Blake Simmons

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Founder at Kite Analytics | ex-Walmart

Kite Analytics
Boston, MA · ET (UTC-5)
12+ years experience
UC San Diego
English
Raising
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Overview

Building Kite Analytics in Boston - consumer finance. Previously built and sold a small consumer finance company. Signed 225 paying customers, 15 of them enterprises. Before that: Walmart and Disney. Most at home with consumer fintech and compliance.

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growthcompliancelendingconsumer fintech
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closes in 3 months

Raising a $2.5M Series A for payroll for insurers

Stage
Series A
Raising
$2.5M
Instrument
Priced round
Committed so far
$831k from operators in the space
Lead investor
Lead in place
Traction
20% month-on-month growth after 6 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

20% month-on-month growth after 6 months. Looking for investors who know media and can help with expansion into Africa.

Boston, MA · remote OKcompliancelendinggrowth
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Experience

  1. Founder
    Dec 2025 - Present
    Kite Analytics · 10 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Previously built and sold a small consumer finance company.
    • Took Kite Analytics from zero to $12 million ARR.
  2. Staff Software Engineer
    Apr 2022 - Dec 2025
    Walmart · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Reduced cloud spend on iOS by 26% in two quarters.
  3. Frontend Engineer
    Mar 2019 - Apr 2022
    Disney · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 46% in two quarters.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jul 2017 - Nov 2018
    Snap · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Built the experimentation framework 21 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  5. Principal Engineer
    Jul 2014 - Jul 2017
    HP · 3 yr · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Sit on 6 boards.
    • Led or co-led 9 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.

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Education

  1. UC San Diego
    BS, Computer Science
    2003 - 2007

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