Neil Malik

Founder and Chief Executive

K1 Investment Management

THE LATEST: At the start of this year, Texas-based RealPage Inc. paid a combined $580 million for a 100% outright ownership stake in K1 portfolio company Buildium. K1 also made a $21 million investment Gravyty, an artificial intelligence-based fundraising software platform, in late January.

BACKGROUND: Malik founded K1, an enterprise software-focused private equity and venture capital firm, in 2011. Previously, he started the growth equity practice at Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, where he focused on growth equity and buyout investments. Malik formerly held roles in the private equity groups of Brentwood Associates and Olympus Partners, where he focused investments on lower middle-market companies. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School. Before that, at the University of Pennsylvania, he received a BS in finance from the Wharton School and a BAS in electrical engineering and computer science. Malik has overseen more than 120 transactions since 2000.

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