K9 Ventures
Venture Capital
Active
Palo Alto, United States
79
20M
43
5.64
9
0.46
15
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
K9 Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2009. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the K9 Ventures, startups are often financed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Trinity Ventures, Upfront Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Trinity Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Uncork Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Trinity Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz.
The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lyft, Twilio, Lytro. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing.
The average startup value when the investment from K9 Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this K9 Ventures works on 5 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2011. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.
The current fund was established by Manu Kumar. We also calculated 1 valuable employee in our database.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
- Check size
- 250K — 750K
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 79
- Lead investments
- 9
- Exits
- 15
- Rounds per year
- 5.64
- Follow on index
- 0.46
- Investments by industry
- Software (33)
- Enterprise Software (24)
- Artificial Intelligence (18)
- Machine Learning (18)
- Information Technology (15) Show 91 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (78)
- Indonesia (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2011
- Number of Unicorns
- 5
- Number of Decacorns
- 6
- Number of Minotaurs
- 3
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 9
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 928M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.89
- Avg. company exit year
- 4
- Avg. multiplicator
- 3.25
- Strategy success index
- 0.70
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyft | 30 Jan 2013 | Transportation, Software, Mobile Apps, Peer to Peer, Ride Sharing | Early Stage Venture | 15M | United States, California, San Francisco |
| Staffinc | 31 Aug 2023 | Software, Information Technology, Recruiting, Marketing | Early Stage Venture | 3M | Jakarta Raya, Dki Jakarta, Indonesia |
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