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K9 Ventures

Venture Capital · Founded 2009 · Palo Alto, United States

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K9 Ventures is a technology focused micro-VC fund based in Palo Alto, California

42 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $998M invested · 74 investments · Investor rank #2,948 · Last investment 8/2025
Portfolio companies 42 ↑ 14% 5y
Decacorns 1
Thoroughbreds 6
Power Law #209Investor Ranking · Global · 2026 · Top 2%
Estimated holdings

K9 Ventures’ biggest current holdings.

An estimate of K9 Ventures’ largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 1 companies where K9 Ventures is a named shareholder, worth about $296M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 CartaFintech · Unicorn 4% $7.4B $296M

Estimated value = K9 Ventures’ disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

Exits

K9 Ventures’ biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from K9 Ventures’ transaction record.

Twilio
$2.0B IPO · 2016
Entered SeedNow $28BMarketing
Lyft
$24B IPO · 2019
Entered SeedNow $5.5BTransportation
Auth0
$6.5B acquisition · 2021
Entered SeedSecurity
Portfolio analysis

Where K9 Ventures’ portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 42 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA39
  2. Canada1
  3. Cuba1
  4. India1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software14
  2. Education4
  3. Fintech4
  4. Media4
  5. Robotics4
  6. Legal3
  7. Marketing3
  8. Security3
  9. Semiconductors2
  10. Transportation2
  11. Consumer Electronics1
  12. Energy1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed33
  2. Series A9
By growth stageCount
  1. Early Growth24
  2. Breakout Stage10
  3. Late Growth8
Portfolio market map

Inside K9 Ventures’ portfolio.

The 40 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 42 tracked.

Lyft
Transportation · Unicorn
$5.5B
Carta
Legal · Unicorn
$7.4B
DNAnexus
Health
$600M
Auth0
Security · Unicorn
$6.5B
Everlaw
Legal · Unicorn
$2.0B
Twilio
Marketing · Decacorn
$28B
Lucid
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.0B
Forethought
Marketing
$325M
Occipital
Enterprise Software
$152M
Lucid Software
India
$144M
Osmo
Media
$120M
Teleo
Robotics
$65M
Enuma
Gaming
$45M
Invisible AI
Robotics
$60M
Avoma
Enterprise Software
$48M
Nexkey
Security
$24M
Coin
Fintech
$62M
Gentrace
Enterprise Software
$32M
Row Zero
Enterprise Software
$40M
HiHello
Fintech
$30M
Traptic
Food
$12M
Compound Eye
Media
$28M
Currant
Energy
$28M
Workona
USA
$24M
Agendahero
Enterprise Software
$22M
Gradescope
Education
$11M
Onsemble
Home Living
$12M
MobileSpan
Cuba
$9.2M
Nimble VR
Semiconductors
$7.6M
IndexTank
Semiconductors
$6.4M
BackType
USA
$4.0M
Bugsee
Security
Card
Fintech
$4.0M
Pragli
Media
$4.0M
KidAdmit
Education
$2.0M
Boomerang
Robotics
TapCanvas
USA
$800K
CardMunch
USA
Divebell
Legal
Daughters of Rosie
Jobs Recruitment
Portfolio founders

Where K9 Ventures’ portfolio founders come from.

45 founders across the 42 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. United States37
  2. India2
  3. Argentina1
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University5
  2. University of Michigan5
  3. Carnegie Mellon University4
  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology4
  5. University of California, Berkeley3
  6. Columbia University2
  7. Harvard University2
  8. Centrale Lyon1
  9. Connecticut College1
  10. Cornell University1
Previous companyCount
  1. Stanford University4
  2. Alphabet | Google2
  3. Amazon2
  4. Amazon Web Services2
  5. Asana2
  6. Brightcove2
  7. Lytro2
  8. Palantir2
  9. [24]7.ai1
  10. 10X CEO1
How K9 Ventures stacks up

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Figures on this page are sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API, joined with Dealroom’s cap-table dataset (estimated holdings) and the Power Law Investor Ranking. News in “Featured in” is drawn from Dealroom’s own coverage — the stories that name this investor, not only those it is the subject of. Market sentiment is omitted until the API exposes it.