K2 Global

K2 Global is a venture capital firm founded in 2014, with headquarters in California and an office in Singapore. Specializing in early to late-stage investments in technology companies, K2 focuses on software, Internet, and mobile companies in Asia and the United States. The firm seeks to support growth equity, founder liquidity, and early and late-stage venture investments, with a particular emphasis on companies capable of expanding internationally.

Ozi Amanat

Investor

36 past transactions

One97

Funding Round in 2015
One97 delivers mobile content and commerce services to millions of mobile consumers through India’s most widely deployed telecom applications cloud platform. It has more than 4,500 employees with its headquarters in New Delhi and regional offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, and Kolkata with global presence in Africa, Europe, Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Marquee investors like Alibaba Group, Ant Financial (AliPay), SAIF Partners, Mediatek, Sapphire Venture, and Silicon Valley Bank back it.

Airlift Technologies

Series A in 2020
Airlift Technologies Pvt. Ltd. develops Airlift, a mobile application that connects passengers with bus-owners and enables them to commute residential and commercial hubs in the City. The company is based in Lahore, Pakistan.

OpenAI

Venture Round in 2023
OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research company, associated with business magnate Elon Musk, that aims to carefully promote and develop friendly AI in such a way as to benefit, rather than harm, humanity as a whole. The organization aims to "freely collaborate" with other institutions and researchers by making its patents and research open to the public. The company is supported by over US$1 billion in commitments; however, only a tiny fraction of the $1 billion pledged is expected to be spent in the first few years. The founders are motivated in part by concerns about existential risk from artificial general intelligence.

LTZ Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2022
LTZ develops novel immunotherapies to treat patients that suffer from cancer and other diseases with an unmet clinical need.

Accredify

Series A in 2021
Accredify helps institutes issue digital tamper-proof certificates using the OpenCerts standard.

Devoted Health

Series B in 2018
Devoted Health is a new healthcare company serving seniors. Aiming to launch Medicare Advantage plans in 2019, their mission is to build a healthcare solution good enough for Mom. They will be devoted to the health and wellness of their members by helping them navigate the health care system with personal guides, by utilizing world-class technology to enable a simplified experience, and by partnering with top providers for better health outcomes.

Oatly

Private Equity Round in 2020
Oatly AB produces oat drinks. It provides oat drinks, which includes oat drink whole, semi, skinny, semi organic, barista edition, chocolate, strawberry, cold brew latte, matcha latte, mocha latte, and mango orange; oatgurt in vanilla, strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, and lemon elderflower flavor; creamy, organic, and custard oat; garlic cucumber and tomato basil oat spread; and ice cream. It offers its products through health stores. The company was founded in 1985 and is based in Malmo, Sweden. Oatly AB operates as a subsidiary of Cereal Base Ceba AB.

Magic Leap

Series B in 2014
Magic Leap is a proprietary wearable technology that enables users to interact with digital devices in a completely visually cinematic way. Magic Leap is an Augmented Reality US-based startup that is innovating in the AR space to create new hardware and software that will give its users a never-before-seen AR experience and redefine how we access screens and visualize data. The headset combines a user's inherent visual ability with mobile computing – giving visual output equivalent to real-world experience but powered by mobile tech. Using their Dynamic Digitized Lightfield Signal, they generate images indistinguishable from real objects and place those images seamlessly into the real world.

Imagene Labs

Series A in 2018
Imagene Labs Pte Ltd empowers consumers to optimise their health by providing customised wellness and lifestyle solutions tailored to their unique DNA profiles. Led by medical doctors and scientists, the company provides an entire ecosystem of genomics-based solutions ranging from wellness DNA tests, personalised lifestyle recommendations, bespoke skin serums and nutritional supplements, and mobile health apps that help people live, look and feel their best.

Airbnb

Series F in 2017
Airbnb, Inc. operates a platform for stays and experiences to guests worldwide. The company’s marketplace model connects hosts and guests online or through mobile devices to book spaces and experiences. It primarily offers private rooms and luxury villas. The company was formerly known as AirBed & Breakfast, Inc. and changed its name to Airbnb, Inc. in November 2010. Airbnb, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

The Granary Pte. Ltd.

Private Placement in 2019
The Granary Pte. Ltd. provides food delivery services in Singapore. It allows users to order meals or cold-pressed juices. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Singapore.

Imagene Labs

Private Placement in 2018
Imagene Labs Pte Ltd empowers consumers to optimise their health by providing customised wellness and lifestyle solutions tailored to their unique DNA profiles. Led by medical doctors and scientists, the company provides an entire ecosystem of genomics-based solutions ranging from wellness DNA tests, personalised lifestyle recommendations, bespoke skin serums and nutritional supplements, and mobile health apps that help people live, look and feel their best.

Devoted Health

Series B in 2018
Devoted Health is a new healthcare company serving seniors. Aiming to launch Medicare Advantage plans in 2019, their mission is to build a healthcare solution good enough for Mom. They will be devoted to the health and wellness of their members by helping them navigate the health care system with personal guides, by utilizing world-class technology to enable a simplified experience, and by partnering with top providers for better health outcomes.

Grain

Series B in 2019
Grain is an online restaurant that uses data and a tech-enabled network to serve food to customers.

Poshmark

Series E in 2017
Poshmark, Inc. owns and operates a social marketplace to buy and sell lifestyle products in the United States. The company offers apparel, footwear, home, and beauty products, as well as accessories. As of September 30, 2020, it had 31.7 million active users, 6.2 million active buyers, and 4.5 million active sellers. The company was formerly known as GoshPosh, Inc. and changed its name to Poshmark, Inc. in 2011. Poshmark, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Biofire

Series A in 2024
Developer of a smart gun technology designed to make firearms safer to use. The company's advanced biometric technology has an intelligent locking mechanism designed around state-of-the-art biometrics, that instantly unlocks for authorized users and remains locked for all others, preserving privacy and civil liberties through a vertically-integrated, full-stack, broad reimagining of the firearm industry, thereby enabling gun owners to secure their firearms from unwanted users and allowing fast access when needed.

Nextdoor

Series F in 2019
Nextdoor, Inc. operates a social networking platform for neighborhoods in San Francisco. Its platform enables local conversations among neighbors. It owns and operates Help Map, an interactive map allows residents to mark themselves as available to help vulnerable neighbors during the Covid-19 pandemic. The company was formerly known as Nextdoor.com, Inc. and changed its name to Nextdoor, Inc. in January 2014. Nextdoor, Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California. It has an additional location in London, United Kingdom.

Palantir Technologies

Funding Round in 2015
Palantir Technologies offers a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, fighting fraud, and analyzing information. The software allows analysts within and between government organizations to collaborate and to analyze large quantities of data. Stephen Cohen, Alexander Karp, Garry Tan, Nathan Gettings, and Peter Thiel established the company in Denver, Colorado in 2003.

Farmdar

Seed Round in 2022
Farmdar is a mobile application that allows you to classify crops and track harvest progress. They provide fertilizer reports, plant health reports, water stress reports, plant stress reports, yield estimation, and real-time soil testing.

Palantir Technologies

Venture Round in 2015
Palantir Technologies offers a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, fighting fraud, and analyzing information. The software allows analysts within and between government organizations to collaborate and to analyze large quantities of data. Stephen Cohen, Alexander Karp, Garry Tan, Nathan Gettings, and Peter Thiel established the company in Denver, Colorado in 2003.

Beam

Series A in 2020
Beam is an e-scooter company . Beam is a micro-mobility startup that encourages users to park their e-scooters in pre-determined parking spots via its app by offering incentives, instead of parking it anywhere randomly on the street.

One97

Private Equity Round in 2015
One97 delivers mobile content and commerce services to millions of mobile consumers through India’s most widely deployed telecom applications cloud platform. It has more than 4,500 employees with its headquarters in New Delhi and regional offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, and Kolkata with global presence in Africa, Europe, Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Marquee investors like Alibaba Group, Ant Financial (AliPay), SAIF Partners, Mediatek, Sapphire Venture, and Silicon Valley Bank back it.

Beam

Private Placement in 2018
Beam is an e-scooter company . Beam is a micro-mobility startup that encourages users to park their e-scooters in pre-determined parking spots via its app by offering incentives, instead of parking it anywhere randomly on the street.

Pod Foods Co

Series A in 2021
Pod Foods Co. develops a software for distribution of food for local retailers and suppliers. It offers products in various categories, including fruits and vegetables, beverages, snacks and branded food. Pod Foods Co. was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

CityRow

Series A in 2021
Cityrow Go is a rowing-based fitness app for smartphones or tablets. It offers rowing classes programmed to deliver an effective, efficient, and motivating workout to the at-home user.

Seed Health

Seed Round in 2017
Seed Health, Inc. is a microbial sciences company pioneering applications of bacteria to impact human and environmental health. In collaboration with leading academic partners, our foundry model accelerates breakthrough science to develop live biotherapeutics and consumer innovations. Our Scientific Advisory Board is comprised of leading scientists with expertise in microbiology, immunology, genetics, metabolomics, gastroenterology, pediatrics, environmental sciences, and women’s health. Learn more—seedhealth.com Our consumer portfolio, Seed®, develops next-generation probiotics for specific developmental stages and various ecosystems of the body—seed.com

Beam

Seed Round in 2018
Beam is an e-scooter company . Beam is a micro-mobility startup that encourages users to park their e-scooters in pre-determined parking spots via its app by offering incentives, instead of parking it anywhere randomly on the street.

TurtleTree

Pre Seed Round in 2020
TurtleTree Labs is a startup addressing the value gap created by an insufficient and unsustainable animal-based dairy industry. It has created patent-protected technologies to make full-composition, full-functionality, full-flavor milk referencing humanely selected dairy cow cells then mimicking the natural process of milk production in the lab, essentially making real milk without the pollution, inefficient use of land, water and energy (natural resources), pathogen and disease risk, and tangled regulatory politics. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Firefly

Series A in 2019
Firefly is building the first mobility based Smart Screens - Smart Cities advertising and data platform that utilizes the ride share and gig economy for distribution and scale. Firefly's unique location-based, “situationally aware” software and 1st party data enable the most granular, audience-based targeting of any away from home medium on any screen type. Through the digital signages installed atop hundreds of taxis, Firefly is sending targeted ads via 4G and 4G LTE cellular transmission. Firefly was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Grain Mineral Resources Pte. Ltd.

Private Placement in 2019
Grain Mineral Resources Pte. Ltd. was founded in 2008 and is based in Singapore.

Paytm

Private Equity Round in 2015
Paytm is a payment gateway that provides payment services to merchants and allow consumers to make seamless mobile payments from cards, bank accounts, and digital credit among others. The company maintains an open culture where everyone is a hands-on contributor and feels comfortable sharing ideas and opinions. Founded on 2010, Paytm is owned by one of India’s mobile-internet firms, One97 Communications. Its investors include SoftBank, SAIF Partners, Alibaba Group, and Ant Financial.

DealStreetAsia

Seed Round in 2015
As of April 26, 2019, operates as a subsidiary of Nikkei Inc.