Kent Madsen

Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Epic Venture Funds

📍 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 48 investments📅 28 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2025
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Investor and Board Member
Dec 2025
QubitOwl discovers every cryptographic asset across your enterprise—TLS certificates, SSH keys, encryption protocols—giving you complete visibility before quantum computers render todays encryption obsolete. Our platform delivers immediate, actionable intelligence on your cryptographic inventory, identifying vulnerabilities and compliance gaps so you can prioritize quantum-safe migration with confidence. Know your cryptography. Secure your future.
Investor
Aug 2024
Mimic’s SaaS platform provides enterprises with detection, deflection, and rapid recovery from ransomware attacks. Our technology detects ransomware much earlier and with greater accuracy than other defenses which enables us to deflect attacks before damage is done or data is stolen.
Investor
May 2024
Understand the Universe. We are a team of AI technologists and business leaders on a mission to build AI systems that can help humanity understand the world better. https://x.ai/careers
Investor
Apr 2024
Headquartered in Toronto Canada, Brim built a state-of-the-art credit card infrastructure and digital platform bringing ground-breaking innovation to the credit card and financial space. Beyond our full suite of consumer and business credit cards including buy-now pay-later capabilities, Brim’s Platform as a Service enables banks, fintechs, credit unions and large companies to innovate with flexibility and speed. Leveraging our end-to-end digital platform, suite of credit cards, financial products and embedded global rewards enables our B2B partners to launch a turnkey white labeled or co-branded platform in weeks. Our proprietary tech stack merges the two verticals of Credit Cards and Rewards/Loyalty in real-time and our infrastructure is live at all merchants worldwide, making Brim Rewards the world’s largest open loyalty and rewards ecosystem. Were a team at the intersection of finance, tech and consumer experiences: highly skilled, passionate, and innovative individuals with deep expertise in financial products and solutions and a commitment to positive change.
Investor
Apr 2024
Founded by industry veterans, Uptiq is the enterprise-ready AI platform purpose-built to modernize financial services workflows. With deep domain expertise, our sophisticated AI powers a unified solution that enhances operational efficiency and maximizes team capacity, driving superior outcomes through a better client experience. Uptiq delivers rapid results through easily deployable AI agents and an innovative AI Workbench that enables institutions to adapt and scale with evolving business needs. Trusted by over 140 financial institutions, including Focus Financial Partners, Orion, Broadridge, and TransPecos Banks, Uptiq is the proven AI partner for highly regulated industries. With over $1 billion in transactions processed and more than $23M in equity funding, Uptiq isn’t just shaping the future of AI in financial services — it’s leading it.
Investor and Board Member
Apr 2024
Numetric, a Traffic Safety Analytics Solution Provider, empowers state and local agencies to achieve greater confidence and consensus around resource investment decisions and save more lives on our roadways. It accomplishes this through its off-the-shelf, configurable, cloud-based Traffic Safety Analytics Platform and its suite of easy-to-use applications which are purpose-built to allow agencies to perform critical analyses faster and with more depth, easily share data with all relevant groups, and make more informed decisions to optimize investments and reduce fatal crashes. To learn more, visit numetric.com.
Board Member
Jan 2024
Fullcast is the leading AI-native Revenue platform that unifies planning, execution, and performance across go-to-market teams. Through its integrated product suite, Fullcast enables organizations to connect strategy to action and optimize every part of the revenue engine. Fullcast delivers a complete “Plan-to-Pay” platform that drives predictable growth and productivity. Founded with the mission to help companies scale smarter, Fullcast empowers GTM teams to align, automate, and accelerate revenue — all within a single connected ecosystem. We seamlessly connect go-to-market planning activities with tactical sales execution, enabling your operations, sales, finance, marketing, and customer success teams to make continuous adjustments in response to real-time strategy changes. From territory management to commissions and performance tracking, we operate with speed, agility, and AI-powered automation. We have over 10 million users, the backing of top tier venture capital firms (Sequoia, Craft, Wing, Tokyo Black), and an incredible tailwind of AI momentum and enthusiasm.
Investor
Sep 2023
The leader in On-Demand Pay and #1 adopted financial wellness benefit. Because life doesnt wait and neither should your pay. Trusted by 1,000+ employers.
Investor
Dec 2022
Founded by Paul Tran in 2016, San Diego, California-based MANSCAPED® is the global men’s lifestyle consumer brand and male grooming category creator trusted by over 10 million men worldwide. The product range includes a diversified line of premium tools, formulations, and accessories designed to introduce and elevate a whole new self-care routine for men. MANSCAPED’s collection is available internationally in 39 countries at MANSCAPED.com, Amazon in more than 100 countries worldwide and in major retailers including Walmart, Target®, Best Buy, Macy’s, Walgreens, Men’s Wearhouse, Jos. A. Bank, Military Exchanges, Tesco, Boots, Hairhouse, Woolworths and many more internationally.
Investor and Board Member
Apr 2022
Ostrich Birdseye is a unified qualitative and quantitative cyber risk management application (based on industry-standard benchmarks NIST, CIS, ISO) that allows you to quickly assess, prioritize and quantify your organization’s financial and operational risks in real-time, in one place. Built by cybersecurity experts—and based on industry-standard benchmarks (NIST, CIS, ISO) and our proprietary OCRF format—Birdseye is designed to drive action and communication among stakeholders and equip you with the business-critical information you need to improve your cybersecurity posture. Unlike other Cyber Risk Management Providers (CMRPs), Ostrich delivers a single, unified platform for cyber risk analysis, management, reporting and mitigation: SaaS-delivered cyber security program assessments (Enterprise, Business unit, Product line, Office) Benchmarking against established best-practice frameworks [Cyber Security Framework (CSF), ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, COBIT, 18 CIS Critical Security Controls (CSC-18)] Consistent and simple-to-understand progress tracking against established compliance benchmarks for your industry Board-level security dashboards and tactical checklists Granular sector and leader comparisons Custom-tailored security solutions and strategies Real-time API connections to top security tools for data-driven risk posture calculations Comprehensive reporting and scoring that you can share with clients, insurers and third parties Self-paced consulting services
Investor
Mar 2022
Oxygen Esports (“OXG”) is New England’s premier multi-title esports organization. Headquartered in Foxboro, Massachusetts and backed by some of Boston’s most prominent sports and gaming experts, OXG is breathing new life into the team landscape with a data driven approach to talent acquisition and fan base engagement, proven in the market by our track record of success. Today, OXG competes in some of the most prestigious esports leagues, including Call of Duty League (Boston Breach), Overwatch League (Boston Uprising), Rainbow Six Siege North American League, Rocket League Championship Series, Valorant Champions Tour and many others.
early stageSpectator Sports
Investor
Nov 2021
Pura is a smart fragrance brand offering an innovative way to fill your home with premium, customizable scents. App-controlled features empower you to control fragrance intensity, set schedules, and swap scents from your smartphones. With options for personalized settings, safe & clean fragrances, and partnerships with luxury fragrance brands, Pura provides a unique, sustainable, and elevated scenting experience to transform any space.
Investor
Sep 2021
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) is on a mission to deliver clean fusion energy to the planet fast enough to matter for humanity’s biggest challenges. It’s urgent. The gap between the energy we need and the energy we have is widening every day. Fusion is a critical part of the energy transition away from fossil fuels, a new chapter for the world’s energy supply. We’re committing to delivering fusion power plants and a full-fledged fusion energy industry as we’ve delivered on other promises. Like the world’s strongest high-temperature superconducting magnet, the game-changing technology that’s making commercial fusion energy a reality. We’ve raised over $2 billion in capital — more than any other fusion energy company — and attracted top talent to design, build, and deliver commercial fusion power plants. And we’re working with policymakers and suppliers to make fusion energy available globally. As we push toward the fusion-energy future, we’ll keep setting and meeting milestones, sharing and validating our progress, and encouraging others to do the same. If you are interested in joining our team, check out cfs.energy/careers for more information.
Investor
Jun 2021
Qualiti is the first 100% A.I. managed test automation solution. That means A.I. creates, maintains, executes, and triages tests FOR YOU. Now you can move on from writing and maintaining these tests and actually focus on creative tasks in QA and the end-user experience!
Investor and Board Member
Nov 2020
SAVI iQ Home, a division of SAVI iQ, is engineered for ISPs and telcos looking to unlock new revenue streams with scalable, secure intelligent home solutions. Powered by Ollie, our AI assistant, SAVI Home delivers intelligent living, remote support, and device management—all designed to enhance broadband offerings and reduce churn.
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Investor and Board Member
Dec 2025
QubitOwl discovers every cryptographic asset across your enterprise—TLS certificates, SSH keys, encryption protocols—giving you complete visibility before quantum computers render todays encryption obsolete. Our platform delivers immediate, actionable intelligence on your cryptographic inventory, identifying vulnerabilities and compliance gaps so you can prioritize quantum-safe migration with confidence. Know your cryptography. Secure your future.
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Jan 2025
University of Utah Ventures, Powered by EPIC, is a public–private partnership between EPIC Ventures, a privately held venture capital firm, and the University of Utah and its affiliates. This initiative is designed to bridge private innovation with regional resources, serving as both a launchpad for local innovators and a landing pad for global entrepreneurs. Our mission is to position the Intermountain Region as a premier hub of innovation, attracting and supporting best-in-class entrepreneurs from around the world.
2024
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Aug 2024
Mimic’s SaaS platform provides enterprises with detection, deflection, and rapid recovery from ransomware attacks. Our technology detects ransomware much earlier and with greater accuracy than other defenses which enables us to deflect attacks before damage is done or data is stolen.
Investor
May 2024
Understand the Universe. We are a team of AI technologists and business leaders on a mission to build AI systems that can help humanity understand the world better. https://x.ai/careers
Investor
Apr 2024
Headquartered in Toronto Canada, Brim built a state-of-the-art credit card infrastructure and digital platform bringing ground-breaking innovation to the credit card and financial space. Beyond our full suite of consumer and business credit cards including buy-now pay-later capabilities, Brim’s Platform as a Service enables banks, fintechs, credit unions and large companies to innovate with flexibility and speed. Leveraging our end-to-end digital platform, suite of credit cards, financial products and embedded global rewards enables our B2B partners to launch a turnkey white labeled or co-branded platform in weeks. Our proprietary tech stack merges the two verticals of Credit Cards and Rewards/Loyalty in real-time and our infrastructure is live at all merchants worldwide, making Brim Rewards the world’s largest open loyalty and rewards ecosystem. Were a team at the intersection of finance, tech and consumer experiences: highly skilled, passionate, and innovative individuals with deep expertise in financial products and solutions and a commitment to positive change.
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