K5 Ventures

Investor - Venture Capital

Overview

K5 Ventures invests in early-stage, technology-driven companies with unique products and ideas that will have an impact on the industry.

Country: United States

Founded: 2011

Headquarters: Irvine, CA

Investment Strategy

Geography

  • North America
  • Europe
  • Asia

Sector Focus

  • Funding Platforms
  • RegTech
  • Payments and Remittances
  • Infrastructure and Enterprise Software
  • Real Estate

Investment Stage

  • Angel
  • Seed
  • Early Stage Venture
  • Series A

Summary

K5 Ventures invests in early stage businesses led by visionary founders in Southern California, Silicon Valley, and China. They have a passion for building startups and use a hands-on investment approach along with venture capital funding to help their partners achieve long-term, sustainable growth.  K5 ventures works to prepare the companies they work with for their main product launch and strive for early market validation in order to finalize the business model.  They are a group of investors, entrepreneurs, and technologists who are very successful and experienced in the industry.

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Investments

Date

Name

Size

Round

Co-Investors

Sector

Country

June 2016

ProSeeder Technologies

$6.26m

Angel

  BDS Capital

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

March 2016

Digsy

undisclosed

Early Stage Venture

  Gil Amelio

Real Estate

United States

May 2014

Coin

$15.5m

Series A

  Redpoint

Payments and Remittances

United States

April 2014

Curb Call

undisclosed

Seed

Real Estate

United States

March 2014

Javelin

$1.5m

Early Stage Venture

  Upfront Ventures

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United Kingdom

February 2014

Crowdfunder

$1m

Angel

  500 Startups

Funding Platforms

United States

December 2013

Compass

$700k

Seed

  Amir Banifatemi

Infrastructure and Enterprise Software

United States

June 2013

Experiment

$1.23m

Early Stage Venture

  Amir Banifatemi

Funding Platforms

United States

March 2011

CudaSign

$500k

Seed

RegTech

United States

Key Employees

Amir Banifatemi
Managing Director

Ray Chan
Managing Director

Robin Pimentel
Venture Partner

Stephen Block
Venture Partner

Jason Thanh La
Venture Partner

Stijn Vanorbeek
Venture Partner