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K9 Ventures
Venture capital · Palo Alto, CA, United States · North America
K9 Ventures is a technology-focused pre-seed fund based in Palo Alto, California. It makes priced equity investments of $250K to $750K, typically leading rounds and taking a board seat, in 4-6 companies per year.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordstechnical founderspre-seeddirect revenuenew technologynew marketsbay area
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Or find every investor that fitsK9 Ventures lists 31 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (22%), Enterprise Software (11%) and Education (11%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Upfront Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name K9 Ventures, 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 K9 Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 31. 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 | 50% |
| Series A | 50% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
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 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 0 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 69th | 31 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 68th | 6% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 25th | 22% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
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 | 11% | 8% |
| Education | 11% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 9% | 4% |
| Fintech | 7% | 12% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 6% | 1% |
| Space & Defense | 6% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 4% | 15% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Upfront Ventures | 3 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 2 |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 2 |
| Draper Associates | 2 |
| F-Prime Capital | 2 |
| Founders Circle Capital | 2 |
| Freestyle | 2 |
| Geodesic Capital | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2994%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company26%
- 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 togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Upfront Ventures
Compare K9 Ventures 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 K9 Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Aug 2025 | Seed | |
| 14 Jan 2016 | Series A |
Round details for K9 Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in K9 Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
31 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides a calendar service that allows users to add events to their calendar. | Space & DefenseHealthcare & Biotech | Aug 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Aurora develops and implements self-driving freight technology to improve road safety and increase supply chain efficiency | AI & Machine LearningMobility & Logistics | Portfolio page | ||
| Auth0 provides authentication and identity management services for businesses and developers | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Avoma provides an AI platform for note-taking, scheduling, and coaching, offering various tools for sales teams and customer success leaders. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Baydin develops and provides productivity software, including email management and task management tools. | Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Bugsee provides bug and crash reporting services for iOS and Android applications | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Carta provides an end-to-end suite for managing private capital, including equity management, fund administration, and legal operations. | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Compound Eye combines AI with classical computer vision to enable machines to see the world the way humans do, but with much greater precision. | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Crave.io helps migrate development teams from legacy to cloud in minutes and provides unified development environments for teams | Developer ToolsDeveloper Tools | Portfolio page | ||
| Dealkit was a transaction management platform for venture capital financings | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
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| DNAnexus manages, analyzes and collaborates on large-scale multi-omic and clinical data. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
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| Everlaw provides artificial intelligence and other tools for litigation and investigations | Legal & ComplianceAI & Machine Learning | Jan 2016Series A | Page + round | |
| Forethought develops and provides an artificial intelligence platform for customer service and support teams | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Gradescope helps administer and grade assessments, whether online or in-class | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Ello provides an AI-powered math and reading teacher for children aged 5-9 | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| HighlightCam develops a mobile app that allows users to automatically record and save video highlights from the last 15 seconds of footage | Media & EntertainmentConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| HiHello gives your company an on-brand professional presence, with digital business cards, email signatures, virtual backgrounds, and a company directory managed in one place. | FintechEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Invisible AI captures cycle-level data across every station in manufacturing to help teams find improvements and scale what works | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- k9ventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 14 Jan 2016
- Companies checked
- 31
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