MK Capital is a $150 million venture capital fund with headquarters in Chicago and an office in Los Angeles. While national in scope, MK Capital is proud of its Midwestern roots. We take pride in our work ethic, integrity, and honesty. We operate MK Capital in the same fiscally responsible manner we encourage our companies to embrace. That way, we ensure MK Capital and all of our portfolio companies share core values.
MK Capital invests in emerging companies that fall into five categories: digital media, application software, data center automation, technology enabled business services, and education technology. Our digital media companies generate unique content, provide differentiated infrastructure, or deliver value added services. Our application software companies provide applications to enhance business efficiency and typically leverage a recurring revenue business model. Our technology enabled business services companies benefit from either superior economies of scale or proprietary expertise in the delivery of business services and, historically, over half of our investments have been in service-based businesses, most of which have a recurring revenue business model.
Overall, MK Capital looks for companies with outstanding customer satisfaction and prefers companies with a recurring revenue stream. While we have a strong track record of investing in development stage companies that have not deployed their technology or service in the marketplace, we prefer companies with reference-able , revenue-generating customers. MK Capital will typically provide a company with its first round of institutional capital, but also works with more mature businesses seeking growth capital. Since MK Capital has a national investing focus, we embrace opportunities in geographies other venture capital firms might be unwilling to consider. Historically, our deals have been located one-third in the East, one-third in the Midwest, and one-third in the West.
World-class companies are built with a combination of entrepreneurial vision, flawless execution, and a solid financial foundation. MK Capital can be a valuable input in this equation beyond just contributing capital. By focusing only on a few sectors, we offer extensive industry experience and a broad network of relevant contacts. By employing a lead, active style we assist management teams in developing corporate strategy, generating business development opportunities, and raising additional capital.
Generate
Generate is a content generation and talent management company.
Headquarters: Santa Monica, CA
Status: Private
Bladelogic
Bladelogic provides software that enables businesses to efficiently manage the lifecycle of server and application infrastructure.
Headquarters: Waltham, MA
Status: Public (NASDAQ: BLOG)
Smoothstone
Smoothstone provides voice, data, and video communication services to small and medium sized businesses through an outsourced, converged IP delivery platform.
Headquarters: Louisville, KY
Status: Private
PECO Pallet
PECO Pallet is a logistics management company providing third-party pallet rental services to consumer goods manufacturers and their distributors.
Headquarters: Yonkers, NY
Status: Private
Apex Learning
Apex Learning provides standards based on-line curriculum for secondary education.
Headquarters: Seattle, WA
Status: Private
Kontiki
Kontiki provides grid delivery technology solutions which enable low cost, high quality distribution of video, software, and other forms of digital content
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, CA
Status: Sold to Verisign (VRSN) in March 2006
Multicast Media
Multicast Media is a leading outsourced provider for Internet broadcast networks, and it provides a proprietary backend infrastructure that allows content providers to monetize their content by seamlessly integrating various revenue models.
Headquarters: Atlanta, GA
Status: Private
Netuitive
Netuitive is the leading provider of self-learning performance management software. Netuitive's software solutions enable organizations to guarantee service levels and significantly lower IT operational costs.
Headquarters: Reston, VA
Status: Private
HealthiNation
HealthiNation is a health education network providing in-depth and entertaining health learning experiences through short-format videos.
Headquarters: New York, NY
Status: Private