When was Kleiner Perkins founded?

Kleiner Perkins was founded in 1972.

Where is Kleiner Perkins' headquarters located?

Kleiner Perkins' headquarters is located in Menlo Park ( United States ).

How big is Kleiner Perkins' investment team?

Kleiner Perkins has a team of 33, including 21 partners.

How many companies has Kleiner Perkins invested in?

Kleiner Perkins has invested in 798 companies, including DoorDash & Facebook.

Which companies has Kleiner Perkins invested in lately?

Glean & Superblocks are the latest investments by Kleiner Perkins.

What sectors does Kleiner Perkins focus on for investments?

Top sectors in Kleiner Perkins' portfolio are Enterprise Applications (270 investments) and High Tech (140 investments).

What stages of companies does Kleiner Perkins typically invest in?

Kleiner Perkins primarily invests in Series A and Series B stages.

How many exits has Kleiner Perkins been involved in?

Kleiner Perkins' portfolio has seen 94 IPOs and 294 acquisitions.

How many unicorns are there in Kleiner Perkins' portfolio?

There are 48 unicorns in Kleiner Perkins' portfolio.

Kleiner Perkins - 2025 Investor Profile, Portfolio, Team & Investment Trends - Tracxn

Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm founded in 1972. It is primarily based out of Menlo Park, United States. As of Jun 2025, Kleiner Perkins is an active investor, having invested in 798 companies, with 14 new investments in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Series B round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and Consumer. Most recently it led the $130M Series B round of NewLimit along with Founders Fund. This round also saw participation from Khosla Ventures and other investors.

Overall, Kleiner Perkins portfolio has seen 48 unicorns, 94 IPOs and 294 acquisitions including key companies like DoorDash, Facebook and Uber. A lot of funds co-invest with Kleiner Perkins, with names like Google Ventures sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio.

Kleiner Perkins has team of 33 people including 21 partners.

Key Metrics

Team Members

Randy Komisar, Beth Seidenberg & 31 more

Portfolio Count

DoorDash, Facebook & 796 more

Portfolio Sectors

Enterprise Applications, High Tech & 38 more

Portfolio Locations

United States, China & 26 more

Rounds of Entry

Series A, Series B & 9 more

Portfolio IPOs

Ibotta, Instacart & 92 more

Portfolio Acquisitions

DataStax, Windsurf & 292 more

Portfolio Unicorns

Assured Insurance Technologies, Hippocratic AI & 46 more

Portfolio Soonicorns

Plex, Zumper & 83 more

Deals in last 12 months

Glean, Superblocks & 30 more

Kleiner Perkins has a portfolio of 798 companies, including 48 unicorns. Their most notable investments are in Graphiq and Kapwing.Their portfolio spans across United States, China, United Kingdom and 25 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Consumer and 37 other sectors, across stages such as Series A, Series B and 9 more. Here is the list of top investments by Kleiner Perkins:

1. DoorDash

App-based platform offering food and grocery delivery services. The platform allows customers to discover local, on-demand delivery or pickup from restaurants, nearby grocery stores. The application is available on the iOS and Android platforms.

Key facts about DoorDash

Founded Year: 2013
Location: San Francisco (United States)
Annual Revenue: $8.64B as on Dec 31, 2023
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $2.5B
Employee Count: 23,700 as on Dec 31, 2024
Investors: TeleSoft Partners, T. Rowe Price and 52 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series H, Jun 18, 2020, $400M
Highlight: Public

2. Facebook

Provider of online social networking and related services. It offers a platform for users to connect with friends and family, share information, and engage in various online activities. The company provides tools for communication, including messaging and video calls. Additional services encompass photo and video sharing, and the development of related applications and technologies. It also offers advertising services to businesses.

Key facts about Facebook

Founded Year: 2004
Location: Menlo Park (United States)
Annual Revenue: $13.5B as on Dec 31, 2023
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $2.27B
Employee Count: 67,317 as on Dec 31, 2023
Investors: Vulcan Capital, Hercules Capital and 111 Others
Latest Funding Round: Grant (prize money), Jan 15, 2017, $490
Highlight: Public

3. Uber

App-based ride-hailing aggregator. The platform provides services including taxi-hailing, food delivery, freight solutions, self-drive electric vehicle rentals, corporate transportation, and more. Users can book services by providing location, destination, user details, payment details, and more. The app is available for both Android and iOS devices.

Key facts about Uber

Founded Year: 2009
Location: San Francisco (United States)
Annual Revenue: $44B as on Dec 31, 2024
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $13.2B
Employee Count: 31,100 as on Dec 31, 2023
Investors: HarbourVest Partners, Vulcan Capital and 187 Others
Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Dec 19, 2020, $1.15B
Highlight: Public

4. Slack

AI interfaced encrypted team messaging platform for enterprises. It offers an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate. It provides software for communication options, including chat, audio and video clips, live huddles, asynchronous collaboration, engagement, and meetings. It also offers tools to create conversational channels, share files, record screens, projects, and goals management, and create audio and video clips.

Key facts about Slack

Founded Year: 2009
Location: San Francisco (United States)
Annual Revenue: $903M as on Jan 31, 2021
Last Known Valuation: $23B as on Jun 20, 2019
Stage: Acquired
Total Funding till date: $1.22B
Employee Count: 1,820 as on Dec 31, 2022
Investors: Glynn Capital, TeleSoft Partners and 68 Others
Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Apr 16, 2020, $863M
Highlight: Acquired

5. Zynga

Casual games developer and publisher for mobile and web platforms. The games developed by the company inlcude High heels, Cashier 3D, Blob runner 3D, and many more. The games are available for iOS and Android users.

Key facts about Zynga

Founded Year: 2007
Location: San Francisco (United States)
Annual Revenue: $2.8B as on Dec 31, 2021
Stage: Acquired
Total Funding till date: $526M
Employee Count: 1,084 as on Dec 31, 2015
Investors: Kaplan Group Investments, DAG Ventures and 36 Others
Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Dec 15, 2020, $762M
Highlight: Acquired

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Kleiner Perkins has invested in 798 companies over the last 32 years, with an average of 23 new investments annually in the last 10 years. In 2024, it made 29 investments, while as of Jun 2025, it has made 16 investments in this year. Its most recent first time investment was in LMArena and most recent follow-on round was in Glean.

Here are Kleiner Perkins' Year-on-Year Investment Trends:

Year	No. of Investments
Year	1^st Round	Follow-on	Total
2025 (YTD)	8	8	16
2024	11	18	29
2023	13	6	19
2022	21	28	49
2021	25	33	58
2020	22	33	55
2019	31	29	60
2018	31	25	56
2017	29	26	55
2016	20	37	57

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Kleiner Perkins has made 224 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $18.1M, 169 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $35.6M and 89 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $4.34M.

Here are Kleiner Perkins' investments by stage:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Stage of entry	No. of Investments
Series A	224
Series B	169
Seed	89
Series C	82
Series D	30
Others	28

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Kleiner Perkins has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Consumer, High Tech, Enterprise Infrastructure and FinTech. Notably, it has invested in 647 Tech companies, 501 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 292 Software companies and at least 261 companies focusing on Consumer (B2C).

Here are Kleiner Perkins' investments by sector:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Sector	No. of Investments
Enterprise Applications	225
Consumer	145
High Tech	121
Enterprise Infrastructure	87
FinTech	65
Others	701

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Kleiner Perkins has made most investments in United States (524), followed by China where it has made 30 investments.

Here are Kleiner Perkins' investments by geography:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Country	No. of Investments
United States	524
China	30
United Kingdom	11
Canada	9
India	8
Others	35

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Kleiner Perkins has made 16 investments in 2025 so far. Glean and Superblocks are the latest among them.

Here are the most recent investments by Kleiner Perkins:

Date	Company	Location	Round Details	Round Amount	Co-Investors
Jun 10, 2025	Glean	United States	Series F	$150M	Wellington [+16]
May 27, 2025	Superblocks	Sweden	Series A	$23M	Spark Capital [+4]
May 21, 2025	LMArena	United States	Seed	$100M	a16z [+4]
May 02, 2025	NewLimit	United States	Series B	$130M	Daniel Gross [+10]
Apr 24, 2025	Spotahome	Spain	Series B	€5M	Passion Capital [+2]

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Kleiner Perkins has 48 unicorns in its portfolio - Assured Insurance Technologies, Hippocratic AI, Chainguard and others. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is Assured Insurance Technologies. It became a unicorn in 2025.

Here is a list of unicorns in Kleiner Perkins' portfolio:

Tracxn Score	Company	Short Description	Founded year	Sector	Location	Company Stage	First Investment/ Acquisition Details
22	Assured Insurance Technologies	Provider of SaaS claims processing solutions for P&C insurers	2019	FinTech [+2]	Palo Alto	Seed	qzzazvo
64	Hippocratic AI	Developer of safety-focused generative AI for healthcare	2022	HealthTech [+2]	Palo Alto	Series B	xqanrct
60	Chainguard	Cloud based container security platform	2021	Enterprise Infrastructure [+1]	Kirkland	Series D	uvmwrw{
63	Harvey	AI powered legal research assistant for law firms	2022	Enterprise Applications [+1]	San Francisco	Series D	uvqwmgj
65	Huntress	Provider of cybersecurity suite solutions	2015	Enterprise Infrastructure [+1]	Ellicott City	Series D	qviqgkp

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94 of Kleiner Perkins' portfolio companies have become public. Ibotta got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), in Apr 2024 at marketcap of $2.39B and Instacart got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) at marketcap of $8.3B.

Here are Kleiner Perkins' portfolio companies that went public:

Company	IPO Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
Ibotta	Apr 18, 2024	Jun 10, 2014	Series B	$20M
Instacart	Sep 19, 2023	Oct 25, 2012	Seed	$2.3M
Beijing Kejingyuan Technology	Aug 11, 2023	-	-	-
Sagimet Biosciences	Jul 14, 2023	Aug 06, 2009	Series B	$30M
Amprius Technologies	Sep 16, 2022	Mar 03, 2011	Series B	$25M

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294 companies from Kleiner Perkins' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition were DataStax in May 2025 by IBM.

Here are Kleiner Perkins' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:

Company	Acquisition Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
DataStax	May 28, 2025	Sep 10, 2014	Series E	$106M
Windsurf	May 06, 2025	Jan 30, 2024	Series B	$65M
Neon	May 05, 2025	-	-	-
X	Mar 29, 2025	Dec 15, 2010	Series E	$200M
Moveworks	Mar 10, 2025	Nov 14, 2019	Series B	$75M

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Kleiner Perkins has a team of 33 members including 21 Partners and 5 Principals located in United States, China and 1 more locations. Kleiner Perkins' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.

Here is a list of top team members in Kleiner Perkins:

Name	Designation	Location	Board Memberships	Contact details
Randy Komisar	Partner	-	-	-
Beth Seidenberg	Partner	Westlake Village	-	2 Emails, 1 Phone number
Bucky Moore	Partner	San Francisco	-	1 Email
Susan Biglieri	Partner	Saratoga	-	1 Email
Mamoon Hamid	Partner	San Francisco	-	1 Email
Ilya Fushman	Partner	San Francisco	-	-
Ted Schlein	Partner	Menlo Park	-	1 Email
Mood Rowghani	Partner	San Francisco	-	-
Josh Coyne	Partner	San Francisco	-	-
James Huang	Partner	Millbrae	-	2 Phone numbers
Annie Case	Partner	San Francisco	-	1 Phone number

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Over the past 32 years, 3527 investors have co-invested in Kleiner Perkins's portfolio companies.

Invested before Kleiner Perkins: Y Combinator, a16z and 774 others have invested in rounds before Kleiner Perkins. There are 30 companies where Y Combinator has invested before Kleiner Perkins and 18 companies where a16z has invested before Kleiner Perkins.
Top Co-investors of Kleiner Perkins: 1062 investors entered a company along with Kleiner Perkins. These include investors like Google Ventures (27 companies).
Invested after Kleiner Perkins: A total of 1689 investors have invested in Kleiner Perkins's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include DAG Ventures (24 companies), Google Ventures (23 companies) and SVB (19 companies).