K9 Ventures

Venture Capital · Founded 2009 · Palo Alto, United States

#209 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 2% of investors worldwide

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

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42 Portfolio companies+14% in 5 years

7 Unicorns

2 Decacorns

74 Investments

Aug 2025 Last investment

01 · Biggest holdings

K9 Ventures’ biggest current holdings.

The most valuable companies K9 Ventures still holds, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Dealroom has no parsed shareholder register for K9 Ventures, so the size of each stake isn’t shown.

#CompanyValuation

1 CartaUnicorn · Legal · USA $7.4B
2 EverlawUnicorn · Legal · USA $2.0B
3 LucidUnicorn · Enterprise Software · USA $1.0B

Unicorns and thoroughbreds K9 Ventures has backed and still holds, at Dealroom’s latest valuation. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →

02 · 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 $35BMarketing

Lyft

$24B IPO · 2019

Entered SeedNow $6.1BTransportation

Aurora

$11B IPO · 2021

Now $13BRobotics

Auth0

$6.5B acquisition · 2021

Entered SeedSecurity

03 · 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

USA48
Canada1
Cuba1
India1

By sectorCount

Enterprise Software17
Education5
Fintech5
Robotics5
Legal4
Media4
Marketing3
Security3
Transportation3
Health2
Semiconductors2
Consumer Electronics1

By stage enteredCount

Seed33
Series A9

By growth stageCount

Early Growth29
Breakout Stage13
Late Growth9

04 · Portfolio market map

Inside K9 Ventures’ portfolio.

The 49 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 42 tracked.

Lyft

Transportation · Unicorn

Enterprise Software · Unicorn

Occipital

Enterprise Software

$152M

Figure Eight

Enterprise Software

$80M

Lucid Software

India

$144M

Osmo

Media

$120M

Teleo

Robotics

$65M

Enuma

Gaming

$45M

Invisible AI

Robotics

$60M

Avoma

Enterprise Software

$48M

OtterTune

Enterprise Software

$48M

Nexkey

Security

$24M

Coin

Fintech

$62M

Ello

Education

$60M

Meld

Fintech

$28M

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

Crave.io

Enterprise Software

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

tbh

Health

Hitstart

USA

Dealkit

Legal

Divebell

Legal

Daughters of Rosie

Jobs Recruitment

05 · Portfolio founders

Where K9 Ventures’ portfolio founders come from.

58 founders across the 51 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.

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