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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.
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.
Rounds they lead
Rounds they invest
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).
- Airbnb Global marketplace connecting guests with short-term stays and experiences.
- Ambience Ambient AI platform for clinical documentation, medical coding, and health-system workflows.
- Ambience Healthcare Ambient AI platform for clinical documentation, coding, and health-system workflows.
- Applied Intuition Simulation and validation software for autonomous vehicles, defense, and robotics.
- Arena AI evaluation platform behind Chatbot Arena / LMArena leaderboards.
- Autograph Web3 NFT platform for sports and entertainment digital collectibles.
- Autograph.io Web3 NFT platform for sports and entertainment digital collectibles (Autograph.io).
- Brex Corporate card and spend management for high-growth companies.
- Captions AI creative studio for scripting, recording, and editing short-form talking videos.
- ClearStory Data Data harmonization and visual analytics platform blending internal and third-party datasets.
- Counsel Health Physician-supervised async AI medical advice via messaging for employers and health plans.
- Dollar Shave Club Subscription razor and grooming brand built on viral DTC marketing (acquired by Unilever, 2016).
- DoorDash U.S. delivery logistics platform — public on NYSE as DASH since December 2020.
- Etched Rack-scale custom inference clusters with silicon for prefill and decode, not a GPU neocloud.
- fal Real-time generative media inference APIs for image, video, audio, and 3D at scale.
- Figma Collaborative interface design platform that became the default design system tool.
- Firstbase Remote-work infrastructure provisioning hardware and software for distributed teams.
- Flock Safety Public-safety technology (ALPR / camera networks) used by thousands of agencies.
- Garner Health Employer benefit that ranks in-network doctors on outcomes and reimburses members who see top performers.
- Glorify Faith-based wellness app offering guided prayer, Bible devotionals, and Christian music.
- Groupon, Inc. Daily-deal and local-commerce marketplace; went public on NASDAQ in 2011.
- Gusto Payroll, benefits, and HR platform for small businesses.
- Harvey Domain-specific AI for law firms — research, drafting, contract analysis, and agentic legal workflows.
- Helix Population genomics and clinical-research platform spun out of Illumina — consumer DNA marketplace.
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