K1 Investment Management

Summary

K1 Investment Management appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2011. The main department of described VC is located in the El Segundo. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The average startup value when the investment from K1 Investment Management is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 45 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This K1 Investment Management works on 19 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Education, Information Technology. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Jobvite, SecureAuth, Onit. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The overall number of key employees were 6.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the K1 Investment Management, startups are often financed by Salesforce Ventures, ICONIQ Capital, Toba Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ICONIQ Capital, Salesforce Ventures, The Yard Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by ICONIQ Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Vista Equity Partners.