# Bucky Moore

> Bucky Moore is a seed investor at Kleiner Perkins backing Software and Information Technology. See 51 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 51
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 55%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/buckymoore
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/buckymoore
- Website: https://www.kleinerperkins.com/people/bucky-moore/

Bucky Moore is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins focusing on developer facing software and infrastructure investments. He is an early investor and partner to a number of innovative software companies including Netlify, Teleport, Planetscale, Rudderstack, Materialize, Labelbox, and CodeSandbox. Bucky previously worked at Opstrace as a Board Director. Heattended the University of Southern California.Prior to joining Kleiner Perkins, he was an investor at Costanoa Ventures, and prior to that an investor at Battery Ventures. He started his career in corporate development at Cisco. Bucky holds a BS from the University of Southern California.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 19 | 37% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 18% |
| Machine Learning | 7 | 14% |
| Analytics | 6 | 12% |

59 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 19 | 37% |
| Series A | 15 | 29% |
| Series B | 8 | 16% |
| Series C | 6 | 12% |
| Series D | 2 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 30 | 59% |
| Sweden | 1 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reactor | Reactor is an artificial intelligence infrastructure company developing a platform for real-time generative video and interactive AI world models. The company builds developer tools and APIs that enable applications to generate video, environments, and interactive visual experiences dynamically in response to user input. Its platform is designed tosupport low-latency inference and scalable processing for AI-generated media used in entertainment, robotics, simulation, and physical AI applications. Reactor develops software infrastructure that allows developers to integrate real-time generative video capabilities into consumer and enterprise products. The company also works on world model technologies that combine visual generation, interaction systems, and machine learning to create continuously adaptive digital environments. In addition, Reactor supports application development through SDKs, cloud-based infrastructure, and deployment tools intended for AI-native interactive experiences and generative media systems. | $59M | Series A | May 28, 2026 |  |
| Temporal Technologies | Temporal Technologies is a computer software company that enables its users to build and operate resilient applications using developer-friendly primitives. It specializes in the fields of information technology, software development, and computer software. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. | $300M | Series D | Feb 17, 2026 |  |
| Inferact | The aim of Inferact is to make vLLM the leading AI inference engine in the world and advance AI by lowering the cost and speed of inference. | $150M | Seed | Jan 22, 2026 |  |
| Arena | LM Arena provides a platform for testing AI models. LM Arena serves as an essential resource for researchers and developers worldwide. As the AI field expands, the importance of reliable benchmarking tools like LM Arena remains undeniable. The company also operates Chatbot Arena, a specialized service for evaluating artificial intelligence systems. | $150M | Series A | Jan 06, 2026 |  |
| Unconventional AI | Unconventional AI develops a novel computing platform that rethinks how hardware and software interact to support artificial intelligence workloads with a focus on energy use and computational efficiency. The company works on integrating principles from biological neural systems into silicon-based circuits and related software interfaces to createa different substrate for running AI models. Its products and research aim to address the rising energy demands of AI by exploring non-traditional architectures that move beyond conventional digital simulation of neural networks. Unconventional AI also engages in early-stage development of prototypes and toolchains that support this new approach to AI computation. | $475M | Seed | Dec 08, 2025 |  |
| Raindrop | Raindrop is a provider of a monitoring platform for AI agents. | $15M | Seed | Dec 01, 2025 |  |
| Standard Economics | Standard Economics is a fintech startup that creates a payments and USD-stablecoin platform to assist unbanked and underbanked people. | $9M | Seed | Oct 28, 2025 |  |
| Sphinx | Sphinx is AI that thinks in statistics and patterns and generates artifacts and insights that an adult can reproduce and fully own. | $9.5M | Seed | Sep 09, 2025 |  |
| Arena | LM Arena provides a platform for testing AI models. LM Arena serves as an essential resource for researchers and developers worldwide. As the AI field expands, the importance of reliable benchmarking tools like LM Arena remains undeniable. The company also operates Chatbot Arena, a specialized service for evaluating artificial intelligence systems. | $100M | Seed | May 21, 2025 |  |
| Allium | Allium provides blockchain data infrastructure for institutions and crypto-focused organizations. It collects, verifies, and standardizes data from more than 150 blockchains and thousands of protocols, making on-chain activity easier to analyze and use in operational workflows. The company delivers historical and real-time data through APIs, datastreams, data shares, dashboards, and query tools. Its datasets support applications such as transaction reconciliation, analytics, compliance, payments, and digital asset research. Allium also offers tools for querying, visualizing, and accessing blockchain data to help organizations build applications and monitor activity across multiple blockchain networks. | $16.5M | Series A | Jul 18, 2024 |  |

10 of 51 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Amplify Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Gradient](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gradient-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Kleiner Perkins

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in early-stage, growth, and incubation companies. The firm continues that legacy, investing in founders with bold ideas that span industries and continents, partnering with them from inception to IPO and beyond to maximize the potential of their ideas. They also focus on earlycomputer firms using their devices and programming and service companies. It also invests in the digital, life sciences, and healthcare industries.

5 contacts available at Kleiner Perkins.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brook Byers | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brook-byers |
| Charles Holloway | Vice Chairman of Board of Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-a-holloway |
| Ilya Fushman | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ilya-fushman |
| Jerry Liang | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jerry-liang |
| Kevin Compton | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-compton |

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## FAQ

### What does Bucky Moore invest in?

Bucky Moore invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 51 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Bucky Moore last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bucky Moore closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 51 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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