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Kohlberg Ventures
Venture capital · Portola Valley, CA, United States · North America
Kohlberg Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests its own capital in early stage companies. It provides strategic guidance, supplemental talent and access to a network of domain experts to portfolio companies.
Invests inEducation
In its own wordsdigital mediaconsumer productscleantechearly stage
Your fit with Kohlberg Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsKohlberg Ventures lists 5 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its largest themes are Education (38%), Healthcare & Biotech (13%) and AI & Machine Learning (13%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Akkadian Ventures, Arrowroot Capital and Bain Capital Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Kohlberg Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundThe rounds that name Kohlberg Ventures do not give a stage.
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 | 4th | 5 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 70th | 38% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Akkadian Ventures | 1 |
| Arrowroot Capital | 1 |
| Bain Capital Ventures | 1 |
| Collaborative Fund | 1 |
| Golub Growth | 1 |
| JamJar Investments | 1 |
| Kindred Ventures | 1 |
| Locus Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers480%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company120%
- 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Education | 38% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 13% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 13% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 13% | 8% |
| Food & Agriculture | 13% | 3% |
| Media & Entertainment | 13% | 4% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Akkadian Ventures
Compare Kohlberg 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 Kohlberg Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Jul 2025 | Round |
Round details for Kohlberg Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Kohlberg Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
5 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
EducationEducation | Portfolio page | |||
| Blue Bottle Coffee sells specialty coffee and related products | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Firstup provides an intelligent communication platform to help companies deliver the right message to the right people at the right time | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Open Road Integrated Media uses technology to enable books to be discovered—and rediscovered—by readers and scales sales of digital books for publishers around the world. | Media & EntertainmentEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| PCI develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products and provides related services. | Healthcare & Biotech | Jul 2025Round | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- kohlbergventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 14 Jul 2025
- Companies checked
- 5
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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