Allan Kaplan
Managing Partner & Founder @ KG Investments
Phoenix, United States
Allan Kaplan is a Series C investor at KG Investments in Phoenix focused on Mobile and FinTech. Mr. Kaplan has extensive experience building and investing in companies focused on next-generation data communications, Internet infrastructure, services, and software. As a co-founder of three successful technology companies and as a partner in a private venture fund, he has a proven track record in business development, institutional funding, andmergers and acquisitions.Specialties:Allan was a Co-founder of Limelight Networks, Inc (NASDAQ:LLNW) an Internet platform and services company venture backed by Goldman Sachs and Oak Venture Partners which integrates the most business-critical parts of the online content value chain serving over 1800 customers world wide with revenues in excess of $200M per year. Mr. Kaplan served on its board of directors from June 2001 to December 2007 and as its Chairman from June 2001 to November 2006. Prior to Limelight, Mr.Kaplan was a founder of Entera, Inc, an Internet Infrastructure company where Mr. Kaplan served as Co-founder and on its board of directors. Entera was venture backed by ComVentures, Crescendo Ventures, and Spectrum Technology. Entera was sold to Cacheflow, Inc. (COMPX: CFLO) in Q4 2000 for $440 million dollars. Prior to Entera, Inc. Mr. Kaplan was a co-founder of Primenet Services for the Internet, Inc., which later merged with and changed its name to GlobalCenter, Inc, whose investors included Sequoia Capital, Hummer Winblad, and Softbank Capital. Mr Kaplan served GlobalCenter as Senior Vice President of Operations on its Board of Directors. GlobalCenter grew to become one of the largest web hosting companies in the world and in 1998 was purchased by Frontier Communications (NYSE: FRO) for $185 million. Mr. Kaplan currently is the Managing Partner of KG Investments, LLC and sits on the boards of Unicorn Media, Adzzup, Inc., IQzone, and as a Venture Partner for Greenhill SAVP
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Allan Kaplan invests in
Stages Allan Kaplan invests in
Countries Allan Kaplan invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile 2 (22%)
- FinTech 2 (22%)
- Software 2 (22%)
- Financial Services 2 (22%)
- Golf 1 (11%)
Stage
- Series C 2 (22%)
- Funding Round 2 (22%)
- Post-IPO Equity 2 (22%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (22%)
- Series A 1 (11%)
Country
- United States 5 (56%)
- China 1 (11%)
- United Kingdom 1 (11%)
- Trinidad and Tobago 1 (11%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Applied Molecular Transport Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company leveraging its proprietary technology platform to design and develop a pipeline of novel oral biologic product candidates to treat autoimmune, inflammatory, metabolic, and other diseases. AMT’s proprietary technology platform allows it to exploit existing naturalcellular trafficking pathways to facilitate the active transport of therapeutic payloads across the intestinal epithelium (IE) barrier. Active transport is an efficient mechanism that uses the cell’s own machinery to transport materials across the IE barrier. AMT believes that its ability to exploit this mechanism is a key differentiator of its approach. AMT is developing oral biologic product candidates in patient-friendly tablet and capsule forms that are designed for either targeting local gastrointestinal (GI) tissue or entering systemic circulation to precisely address the relevant biology of a disease. AMT is building a portfolio of oral product candidates based on its technology platform including its lead product candidate, AMT-101, an oral GI-selective interleukin 10 that has completed a Phase 1b clinical trial in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC). AMT further plans to initiate Phase 2 clinical trials of AMT-101 in UC and related inflammatory indications. AMT’s technology platform enables it to design and develop various oral biologic therapeutic modalities, such as peptides, proteins, full-length antibodies, antibody fragments, and RNA therapeutics, with potentially significant advantages over existing marketed and development-stage drugs. | $120.8M / Post-IPO Equity / Mar 31, 2021 | ||
| Hastee is an employee benefit that companies can offer to their workforce. It empowers employees to receive their earned pay immediately to increase their choice and financial wellbeing. Companies profit from the improved productivity, engagement, recruitment & retention of their workforce, with zero cost or impact on company cash-flow.Thecompany was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London, England. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 01, 2021 | ||
| Ant Group aims to create the infrastructure and platform to support the digital transformation of the service industry. They strive to enable all consumers and small businesses to have equal access to financial and other services that are inclusive, green and sustainable. | Jan 01, 2020 | ||
| Ant Group aims to create the infrastructure and platform to support the digital transformation of the service industry. They strive to enable all consumers and small businesses to have equal access to financial and other services that are inclusive, green and sustainable. | $14B / Series C / Jun 08, 2018 | ||
| Formulus Black is a venture-backed startup, launched by founders with previous startup success, years of experience, and an ambitious vision to revolutionize computing. | Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 01, 2017 | ||
| IZON Network also known as IZON Golf, is a leader in GPS technology for the golf industry and the creator of one of the most unique premium outdoor advertising networks. As an innovator in creating the ultimate interactive digital content and GPS platform for golf, IZON’s rich feature set provides many valuable tools that engage the golferproviding advertisers the ability to interact with their audience in ways that have not been possible before. | Post-IPO Equity / Jun 04, 2013 | ||
| Parallels develops cross-platform virtualization and automation solutions which allow users to access applications, files, and computers in one place on any device or operating system. It offers businesses and individuals with solutions built for Mac, Windows, iOS, AndroidTM, and the cloud.The company’s products include Parallels Desktop forMac, Parallels Desktop for Mac Business Edition, Parallels 2X Remote Application Server (2X RAS), Parallels Access, Parallels Transporter, and Parallels Mac Management for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).Parallels was founded in 2000 and is based in Renton, Washington. | Jan 01, 2009 | ||
| Bazaarvoice is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that turns social media into social commerce for the world's best global brands by enabling authentic customer-powered marketing.They achieve that by first letting consumers create and share ratings, reviews, questions, answers, and stories about products and brands on client websites.They then syndicate that content across the Web and through the channel to reach shoppers wherever they are.This customer-generated content has a tremendously positive influence on purchase decisions. It is also rich with customer intelligence, which they analyze and provide to their clients so they can make real-time, information-based decisions that affect all aspects of their business — marketing, product R&D, and operations.This strategy of putting customers at the center of your business helps you achieve measurable results across your entire enterprise. | $7.1M / Series C / Jun 18, 2008 | ||
| Zynga develops, markets, and operates social games as live services played on the Internet, social networking sites, and mobile platforms in the United States and internationally. It offers its online social games primarily under the Slots, Words With Friends, Zynga Poker, and FarmVille franchises. The company’s games are accessible on mobileplatforms, Facebook, and other social networks. It also provides advertising services to advertising agencies and brokers.Zynga was established in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $10M / Series A / Jan 01, 2008 |
Co-Investors
About KG Investments
KG Investments is a private family office fund focused on investing in technology companies through direct investments and secondary loans. This approach is guided by its extensive background of building and investing in technology-related companies over the last 20 years.KG Investments also invests in uncorrelated professionally managed Hedge& Private Equity funds as a Limited Partner looking for unique differentiated opportunities. It was founded in 2006 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
KG Investments Contacts
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What does Allan Kaplan invest in?
Allan Kaplan invests primarily in Mobile, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Series C and Funding Round stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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