K9 Ventures, LLC
k9ventures.com Direct investor
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, at pre-seed, 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
- Stage
- Pre-seed
- 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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 43 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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, stage_min, stage_max
- 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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