# David Petraeus

> David Petraeus is a Series A investor at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. backing Software and SaaS. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kkr)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidpetraeus

David Petraeus is a Series A investor at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. in New York focused on Software and SaaS. General (Ret) David H. Petraeus joined KKR in June 2013 and Chairman of KKR Middle East. and also the Chairman of the KKR Global Institute, which supports KKR’s investment committees, portfolio companies, and investors with analysis of geopolitical and macro-economic trends, as well as environmental, social, and governance issues. He was made aPartner at KKR in 2014. He is also a member of the boards of Optiv (cybersecurity) and OneStream (business software).Petraeus is also a personal venture capitalist, a Visiting Fellow at Yale's Jackson Institute, an Honorary Professor of the University of Birmingham (England), a member of the Trilateral Commission, Senior Vice-President of the Royal United Services Institute, and Co-Chairman of the Global Advisory Council of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, as well as a member of the boards of the Institute for the Study of War and the Atlantic Council and over a dozen veterans service organizations.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $11M–$32M |
| Series B | $23M–$136M |
| Series C | $6.6M–$56M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 32% |
| SaaS | 4 | 21% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 16% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 16% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 26% |
| Series B | 5 | 26% |
| Series C | 3 | 16% |
| Seed | 1 | 5% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 58% |
| Australia | 1 | 5% |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 5% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Defense Unicorns | Defense Unicorns builds National Security capabilities using open-source continuous delivery solutions, leveraging their open-source tools for air gaps and secure environments. Its technology allows it to deploy to air-gapped environments – environments typically disconnected from the internet. Leveraging Defense Unicorns’ solutions, nationalsecurity systems can adopt modern technologies wherever the mission happens, whether in space, undersea, or elsewhere. Its secure software and AI solutions are deployable across cloud, on-prem, and tactical edge environmentsThe company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado. | $136M | Series B | Jan 13, 2026 |  |
| Clearspeed | Clearspeed is the market leader for assessing risk in speech. Global organizations trust our highly precise, accurate, and unbiased voice analytics to fast-track low risk while also alerting to possible fraud. Our clients and partners rely on the unique data we provide to improve their risk confidence, reduce their costs, and deliver an improvedcustomer experience. | $60M | Series D | Jun 25, 2025 |  |
| Carbyne | Carbyne is a provider of a real-time emergency communication platform used to provide public safety technology for emergency infrastructure. Its focus is on enhancing communications with emergency services, acting as a gateway for delivering rich and smart data from the citizens to the Public Safety Answering Points.The company was founded in2014 and is based in New York. | $100M |  | Jun 08, 2025 |  |
| Carbyne | Carbyne is a provider of a real-time emergency communication platform used to provide public safety technology for emergency infrastructure. Its focus is on enhancing communications with emergency services, acting as a gateway for delivering rich and smart data from the citizens to the Public Safety Answering Points.The company was founded in2014 and is based in New York. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 20, 2024 |  |
| Hypori | Hypori is a veteran-owned small business that transforms secure access to data at the edge. Their zero-trust SaaS technology, Hypori Halo, empowers businesses and government agencies to protect data within their enterprise by preventing data at rest or in transit outside the enterprise. Hypori Halo delivers remote access to cloud-powered enterpriseapps by adding a separate, secure, 100% private, virtual workspace to any endpoint device. Hypori Halo is the only virtual workspace that frees customers from liability and security risks with 100% separation of data and preserves privacy for the end-user. Delivering truly secure BYOD with 100% user privacy. | $23M | Series B | Jan 17, 2023 |  |
| Advanced Navigation | Advanced Navigation is a privately owned Australian company that specializes in the development of navigation technologies and robotics. The company has a focus on generating products of the highest quality standard, both in terms of hardware and software. The company's founders came from a background in mission critical robotics built tomilitary specifications and this can be seen through Advanced Navigation's products. Advanced Navigation's engineers have specialized expertise across a broad range of fields including sensors, GNSS, inertial navigation, RF technologies, acoustics, robotics, AI, and algorithms. | $72.2M | Series B | Nov 17, 2022 |  |
| Carbyne | Carbyne is a provider of a real-time emergency communication platform used to provide public safety technology for emergency infrastructure. Its focus is on enhancing communications with emergency services, acting as a gateway for delivering rich and smart data from the citizens to the Public Safety Answering Points.The company was founded in2014 and is based in New York. | $56M | Series C | Sep 07, 2022 |  |
| Arena | Arena accelerates testing, debugging, and optimization for the world’s most advanced hardware. Atlas is an AI hardware engineer grounded in applied physics with an understanding of the real-world environment. | $32M | Series A | Aug 02, 2022 |  |
| Praava Health | Praava is raising the bar for healthcare in Bangladesh with a fully vertically integrated network of outpatient health centers powered by international-standard doctors, diagnostics, and technology. They are building a better patient experience enabled by technology, offering consultations with family doctors, a full range of diagnostics servicesincluding lab and imaging, and the country's first-ever fully integrated HIS system and patient portal. | $10.6M | Series A | Mar 08, 2021 |  |
| Carbyne | Carbyne is a provider of a real-time emergency communication platform used to provide public safety technology for emergency infrastructure. Its focus is on enhancing communications with emergency services, acting as a gateway for delivering rich and smart data from the citizens to the Public Safety Answering Points.The company was founded in2014 and is based in New York. | $25M | Series B | Jan 14, 2021 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hanaco Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hanaco-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Amplo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplo) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [FinTLV Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fintlv-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Govtech Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/govtech-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

VC Fund · New York, United States

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. provides investment and asset management services through private equity, credit, infrastructure, real estate, and capital markets businesses that deploy capital into companies and projects across multiple industries. The company manages investment funds and strategic accounts that pursue acquisitions, buyouts,growth equity, credit solutions, and real assets on behalf of institutional investors and partners. It engages in financial activities that include underwriting, financing arrangements, and tailored investment strategies designed to support business growth and long-term value creation. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. also collaborates with institutional clients to structure investment vehicles that align with specific capital objectives and portfolio goals.

5 contacts available at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co..

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ajay Candade | Director Private Equity | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajay-candade |
| Ali Satvat | Co-Head of Americas Private Equity Health Care | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ali-satvat |
| Ashish Shastry | Co-Head of Private Equity for KKR Asia Pacific | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashish-shastry |
| Blaine MacDougald | Director & Co-head of Credit Research, Credit | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blaine-macdougald |
| Brandon Freiman | Partner, Head of North American Infrastructure | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brandon-freiman |

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## FAQ

### What does David Petraeus invest in?

David Petraeus invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is David Petraeus's check size?

David Petraeus typically joins rounds of $11M–$32M at Series A, $23M–$136M at Series B and $6.6M–$56M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds David Petraeus participates in.

### When did David Petraeus last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Petraeus closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 19 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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