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What does K1 Investment Management invest in?
K1 Investment Management invests most often at Series C and Series B (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Enterprise Software, AI and Technology.
K1 Investment Management highlights
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3 rounds on record
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Mostly Series C and Series B: 100% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 1 rounds, median $15M
What they do
K1 is one of the largest investors in small-cap AI-enabled technology.From their own website
- Type
- Private equity
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Growth
- Sectors
- Enterprise SoftwareAITechnology
- Based in
- Manhattan Beach, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first3 appearances
- 2015
3 rounds
- Sept
- Feb
- Feb
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration2 named
JRJean Renee KisakaChief Compliance Officer and Senior AssociateiForm ADV
NRNeil Rajiv MalikChief Executive Officer and Managing PartneriForm ADV
We also hold 6 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$24Bassets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- K1 Investment Management LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 161953
Funds on its Form ADV
16 private funds, $16B in gross assets · filed Mar 2024
Private equity 13Venture 3
- K5 Private Investors, L.P.Private equity382 investors$5.5B
- K4 Private Investors, L.P.Private equity194 investors$3.8B
- K3 Private Investors, L.P.Private equity116 investors$1.9B
- K2 Private Investors, L.P.Venture88 investors$982M
- Gasherbrum Fund I, L.P.Private equity13 investors$981M
- K6 Private Investors, L.P.Private equity104 investors$949M
- Karakoram Fund I, L.P.Private equity49 investors$441M
- K1 Special Opportunities Fund, L.P.Private equity59 investors$410M
- Karakoram Fund C, L.P.Private equity2 investors$239M
- K1 Private Investors, L.P.Venture106 investors$203M
And 6 more on the filing.
Who backs their funds
2 LPs on record in K1 Investment Management's funds
- Committed
- $350M
- Funds
- 1
- Vintages
- 2021
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Mar 2026.
Regents of the University of California1 fund$200MFund Vintage Committed K5 Private Investors 2021 $200M California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)1 fund$150M
Fund Vintage Committed K5 Private Investors 2021 $150M
What they claim to have backed
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.