Kyle burling, JD, MBA, MS

Partner at Fish | Former USPTO Primary Examiner | A16z Limited-Partner | Angel Investor

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
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Angel Investor
Jun 2021
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Board Member
Jan 2021
Were an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
Board Member
Jan 2021
LandingAI provides a cutting-edge software platform that enables computer vision easy for a wide range of applications across all industries.
Angel Investor
May 2017
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2026
Associate
Jun 2026
At Proskauer, our singular focus is on advising and supporting our clients to achieve their goals and ambitions. As your ambitions evolve, so do we, aligning our strategy, teams, and capabilities to help you stay ahead. We are an elite global law firm with more than 900 lawyers in key financial centers in the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia. Our clients include many of the world’s leading businesses, including asset managers, banks, listed corporations, and private companies. We have deep expertise in several of the fastest growing and dynamic segments of the market, including sports, technology, life sciences, and health care. We represent hundreds of asset managers across a wide spectrum of sectors and strategies, including private equity, private credit, hedge, real assets, secondaries, and capital solutions. Our perspective is shaped by decades of working alongside asset managers, private capital sponsors, portfolio companies, and leading public and private businesses across industries. We understand the commercial forces driving your decisions and bring insight that helps you act on them. Our approach is people-centered and relationship-driven. We operate as one firm across practices, industries, and geographies, connecting you to the right people at the right time with a single focus, delivering seamless execution. We bring that same commitment to our communities through pro bono service and our Proskauer Impact programs, applying the same rigor, collaboration, and focus that define how we deliver for clients. Proskauer is intentionally focused on supporting your agenda because when you’re ahead, we’re right there with you.
2024
Angel Investor
Jan 2024
We are the first partner for founders. Over 80% of our investments are the first check: Pre-Seed, Seed, or Series A. Many start on a whiteboard. Focused on AI-first companies. We partner selectively, care deeply, and strive for excellence. We back founders who are building disruptive enterprise and consumer software companies such as: Airbnb (Nasdaq: ABNB), Abnormal Security, Adept AI, AppDynamics, Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET), CATO Networks, Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN), Discord, Dropbox (Nasdaq: DBX), Figma, Inflection, Instabase, LinkedIn, Meta (Nasdaq: Meta), Nextdoor (NYSE: KIND), Okta (Nasdaq: OKTA), Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), Roblox (NYSE: RBLX), Rubrik, and Workday (NYSE: WDAY).
2021
Angel Investor
Jun 2021
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Partner
Jan 2021
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP is a 1200+ lawyer business litigation firm—the largest in the world devoted solely to business litigation and arbitration. Our lawyers have tried over 2,500 cases and won 88% of them. When we represent defendants, our trial experience gets us better settlements or defense verdicts. When representing plaintiffs, our lawyers have won over $70 billion in judgments and settlements. We have also obtained seven 9-figure jury verdicts, fifty-one 9-figure settlements, and twenty 10-figure settlements.
Partner
Jan 2021
Morrison Foerster transforms complexity into advantage. With our collective intelligence, we shape powerful legal strategies that move your business forward while living our shared values. We solve your most critical multidimensional challenges in a way that provides clarity around the risk you are facing and gives you confidence in your chosen path. We pair diversity of perspective with a strategic consultative approach to craft the tailored strategies you need. We foster trusted partnerships that are defined by winning for you when it matters most. Our clients include some of the largest financial institutions, Fortune 100 companies, and leading technology and life sciences companies. Whether established for decades or just an entrepreneur’s idea, we represent organizations as they grow, innovate, disrupt, and develop into leading industry players and household names.
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