Venture capital · advisors and operators

Build for good.
Bend the curve.

K4C breaks the trade-offs that keep social good from reaching scale — a different kind of incubator for founders wired differently, with capital and operators in it alongside you.

Value was extracted from these communities first. We help them build, own, and keep the upside.

What we do

Advisors and operators who bend the cost curve.

We do both — set the vision, strategy, and plan, then execute alongside you. We don't just write checks and advise from a distance; we build with mission-driven founders and put the capital, tools, and people to work that make social good possible at scale, with measurably better outcomes than going it alone.

01 · Growth agency

Grow with us

Go-to-market, brand, and operating muscle for founders with traction who need to scale without losing the mission.

02 · Incubator

Build with us

A different incubator for people wired differently — from idea to first traction, with operators who've done it before.

03 · Social-impact investing

Back the thesis

Capital for ventures serving communities hit by negative externalities, where public and private funding fall short.

The Incubator

For founders wired differently.

Most incubators are built for one kind of founder. We're built for the rest — neurodivergent and mission-driven builders whose value too often gets extracted before they can capture it. We protect what they create, help them own it, and keep the wealth where it was built. That's also the thesis: a fund to back the ND startups our legal engine already protects and serves — capital and legal support in one loop.

Partners

Independent organizations we build alongside — not K4C holdings.

Build partner · Stealth

Requisor

The engine room behind the custom agents in the Showroom, including Judy. Naveen Kankate operates as builder. In stealth.

Channel partner · 501(c)(3)

Squirrel Space

An independent nonprofit serving the ND community. Certifies our affirming approach, trains the intelligence behind Judy, and acts as enterprise channel. "Squirrel Space Certified."

Portfolio

Companies and products being built through K4C — the proof the model can work.

Powered by Judy · In build

Judy → NDaccommodations

NDaccommodations is being designed and launched through the K4C incubator. Judy is NDaccommodations' ND-affirming support agent and public front door. She helps people navigate workplace situations, accommodations, performance barriers, wellbeing needs, and difficult conversations, then connects them to appropriate human support when useful.

See it in the Showroom →
See what we’re building

Meet Judy — our ND workplace-support agent.

Judy is the affirming AI agent behind NDaccommodations, one of the ventures in our portfolio. She helps neurodivergent employees get support at work — on their own terms. Have a look at how she works.

This is a live preview of the NDaccommodations agent — a demo of what we build, not a K4C intake form.

Projects to fund

What we're backing next.

A first look at the ventures moving through the K4C incubator — built for and with the ND community. Marketing preview only.

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In build

Judy & NDaccommodations

Neuro-affirming AI intake that documents the workplace accommodation process and routes to a wellbeing advisor and an accommodations expert.

Powered by Judy K4C portfolio
Now raising

The sensory-sensitive tiny home

A mobile, sensory-safe room that drops into public spaces — a calm place to decompress and self-regulate. Built for conference producers, employers, and cities.

Now raising $25K Sensory relief, anywhere
Seeking funding

The ND-affirming hair salon

A calm, consent-led salon built from the chair up for sensory comfort — and staffed and owned by neurodivergent stylists.

Seeking funding ND employee-owned

Shown for marketing and interest only — not an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy any security.

Advisors & Operators

The bench behind the engine.

The team behind Incubate and Grow. They advise and operate the businesses we stand up — and bring growth operations to companies making a pivot, a transformation, or a scale-up. A small, senior bench across healthcare innovation, law, psychology, engineering, finance, and commercial growth.

Emily Kapszukiewicz
Founder & CEO
Taylor Bentley
Co-Founder & CLO
John Dolores, JD, PhD
Operations & Strategy
Naveen Kankate
Engine & Builder · Requisor
Mike Boruta
Advisor & Analytics
Mirna Mejia, PhD
Coaching, Culture & Wellbeing
George Staruch
CFO, Squirrel Space
Meet the full team & book a meeting →
Work with us

Three ways in.

Kindness for Capital is a management company with two operating arms — the Incubator and the Growth Agency — working alongside an aligned Fund. However you come in, the same senior bench of advisors and operators is in it with you.

Invest

Back the thesis

Regenerative capital with real returns and outsized impact — backing ND ventures the engine already protects and serves. The Fund has its own GP and managing partners, aligned with the mission.

Incubator overview (PDF) →
Incubate

Build with us

A different incubator for founders wired differently — from idea to first traction. Our advisors and operators help stand the business up, then transition it toward ND employee-ownership.

Explore the Incubator →
Grow

Scale or pivot with us

Operating muscle for companies making a pivot or transformation, or scaling what's working. Our operators bring go-to-market, brand, and execution discipline without losing the mission.

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