Luke Kanies, Angel Investor

Luke Kanies is an angel investor focusing primarily on developer tools, cloud infrastructure, local-first software, and power tools. Key investee firms featuring his early support include startups such as Daytona and M3O. His funding activity centers on early financing rounds, participating in pre-seed and seed stages. Supported funding events featuring his involvement include rounds with total capital raised reaching 2 million USD for Daytona and 2 million USD for M3O. Luke is best known as the Founder and former CEO of Puppet, where he pioneered infrastructure automation tools and helped lay the foundation for modern DevOps. Following his decade-long tenure leading Puppet, he later founded software startup Clickety and continues to write on technology and startups.