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American venture capital firm

Kleiner Perkins, formerly Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), is an American venture capital firm which specializes in investing in incubation, early stage and growth companies. Since its founding in 1972, the firm has backed entrepreneurs in over 900 ventures, including America Online, and four growth funds. and Shanghai, China. The New York Times described Kleiner Perkins as "perhaps Silicon Valley's most famous venture firm". and Dealbook named it "one of Silicon Valley's top venture capital providers."

The firm was formed in 1972 as Kleiner Perkins. When Caufield and Byers became partners as well, the name was changed to Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (KPCB) in Menlo Park, California, with a focus on seed, early stage, and growth companies. Byers joined in 1977. Located in Menlo Park, California, Kleiner Perkins had access to the growing technology industries in the area. By the early 1970s, there were many semiconductor companies based in the Santa Clara Valley as well as early computer firms using their devices and programming and service companies. Venture capital firms suffered a temporary downturn in 1974, when the stock market crashed and investors were naturally wary of this new kind of investment fund. Nevertheless, the firm was still active in this period. By 1996, Kleiner Perkins had funded around 260 companies a total of $880 million. John Doerr, Vinod Khosla,

Colin Powell joined as a "strategic" partner in 2005, while Al Gore joined as a partner in 2007 as part of a collaboration between Kleiner Perkins and Generation Investment Management. Mary Meeker joined the firm in 2010, Meeker departed in 2019 to found Bond Capital. Mamoon Hamid from Social Capital and Ilya Fushman from Index Partners joined in 2017 and 2018 respectively, both as investing partners. which the firm has vigorously denied. On 27 March 2015, after a month long trial, the jury found against Pao on all claims. In June 2015, Pao filed an appeal. In September 2015, Pao announced she would no longer appeal the jury verdict. In September 2018, Kleiner Perkins announced it was spinning out its digital growth team into a new independent firm. The firm announced its 19th fund on 31 January 2019 in the "consumer, enterprise, hard tech and fintech" sectors. The firm raised US$600 million for its 18th fund, KP XVIII, in January 2019.

In March 2008 Kleiner Perkins announced the iFund, a $100 million venture capital investment initiative that funds concepts related to the iPhone, and doubled that investment a year later. It was reported in April 2008 that Kleiner Perkins was raising funds for a $500 million growth stage clean technology fund. In October 2010, the firm launched a $250 million fund called sFund to focus on social startups, with co investors such as Facebook, Zynga and Amazon. com. In early 2016, the firm raised $1.4 billion in KP XVII and DGF III. The firm has been an early investor in more than 900 including Amazon. com, Beyond Meat, Citrix, Electronic Arts, Intuit, Netscape, Shyp, Nest, Sun Microsystems, Some current investments include DJI, Handshake, Coursera, Farmers Business Network, Interos, IronNet Cybersecurity, Desktop Metal, Gusto, Plaid, Rippling, Robinhood, Slack, UiPath, Netlify, Loom, Viz. ai, and Looker. Very recent investments include Modern Health, Pillar, Future, TogetherAI and STORD. Kleiner Perkins paid $5 million in 1994 for around 25% of Netscape and profited from Netscape's IPO. Its investment of $8 million in Cerent was worth around $2 billion when the optical equipment maker was sold to Cisco Systems In 1999, Kleiner Perkins As of 2019, the market cap of Google's parent company was estimated at around $831 billion. As initial investors in Amazon. com Kleiner Perkins scored returns on an $8 million investment.