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.
- Total investments:
- 1297
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 30%
- 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 33 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $5M–$50M
- Series B
- $11M–$71M
- Series C
- $12M–$120M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 162 (12%)
- Information Technology 81 (6%)
- Health Care 76 (6%)
- Internet 56 (4%)
- Artificial Intelligence 55 (4%)
Stage
- Series B 220 (17%)
- Series A 196 (15%)
- Series C 184 (14%)
- Series D 106 (8%)
- Seed 99 (8%)
Country
- United States 523 (40%)
- China 25 (2%)
- United Kingdom 9 (1%)
- India 8 (1%)
- Canada 5 (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: 83 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| Chai Discovery creates Chai-1, a multi-modal foundation model designed for predicting molecular structures relevant to drug discovery. The model facilitates the unified prediction of proteins, small molecules, and nucleic acids, and is available for free for commercial applications. By enabling accurate predictions without the need for multiplesequence alignments, Chai-1 advances the capabilities of molecular modeling in the life sciences. | $400M / Series C / Jul 14, 2026 | ||
| TerraFirma develops software, autonomous robotics, and operational systems for earthworks and construction projects. Its platform supports construction planning, equipment orchestration, and job site operations using human-in-the-loop automation to improve excavation, grading, demolition, and other earthmoving activities. The company combinesAI-enabled software with robotics to assist construction teams in managing equipment and workflows. It also develops technologies intended to expand into other construction processes, including underground utilities, concrete, and structural steel. | $100M / Series A / Jul 14, 2026 | ||
| Infrastructure for long-horizon agents. Efficient inference and sandboxes optimized for throughput. | $80M / Series A / Jun 24, 2026 | ||
| Mirendil is an artificial intelligence research company that develops systems designed to automate and improve the process of AI research and development. The company trains models specialized in AI R&D and designs research workflows intended to make experimentation faster, more capable, and increasingly autonomous. Its technology aims toreduce the expertise and infrastructure barriers associated with frontier AI development, enabling researchers in fields such as biology, chemistry, robotics, and drug discovery to use advanced AI capabilities without building their own large-scale AI laboratories. Mirendil focuses on creating self-improving research systems that can support scientific and technological discovery across multiple domains. | $200M / Seed / Jun 24, 2026 | ||
| Trovy is a fintech company that provides applications. analytics, and financial services. | $15M / Series A / Jun 24, 2026 | ||
| See all 1297 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Kleiner Perkins invest in?
Kleiner Perkins invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Health Care startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 1,297 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Kleiner Perkins's check size?
Kleiner Perkins typically joins rounds of $5M–$50M at Series A, $11M–$71M at Series B and $12M–$120M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kleiner Perkins participates in.
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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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