K9 Ventures
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
K9 Ventures is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Funding and support for concept and seed stage startups.K9 Ventures is a true early stage venture fund that provides funding and support for concept-stage and seed-stage technology companies. We work with entrepreneurs, sometimes even before a company has been formed, to help evaluate, evolve and fund a company in its nascent stages. K9Ventures focuses on startups in the San Francisco Bay Area that have a strong entrepreneur/team, an idea that has a clear path to revenue, which can be capital efficient and where they can add value.
- Total investments:
- 82
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
- Fund size:
- $42M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries K9 Ventures invests in
Stages K9 Ventures invests in
Countries K9 Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $350k–$5.6M
- Series A
- $3.7M–$16M
- Series B
- $3.9M–$40M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 21 (26%)
- Artificial Intelligence 12 (15%)
- Mobile 8 (10%)
- SaaS 7 (9%)
- Enterprise Software 7 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 35 (43%)
- Series A 18 (22%)
- Series B 10 (12%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (4%)
- Series C 3 (4%)
Country
- United States 45 (55%)
- Indonesia 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Braughm Ricke
CFO
|
CFO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Manu Kumar
Founder and Chief Firestarter
|
Founder and Chief Firestarter | Total investments: 65 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agenda Hero is a technology company that specializes in creating innovative solutions for managing schedules and appointments. With a focus on leveraging artificial intelligence, Agenda Hero offers a platform that allows users to convert unstructured text and images into calendar events. This service is designed to simplify the process ofscheduling by enabling users to quickly generate calendar entries from various forms of communication, including emails and social media posts. The platform supports integration with popular calendar services like Google Calendar, making it easier for users to organize their appointments and events efficiently. Agenda Hero aims to reduce the time and effort typically required for manual calendar management, providing a more streamlined and automated approach to scheduling. | $5.6M / Seed / Aug 21, 2025 | ||
| Row Zero provides a self-serve big data analytics platform. Users can connect directly to data sources, analyze and model data in a spreadsheet interface, build dashboards, and share insights across teams. The platform aims to simplify data analysis and enable users to perform complex analytics without extensive technical knowledge. Row Zerosupports various integrations and offers features for data enablement and last-mile analytics. | $10M / Seed / May 06, 2025 | ||
| Gentrace is a test and production evaluation for companies building generative AI at scale that improves the quality, safety, and compliance of LLM outputs. Its end-to-end solution platform encompasses a purpose-built testing environment that models real-world applications and comprehensive analytics to assess AI model performance. | $8M / Series A / Dec 10, 2024 | ||
| Staffinc is a platform that provides workers and workforce management services for businesses. | $3.9M / Series B / Sep 01, 2023 | ||
| Invisible AI is a next-generation computer vision company that offers a no-code, edge-based visual intelligence platform to improve quality, productivity, and safety in manufacturing industries. Its low-bandwidth and low-cost cameras, which can be deployed at each workstation tracks real-time human motion to help customers run accurate, reliable,and safe operations. Invisible AI helps ensure processes are done correctly and safely, every time. | $15M / Series A / Sep 28, 2022 | ||
| Teleo specializes in converting existing fleet into supervised autonomous robots. It enables operators to control machines from miles away, instantly switching between machines and across job sites. Teleo increases the operator's productivity, enhances crew safety, and features advanced Jobsite insights. | $12M / Series A / Jun 08, 2022 | ||
| Avoma AI makes remote meetings more actionable and collaborative. The all-in-one AI Meeting Assistant captures transcribes, summarizes, analyzes, and collaborates across every remote meeting — at scale. Founded in 2017 by Aditya Kothadiya, Devendra Laulkar and Albert Lai, the company was founded in Palo Alto, California, United States. | $12M / Series A / Dec 22, 2021 | ||
| Launched in 2018, Forethought is a generative AI for customer service automation to maximize efficiency and productivity. Forethought’s products enable seamless customer experiences by infusing generative AI, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), at each stage of the customer support journey: resolving common cases instantly, predicting andprioritizing cases, and assisting agents with relevant knowledge. | $65M / Series C / Dec 15, 2021 | ||
| Nexkey is changing the way people experience access to anything that used a key in the past. The company has developed technology that can turn any mechanical lock, whether in a door, gate, padlock, locker, and cabinet, into a cloud-connected lock, managed through a mobile device. | $6M / Convertible Note / Nov 05, 2021 | ||
| Everlaw is a legal technology company that provides a platform for document analysis to law firms, government, and corporations. It is a cloud-based litigation platform for corporate counsels, litigators, and government attorneys that enables teams to discover, reveal, and act on information to drive internal investigations and positively impactthe outcome of the litigation.The company combines speed, security, and ease-of-use into a comprehensive solution that unlocks the collaborative power of teams and allows them to investigate issues more thoroughly, uncover a truth more quickly, and present their findings more clearly.It was established in 2010 and is headquartered in Oakland, California. | $202M / Series D / Nov 02, 2021 | ||
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FAQ
What does K9 Ventures invest in?
K9 Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 82 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 K9 Ventures's check size?
K9 Ventures typically joins rounds of $350k–$5.6M at Seed, $3.7M–$16M at Series A and $3.9M–$40M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds K9 Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at K9 Ventures?
The team at K9 Ventures includes Braughm Ricke (CFO) and Manu Kumar (Founder and Chief Firestarter). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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