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Kleiner Perkins
Venture capital · Menlo Park, CA, United States · North America
Kleiner Perkins is an investment firm that has partnered with founders for five decades to build companies across industries and continents. It invests from inception to IPO and beyond, and describes itself as a service organization supporting the companies in which it invests.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordstechnologyaiconsumerenterprisefintechhealthcare
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Or find every investor that fitsKleiner Perkins lists 308 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 93 funding rounds, 34 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Growth, 36% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (26%), Healthcare & Biotech (13%) and Enterprise Software (11%). 89% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Kleiner Perkins, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Kleiner Perkins' whole history. Rounds on record name 78 companies; its own site lists 308. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundKleiner Perkins does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 20% |
| Series A | 29% |
| Series B | 16% |
| Growth | 36% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 1 | 1 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 1 | 0 |
| '22 | 1 | 1 |
| '23 | 1 | 1 |
| '24 | 2 | 0 |
| '25 | 35 | 12 |
| '26 | 52 | 19 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 99th | 310 companies |
| Recent activity | 100th | 58 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 57th | 20% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 89th | 17% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 38th | 26% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 98th | 15 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 26% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 13% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 11% | 8% |
| Fintech | 8% | 12% |
| Cybersecurity | 7% | 4% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
| Consumer | 5% | 3% |
| Education | 4% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Sequoia Capital | 44 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 42 |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 36 |
| SV Angel | 30 |
| General Catalyst | 29 |
| Y Combinator | 23 |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 22 |
| Index Ventures | 21 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers28994%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company196%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Kleiner Perkins head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Kleiner Perkins| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Nov 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 10 Nov 2026 | Series A | |
| 3 Nov 2026 | Series B Led | |
| 2 Nov 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 21 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 14 Oct 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Series B | |
| 15 Sept 2026 | Series C+ Led |
Round details for Kleiner Perkins
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Kleiner Perkins' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
308 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google develops and provides various products and technologies, including search, AI models, and hardware devices. | AI & Machine LearningConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Adknowledge connects advertisers with their target audiences through various digital marketing channels | Media & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Airbnb provides holiday rentals and unique homes for travelers. | Real Estate & ConstructionLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | |||
| Alif Semiconductor produces microcontrollers and fusion processors | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Align Technology is a global medical device company that changes lives through better smiles by reimagining and reinventing orthodontic and restorative treatment, | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| May 2024Series C+ | Page + round | |||
| Allium provides an onchain data platform for institutions | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Ambience Healthcare provides AI solutions for healthcare systems to improve clinical, quality, and financial outcomes. | Healthcare & Biotech | Jul 2025Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Ambiq makes unprecedented energy-efficient SoCs and ultra-low power platform solutions that enable edge AI on billions of battery-powered devices. | Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company manufactures high-energy density batteries at scale | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Amyris uses microbes to transform plant-derived sugars into high-performing molecules at scale | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Ancep provides AI agents for insurance brokers to execute work and place risks | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Nov 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Anthropic develops AI models and products, including the Claude models, and conducts AI safety research. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Apiiro provides security for agentic development environments | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| AppDynamics optimizes apps with full-stack insight | Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Applied Compute provides a platform for training, inference, and improvement of artificial intelligence models. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Apr 2026Series B · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| Applied Intuition develops and deploys artificial intelligence for physical machines and vehicles across various industries | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Jun 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| The company designs unique products with AI and artisans. | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Jan 2026Series A | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 11 Nov 2026- Site
- kleinerperkins.com
- Last read
- 11 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 11 Dec 2018
- Companies checked
- 308
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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