K9 Ventures portfolio

K9 Ventures has 5 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding.

Website: k9ventures.com.

Type: Venture capital.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 5.

Deals, last 12 months: 0.

Capital in their rounds: $23.7M.

Latest deal: Gentrace · Jan 7, 2025.

About this page

It is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, US, founded in 2009. Its most recent investment on record is Gentrace's $8M Series A round in January 2025, alongside Yuhki Yamashita, Linda Tong, Headline and 6 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward Voice and audio AI (2) and Developer tools and cloud (2). It has co-invested with Bessemer Venture Partners, Union Square Ventures and NextView Ventures, most often Bessemer Venture Partners (2 rounds).

About K9 Ventures

Firm type: Venture capital.

Headquarters: Palo Alto, US.

Founded: 2009.

Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed.

Sectors: AI & Machine Learning, Deep Tech, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.

Check size: $250K to $750K.

Leads rounds: Yes.

Portfolio companies: 61.

Exits: 4.

Rounds led: 0.

What K9 Ventures invests in

Voice and audio AI · 2 · 40%
Developer tools and cloud · 2 · 40%
AI coding and devtools · 1 · 20%
AI agents · 1 · 20%
Foundation models and research · 1 · 20%
Sales and marketing · 1 · 20%
Data and analytics · 1 · 20%
Commerce and retail · 1 · 20%

K9 Ventures recent investments

Company	Round	Date	Alongside
GGentrace	Series A · $8M	Jan 7, 2025	Yuhki Yamashita, Linda Tong, Headline +6
TTwilio	Series B+ · $12M	Nov 9, 2010	SV Angel, 500 Global, Bessemer Venture Partners (lead) +1
TTwilio	Series A · $3.7M	Dec 30, 2009	TCV, Lowercase Capital, Founders Fund +5

How K9 Ventures invests

Stage	Deals	Capital in rounds
Series A	2 67%	$11.7M
Series B+	1 33%	$12M

Year	Deals	Capital in rounds
2009	1 33%	$3.7M
2010	1 33%	$12M
2025	1 33%	$8M

K9 Ventures portfolio companies

GGentrace$8MSeries A · Jan 2025
TTwilio$12MSeries B+ · Nov 2010
BBackTypebacker
CCardMunchbacker
TTorbitbacker

Company	Round with K9 Ventures	Total raised	Latest raise
GGentrace AI coding and devtools	Jan 7, 2025 Series A · $8M	$8M	Dec 23, 2025 Series A
TTwilio Voice and audio AI	Nov 9, 2010 Series B+ · $12M	$162.7M	Oct 21, 2025 Series B+
BBackType Sales and marketing	backer	undisclosed	—
CCardMunch Stablecoins	backer	undisclosed	—
TTorbit Developer tools and cloud	backer	undisclosed	—

Most frequent co-investors

Similar investors

Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Voice and audio AI).

How this is counted

Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-09, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.

Share is of the 3 rounds on Recent Funding that name K9 Ventures. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.

Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists K9 Ventures, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/k9-ventures (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.