K9 Ventures, LLC
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K9 Ventures is a technology-focused pre-seed fund based in Palo Alto, California. It invests in early-stage companies with technical founders, focusing on new technologies or markets, direct revenue models, and Bay Area teams.
K9 Ventures, LLC is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, United States, founded in 2009. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series B, in technology. Its stated cheque size is $250K-$750K initial investment, sweet-spot around $400K.
“K9 Ventures is a technology-focused Pre-Seed fund in Palo Alto, California.”
— K9 Ventures, LLC, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, United States
- Invests in
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Sectors
- technology
- Cheque size
- $250K-$750K initial investment, sweet-spot around $400K
- Founded
- 2009
Team, as K9 Ventures, LLC publishes it
- Dr. Manu Kumar Chief Firestarter
Names and roles exactly as listed on k9ventures.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 43 co-investors found.
- Geodesic Investments, L.L.C 2 shared companies: aurora.tech, forethought.ai
- Founders Circle Capital, LLC 2 shared companies: auth0.com, twilio.com
- Salesforce Ventures 2 shared companies: auth0.com, twilio.com
- Uncork Capital 2 shared companies: divebell.com, dnanexus.com
- Index Ventures 1 shared company: aurora.tech
- Lightspeed Venture Partners 1 shared company: aurora.tech
- Lingotto 1 shared company: aurora.tech
- Millennium New Horizons Management, LLC 1 shared company: aurora.tech
- Millennium Technology Value Partners 1 shared company: aurora.tech
- 8VC 1 shared company: forethought.ai
and 33 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page K9 Ventures, LLC publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.k9ventures.com/name, is_investor, type, hq_country, hq_city, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status, confidence
- https://www.k9ventures.com/about/layer, stage_min, cheque_size
- https://www.k9ventures.com/criteria/invests_in_geographies, stage_max
- https://www.k9ventures.com/team/founded, people
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Record 3236 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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