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 early computer firms using their devices and programming and service companies. It also invests in the digital, life sciences, and healthcare industries.
- Total investments:
- 1369
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 31%
- Fund size:
- $58M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Kleiner Perkins invests in
Stages Kleiner Perkins invests in
Countries Kleiner Perkins invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Series A
- $5M–$50M
- Series B
- $10M–$75M
- Series C
- $12M–$110M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 195 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 97 (7%)
- Information Technology 92 (7%)
- Health Care 90 (7%)
- Internet 61 (4%)
Stage
- Series B 257 (19%)
- Series A 236 (17%)
- Series C 208 (15%)
- Seed 136 (10%)
- Series D 123 (9%)
Country
- United States 602 (44%)
- China 31 (2%)
- United Kingdom 10 (1%)
- India 8 (1%)
- Canada 6 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Brook Byers
Co-Founder
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Co-Founder | Total investments: 51 | Find email | |
Charles Holloway
Vice Chairman of Board of Directors
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Vice Chairman of Board of Directors | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ilya Fushman
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 85 | Find email | |
Jerry Liang
Vice President
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Vice President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Kevin Compton
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 18 | Find email | |
| See all 33 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modal develops machine learning software to help run code in the cloud. The software enables users to run or deploy machine learning models, massively parallel compute jobs, task queues, web apps, and more. It also writes the code to launch hundreds of custom containers and runs scripts in the cloud faster than on the local machine. | $750M / Series D / Oct 14, 2026 | ||
Armadin Security
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Armadin Security is an AI-powered cybersecurity company that specializes in real-time threat hunting. | $265M / Series B / Oct 01, 2026 | |
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| Harvey is an artificial intelligence technology service provider. | $550M / Series H / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
| Cognition develops artificial intelligence systems for software engineering and code automation. The company operates Devin, an AI software engineer that plans, writes, tests, debugs, and deploys code through integrated development workflows. Its platform works with existing development tools and codebases to support engineering tasks acrossapplication development, maintenance, and issue resolution. Cognition also provides tools that assist teams with system design, technical workflows, and collaborative coding processes. The company focuses on AI agents that automate repetitive engineering work while supporting software teams in managing complex development tasks. | $2B / Series E / Sep 08, 2026 | ||
| Etched.ai designing specialized chips for language model inference. | $700M / Series D / Aug 18, 2026 | ||
| Whatnot is a Los Angeles-based startup that creates a place where avid collectors could come together over shared interests. Whatnot is a marketplace to buy and sell authentic collectible items. Whatnot was founded in 2019, in California. | $547M / Series G / Aug 06, 2026 | ||
| Discovery Loop is a pioneer in autonomous artificial intelligence, dedicated to deeply automating machine learning, science, and engineering. | Seed / Aug 05, 2026 | ||
| Instinct is an artificial intelligence startup developing AI technology. | $75M / Series A / Aug 01, 2026 | ||
| K2 Space builds and supplies high-power satellite platforms designed for diverse orbital missions using vertically integrated hardware and manufacturing processes. The company focuses on developing large “Mega Class” satellites with enhanced power, payload capacity, and propulsion systems to support communications, sensing, and other spaceapplications. K2 Space offers engineered solutions for factory assembly, launch stacking, and orbital operations that aim to serve Low Earth Orbit, Medium Earth Orbit, and Geostationary missions. Its offerings include resilient spacecraft designs tailored to withstand harsh space environments and support scalable constellation deployments. | $500M / Series D / Jul 30, 2026 | ||
| See all 1369 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Kleiner Perkins invest in?
Kleiner Perkins invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 1,369 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Kleiner Perkins invest in?
Kleiner Perkins typically joins rounds of $5M–$50M at Series A, $10M–$75M at Series B and $12M–$110M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Kleiner Perkins's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Kleiner Perkins took part in.
How do I contact Kleiner Perkins?
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Who are the partners at Kleiner Perkins?
The team at Kleiner Perkins includes Brook Byers (Co-Founder), Charles Holloway (Vice Chairman of Board of Directors) and Ilya Fushman (Partner), among 33 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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