Kleiner Perkins

Venture Capital

Profile

Founded
1972
Headquarters
Menlo Park, US
Investments
86
Companies
36

Capital

Total Deployed
$30.5B
Lead Rounds
30

Portfolio

36 companies
Waymo $27.1B
Private Mountain View, US

Autonomous driving technology company, formerly the Google self-driving car project.

Uber $13.2B
Public San Francisco, US

Global ride-hailing, food delivery, and freight technology platform operating in over 70 countries, connecting riders with drivers and eaters with restaurants through its app.

Robinhood $4.7B
Public Menlo Park, US

Financial services platform offering commission-free stock, ETF, options, and cryptocurrency trading through its mobile app, pioneering zero-commission retail investing.

Magic Leap $4.4B
Private Plantation, United States

Magic Leap is an augmented reality company that develops lightweight wearable devices for spatial computing. The company builds AR headsets that overlay digital content onto the physical world, initially targeting consumers before pivoting to enterprise use cases.

Instacart $2.9B
Public San Francisco, US

Online grocery delivery and pick-up platform connecting customers with personal shoppers. One of the largest grocery technology companies in the US.

Snap $2.6B
Public Santa Monica, US

Camera and social media company behind Snapchat, the visual messaging app with disappearing messages, Stories, augmented reality Lenses, and Snap Map, reaching over 800 million monthly active users.

DoorDash $2.5B
Public San Francisco, US

On-demand food delivery platform connecting consumers with local restaurants and stores, operating as the largest food delivery service in the United States with over 56% market share.

Spotify $2.1B
Public Stockholm, SE

Swedish audio streaming and media service founded in 2006, offering music, podcasts, and audiobooks to over 750 million monthly active users across 184 markets, making it the world's largest music streaming platform.

Rippling $1.8B
Private San Francisco, US

Workforce management platform that unifies HR, IT, and finance into a single system built on a unified employee graph.

Slack $1.4B
Acquired San Francisco, US

Workplace messaging and collaboration platform that transformed business communication. Originally built as an internal tool at Tiny Speck during development of the game Glitch, then pivoted to become the fastest-growing enterprise software company in history.

Plaid $1.3B
Private San Francisco, US

Fintech infrastructure company that builds data connectivity tools to power the apps in people's financial lives, providing APIs to connect applications with users' bank accounts.

Applied Intuition $1.2B
Private Mountain View, United States

Applied Intuition is a vehicle software supplier that builds simulation, validation, and development tools for autonomous driving and ADAS. The company serves 18 of the top 20 global automakers and has expanded from pure simulation into a full autonomy stack, incorporating generative AI capabilities for automotive, trucking, mining, agriculture, and defense industries.

Brex $1.2B
Acquired San Francisco, US

AI-powered corporate spend management platform providing corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, and banking solutions for startups and enterprises.

Harvey $1.0B
Private San Francisco, United States

Harvey builds domain-specific AI for legal and professional services. The platform streamlines workflows in contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation, serving over 1,000 customers in 60+ countries including global law firms and Fortune 500 enterprises.

Zynga $1.0B
Acquired San Francisco, United States

Zynga was a social game developer and operator known for creating some of the most popular games on Facebook and mobile platforms, including FarmVille, Words With Friends, and Zynga Poker. The company pioneered free-to-play social gaming and became one of the largest game developers in the world before being acquired by Take-Two Interactive in 2022.

Figma $749M
Public San Francisco, US

Collaborative interface design tool that runs in the browser, enabling real-time multiplayer editing for design teams.

Gusto $706M
Private San Francisco, US

Cloud-based payroll, benefits, and HR platform for small and medium businesses, serving over 400,000 companies. Originally launched as ZenPayroll in 2012 before rebranding to Gusto in 2015.

Flock Safety $658M
Private Atlanta, US

Flock Safety builds an integrated public safety platform combining AI-powered license plate readers, gunshot detection, video surveillance cameras, and Drone As First Responder technology. The company's technology is deployed in over 5,000 communities and 4,800 law enforcement agencies across the U.S., helping solve hundreds of crimes per day.

Block $590M
Public San Francisco, US

Financial technology company (formerly Square) building economic empowerment tools including the Square point-of-sale ecosystem, Cash App peer-to-peer payments, Afterpay buy-now-pay-later, and Bitcoin-focused initiatives.

Synthesia $536M
Private London, GB

AI video generation platform that enables enterprises to create professional videos from text using AI avatars. The market leader in enterprise AI video with over 60,000 customers, used for training, communications, and marketing.

CesiumAstro $407M
Private Austin, US

Develops advanced phased array communication systems for satellites, UAVs, and other aerospace platforms.

Segment $282M
Acquired San Francisco, US

Customer data infrastructure platform that collects, cleans, and routes customer data to hundreds of analytics, marketing, and data warehouse tools through a single API. Founded by four MIT students as part of Y Combinator S11.

Loom $204M
Acquired San Francisco, United States

Video messaging platform for workplace communication that lets users record their screen, camera, or both to create quick, shareable videos. Grew to 25 million users before being acquired by Atlassian in October 2023 for $975 million.

Netlify $202M
Private San Francisco, United States

Netlify is a web development platform that provides hosting, continuous deployment, and serverless backend services for modern web projects. The company pioneered the Jamstack architecture, enabling developers to build faster, more secure websites.

Labelbox $189M
Private San Francisco, United States

Data-centric AI platform providing tools for data labeling, annotation, and model training, enabling teams to build and improve machine learning and generative AI applications. The platform serves as the interface for human experts to create high-quality training data at scale, with a network of over one million domain experts through its Alignerr product.

Duolingo $183M
Public Pittsburgh, US

Language learning platform used by over 100 million monthly active users. Gamified approach to education with courses in 40+ languages. Founded by the creator of reCAPTCHA, Duolingo went public in 2021 and has expanded into math, music, and ABC literacy.

Teleport $169M
Private Oakland, United States

Teleport is the infrastructure identity company, providing on-demand, least-privileged access to infrastructure on a foundation of cryptographic identity and zero trust. The platform integrates access management, zero trust networking, and identity security into a single solution, replacing passwords and secrets with true identity for engineers and services. Previously known as Gravitational, the company was founded by the Mailgun team (YC W11, acquired by Rackspace).

Profound $155M
Private New York, US

AI search visibility platform helping businesses understand and optimize how they appear in AI-powered search results. Provides analytics and tools for brands to track their presence across AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.

Parsable $128M
Acquired San Francisco, United States

Parsable was a connected worker platform that replaced paper-based procedures with mobile, interactive digital work instructions for industrial and manufacturing environments. The platform enabled frontline workers in sectors like food and beverage, oil and gas, and chemicals to collaborate in real time, improving productivity, quality, and safety across plant floor operations. Originally founded as Wearable Intelligence in 2013, the company was acquired by CAI Software in September 2024.

Nurx $116M
Acquired

Telehealth platform providing accessible and affordable healthcare with prescriptions delivered to patients' doors. Started with birth control and PrEP (HIV prevention), then expanded to STI testing, HPV screening, herpes treatment, migraine care, and dermatology. At its peak, Nurx served over 750,000 active patients. Founded by two Norwegian high school classmates who saw how difficult it was to access basic reproductive healthcare.

PlanetScale $105M
Private San Francisco, United States

PlanetScale is a serverless database platform built on Vitess, the open-source database clustering system originally created to scale YouTube. The platform provides horizontally scalable MySQL and PostgreSQL databases with database branching, non-blocking schema changes, and sharding without downtime.

Codecademy $83M
Acquired New York, US

Interactive online coding education platform offering free and premium courses in programming languages including Python, JavaScript, SQL, and more. Grew to over 50 million learners worldwide before being acquired by Skillsoft in 2022 for $525 million.

Gambit Security $61M
Private Tel Aviv, IL

AI-native enterprise resilience platform that delivers verifiable, continuous data protection. Connects to all environments, security solutions, and backup tools to autonomously map infrastructure and backup data, uncovering gaps that break recovery plans. Turns data resilience from manual backup processes into automated, AI-powered capability for CISOs and IT leaders.

Proxy $57M
Acquired San Francisco, United States

Privacy-first digital identity platform that used Bluetooth Low Energy to replace physical keys, cards, and badges. A smartphone emitted an identity signal picked up by sensors on doors, elevators, and turnstiles, functioning as a universal single sign-on for the physical world.

CoreOS $48M
Acquired San Francisco, US

CoreOS developed Container Linux, a lightweight Linux-based operating system designed for massive server deployments, along with key container infrastructure tools including etcd, rkt, and the Tectonic Kubernetes platform. Founded through Y Combinator (S13), the company built open source infrastructure to enable Google-scale operations for any organization. CoreOS was a founding member of both the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the Open Container Initiative (OCI). Acquired by Red Hat in January 2018 for $250 million.

Evervault $46M
Private Dublin, Ireland

Secure data infrastructure company providing encryption-as-a-service and payment security solutions. Offers tools for encrypting, processing, and sharing sensitive data without exposing it, with a focus on PCI compliance and payment card data protection.

Investment data is compiled from multiple independent sources including company announcements, press coverage, and regulatory filings. While we strive for accuracy, amounts and dates may reflect reported figures at time of announcement.