# Michael Kives

> Michael Kives is a seed investor at K5 Global backing Blockchain and Internet. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [K5 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k5-global)
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-kives-35517/

Michael Kives is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner of K5 Global.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$4.8M |
| Series A | $6.5M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 3 | 33% |
| Internet | 2 | 22% |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 22% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 22% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 44% |
| Series A | 3 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 11% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 89% |
| Canada | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Blueprint Bryan Johnson | Blueprint is Bryan Johnson’s protocol made accessible to everyone. Everything from measurements to protocols and therapies. | $60M | Angel | Oct 28, 2025 |  |
| Kled AI | 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. | $1.5M | Seed | Jan 03, 2025 |  |
| KiwiDrop | Enabling each individual to curate for the many |  | Seed | Sep 30, 2021 |  |
| Audius | Audius is creating a fully decentralized community of artists, developers, and listeners collaborating to share and defend the world’s music.Using Audius, creators can generate immutable and time-stamped records for your creative works and register your assets to the Audius network. Because the network is decentralized and secured by blockchaintechnology, the metadata attribution remains safe, verifiable and immutable.Providing a transparent network in a space traditionally controlled by third parties, Audius builds a bridge between creators and consumers. Discover new content or verify authenticity, authorized through a truly transparent system of attribution.Audius uses blockchain technology to ensure that artists get paid safely & instantly as consumers listen to content. Choose from preexisting license terms or create your own and automate the payments, transfers, and issuance of licenses. | $5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 16, 2021 |  |
| Disco | Build your live learning empire. One platform to build, market, and sell live courses, workshops, and learning communities. | $4.8M | Seed | Mar 24, 2021 |  |
| Supergreat | Supergreat is a beauty community of real people reviewing the beauty products that work for them. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York. | $6.5M | Series A | Dec 02, 2020 |  |
| Haus | Haus specializes in the manufacturing and distillation of wine and spirits. Haus is taking on the American liquor industry, which hasn’t changed since prohibition. Through products made with only natural ingredients, new approaches to distribution, and transparent processes. | $4.5M | Seed | Jan 30, 2020 |  |
| Alchemy | Alchemy is a web3 developer platform that helps companies to build reliable decentralized applications. Its mission is to provide developers with the fundamental building blocks they need to create the future of technology without the hassle of managing blockchain infrastructure in-house. | $15M | Series A | Dec 17, 2019 |  |
| Embrace | Embrace is the only user-focused observability platform that ties technical performance to end-user impact. Powered by OpenTelemetry, Embrace provides Real User Monitoring (RUM) across mobile and web, giving engineering teams the visibility and context they need to prioritize and resolve issues faster, optimize performance, and deliver exceptionaldigital experiences.Embrace is a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and contributes to several OpenTelemetry Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Embrace counts AllTrails, Amazon, Cameo, GOAT, Hyatt, The New York Times, and many more as customers. Supported by NEA, AV8 (Allianz), Greycroft, and Eniac, Embrace is a YCombinator (YC Growth) company based in Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Buenos Aires, and London. | $7.5M | Series A | Dec 12, 2019 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [TQ Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tq-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Arrive](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arrive-361a) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Scribble Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scribble-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Shrug Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shrug-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AV8 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/av8-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About K5 Global

VC Fund · Los Angeles, United States

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.

5 contacts available at K5 Global.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bryan Baum | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryan-baum |
| Dana Pollick | General Counsel & CCO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dana-pollick-a170 |
| Daniel Marcotte | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-marcotte-3171 |
| Jessica Bixby | Associate Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jessica-bixby-44a0 |
| Keenan Rice | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keenan-rice |

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Kives invest in?

Michael Kives invests primarily in Blockchain, Internet and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 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 Michael Kives's check size?

Michael Kives typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$4.8M at Seed and $6.5M–$15M 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 Michael Kives participates in.

### How do I contact Michael Kives?

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### When did Michael Kives last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Kives closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 9 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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