K5 Global
VC Fund
Los Angeles, United States
K5 Global is a VC fund in Los Angeles focused on Software and Information Technology. K5 Global Advisor LLC (“K5”) is a venture capital firm and incubation studio that supports founders across the business lifecycle. The firm was founded in 2018 by Michael Kives and Bryan Baum and has deployed capital of around $1B as of March 31, 2024. K5 invests across multiple stages, from seed through growth stage companies, with a focus onEnterprise SaaS, Vertical SaaS, and FinTech. In 2023, Keenan Rice and Daniel Marcotte, investors from Tokyo Black Capital Advisors, LLC, and both on the founding team of Looker (acquired by Google in 2020 for $2.6B), joined with K5’s early-stage SaaS investing team.K5 seeks to help innovative companies expand their networks and best position them to achieve growth targets.
- Total investments:
- 269
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 2%
- Fund size:
- $6M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries K5 Global invests in
Stages K5 Global invests in
Countries K5 Global invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 7 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $100k–$12M
- Pre-Seed
- $50k–$5.5M
- Series A
- $675k–$41M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 49 (18%)
- Information Technology 22 (8%)
- Artificial Intelligence 20 (7%)
- Financial Services 14 (5%)
- SaaS 11 (4%)
Stage
- Seed 58 (22%)
- Series A 39 (14%)
- Pre-Seed 20 (7%)
- Funding Round 15 (6%)
- Series B 14 (5%)
Country
- United States 103 (38%)
- United Kingdom 10 (4%)
- Brazil 4 (1%)
- Canada 3 (1%)
- Israel 3 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bryan Baum
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
|
Co-Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 18 | Find email | |
Dana Pollick
General Counsel & CCO
|
General Counsel & CCO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Daniel Marcotte
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jessica Bixby
Associate Partner
|
Associate Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Keenan Rice
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 22 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luxe Software offers a unified CRM, POS, and Analytics platform for jewelry retailers. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 04, 2026 | ||
| Atoms is a robotics startup that develops industrial robotics and physical AI systems designed to automate tasks across mining, transport, and food-related operations. The company builds specialized, task-oriented machines rather than general-purpose robots, focusing on improving productivity in environments that involve physical labor andlogistics. Its technology centers on applying software-like principles to real-world systems, using robotics, sensors, and data-driven models to manage and execute industrial processes. The company structures its activities into distinct segments aligned with key industries, including food infrastructure, mining operations, and transportation systems. In the food sector, it develops automated infrastructure that supports preparation and production workflows, while in mining, it focuses on increasing operational efficiency through robotic systems designed for extraction and site activities. Its transport-related efforts include building a foundational robotic platform, described as a “wheelbase,” that supports mobility and deployment of machines in logistics and industrial settings. | $1.7B / Seed / Jul 22, 2026 | ||
| Nagish stands for 'Accessible' in Hebrew and our mission is to make phone calls more accessible. We believe that everyone should have the right to use a phone without having someone listening to their private calls. Nagish gives its users full ownership of their calls by converting text-to-speech and speech-to-text in real-time so thatone side of a phone call could type and read while the other side can hear and speak. | $85M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 09, 2026 | ||
| Amphiform is a clean energy company that develops materials for scalable and portable power systems using atom-by-atom engineering. | $5.5M / Pre-Seed / May 19, 2026 | ||
| Sigma Computing develops cloud-based analytics and business intelligence software for data exploration and analysis. The company provides a spreadsheet-style interface that allows users to work with large datasets using familiar formulas, tables, and reporting workflows. Its platform supports live data analysis, dashboard creation, embeddedanalytics, workflow automation, and collaborative data applications. Sigma Computing also offers AI-powered capabilities for querying data, building applications, and integrating machine learning models within analytics processes. The platform connects directly to cloud data infrastructure, helping teams manage, visualize, and interact with operational and business data without requiring data movement or coding expertise. | $80M / Series E / May 18, 2026 | ||
| Certifyde helps leaders deploy AI strategies that are grounded in how work actually happens, tied to outcomes that actually matter, and built so every hour saved becomes an hour your team grows. | $2M / Seed / Apr 29, 2026 | ||
| Thoughtfully assists companies in creating and implementing AI speech agents that mimic humans. | $5.5M / Seed / Apr 22, 2026 | ||
| Liquid is a decentralized trading platform that offers non-custodial crypto trading options. | $18M / Seed / Apr 21, 2026 | ||
| After leaving Google, the founders of Gravity poured their decades of experience in data analytics into the backend of an agentic system to create Orion. Orion uses companies' existing data infrastructure just like a human analyst. Orion hunts for insights and recommends actions to the business, tirelessly optimizing business operations.Often times, Orion is used to enhance the customer's reporting capabilities back to their customers, delivering insights at scale. | $7M / Seed / Apr 15, 2026 | ||
| Nitrility is a platform facilitating the peer-to-peer transfer of intellectual property (IP) rights and licenses, which include materials protected under copyright, trademark, and patent. On Nitrility, all transactions are handled through smart contracts, and licenses are sold as verifiable tokens with an immutable transaction history, providing alayer of authentication and transparency previously unseen in the industry. Exchange and authentication of rights and licenses, which used to take weeks, now take seconds. | $7M / Seed / Mar 10, 2026 | ||
| See all 269 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does K5 Global invest in?
K5 Global invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 269 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 K5 Global's check size?
K5 Global typically joins rounds of $100k–$12M at Seed, $50k–$5.5M at Pre-Seed and $675k–$41M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds K5 Global participates in.
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Who are the partners at K5 Global?
The team at K5 Global includes Bryan Baum (Co-Founder & Managing Partner), Dana Pollick (General Counsel & CCO) and Daniel Marcotte (General Partner), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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