Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California, in Silicon Valley, specializing in investing in early-stage and growth companies across technology and life sciences sectors. Founded in 1972 and operating as a partnership with 11-50 employees, the firm has partnered with intrepid founders for five decades to build iconic companies that made history, investing through twenty venture funds and four growth funds totaling $10 billion in hundreds of companies.
Kleiner Perkins (formerly known as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, LLC or KPCB) has invested in pioneering companies including Amazon, Genentech, and Google during its early years, and continues investing in modern technology leaders like Desktop Metal, IronNet, Ring, Spotify, Slack, and UiPath. The firm’s mission is to be the first call for founders who want to make history and to partner with them as company builders in pursuit of that goal, partnering with some of the most ingenious and forward-thinking founders in technology and life sciences.
The company specializes in seed investments, early-stage investments, and growth-stage investments, with a focus on technology and life sciences sectors. Kleiner Perkins is headquartered at 2750 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, US with an additional office at Unit 2101, BEA Finance Tower, 66 Hua Yuan Shi Qiao Road, Pudong, Michael Road, Shanghai 200120, CN. In 2025, the firm raised over $2 billion for two new funds, including $825 million for a fund targeting young startups and $1.2 billion for a later-stage fund.
