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Google

In 1999, Andy Bechtolsheim introduced us to two Stanford graduates, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They’d built PageRank, a superior search algorithm that overwhelmed Stanford’s network with demand. Banished from campus, they needed capital and scale—fast.

Their 17-page deck had just two pages of numbers and three cartoons. As the eighteenth search engine with no business model and no team, they faced long odds. But when John Doerr asked how big Google would be, they answered: “$10 billion in revenue.” We wrote our largest check ever.

The founders weren’t sold on traditional management or recruiting a CEO. John connected them with Scott Cook, Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs for advice. The executive search led to Eric Schmidt, an experienced tech leader from Sun Microsystems. We helped build their team with Wayne Rosing (VP Engineering) and Jonathan Rosenberg (SVP Product), introduced OKRs for goal-setting, and brought in executive coach Bill Campbell to develop leadership skills.

Our investment in Google delivered exceptional returns and transformed how the world accesses information. John continues as a board director of Alphabet, Inc.

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1999 Early
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IPO GOOG
Founders

Sergey Brin Larry Page
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John Doerr

Thomas Kurian – Google Cloud – Competitor-Aware and Customer-Obsessed

Google: Organizing the world’s information and making it searchable

Amazon

Kleiner Perkins invested in Amazon in 1996 after Coach Bill Campbell connected John Doerr to Leslie Koch, then VP of Marketing at Amazon. Two days after their initial meeting at Il Fornaio in Palo Alto, John met with Jeff Bezos in Seattle. Beyond capital, we served as business builders, recruiting two VPs of Engineering (Dave Risher from Microsoft for front-end, Rick Dalzell from Walmart for operations) and CFO Joy Covey. We facilitated key business development introductions to expand Amazon’s product catalog. Through our network, we connected Jeff with Bing Gordon (then at Electronic Arts, later a KP partner), whose insight about the “magic” of receiving Amazon packages led to the concept for Amazon Prime, ultimately the most successful customer loyalty program in retail history. Bing joined Amazon’s board as the program launched.

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1996 Early
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IPO AMZN
Founders

Jeff Bezos
Partners

John Doerr

Bing Gordon

Amazon: Reimagining commerce

Spotify

Co-founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon set out to chart a new course for the music industry, which was struggling to adapt to digital distribution and online piracy. Spotify has created and evolved an easy-to-use platform that allows users to access music they love and creators to get paid for their work, Spotify has become one of the largest drivers of global music revenue growth. Spotify went public through a Direct Listing in 2018.

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2011 Early
Stage

IPO SPOT
Founders

Daniel Ek Martin Lorentzon
Partners

Bing Gordon

Spotify: Reimagining entertainment one song at a time through streaming music

DoorDash

DoorDash is the largest food delivery platform in the United States and was founded in 2013 by Stanford students Tony Xu, Andy Fang, Stanley Tang, and Evan Moore. Kleiner Perkins entered the picture in 2015, leading DoorDash’s Series B at a time when the company was competing in a crowded space that was poorly serving both restaurants and consumers, betting on what differentiated the team: their technology, customer obsession, and vision to build a true last-mile logistics platform. What Tony and the team achieved went far beyond food delivery, DoorDash became a platform helping local businesses thrive in the modern convenience economy.

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Partnered Since

2015 Early
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IPO DASH
Founders

Andy Fang Evan Moore Stanley Tang Tony Xu
Partners

John Doerr

DoorDash: delivering the future of local

Figma

As every company in the world becomes a software company, the importance of collaborative design software extends to more companies and team members than ever before. Design is no longer just designers—it’s product, engineering, marketing, UX research and management—all working together to build a unique user experience. Figma has created the first browser-based interface design tool, making it significantly easier for teams to design software together. Figma’s cloud-based platform connects to other tools, scripts and web apps, making the design process more streamlined and collaborative. With Figma’s approach, multiple designers can work on a project simultaneously and bring new products to market faster.

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Partnered Since

2017 Early
Stage

IPO FIG
Founders

Dylan Field Evan Wallace
Partners

Josh Coyne

Mamoon Hamid

Figma made design collaborative. Today, it makes history.

Figma: Unleashing creativity through collaborative design

Figma: Crazy Ramping Series C

Duolingo

Duolingo is the world’s most popular language-learning platform, born from the conviction that learning English was a privilege, one that at least doubles a person’s income potential and a mission to deliver that opportunity to everyone. Kleiner Perkins first invested in 2014, when KP partner Bing Gordon, who spent a decade as Chief Creative Officer at Electronic Arts, was drawn to Duolingo’s game-like product design and exceptional team, even before the company had a clear path to monetization.

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2014 Early
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IPO DUOL
Founders

Luis von Ahn Severin Hacker
Partners

Bing Gordon

Duolingo: The world’s best way to learn a language

Robinhood

Robinhood is the platform that set out to democratize finance, lowering barriers, removing fees, and providing greater access to financial information to help build a financial system everyone can participate in. Kleiner Perkins invested in the company as part of its renewed focus on early-stage consumer fintech, and Robinhood went on to become one of the firm’s notable portfolio exits.

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Partnered Since

2018 Growth
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IPO HOOD
Founders

Baiju Bhatt Vlad Tenev
Partners

Josh Coyne

Ilya Fushman

Anthropic

Anthropic is the AI safety company behind Claude, built on the conviction that the most transformative technology of our time should be developed by those most focused on getting it right. The partnership with Anthropic and KP reflects the firm’s broader AI-first thesis: artificial intelligence has emerged as a fundamental technology that, much like electricity, is poised to impact every aspect of our lives from personal experiences and healthcare, to how we work and how companies are built across all industries. Under that banner, Anthropic stands among Kleiner’s most important AI-era investments, representing the firm’s conviction that foundational model development will be one of the defining bets of this generation.

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2025 Growth
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Growth
Founders

Dario Amodei Daniela Amodei
Partners

Mamoon Hamid

Lucas Oliveira

Waymo

Waymo is the world’s leading autonomous driving technology company, operating fully driverless robotaxi services across six major U.S. cities and expanding to more than 20 globally. Having logged over 200 million miles of fully autonomous operation, Waymo has moved beyond proving a concept to scaling a commercial reality, with a safety record statistically superior to human drivers. KP has long believed that the most transformative technology shifts become infrastructure, and Waymo is crossing that threshold.

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Partnered Since

2026 Growth
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Growth
Founders

Sebastian Thrun
Partners

Nadia Cochinwala

Mamoon Hamid

Lucas Oliveira

Waymo: The Infrastructure of Autonomy

Twitter

Kleiner Perkins invested in Twitter in 2010, backing the platform as it evolved from a scrappy real-time messaging service into one of the world’s most influential public squares. We believed early in the power of open, instantaneous communication, and in Twitter’s unique ability to connect people, ideas, and breaking moments at global scale. The platform became essential infrastructure for public discourse, journalism, and culture, reaching hundreds of millions of users worldwide.

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Partnered Since

2010 Growth
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IPO TWTR
Partners

John Doerr

Bing Gordon

Compaq Computer Corporation

One of the most important bets in KP history. When Compaq set out to build the first IBM-compatible portable computer, KP backed the vision and helped recruit the sales leadership that would define the company’s go-to-market strategy. In its first full year of operations, Compaq sold 53,000 PCs, generating $111 million in sales, a record at the time in the technology sector, and went public in 1983. KP’s involvement didn’t stop at the investment: Compaq hit the $1 billion revenue mark in 1987, doing so faster than any other company in history at that point. It was an early proof of what Kleiner Perkins believed then and believes now, that the right idea, the right team, and the right partners can create an entirely new industry.

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Partnered Since

1982 Early
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IPO Acquired HP
Founders

Rod Canion Jim Harris Bill Murto
Partners

John Doerr

Handshake

Talent is evenly distributed, opportunity is not. Kleiner Perkins backed Handshake on their mission to democratize access to early career opportunities for every college student, regardless of where they go to school or who they know. What began as a scrappy idea born out of frustration at a remote Michigan tech school has grown into the defining platform for early career hiring: more than 13 million students and 750,000 employers, including all of the Fortune 500, now use Handshake to connect with one another. We believed from day one that the best talent wasn’t just at a handful of coastal schools and Handshake has proven that out at scale.

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2016 Early
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Growth
Founders

Ben Christensen Garrett Lord Scott Ringwelski
Partners

Mamoon Hamid

The Expert Network Behind Handshake AI’s Model Training w/ Garrett Lord & Mamoon Hamid

Handshake: Moving the needle on inequality

Slack

Slack holds a special place in KP’s history. It is literally where three Kleiner Perkins partners first worked together, and that collaboration became the basis of our partnership at Kleiner Perkins today. KP backed Slack across its first three investment rounds, beginning with an early bet based on extraordinary engagement metrics and a product that was still finding its footing. By wrapping human communication, signals from critical apps, and a high-powered platform into a single unified experience, Slack captured the hearts and minds of knowledge workers around the world. Many had tried to displace email before. Slack actually did it. The pivot that gave birth to Slack is by now a familiar Silicon Valley story, but what is less often noted is that pivots rarely pan out, and the fact that this one found lasting success owes to the founders’ extraordinary foresight and entrepreneurial grit.

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2014 Early
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IPO Prior Salesforce
Founders

Stewart Butterfield Cal Henderson
Partners

John Doerr

Ilya Fushman

Mamoon Hamid

Slack: Building the workplace collaboration hub

Communication is fundamental to human beings. Slack has changed how we connect and work together, and makes work more fun for millions of people.

Slack: it’s where work happens

Genentech

Genentech isn’t just a Kleiner Perkins investment; it’s part of our DNA. Genentech was co-founded in 1976 by a young KP partner who had been closely tracking breakthrough research in recombinant DNA technology. Over a beer, the partnership was struck: Kleiner Perkins would provide seed capital, and together they would build an entirely new kind of company. KP didn’t just write a check. KP partners joined the board and helped the company pioneer a new way to attract scientific talent, pulling researchers out of academia and into industry for the first time. The model they invented, licensing science to established pharma partners while building a world-class internal R&D engine, became the blueprint for the entire biotech industry. The success of Genentech in the early 1980s established the foundation for the biotech sector to flourish. When Roche acquired full control of the company in 2009, Genentech was valued at $100 billion.

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1976 Early
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IPO Acquired Roche
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Herb Boyer Bob Swanson
Partners

Brook Byers

Genentech: Pioneering medical breakthroughs with biotechnology

Electronic Arts

Brook Byers met Electronic Arts in 1982 when the company, led by CEO Trip Hawkins and former Apple colleagues, was raising venture capital. After Brook and John Doerr contacted Hawkins, Brook discussed transforming the video game business with the founders. EA brought Hollywood-style storytelling to computer games and signed celebrities like Chuck Yeager, John Madden, and Tony Hawk. EA pioneered outsourcing creative talent and developed games across multiple platforms.

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1982 Early
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IPO EA
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Brook Byers

Bing Gordon

Netscape

Before Netscape, the internet existed but most people had no way in. Kleiner Perkins backed Netscape in 1994, betting that a fast, graphical browser could unlock the web for everyday users and spark a new era of commerce and communication. John Doerr joined the board, and in late 1994 the company shipped Netscape Navigator, one of the first browsers that made it genuinely easy to access and navigate the internet. The company’s 1995 IPO priced at a $2.9 billion valuation, becoming one of the defining moments of the dot-com era. Netscape marked the beginning of the Internet Age, and while the company no longer exists, its legacy lives on in Mozilla, the open-source project built from Netscape’s code. The investment also marked something else: proof that KP could identify not just great companies, but entirely new epochs.

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Partnered Since

1994 Early
Stage

Acquired AOL
Partners

John Doerr

Netscape: Bringing the internet to the world through the web browser

Xilinx

In 1984, the founders had the radical idea to build logic devices that users could program themselves and customize for a specific use after they had been manufactured, upending an industry comfortable with hardwired, unchangeable chips. KP backed the company that same year, with a partner joining the board and helping recruit key sales leadership to bring the product to market. In 1990, Xilinx went public, raising $100 million. The company went on to define the programmable logic category, and its reach into KP’s story runs deeper than the investment itself: Mamoon Hamid, who now leads the firm, began his career as an engineer at Xilinx. Nearly four decades after its founding, Xilinx represented just over half of the programmable logic market before being acquired by AMD in 2022 for $49 billion.

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1984 Early
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IPO XLNX
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James Barnett Ross Freeman Bernie Voderschmitt

Glean

The modern enterprise runs on dozens of SaaS tools, and finding anything across all of them had become one of the most quietly painful problems in knowledge work. Kleiner Perkins saw this clearly, and when the founder came to us with the idea, it was an investment we made on the spot. The team took up incubation space in the basement of KP’s offices on Sand Hill Road, where they built the product for 18 months before the onset of the pandemic. The timing turned out to be prescient: when knowledge-based work became entirely remote, it accelerated an already acute pain point for workers. We have backed Glean from Series A through Series D, deepening our conviction at every stage. Employees using Glean report saving 2 to 3 hours each week, and the platform has become the trusted AI work assistant for hundreds of enterprises.

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2019 Early
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Growth
Founders

TR Vishwanath “Vish” Tony Gentilcore Arvind Jain
Partners

Mamoon Hamid

Aditya Naganath

Lucas Oliveira

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Why We’re Only Using 1% of AI | Glean CEO Arvind Jain

Arvind Jain – Glean – New Playbook

Glean: Work AI for all

AI for the Enterprise

Glean: Empowering employees to find answers

Making workplace knowledge accessible

Sun Microsystems

In the early 1980s, existing computing technology operated in proprietary, walled gardens. The vision for Sun was to take companies into the Network Age, built on an open system where different types of computers could talk to each other. Kleiner Perkins backed Sun in 1982, convinced by both the market opportunity and the exceptional team behind it. A KP partner joined the board and later took a sabbatical from the firm to work directly with Sun, helping develop the SPARC microprocessor. Sun’s growth was explosive, expanding its range of products to include Java, the Solaris operating system, and SPARC, and contributing significantly to Unix, RISC processors, thin client computing, and virtualized computing. The relationship ran deep in both directions: Sun became something of a farm system for Silicon Valley, and several of its founders and leaders went on to become partners at Kleiner Perkins.

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Partnered Since

1982 Early
Stage

IPO Acquired Oracle
Founders

Andy Bechtolsheim Bill Joy Vinod Khosla Scott McNealy
Partners

John Doerr

Sun Microsystems: Unleashing the power of networked computing

Intuit

When Intuit was founded in 1983, popular understanding of how personal computers could be used was confined to basic word processing and spreadsheets. The founder saw something different: a chance to bring personal finance software to everyday households. Kleiner Perkins backed the company in 1990, and from the start the partnership was an active one. When Microsoft launched a direct competitor to Quicken, KP helped Intuit fight back and win. When it was time to find a new CEO, KP helped develop the candidate list, ultimately landing on a legendary Silicon Valley executive who took the helm in 1994. When Microsoft came back with an acquisition offer, KP was at the table for those negotiations too. The Department of Justice ultimately blocked the deal, and Intuit proceeded as an independent company and went from success to success. Today it is one of the most enduring software businesses ever built, a testament to what happens when a simple insight about everyday life meets the right backing at the right moment.

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Partnered Since

1990 Early
Stage

IPO INTU
Founders

Scott Cook
Partners

John Doerr

Intuit: Expanding PC utility with powerful applications

Stripe

Online payments were broken for developers: clunky, fragmented, and notoriously difficult to integrate. Stripe set out to fix that with a simple, elegant API that made accepting payments on the internet feel as easy as it should. KP backed Stripe in 2015, recognizing a company that had already shown remarkable traction and was on a path to becoming the financial infrastructure layer for the modern internet. Today Stripe is one of the most valuable private companies in the world, processing hundreds of billions of dollars in payments annually for millions of businesses globally.

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2015 Growth
Stage

Growth
Founders

John Collison Patrick Collison

Claire Hughes-Johnson – Stripe – Scaling People

Instacart

Grocery shopping was one of the last great consumer behaviors waiting to move online, and the opportunity was enormous for whoever could crack the logistics. KP backed Instacart at the seed stage in 2012, when the idea of on-demand grocery delivery in under an hour still sounded ambitious. The company went on to build the leading grocery technology platform in North America, partnering with hundreds of retailers and reshaping how millions of households shop for food. When the pandemic hit in 2020, Instacart became essential infrastructure overnight, accelerating years of consumer adoption in a matter of weeks. The company went public in 2023, a validation of the original bet that convenience and technology could fundamentally change one of the most habitual parts of everyday life.

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Partnered Since

2012 Growth
Stage

IPO CART
Founders

Brandon Leonardo Apoorva Mehta Max Mullen

Nest

The founders came into KP with nothing more than a makeshift prototype, but their vision was clear: by creating beautiful objects, powered by software and made magical by connectivity, they would connect the smart home without burdening the customer with complexity. Most people looked at a thermostat as a commodity beige box on a wall. KP saw something different. We led Nest’s Series A and took the lead board seat, then stayed deeply involved as the company grew, helping recruit key executives, seal subsequent funding rounds, and navigate the pivotal question of whether to sell. KP was Nest’s biggest investor, putting $20 million in across the Series A and B rounds. When Google acquired Nest in 2014 for $3.2 billion, the investment generated a 20x return, returning over 60% of the fund from a single bet.

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Partnered Since

2010 Early
Stage

Acquired Google
Founders

Tony Fadell Matt Rogers

Nest

Applied Intuition

Applied Intuition creates the digital infrastructure that powers machines to perceive, reason, and act in the real world — building the toolchain, Vehicle OS, and autonomy stacks that help 18 of the top 20 global automakers, as well as major programs across the Department of Defense, deliver vehicle intelligence across automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, and agriculture. Kleiner Perkins first invested at the Series B in 2019, drawn by a bold vision and world-class team from founders Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig, who had the foresight to anticipate a future shaped by autonomy and intelligent mobility well before it was mainstream. That conviction has only deepened over time — Kleiner Perkins co-led Applied Intuition’s Series F, believing it to be a generational company that will define how the world moves for decades to come.

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Partnered Since

2018 Early
Stage

Growth
Founders

Peter Ludwig Qasar Younis
Partners

Nadia Cochinwala

Mamoon Hamid

Applied Intuition: Powering the Next Era of Vehicle Intelligence

Applied Intuition: Powering the next era of vehicle intelligence

Square

Millions of small businesses couldn’t accept credit cards because the barriers were too high: expensive hardware, lengthy approvals, complex contracts. Square set out to fix that with a simple card reader that plugged into a smartphone and put the power of payments in anyone’s hands. KP led Square’s $100 million funding round in 2011, with a KP partner joining the company’s board. The bet was on more than just a payments product; it was a conviction that democratizing commerce infrastructure would unlock enormous economic participation from merchants who had been left out of the system. Square went public in 2015 and has since grown into Block, a financial services platform serving millions of businesses and consumers worldwide. The relationship also ran in both directions: Square’s product lead later joined KP as a partner.

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Partnered Since

2011 Growth
Stage

IPO SQ
Founders

Jack Dorsey Jim McKelvey

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