About
About KB Capital
The people and philosophy behind the firm.
Our origin
“Good investing is complicated, great investing is simple.”
KB Capital traces back to 2016, when Kai Bidell began investing alongside his mentor, Ed Wasson. It is built on the philosophy Ed handed down through decades of investing: patience, independence, and conviction.
Kai Bidell, CFA
Kai started investing at 16 and hasn’t stopped since. He holds a BA in Environmental Analysis from Pitzer College (one of the Claremont Colleges) and was awarded a Fulbright research grant. He worked for a Denver family office focused on real estate before joining Align Impact, a multi-family office focused on impact investing, where he evaluated private placements and hedge funds for the firm’s clients. Kai is a CFA charterholder, having passed what the Financial Times calls “Wall Street’s hardest exams,” and carries the FSA Credential from the SASB.
Ed Wasson
Ed Wasson was a close friend, mentor and business partner. He invested family capital across multiple market cycles dating back to the 1930s. He was an experienced petroleum engineer, oil, and stock market investor. From 2014 to his passing in 2024, he passed on a discipline rooted in buying exceptional businesses, paying reasonable prices, and holding through volatility. That inheritance of patience, independence, and conviction remains the foundation of KB Capital today. The firm is dedicated to his memory.
John Reynolds
John pairs an engineer’s rigor with an operator’s instinct. A computer scientist from the U.S. Air Force Academy with a master’s in software engineering from SMU, he served as a U.S. Air Force Cyber Warfare Officer, trained where failure is not an option. He went on to lead Product & Engineering at an a16z- and SoftBank-backed startup whose infrastructure is trusted by Circle, Paxos, and Coinbase. At KB Capital he brings engineering-grade security, controls, and disaster-readiness to custody, reporting, and risk, and applies technological underwriting and quantitative analysis to read a company’s moat at the engineering level.