Kevin L. Raper is the Founder & General Partner of The Venture Catalyst, an early-stage venture fund and studio based in Kingston, NY, backing pre-seed and seed founders across tech, infrastructure, fintech, and civic impact.

Kevin also serves as Chief Creative Officer of Twitter.new (Operation Bluebird), the platform reclaiming the original Twitter trademark and building a fact-checked, community-driven social network. He brings over two decades of experience at the top of entertainment — designing for 145+ television and film productions including Law & Order, Mr. Robot, and 30 Rock, with campaigns for Apple, Nike, Beyoncé, and the Super Bowl — to shaping the product’s identity and narrative strategy.

He is co-founder of The Fulcrum, an AI-powered founder assessment and coaching platform that surfaces the human signals behind startup success. Kevin advises 15+ portfolio companies and has invested in Anthropic, ARK, and Contra. After leaving entertainment during COVID, he went all in on startups — applying pattern recognition, storytelling, and operational discipline to early-stage investing.