Kip is a managing director at Levensohn Venture Partners (LVP), where he focuses on the software and communications sectors. LVP leads investments in companies at the early stage of commercialization and works closely with management teams and other directors on strategic and execution issues associated with rapid company growth. Kip joined LVP from the Summit Accelerator Fund (SAF), which he co-founded in 1999 as a joint venture with Summit Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm.

Prior to Summit, Kip spent 11 years at Hambrecht & Quist (H&Q), specializing in communications, software and Internet infrastructure. As Managing Director of the communications industry practice at H&Q, Kip was responsible for all of its investment banking activities related to communications, including software, systems, components and services. Prior to H&Q, Kip was Managing Director, Technology Planning at PacTel Corp. (a unit of the Pacific Telesis Group) and worked in software development and international marketing at Oracle Corp., where he was one of the company's earliest employees.

Kip received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Music from Stanford University and holds a PhD in Psychoacoustics from Stanford Medical School.