Eric del Balso runs both Kohala Ventures and Ignite Advisors, combining seed investing with hands-on operating roles inside portfolio companies like serving as interim Head of Ecosystem Partnerships at REGENT while also being an investor there. He holds a U.S. patent for sports data visualization and focuses heavily on space and frontier technology companies including Apex, Inversion, AstroForge, and Epsilon3, which is an unusual concentration for an independent seed fund.