Venture Lending & Leasing IX Form 3 Venture Lending & Leasing IX / E. & Betty I. Moore Foundation Gordon ownership change

Exhibit 24

VENTURE LENDING & LEASING IX, INC.

LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY

VENTURE LENDING & LEASING IX, INC.

The undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Gwendolyn A. Williamson, of Perkins Coie LLP, 700 13th Street N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005, as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place, and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign and file one or more of Form 3, Form 4 and/or Form 5, and any amendments thereto, as required under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, with respect to the reporting on the undersigned’s beneficial ownership of securities of Venture Lending & Leasing IX, Inc. (the “Fund”), granting unto such attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or the substitute of her, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

In witness, by signing this instrument I affirm all that is written above.

Dated: February 4, 2019

/s/ Dale Kunkel

Name:  Dale Kunkel

Title:Director of Hedge Fund Strategies

Member:  The Gordon E. and Betty I. Moore Foundation

Signed in the presence of:

/s/ Theodore Katsoulis

Witness

/s/ Tyler Connolly

Witness

Subscribed and sworn to before me on February 4, 2019.

/s/ Flor E. Vega Mata

Notary Public, San Francisco County

My commission expires June 28, 2022.