# Allen & Company

> Allen & Company is a VC fund in New York backing Software and Mobile. See 154 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 154
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last fund: Apr 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/allen-&-company-of-florida
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/allenandcompany
- Website: https://alleninvestments.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alleninvestments

Allen & Company is a family-owned investment and advisory firm. The firm advises on M&A and capital raises, with an emphasis on the technology, media, healthcare, and sports sectors. Allen & Company was established in 1932 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 31 | 20% |
| Mobile | 18 | 12% |
| E-Commerce | 17 | 11% |
| Internet | 15 | 10% |
| Health Care | 15 | 10% |

219 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 39 | 25% |
| Series B | 36 | 23% |
| Series C | 24 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 16 | 10% |
| Seed | 12 | 8% |

14 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 118 | 77% |
| Canada | 2 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Mexico | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Donald Keough | Chairman of Board of Directors | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/donald-keough |
| Bob Kerrey | Managing Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-kerrey |
| George Tenet | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/george-tenet-8e38 |
| Herbert Allen | President & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/herbert-allen |
| Kaveh Khosrowshahi | Partner and Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kaveh-khosrowshahi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kavak | KAVAK is an online platform that offers insight into buying and selling used cars. It specializes in the fields of e-commerce, automotive, and retail. KAVAK e-commerce for the purchase and sale of pre-owned cars in Latin America. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito. | $300M | Series F | Feb 17, 2026 |  |
| Blue Current | Blue Current develops solid-state battery technology based on a silicon-first, fully dry “silicon elastic composite” chemistry. The company designs and manufactures battery cells that aim to be thinner, lighter, safe by default, and capable of high energy density and long cycle life. Blue Current sources active materials from leading providers,then builds its own electrolyte, separator, and cell components. It works with battery and automotive manufacturers to license its technology and provide sample cells for testing. Blue Current operates a facility for research, pilot manufacturing, battery testing, and scaling toward commercial production. | $80M | Series D | Dec 08, 2025 |  |
| Substrate | Substrate builds semiconductor foundry to revitalize semiconductor production capabilities. The company utilizes advanced X-ray lithography, which uses light billions of times brighter than the sun to improve chip manufacturing efficiency. | $100M | Series A | Oct 28, 2025 |  |
| Nasdaq Private Market | Nasdaq Private Market (NPM) provides a secondary market trading venue and tech platform for private companies/issuers, employees and other shareholders, banks, broker-dealers, as well as prospective investors of private company stock. Since inception, NPM has facilitated more than $44 billion in transactional volume and has executed more than600 company-sponsored programs on behalf of private companies. More than 160,000 market participants have unlocked liquidity through an NPM program. NPM offers private companies and investors various liquidity solutions including tender offers, auctions, company marketplaces, and block trades. In 2021, NPM spun-off of Nasdaq to become its own, independent company receiving strategic investments from Nasdaq, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and later Allen and Co. Today’s reality is that companies are choosing to stay private for longer. This is the new market standard. With leadership and expertise in the market, NPM’s vision is to further expand the liquidity landscape. | $62.4M | Series B | Feb 08, 2024 |  |
| Harmonya | Harmonya offers an API-based data enrichment and augmentation product that assists in category management, innovation, and product search. | $20M | Series A | Sep 05, 2023 |  |
| Mendaera | Mendaera is a medtech startup that focuses on developing advanced healthcare technologies, particularly in robotics and diagnostic tools. Mendaera envisions digitizing clinical judgment and technical expertise to ensure that high-quality care is accessible to every patient, in every care facility. Their platform, currently in development,integrates robotics, AI, real-time imaging, and connectivity to enable medical interventions at scale. | $24M | Series A | Aug 17, 2023 |  |
| Pomelo Care | Pomelo Care is a health technology company that develops evidence-based healthcare solutions for women and children. The company provides a digital care coordination and patient engagement platform designed to support longitudinal care outside traditional clinical settings. Its software connects patients, families, and care teams by centralizingclinical data, care plans, messaging, and care milestones into a single interface that enhances communication and continuity of care. The platform supports workflows across chronic condition management, post-discharge follow-ups, and complex care plans by enabling asynchronous updates, task tracking, assessment collection, and outcome monitoring. Pomelo Care’s tools are used by healthcare providers, care coordinators, and patient support organizations to streamline care delivery, improve engagement, and personalize interventions based on individual patient needs. It also offers integrations with electronic health records and third-party health services to synchronize information flows and reduce administrative burdens. | $33M | Series A | Jun 08, 2023 |  |
| Renew | We are building the connective tissue for the $3T residential rental industry and changing the way renters search, stay, and move their way through apartment networks. Renew's software helps the largest institutional real estate owners create networks that improve the residential experience for renters. We’re a team of designers, engineers,marketers, and, most of all, renters — who know what it’s like to make the tough decisions around where to live. Whether it’s navigating a renewal offer at your current apartment or finding the perfect place for your cross-country move — figuring out what’s next can be tricky. We’re here to help.Renew was founded in 2021, is live across tens-of-thousands of homes, has raised $8M+ in seed capital, and is led by an experienced team from the real estate and technology industries. | $8M | Seed | Apr 11, 2023 |  |
| Fount | You work with experts in every aspect of your life, but do you have a trusted source for health and performance? | $12M | Series A | Mar 15, 2023 |  |
| Nextdoor | Nextdoor is the app where you plug into the neighborhoods that matter to you. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. Neighbors turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, local businesses, and publicagencies.We believe connecting with others is a universal human need. That truth, and the reality that neighborhoods are among the most important communities in our lives, have been guiding principles for Nextdoor since the beginning.Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in 276,000 neighborhoods around the world, including the United States (nearly 1 in 3 U.S. households), the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, and Canada, with many more to come. Nextdoor is a privately held company based in San Francisco with backing from prominent investors including Benchmark, Shasta Ventures, Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Riverwood Capital, Bond, Axel Springer, Comcast Ventures, and others. | $18.6M | Post-IPO Equity | Jan 17, 2023 |  |

10 of 154 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Benchmark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benchmark) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 7 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Allen & Company invest in?

Allen & Company invests primarily in Software, Mobile and E-Commerce startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 154 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Allen & Company?

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### Who are the partners at Allen & Company?

The team at Allen & Company includes Donald Keough (Chairman of Board of Directors), Bob Kerrey (Managing Director) and George Tenet (Managing Director), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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