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K5 Global
Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America
K5 Global is an investment firm that partners with founders and operators across the business lifecycle. It operates early-stage, growth and pre-IPO funds along with K5 Sports, and has long-standing positions in frontier technology, AI, data analytics and infrastructure.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
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Or find every investor that fitsK5 Global lists 269 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 18 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 41% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (22%), Enterprise Software (14%) and Fintech (12%). 79% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name K5 Global, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not K5 Global's whole history. Rounds on record name 18 companies; its own site lists 269. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 41% |
| Series A | 35% |
| Series B | 6% |
| Growth | 18% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 1 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 5 | 1 |
| '26 | 11 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 99th | 268 companies |
| Recent activity | 96th | 12 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 67th | 41% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 65th | 6% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 25th | 22% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 99th | 19 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 22% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 14% | 8% |
| Fintech | 12% | 12% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 12% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 6% | 4% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
| Education | 4% | 7% |
| Food & Agriculture | 3% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 22 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 20 |
| Sequoia Capital | 18 |
| Soma Capital | 17 |
| SV Angel | 14 |
| General Catalyst | 12 |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 12 |
| Coatue | 11 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers26799%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company21%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare K5 Global head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with K5 Global| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 28 Jul 2026 | Seed | |
| 18 May 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 29 Apr 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Series A | |
| 24 Apr 2026 | Seed | |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Seed | |
| 11 Mar 2026 | Seed |
Round details for K5 Global
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in K5 Global's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
269 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaru builds simulated populations grounded in real-world behavior and outcomes to test products, prices, messages, or strategies and predict outcomes before commitment. | Industrial & ManufacturingConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Acadia automates key workflows for patient and insurance payment collection in specialty medical practices | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides cybersecurity solutions to protect against AI-powered attacks and deepfakes. | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Added Health provides private proactive care services, including screening and diagnostics, with a team of personal physicians and specialists | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops quantum algorithms for healthcare and life sciences | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Alpic provides a cloud platform for building, deploying, and distributing ChatGPT apps and MCP servers | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Sept 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Amphiform is redefining the future of energy by engineering new materials, one atom at a time. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Anduril Industries specializes in advanced autonomous systems for defense and commercial mission sets. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Angiex is developing first-in-class Nuclear-Delivered Antibody-Drug Conjugates to address the hallmarks of cancer lethality and deliver safe and effective cancer therapies to all | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| AnySoft develops and launches a team sales agent called Anya that automates tasks for sales representatives | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Asimov designs and manufactures genetic systems and therapies using synthetic biology and computational tools. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Orama helps companies design, train, and ship AI. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Astronomer provides a platform to run Apache Airflow for data and AI orchestration | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Athena provides mortgage refinance and banking services for homeowners | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Atria delivers care at the forefront of longevity science and preventive medicine through a membership-based health care organization. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Babylon Bio is working to develop a drug for Alzheimer's disease | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Backpack provides a crypto exchange and wallet service. | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Balsa is for organizing ideas, tracking projects, and collaborating with your team. | Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Base Power provides home energy solutions, including backup power and energy savings, to homeowners in Texas and Illinois. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Baseten brings inference, training, and execution together on one platform to power companies | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 13 Nov 2026- Site
- k5global.com
- Last read
- 13 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 2 Dec 2021
- Companies checked
- 269
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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