K5 Ventures
VC Fund
Newport Beach, United States
K5 Ventures is a VC fund in Newport Beach focused on Software and Health Care. Part of K5 Ventures, K5 Launch is the first Accelerator in Southern California started in 2010 from the observation that Southern California is vibrant with talent and capital, and yet offers limited support for early stage startups. It is run by successful entrepreneurs and investors who have a passion for building startups. Their goal is to build a vibrant and supportive community for entrepreneurs in Southern California. K5 Ventures invests in seed rounds for technology companies that have gone through previous accelerators or incubators, as well as companies with demonstrated traction for disruptive products.
- Total investments:
- 67
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
Last updated:
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Industries K5 Ventures invests in
Stages K5 Ventures invests in
Countries K5 Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 10 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $210k–$6M
- Series A
- $1.3M–$55M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 13 (19%)
- Health Care 8 (12%)
- Enterprise Software 8 (12%)
- E-Commerce 7 (10%)
- Medical 6 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 36 (54%)
- Series A 9 (13%)
- Funding Round 6 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (6%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (4%)
Country
- United States 49 (73%)
- United Kingdom 4 (6%)
- Germany 2 (3%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- Mexico 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Andrew Horowitz
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Amir Banifatemi
Founder & Managing Partner
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Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 14 | Find email | |
David Cheng
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Elim Kay
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Hans Imhof
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adaptive Security is a computer network security company that focuses on deepfake attacks and provides cybersecurity services. | $55M / Series A / Apr 02, 2025 | ||
| Era is a financial management platform driven by AI that makes asset management more accessible. | $6.2M / Seed / Feb 12, 2025 | ||
| Function Health is a health platform offering lab tests to help individuals monitor their health. | $53M / Series A / Jun 25, 2024 | ||
| Splash Sports is a platform for real-money gaming that allows friends and groups to play in skill-based activities and modernizes the sports pool industry. Splash Sports, which is now in private beta, offers a much-needed substitute to conventional betting options. | $14.1M / Series A / Jan 31, 2024 | ||
| MetaGravity is a deep-tech startup that is pushing the boundaries of blockchain and the Metaverse. MetaGravity is a deep-tech startup located in London that is pushing the boundaries of blockchain and the Metaverse. They're on a quest to build the next generation of live, breathing digital worlds that will entice gamers and keep them fulfilledand engaged for decades. They are leveraging their significant knowledge in massive-scale processing and engine technologies to create the technical foundation for the Metaverse, a decentralized digital world. MetaGravity is headquartered in London, United Kingdom and was founded in 2021. | $9.5M / Seed / Apr 20, 2023 | ||
| Financial Media Networks (FMNs) are changing the way banks and merchants engage with their customers. FMNs turn transaction data into new, high-margin revenue streams for banks and offer merchants precise, high-impact advertising. FMN ad spend is projected to grow at a CAGR of 106% through 2026, highlighting immense potential.Reworth leads theFMN space in Latam. We connect banks and merchants through a SaaS platform that delivers personalised, data-driven card-linked offers to millions of cardholders. With exclusive access to transaction data from over 80 million Mexican cardholders (over 45% of the market), Reworth offers a highly valuable audience for FMN ads. This creates an unparalleled opportunity to deliver insights that increase card usage, improve customer loyalty, and drive merchant sales.Following Mexico, Reworth successfully launched in Argentina and is set to expand into Colombia by Q2 2025, cementing its position as the only value-added services provider in Latam with this scale and strong partnerships. Think of Reworth as Latam’s SaaS answer to the US Chase Bank Ads solution—a trusted partner driving growth and engagement across the region. | $3M / Seed / Oct 17, 2022 | ||
Socket
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Socket is a Web3 privacy infrastructure for social interactions for crypto-related purposes. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Jul 27, 2022 | |
| Nava is a new kind of benefits brokerage on a mission to bring high-quality, affordable healthcare to employers and their employees. It offers healthcare tools, year-round employee advocacy, and ongoing measurement to monitor and recommend healthcare plans, thus enabling clients to provide the required benefits to their employees while loweringoverall plan cost. | $40M / Series B / Jun 08, 2022 | ||
| Chainguard provides hardened, minimal container images that are continuously rebuilt from source in secure environments, aiming to eliminate known vulnerabilities and ensure end-to-end integrity. These images come with built-in cryptographic signatures, Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), and Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA)provenance. In addition to container images, Chainguard offers a catalog of guarded Java dependencies through its Chainguard Libraries, built securely from source in SLSA-certified infrastructure. The company also contributes to and maintains several widely used open source projects, reflecting its commitment to the open source community. | $50M / Series A / Jun 02, 2022 | ||
| SESO is a labor marketplace for agriculture. U.S. agriculture loses $15B annually because of a shortage of labor. The company is addressing this problem by connecting U.S. farms with qualified seasonal workers via America’s agricultural guest worker program (H-2A). Our service offering includes recruiting, qualifying, and training workers; H-2Avisa automation, and workforce management software to help employers stay compliant with complex local and federal laws. We are providing agricultural employers with a better quality workforce at a lower cost and agricultural workers with meaningful, safe employment opportunities. | $25M / Series A / Apr 14, 2022 | ||
| See all 67 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does K5 Ventures invest in?
K5 Ventures invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 67 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does K5 Ventures invest in?
K5 Ventures typically joins rounds of $210k–$6M at Seed and $1.3M–$55M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not K5 Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds K5 Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at K5 Ventures?
The team at K5 Ventures includes Andrew Horowitz (Partner), Amir Banifatemi (Founder & Managing Partner) and David Cheng (Venture Partner), among 10 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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