K5 Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Newport Beach, United States

Total investments

59

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

52

Rounds per year

4.54

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.12

Exits

8

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Real EstateE-CommerceSoftwareFinancial ServicesMobileHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareSecurityMedical

Summary

In 2011 was created K5 Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Newport Beach.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Compass, Pogoseat, Talkable. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Search Engine, Health Care.

The fund was created by Amir Banifatemi, Ray Chan. Besides them, we counted 10 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the K5 Ventures, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Tech Coast Angels, 500 Startups. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Y Combinator, Tech Coast Angels, FundersClub. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by True Ventures, Tech Coast Angels, TYLT Ventures.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 13 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This K5 Ventures works on 14 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from K5 Ventures is 1-5 millions dollars.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AI/Big DataAnalyticsRoboticsFintechFoodtech Show 3 more
Stage focus
Series ASeries BSeed
Geo focus
United States
Check size
500K — 3M

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
59
Lead investments
2
Exits
8
Rounds per year
4.54
Follow on index
0.12
Investments by industry
  • Software (12)
  • Enterprise Software (10)
  • Health Care (9)
  • E-Commerce (8)
  • SaaS (7)
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Investments by region
  • United States (50)
  • United Kingdom (4)
  • Mexico (1)
  • Canada (1)
  • Germany (2)
Peak activity year
2013
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
3M
Group Appearance index
0.81
Avg. company exit year
5
Avg. multiplicator
0.50
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Splash Sports 31 Jan 2024 Gaming, Sports Early Stage Venture 14M United States, Colorado, Denver
Strikingly 01 Apr 2014 Internet, Mobile, Web Design Seed United States, California, Sunnyvale

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