Kyle Morris

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Angel Investor at Independent | ex-Block

Independent
Dallas, TX · CT (UTC-6)
10+ years experience
Harvard Business School
English
Investing
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Overview

25 years around startups; now investing in fintech. Previously an operator for 6 years before investing. Sit on 7 boards. Before that: Block and Datadog. Most at home with board work and due diligence. Board member at a local non-profit.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in fintech
  • Second opinions on due diligence decisions
  • Working sessions on venture capital
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Crypto token projects
  • Generic networking requests

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Skills
due diligenceboard workventure capital
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $250k cheques into seed fintech in MENA

Cheque size
$250k
Stages
Seed, Series A
Sectors
Fintech, B2B SaaS
Geographies
LatAm
Lead or follow
Lead
Decision time
Within a month
How I help
Hiring the first ten people

Happy to follow a strong lead. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

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Experience

  1. Angel Investor
    Dec 2025 - Present
    Independent · 10 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Sit on 4 boards.
    • Led or co-led 34 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Backed 17 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  2. Enterprise Account Executive
    Dec 2023 - Dec 2025
    Block · 2 yr · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Shortened the channel sales cycle from 11 months to 3.
  3. Partnerships Manager
    Mar 2022 - Dec 2023
    Datadog · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Opened 11 new logos over $1 million ACV in the region.
    • Signed 18 channel partners that now source 28% of pipeline.
  4. Senior Account Executive
    Jan 2019 - Mar 2022
    Block · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Signed 23 channel partners that now source 33% of pipeline.
    • Opened 4 new logos over $4 million ACV in the region.
  5. Sales Manager
    Oct 2016 - Jan 2019
    Oracle · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Closed 255% of quota two years running.
    • Opened 7 new logos over $4 million ACV in the region.

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Education

  1. Harvard Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2000 - 2002
  2. University of Pennsylvania
    BS, Computer Science
    1996 - 2000

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