Investor profile for Kleiner Perkins: stage-based planning range, investment stages, sector focus, portfolio companies, sources, and verification status. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker directory.

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Kleiner Perkins stages, portfolio and investment profile

Menlo Park venture firm founded in 1972 on Sand Hill Road, investing in enterprise software, consumer technology, fintech, and climate from seed through growth.

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Stage-based planning range

$1M–$10M

This is a planning range inferred from stage coverage, not a firm-disclosed check size.

Methodology: Stage bucket inferred from the rounds a fund leads or invests in.

No firm-specific check-size disclosure is recorded.

Source link not recorded Confidence: 25% Verified: Not recorded View methodology

Investment stages

Leads: Series A, Series B+

Participates: Seed, Series A, Series B+

Sector focus

Enterprise SaaS · Consumer · Climate Tech

Geography

Menlo Park, CA

Founded 1972

Fund size / AUM

Not recorded

A separate fund-size evidence record is not yet available.

Portfolio in our directory

52

Linked startup profiles

Latest fund vehicle

Not recorded

Vehicle name, size, and vintage are not yet structured.

Recent tracked investment

Etched

$700M (press: Series D) · $700M · August 2026

Rounds they lead

Series A Series B+

Rounds they invest

Seed Series A Series B+

Last verified: Not recorded. Check-size evidence is labeled by basis so planning estimates are not presented as firm disclosures.

Portfolio companies we track

Startups in our directory that list Kleiner Perkins as an investor (52 total).

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FAQs about Kleiner Perkins

Stage fit, check size, thesis, and how founders typically approach this firm — based on public sources and our directory.

Per our directory, Kleiner Perkins leads Series A and growth rounds and participates from seed onward. The firm has evolved from early internet-era investing to a modern multi-stage practice spanning venture and growth.
Kleiner Perkins does not publicly disclose a single check range. Our directory estimate, based on seed-through-growth focus, suggests checks scale with stage—from institutional seed participation to large Series B+ anchors—not a published fixed amount.
Kleiner Perkins is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It invests primarily in U.S. startups with global ambitions; geography follows talent and market opportunity rather than a strict regional cap.
Our directory tags enterprise-saas, consumer, and climate-tech. Kleiner's public portfolio spans fintech, developer tools, healthcare AI, marketplaces, and climate—reflecting a broad technology mandate with sector-specialist partners.
Kleiner Perkins regularly leads Series A and growth rounds and is comfortable anchoring competitive processes. It also joins seed rounds alongside specialist early funds when it identifies category-defining teams early.
Startups in our directory with Kleiner Perkins listed include Figma (/startup/figma), DoorDash (/startup/doordash), Instacart (/startup/instacart), Rippling (/startup/rippling), Airbnb (/startup/airbnb), and Harvey (/startup/harvey).
Founders can reach the firm through kleinerperkins.com and partner bios aligned to their sector. Warm introductions from portfolio CEOs, operators, or co-investors are common; we do not list individual partner emails.
August 2026: Kleiner Perkins is named on Etched’s $700M / $21B round (/2026-etched-700m-21b-jane-street). Our blue-chip VC firms guide also lists Kleiner Perkins among top-tier U.S. venture firms. Individual startup profiles such as Harvey and Figma note Kleiner participation where publicly attributed.

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