full potential. By leveraging this data, Upstream empowers customers with advanced, AI-driven applications across various use cases, including proactive vehicle quality management, cybersecurity detection and response (XDR), fraud prevention, observability, usage-based insurance, and more. The Upstream Platform unlocks the value of vehicle data, empowering customers to build connected vehicle applications by transforming highly distributed vehicle data into centralized, structured, contextualized data lakes. Coupled with AutoThreat® Intelligence, the first automotive cybersecurity threat intelligence solution, Upstream provides industry-leading cyber threat protection and actionable insights, seamlessly integrated into the customer’s environment and vehicle security operations centers (VSOC). Upstream’s customers include some of the world’s leading automotive OEMs, suppliers, and others, protecting millions of vehicles.
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Oct 2021
Lilac Solutions is a lithium extraction company based in Oakland, California.
Board Observer
Jul 2021
NFW is a circularity platform for plastic-free performance materials. NFW follows three Ground Rules in everything we develop: start well, stay clean, end well. While nearly everything in the built world relies on some type of plastic that began as crude oil and that will become plastic pollution, we are establishing a new material reality. We believe all materials should begin and end as nutrients, ready for the next growth cycle—true circularity. Our multi-material platform serves a wide range of industries—from fashion and footwear to automotive and upholstery. NFW technology embeds seamlessly into existing supply chains, enabling the world’s most iconic brands to design and scale products with high-performance, plastic-free materials. NFW makes global brands more sustainable, empowering them to create without plastics. Alongside the boldest brands and visionary designers, we are pioneering a naturally circular, post-oil economy.
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2026
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Aug 2026
CodeRabbit is an innovative, AI-driven platform that transforms the way code reviews are done. It delivers context-aware, human-like reviews, improving code quality, reducing the time and effort required for thorough manual code reviews, and enabling teams to ship software faster. Trusted by over a thousand organizations, including The Economist, Life360, ConsumerAffairs, Hasura, and many more, to improve their code review workflow. CodeRabbit is SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR certified, and doesnt train on customers proprietary code.
Investor
Jan 2026
Sevii’s Agentic AI platform stops cyber attackers in minutes—without needing humans in the loop—delivering a Cyber ROI of reducing risk, costs, and your team’s workload.” Our modular Autonomous Defense & Remediation (ADR) platform integrates with your security stack, deploying autonomous “AI Cyber Warriors” to process detections, hunt, reverse engineer, remediate, and document at machine speeds, with out the need for human intervention.
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Board Observer
Sep 2025
Rive is a new way to design, build, and ship UI for apps, products, websites, and games. It combines an interactive design tool, a new stateful graphics format, a lightweight multi-platform runtime, and a blazing-fast vector renderer — so you can build custom UI with killer performance.
2024
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Dec 2024
Phoenix Tailings is pioneering the future of clean mining and metals production. We are dedicated to building the world’s first fully clean mining and refining company, producing the critical metals needed for the next generation of technology and infrastructure. By harvesting valuable materials directly from mining tailings, we eliminate waste streams while creating a sustainable and domestic supply of rare earths and other essential resources. We are already commercially shipping rare earth metals and alloys to magnet customers today, proving both the scalability and impact of our approach. Our breakthrough refining model provides a clean and reliable supply chain, empowering industries from defense and aerospace to electric vehicles, renewable energy, and medical technologies. Phoenix Tailings has been commercially shipping rare earth metal products since 2023, demonstrating our leadership in bringing sustainable solutions to market.
mid stageMining
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Sep 2024
RunSafe Security delivers automated software hardening for critical infrastructure from source to runtime, protecting embedded systems against common and devastating memory safety attacks without compromising performance or requiring code rewrites. The RunSafe Security Platform includes an SBOM generator specifically designed for embedded systems and C/C++ projects, vulnerability identification and risk quantification, unique memory relocation techniques to mitigate memory-based vulnerabilities, and pre-hardened open-source packages and containers for immediate protection. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with an office in Huntsville, Alabama, RunSafe Security’s customers span the aerospace, defense, energy, industrial, and national security verticals. Learn more at: https://runsafesecurity.com/.
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