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Retym: The Infrastructure AI Needs
Having led Retym’s Seed round in 2021, we’re excited to deepen our investment and continue our partnership as Retym delivers critical innovations that will power the next wave of AI advancements.

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Cartesia: Pioneering real-time voice AI
We believe real-time AI is the next major computing shift, and Cartesia is positioned to lead this transformation. We’re thrilled to partner with the team and lead their Series A.
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Moveworks + ServiceNow: Unlocking new experiences for every employee
Congratulations to the Moveworks team on their incredible $3 billion acquisition by ServiceNow. We’ve been proud supporters of Moveworks since the Series B in 2019.
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Hippocratic AI: Making healthcare more abundant
In just 18 months after its founding, more than 23 health systems are using Hippocratic AI to interact and engage with hundreds of thousands of patients to provide better healthcare and over time better outcomes. This is just the beginning.
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Enterpret: Transforming customer feedback into product growth
Entrepret is building a platform that transmutes customer interactions into proactive insights and automated workflows.
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Arcade: Empowering Teams with Interactive Storytelling
Storytelling is how we share ideas, create connections, and make sense of the world. Compelling stories go a step further — they capture attention and make you feel something.
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Web Browsers for AI
As continued AI improvements accelerate the capabilities of agents, we believe Browserbase will play a pivotal role in enabling their future.
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Nooks: Bringing AI to sales in a human-centric way
Nooks revolutionizes sales pipeline generation by automating manual tasks, helping sales representatives focus on relationship-building and boosting productivity.
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Allium: The blockchain data platform
Allium has built the industry-leading blockchain data platform. We are proud to double down on our original investment.
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Announcing KP21 and Select III
We are thrilled to announce our twenty first venture fund, KP21, to back early stage companies, and our third select fund, KP Select III, to back high inflection investments.
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Huntress: Cybersecurity for the 99%
Huntress was founded with one simple idea: make it a losing fight for hackers. The team has built a managed security platform that delivers robust products and exceptional service, while remaining affordable for SMBs & their MSP partners. We’re thrilled to be co-leading their Series D!
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AI for the Enterprise
Glean is evolving from the tool you use to answer questions, to one that can support routine generative tasks, enabling teams to be more productive without compromising security. Today, we’re re-doubling down on our conviction in the company and co-leading their Series D.
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PermitFlow: The Pre-Construction Platform
Permitting is painful. It’s a universal gripe. PermitFlow is building a software product that helps property developers prepare requirement-ready, error-free permit applications. We’re excited to partner with the team and lead their Series A.
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Ambience: The AI operating system for healthcare
Ambience is in the pursuit of a world-changing opportunity: to build the intelligence utility powering all medical care. We’ve doubled down on Ambience’s journey and lead their Series B.
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Codeium: The modern coding superpower
Codeium has the opportunity to become a comprehensive developer productivity platform, starting with their IDE autocomplete, code search chat, and terminal offerings, and soon expanding out to other essential parts of a developer’s workflow.
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Harvey: Super-powering knowledge work
Harvey was founded to bring the power of LLMs to knowledge work. Gabe and Winston have a clear vision for Harvey to empower people while engendering trust in a revolutionary technology. We couldn’t be more excited to partner with the team.
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Together AI: The AI Acceleration Cloud
Together AI is now the AI cloud of choice for a growing number of leading AI engineering teams, who rely on them to deliver the high performing, reliable infrastructure to serve models to their own customers.
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Loom + Atlassian: Putting video messages to work
With more than 25 million users and more than 200,000 customers, Loom is living its mission to empower effective communication with video messages.
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Captions: The AI-powered creative studio
AI is redefining how digital products are created, and Captions has emerged as the leading AI-powered platform for video content.
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Welcoming Leigh Marie Braswell
We’re excited to share that Leigh Marie Braswell is joining Kleiner Perkins as a Partner.
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Infrastructure in ’23
For the third year, Bucky Moore shares what he believes to be the most dynamic and important areas of innovation in infrastructure.
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Focusing on Fundamentals
The annual Kleiner Perkins People Report draws from the collective power of the tech community to share valuable perspectives and recommendations.
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Welcoming back Everett Randle
We’re thrilled to welcome Everett (Ev) Randle, back to Kleiner Perkins as a Partner.
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Figma + Adobe: The Convergence of Productivity and Creativity
Figma is more than a company – it’s a connected community of empowered creators and look forward to what they will accomplish as part of the Adobe family.
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Superblocks: Changing the legacy of internal custom software
We are excited for Superblocks to supercharge millions of developers everywhere, and proud to lead their Series A and partner with Brad, Ran and the team.
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Tecton: Bringing machine learning to the masses
To keep pace with growing customer demand, and continue growing its community, we’re excited to announce Tecton’s Series C today.
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Automating the physical economy
Motive is a category defining company with revenue scale, multiple product lines, and tremendous positive impact on the businesses that leverage their products. We proud to co-lead their Series F.
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Glean: Empowering employees to find answers
Glean empowers employees with an intuitive work assistant that helps them find exactly what they need, and discover the things they should know.
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Rippling: The system of record for employee data
We believe that Rippling is a generational company, and the team is executing together better than we could have imagined.
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Lumafield: Illuminating manufactured parts
Lumafield has the power to give engineers confidence in pushing the limits of manufacturing.
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Firstbase: Supporting hybrid and remote teams on a global scale
Firstbase is enabling companies to manage workplace equipment as employees achieve a higher quality of life through remote work.
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Truv: Modernizing access to credit
Truv has built a platform that allows consumers to pull their employment data and give financial service providers access to it in order to better assess their credit and unlock access to products.
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Autograph: The future of fandom
Technology has created new ways for fans to engage with their icons, and Autograph is building a cornerstone platform to power these magical experiences.
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Rain: Providing access to virtual assets for a billion people
Rain is the first licensed virtual assets service provider in the Middle East, providing a safe to buy, sell and store virtual assets.
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Announcing KP 20 & KP Select II
With two new funds, we are excited to start backing the next 50 years of history-making founders.
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Computing and data infrastructure in ’22
Bucky Moore synthesizes the most impactful ideas from conversations over the past year, and their influence on his go-forward thinking as an investor.
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Synthesia: Unlocking mass customization of video at scale
Synthesia is building the leading AI-enabled video creation platform, empowering anyone to create professional-quality videos using a custom avatar.
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Finally, a database worth loving
The combination of horizontal scalability, support for serverless, and a consumer-grade user experience brings PlanetScale as close to the “holy grail” of database platforms as we have seen.
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Imprint: A modern approach to rewarding customer loyalty
We’re proud to partner with Imprint in their pursuit to reimagine how we pay, making it a rewarding experience for customers and and brands.
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The second-wave of digitization in orthodontics
We believe that Lightforce Orthodontics is the second-wave of orthodontics digitization, and we’re proud to lead their Series C.
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A holistic approach to company success
The annual Kleiner Perkins People Report provides access to the collective power of our network.
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Making workplace knowledge accessible
Glean is an incredibly delightful and intuitive experience that enables employees to find information.
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Intelligent, affordable robots to transform manufacturing
Rapid Robotics automates machine operator tasks to help manufacturers and scale their businesses, and we’re proud to co-lead their Series B.
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Welcome, 2021 Fellows
Since 2012, we’ve introduced students interested in technology and entrepreneurship to opportunities at companies we believe in.
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Mental resilience, health and productivity
Thrive Global is helping the world’s leading enterprises and their people live and work with greater well-being and unlock human potential.
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Investing in Rudderstack
We’re proud to partner with RudderStack on their journey to provide developers with the open, flexible tools they need to deliver value to the business with customer data.
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Transforming how stores in Pakistan source inventory
Tajir is Pakistan’s largest tech-enabled retail network — a place for sellers to purchase inventory and enjoy 24/7 ordering with next-day delivery.
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A new model for world-class education
Subject is raising the bar for the virtual learning experience, empowering anyone to earn both high school and college credits from the comfort of their home.
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Settle: A reimagined CFO suite for brands of the future
Settle has reimagined the CFO suite for brands, starting with integrated financing and bill pay solutions.
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Announcing Kleiner Perkins Select
Announcing Kleiner Perkins Select ー a new $750M fund that extends our core investment strategy to focus on high inflection investments.
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Hatch: What SMBs need to grow
Hatch provides accessible, transparent and fair solutions that small businesses need to start out and grow.
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Automating compliance certifications end-to-end
Secureframe is on a mission to become the single source of truth for commercial compliance on the Internet.
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Calixa: the customer operations platform
Calixa is poised to play an important role in providing the system of action to the modern, data-driven software business.
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Crypto 2021: From “Alternative” to Mainstream
We are poised for an explosive next chapter of crypto, with massive opportunities.
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Taking healthcare to Infinitus and Beyond
We’re excited to continue our partnership with Infinitus. You’ll know they’ve succeeded when you never have to make another call for your healthcare.
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Looking ahead to the future of computing and data infrastructure
Bucky Moore shares a synthesis of impactful ideas from conversations over the past year, and their influence on our go-forward thinking.
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DoorDash: delivering the future of local
When we led their Series B, DoorDash was competing in a crowded space, but they were different ー their technology, commitment to customers, and their drive to execute.
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Scaling access to quality healthcare
MedArrive bridges the virtual care gap by combining physician-led telemedicine with hands-on care from a network of trusted EMS professionals.
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Slack: it’s where work happens
Communication is fundamental to human beings. Slack has changed how we connect and work together, and makes work more fun for millions of people.
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The streaming SQL database
As more business data moves to streaming, we see Materialize’s ability to democratize access to it as the foundation upon which they will build the industry’s next major data platform.
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Welcome to the future of virtual events
Welcome is delivering breathtaking, high quality virtual events and experiences to keep us connected and provide access to those who wouldn’t otherwise have it.
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Security from the inside out – It’s Personal
apiiro is a systematic and comprehensive approach for engineering teams to ensure that what they build is as secure as possible. We’re excited to co-lead their Series A.
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How startups are navigating 2020
The Kleiner Perkins People Report leverages the collective power of founders and people leaders to provide transparency into what startups are doing around critical topics.
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The future of productivity with Coda
It’s clear that there is true value in Coda’s vision for the world — that if given the right set of building blocks, anyone can make a doc as powerful as an app.
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Congratulations Livongo – Improving the lives of people with chronic diseases.
Chronic conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease cost the US healthcare system over $500 billion annually. Beyond hard costs, chronic diseases exact a high personal toll on quality of life, compromising everyday activities that many of us take for granted. This is why we were so excited about Livongo, a health management platform that…
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Making the most out of physical space is a matter of density
Density is powering the future of how we measure and manage physical space, and there hasn’t been a more critical moment in our history to get this right.
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Robots with human-like dexterity
Modern industries will thrive with robot solutions that can adapt and change with us, and we’re excited to help Dexterity accelerate this new reality.
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Data Security for the Digital Age
Open Raven is building the foundational data security platform for enterprises in the cloud-first world.
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Networking our multi-cloud world
Alkira is empowering companies to connect and operate multi-cloud networks with the support they need, like integrated services, visibility and governance.
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A clear path to successful teams
Pathlight is empowering individuals and teams perform at their best, and helping organizations harness the creativity of their people.
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Bringing Clarity to Supply Chain Risk
Interos is bringing transparency and intelligence to highly interconnected and otherwise opaque global supply chains.
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Announcing KP19
Announcing our nineteenth venture fund to focus on early-stage investments. Our mission remains the same — to be the first call for founders who want to change the world and make history.
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The future of credit is global
With modern technology and growing amounts of data, the future of credit reaches far beyond today’s infrastructure.
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Modern Health accelerates the reach of mental health benefits
Today, we’re excited to welcome John Doerr and Founders Fund to the Modern Health journey as we announce the company’s Series B.
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Frank J. Caufield, Co-Founder and Partner (1939-2019)
We are grateful for Frank’s many contributions to our firm over the years. He will be sorely missed.
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Gravitational pulling us toward an open and multi-cloud future
Gravitational builds open-source tools that enable developers to securely build and run applications that are completely independent of the cloud provider or type of infrastructure they run on.
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Welcome Bison Trails
Bison Trails is the easiest way to run secure, premier infrastructure on multiple blockchains.
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21st Annual Fogarty Lecture featuring Brook Byers
Brook Byers shares insights from 40 years of working with scientists, physicians, engineers and patients to create new products and build companies.
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Moveworks — a new interaction model for enterprise workflows
Moveworks is an AI platform that autonomously resolves IT support issues.
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VC Bucky Moore on why he joined Kleiner Perkins, enterprise cloud prospects he likes
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Kleiner Perkins veteran Ted Schlein tells why firm’s reboot was needed
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What Ilya Fushman says people get wrong about Kleiner Perkins, and whether a growth fund is in its future
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Why Mamoon Hamid joined Kleiner Perkins and what he thinks of direct listings
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The New Guard at Kleiner Perkins
Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, the firm that helped to establish Sand Hill Road as a global venture capital hub over the past five decades, is going “Back to the Future” with a slate of new leaders and a stronger focus on what it does best.
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Progyny helping people achieve the dream of parenthood
Progyny helps people achieve the dream of parenthood with its fertility and family building benefits solutions.
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Congratulations RAPT Therapeutics
RAPT Therapeutics is harnessing the immune system to combat cancer and allergic disorders and improve patient quality of life.
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ArsenalBio joins next-gen cell therapy field with $85M A round FierceBiotech
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Churchill Club Honors Slack as Game Changer of the Year
Ilya Fushman interviews award recipient — Slack CFO, Allen Shim
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Ilya Fushman Quora Feed
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Working with Inkitt to write the next chapter
With the ubiquity of mobile devices, modern software tools, and the connected nature of our world, it’s now possible to reinvent storytelling and empower talent from all walks of life to reach a global audience.
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Checking In With Kleiner Perkins As It “Goes Back To The Future”
There was a time when Kleiner Perkins, an early investor in Google and Amazon, let its portfolio do the talking. But times have changed, and the well-known firm, with a fresh $600 million early-stage fund, is looking to open a “new chapter” aimed at going “back to the future.”
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A brand is a voice and a product is a souvenir
Pattern Brands is leveraging the power of a brand to sell products.
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Medtronic distributes Viz.ai’s AI imaging software
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The value of dust
DUST Identity is building a physical and digital platform for secure, low-cost, un-forgeable tracking of goods.
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A.I. Uses Expected to Expand as U.S. Consumers Warm Up to Trading Data for Convenience
Artificial intelligence is a hot investment for venture capital firms. And as the use of the technology expands, some investors expect consumers to…
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11 Big Ideas From SV’s Most Storied Investment Firm
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Cameo – captivating hearts and minds
Every so often you find an idea that is so creative and differentiated that it captures your heart and mind. That’s how we felt about Cameo…
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Back to the future
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve raised Kleiner Perkins’ 18th venture fund to focus on early stage investing.
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Welcome 2019 Kleiner Perkins Fellows!
Sixty-eight students will be spending their summer pursuing their passion for design, engineering and product management.
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Brex valued at $2.6B with new cash from Kleiner Perkins
Brex, the credit card built for scaling business, today announced it closed a $100 million investment round.
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Why Kleiner Perkins invested in Azarus
Azarus, the first company to build a distributed, user-generated game challenge system has raised $1.8M in Seed funding.
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Partner Mamoon Hamid discusses his start in venture, Kleiner’s partnership ethos and building winning teams
Host Jason Calacanis sits down with Mamoon for the latest episode of ANGEL the Podcast.
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Welcome Pillar
The platform that helps graduates manage student debt has raised $5.5M in Seed funding.
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Welcome Modern Health
Modern Health, a mental well-being benefits platform for employers, today announced $9 million in Series A funding.
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Welcome Future
Future, the $5 a day personal coaching platform, today announced $8.5M in Series A funding.
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As An Investor, What Do You Look For In A Management Team?
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What Are The Most Promising Areas Of Tech Investing Right Now?
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Mamoon Hamid on $600m Back to Future fund, Series A price sensitivity and similarities in building basketball and VC teams
Mamoon Hamid sits down with Harry Stebbings to discuss venture capital and more.
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CodeSandbox Raises $2.4M Seed Round led by Kleiner Perkins
CodeSandbox is an online code editor that allows you to create a new web application in a single click. We handle setting up the development environment, the tooling and the provisioning for you.
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Congratulations Beyond Meat, The Future of Protein™
Beyond Meat offers a portfolio of revolutionary plant-based meats for consumers to experience while enjoying the nutritional benefits of eating plant-based foods.
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Welcome STORD
We’re thrilled to partner with the STORD team to reshape how goods move across the globe.
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Welcome Rippling
Businesses are built by people whose time should be spent on developing products and interacting with customers.
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Reinventing Digital Identity for the Physical World
The rapid proliferation of digital connections and services has led to an evolution in the way we interact and perform transactions online.
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Epic CEO on 250 million Fortnite players, digital humans, and $100 million dev fund
Epic Games dumped a bunch of news about the state of the Unreal Engine at its keynote talk at the Game Developers Conference today.
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Newsela raises $50M to expand a content repository for K-12 learning that replaces traditional textbooks
As schools continue to look for new ways to cut costs while at the same time reboot their curriculum to better tap new innovations and improved understandings of how children learn, e-learning startups are attracting attention, both from educators and the VCs that fund them to fuel growth.
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John Doerr NVCA lifetime achievement award acceptance speech
On February 27, 2019, John Doerr was honored by the NVCA with its Lifetime Achievement Award in venture capital. The Award honors those who have made significant contributions to foster innovation, advance technology and drive new company formation.
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Crypto in 2019: Kleiner Perkins 5 Focus Areas
After an explosion of altcoins and funding, technical constraints and regulatory angst have taken over the headlines. Still, the frenzy of the past two years set the stage for the next wave of adoption with a steady inflow of talent and new, uniquely compelling use cases of digital assets.
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Here’s how the US could address the issues with 5G
CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa reports on the security threat 5G could pose as more companies adopt the technology.
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Juniper Networks buys Mist Systems for $405 million
Juniper plans to use the purchase to bolster its software-defined enterprise portfolio and multicloud offerings.
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The Startup Taking on Bayer with Cheaper Non-GMO seeds
Farmers Business Network, a sort of Glassdoor for agriculture, is now selling its own seeds, too.
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Ionic Security raises $40 million to encrypt files accessed on the cloud
Ionic Security has raised $40 million in series E financing led by JPMorgan Chase, with participation from GV, Kleiner Perkins, Icon Ventures, Meritech Capital, TechOperators, Ten Eleven Ventures, Goldman Sachs, SunTrust Bank, and others.
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Citigroup Joins Goldman Sachs, Kleiner Perkins, American Express with Series C Investment in Home Finance Startup Better.com
Better.com, a home finance disrupter, today announced its closing of additional funding from Citigroup.
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DoorDash raises $400M round, now valued at $7.1B
Delivery company DoorDash is announcing that it has raised $400 million in Series F financing.
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Slack off. Send videos instead with $11M-funded Loom
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many emails can you replace with a video?
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Kleiner’s Mamoon Hamid thinks we could be in a 15-year-long bull market (and other insights from the firm)
Late last month, the venture firm Kleiner Perkins began an official reboot, with a new, $600 million fund, as well as some new faces blazing the trail for the outfit going forward, including Mamoon Hamid and Ilya Fushman, investors who joined Kleiner from Social Capital and Index Ventures, respectively.
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Figma: Crazy Ramping Series C
OdeMap: VC Poetry by Bing Gordon on the triumphs and challenges that every founder faces on their journey to make history.
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Productboard raises further $10M for its product management system
Productboard, the San Francisco and Prague-based startup that offers product management software, has raised $10 million in further funding, adding to its Series A in July last year. The round is led by Index Ventures, and sees Index General Partner Jan Hammer joining the board.
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FabFitFun gets a whopping $80M to dominate the subscription box economy
Today, the Los Angeles-based subscription box company FabFitFun said it has landed a whopping $80 million in Series A funding led by Kleiner Perkins.
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The Hottest Education Startup in the U.S. Is a $700 Million Company Built by a Guatemalan Engineer in Pittsburgh
Duolingo, which built a big business on a free app, may file to go public in 2020. If and when it does, the startup will give Pittsburgh a huge homegrown success story.
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The strong impact of Desktop Metal
Versatility, convenience and rapidity are the core advantages of DM systems
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Phishing Diplomacy
Arguably, diplomatic communications are a sovereign state’s most sensitive, protected information. However, threat actors target and breach even a heavily secured diplomatic correspondence network with alarming success to steal data and intellectual property—just as they target private businesses and organizations.
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Robinhood launches checking and savings with an almost unheard-of 3% interest rate
Robinhood is getting into more traditional consumer banking with the launch of a new checking and savings account.
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Fintech start-up Plaid raises $250 million at $2.7 billion valuation, adds Mary Meeker to board
Fintech company Plaid just hit a key Silicon Valley milestone: a multibillion dollar valuation.
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Nurx’s Mission To Be More Than ‘The Uber Of Birth Control’
Nurx aims to address the issue of so-called “contraceptive deserts” in the U.S.
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Digital Wallet Launched by Dentist Is Valued at $1.2 Billion
Viva Republica, operator of the South Korean digital wallet Toss, has raised $80 million from investors including Kleiner Perkins to propel its expansion into new areas such as online stock trading.
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Looker snags $103 million investment on $1.6 billion valuation
Looker has been helping customers visualize and understand their data for seven years, and today it got a big reward, a $103 million Series E investment on a $1.6 billion valuation.
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FBN Launches Health Insurance Option
Farmer’s Business Network is teaming up with Lifestyle Health Plans to offer group health coverage for farmers.
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Plastiq Empowering SMBs With Better Bill Payment
Kleiner Perkins is thrilled to lead Plastiq’s $27 million Series C round of funding. Welcome, Plastiq, to the Kleiner Perkins family!
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DUST Identity Emerges From Stealth to Protect Device Supply Chain
Boston, MA-based start-up firm DUST Identity has emerged from stealth with $2.3 million seed funding led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from New Science Ventures, Angular Ventures, and Castle Island Ventures. It was founded in 2018 by Ophir Gaathon (CEO), Jonathan Hodges (VP engineering) and Dirk Englund (board member).
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Vault.com names Kleiner Perkins Fellows #2 Internship Program in the U.S. and Kleiner Perkins Announces $100k in Seed Funding for Fellows
When we started the Kleiner Perkins Fellows program six years ago to connect young, talented people with future opportunities in Silicon Valley, little did we know that it would become a 500 strong community of incredible engineers, designers, product managers, and founders.
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Welcome Netlify
Netlify announced the close of its $30m Series B financing led by Kleiner Perkins.
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Soundcloud on the blockchain? Audius raises $5.5M to decentralize music
Audius wants to cut the middlemen out music streaming so artists get paid their fair share. Coming out of stealth today led by serial entrepreneur and DJ Ranidu Lankage, Audius is building a blockchain-based alternative to Spotify or SoundCloud.
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A pickaxe for the AI gold rush, Labelbox sells training data software
Today, Labelbox is emerging from six months in stealth with a $3.9 million seed round led by Kleiner Perkins and joined by First Round and Google’s Gradient Ventures.
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Credit Card Payoff App Tally Raises $25 Million
Tally, an automated debt-managing app, has raised $25 million in Series B funding with the goal of expanding its reach and finding new ways to alleviate consumers’ financial anxiety.
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Remembering 1968: The birth of Intel
In many ways, 1968 is famous for its tragedies: assassinations, conflicts and war. But 1968 also gave birth to something amazing: the era of fast, cheap, ubiquitous electronics. Because 50 years ago this week, two middle-aged engineers quit their jobs to start a new company called Intel.
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Kleiner Perkins and GV invest $21 million in AI health care startup Viz.ai
Artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare startup Viz.ai has raised $21 million in a round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Alphabet’s venture capital arm GV.
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Kleiner Perkins, Shasta Ventures, Sinai Ventures invest $1.7 Million in Popular Video Maker Kapwing
Kapwing hopes to rapidly adapt to shifting memescape and its fragmented media formats, seizing on opportunities like creators needing to turn their long-form landscape videos vertical for Instagram’s recently launched IGTV.
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As product development incorporates more feedback, development toolkit productboard raises $8M
Since its debut on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage in September 2016, demand for a service like productboard, which gives companies a holistic view of product development and encourages input from across an organization, has only gotten more acute.
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Kleiner Teams With Chelsea Clinton to Boost Telemedicine Birth Control
Startup Nurx raises $36 million to give young women access in restrictive, remote areas of U.S.
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Upstart Data Wrangler Raises $25 Million to Take on IBM, HPE, and Splunk
Data-cruncher ArcSight dominated security operations centers—the digital war rooms of corporations—through the aughts. Splunk, a mighty rival, took the lead in the present decade. But which company will prevail in the years to come?
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This Scrappy Startup Wants To Save Family Farms. But Big Ag Is Fighting Back
Based south of the San Francisco airport and backed by nearly $200 million in venture capital—from the likes of T. Rowe Price, Temasek, Kleiner Perkins and GV (Google’s VC arm), among others—FBN is trying to do nothing less than save America’s family farms while also building what its brash CEO, Amol Deshpande, hopes will become…
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This Startup Got $40 Million to Build a Space Catapult
Flying cars. Cures for death. And now … space catapults. Bless you, California, for not letting reality get you down.
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Rental Property Site Spotahome Gets $40 Million for Expansion
Rental property listing service Spotahome has raised $40 million in a funding round led by Silicon Valley-based Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
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Internet Trends 2018
We use data to tell stories of business-related trends we focus on. We hope others take the ideas, build on them & make them better.
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Gates Notes: Management tips from a brilliant business leader
In the early days of Microsoft, I felt pretty confident about my coding skills, but I had a lot to learn about project management. This became abundantly clear after an incident in 1978, when I told Intel—a really important customer—that we would deliver them a version of Microsoft BASIC in four weeks. They thought I…
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This start-up made connected toothbrushes — now it aims to overthrow the ‘primitive’ dental insurance industry
Alex Frommeyer comes from a family of dentists. Now, he has a start-up that sells dental insurance, but with a twist.
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Prisma raises $4.5M seed round led by Kleiner Perkins
Prisma, a Berlin and San Francisco startup that is betting big on GraphQL — the data query language originally developed by Facebook to make it eas…
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Our Investment in Prisma
As software eats the world, the rise in products and services we are now accustomed to consuming digitally is impossible to overstate. Businesses a…
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BorderX Lab Raises $20m in Series B Funding Round Led by Kleiner Perkins
SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — BorderX Lab, Inc., a technology enabled, cross-border e-commerce company founded in 2014 by three former Google computer scientists, has raised $20m in a Series B financing round led by Kleiner Perkins . The company’s platform allows consumers around the world to discover and purchase authentic consumer goods and…
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People are Silicon Valley’s best-kept secret
Outside Silicon Valley, commentators obsess about robots, artificial intelligence, big data. Inside Silicon Valley, paradoxically, the tech tribe’s preoccupations often lie elsewhere: less with code than with people. Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg wrote two of the hottest books to come out of the Valley in the past half-decade — one is about women’s professional confidence and…
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IronNet, Founded by Ex-Pentagon Brass, Raises $78 Million Series B
Former National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander’s startup, IronNet Cybersecurity Inc., has raised a sizable round of venture financing as it seeks to leverage its founder’s government experience to defend customers against sophisticated hackers.
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John Doerr’s Measure What Matters is available to order
Kleiner Perkins Chairman John Doerr announced his book, Measure What Matters, can be ordered through Amazon and other booksellers.
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The United States needs a Department of Cybersecurity
This week more than 40,000 security professionals will attend RSA in San Francisco to see the latest cyber technologies on display and discuss key issues. No topic will be higher on the agenda than the Russian-sponsored hack of the American 2016 election, with debate about why the country has done so little to respond and…
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Ring’s Unconventional Road To Success
Earlier today, Amazon completed its purchase of Ring. While these two companies are distinctive in many ways, they could not be more closely aligned in their customer-focus and expansive long-term vision. Together, Amazon and Ring will create revolutionary products and experiences to make us safer, happier, and better connected.
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The Path to a Cognitive Enterprise
UiPath has quickly become the leader in enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Their platform enables the rapid design and deployment of software robots that emulate and execute time-consuming, repetitive tasks that normally require the insight of a knowledge worker to complete.
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Ilya Fushman joins Kleiner Perkins as General Partner and Managing Member
Kleiner Perkins announced today the appointment of Ilya Fushman as a general partner and managing member on the leadership team at the firm.
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Former Dropbox exec Ilya Fushman is joining Kleiner Perkins from Index Ventures
Ilya Fushman, a former Dropbox executive most recently at Index Ventures, is joining Kleiner Perkins as a general partner and managing member, the firm said today.
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Helix, a startup that stores your genetic data online, nets $200 million
Helix, a San Carlos startup that analyzes and stores customers’ genetic information online, has raised $200 million from venture capital and private equity funds, the company announced Thursday.
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Kleiner Perkins’s Hamid Leads New Round for AI-Powered Wireless Network Mist
In $46 million Series C, new managing director joins startup as a board observer
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UJET, a startup that wants to speed up customer support, raises $25M led by GV
UJET, a startup that makes software to improve customer support, said today that it’s raised a $25 million Series B led by GV (formerly known as Google Ventures). Other participants in the round include returning investors Kleiner Perkins and DCM Ventures and new backer Citi Ventures.
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Startups Try to Chip Away at Adobe’s Dominance
Kleiner Perkins and other venture capitalists are betting that the Photoshop maker’s chokehold over the design market could someday come to an end.
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Review: Motiv’s smart ring is a feat of miniature engineering
Often, a personal technology review has little to do with the tech itself. What makes a good product comes down to design or implementation, or simply whether a device does what it is intended to do.
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Slack Hopes Its AI Will Keep You from Hating Slack
The fastest-growing business app is relying on machine-learning tricks to fend off a deluge of messages—as well as competition from Facebook and Microsoft.
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‘Smart Thermometers’ Track Flu Season in Real Time
A company making “smart thermometers” that upload body temperatures to its website claims to be tracking this year’s flu season faster and in greater geographic detail than public health authorities can.
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Stripe’s John Collison On The Core Values That Shape His Company
Stripe’s core values, says cofounder John Collison, have been key to the online payment powerhouse’s growth since he and his brother, Patrick, launched the company in 2011.
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GV leads $25 million investment in document digitization startup Ripcord
Ripcord, a company that aims to do away with the piles of paper enterprises keep around, has raised a $25 million round led by GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) to fuel its robotic-assisted paper digitization business.
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Farmers Business Network just raked in a whopping $110 million in Series D funding
Farmers Business Network has raised $110 million in new venture funding to support a business that may sound boring to some Silicon Valley technologists but which appears to have addressed a very real need: it’s a social network for farmers that invites them to share their data, pool their know-how, and bargain more effectively for…
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How Collective Medical Technologies Conquered Emergency Rooms On A Bootstrap
The software had generated buzz through word of mouth in ERs across the country, after government officials in Washington, reeling from a budget deficit, threatened in 2011 to limit Medicaid reimbursement to three non-emergency visits per year.
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Collective Medical Raises $47.5 Million to Reduce Hospital Costs
Company works with major national health plans
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Silicon Valley Gets Behind Initiative to Challenge Trump’s Agenda in Court
High-profile donors from tech and Hollywood are funding a law group at Georgetown to fight for the Constitution, especially when it involves directly undermining President Trump’s policies.
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FinTech Trends 2017
Venture capital funding for FinTech companies has exploded in recent years, driving a wave of innovation across the sector. Entrepreneurs and investors alike are seeing unprecedented opportunities in areas such as payments, lending, insurance, remittances, banking and cryptocurrencies. In analysis prepared exclusively for Money20/20, Kleiner Perkins’ General Partner Noah Knauf reveals the trends driving funding…
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YC graduate Feather raises $3.5 million for furniture rental business
Feather wants to take the pain out of owning furniture and today announced the close of a $3.5 million seed round for its furniture rental business. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Bain Capital Ventures co-led the round, with participation from several other investors, including Y Combinator (YC).
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Personal Genetic Testing Is Here. Do We Need It?
Experts say many people are using a growing stream of genetic data to help them make better health decisions.
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Real-time data analytics startup Incorta raises $15M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins
Incorta, the startup that wants to speed up big data analytics by eliminating the need for data warehouses, has raised a $15 million Series B led by new investor Kleiner Perkins. Existing investors GV and Ron Wohl, former executive vice president of applications development at Oracle, also participated.
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Robotic digitization startup Ripcord raises $40 million to make paperless offices a reality
Ripcord, a startup that’s using robotics, machine vision, and artificial intelligence to create what it calls the “truly paperless workplace,” has raised $40 million in a series B round of funding led by Icon Ventures, with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Lux Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank
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Kleiner Perkins to Invest $40 Million in Toronto-Based Tulip.io
Tulip.io Inc., whose mobile software allows sales associates and retailers to engage more effectively with customers, has raised $40 million in a new round of venture-capital financing led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
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Desktop Metal gets $115 million in funding to deliver metal 3D printing for manufacturing
Desktop Metal has already earned a number of fans with its 3D printed metal technology — Lowe’s, Caterpillar and BMW were all among its earliest clients. As first noted by CNBC, the Massachusetts-based startup is also getting some healthy monetary support, adding $115 million of venture funds to its coffers this week.
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This Company Is About To Transform The $1.5 Trillion Mortgage Industry
In its first year Better mortgage made over $525 million in loans, which is the largest amount by a fintech company in its first year post launch. Backed with more than $45M from investors like Goldman Sachs, Pine Brook and Kleiner Perkins, the company is on a mission is to eliminate the inefficiencies of the…
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Kleiner Perkins Welcomes Mamoon Hamid to its Leadership Team
Kleiner Perkins today announced that Mamoon Hamid will be joining the firm as a general partner and managing member.
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Welcoming CloudHealth Technologies!
CloudHealth is a Cloud Service Management platform that takes the frustration out of managing cloud deployments and puts the power back in the hands of business users (in particular, the CFO & CIO).
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OSIsoft’s Next Chapter
We are excited to stay involved in the OSIsoft ecosystem as partners with Element Analytics and hope to find ways to work with more partners of OSIsoft in the years to come.
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Women’s Club The Wing Raises $8 Million Series A, Adds 3 Locations
The Wing, an all-women social, co-working and networking club in New York, has closed an $8 million Series A round as it gets set to open new outposts in Brooklyn, Manhattan’s Soho, and Washington, D.C.
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How Farmers Business Network Plans To Disrupt Big Agra, One Farm At A Time
Since CEO Amol Deshpande and Baron sat down with the idea of a data network for farms in 2014, Farmers Business Network has built a network of 3,400 farms, spanning 12 million acres of farmland (roughly the size of Maryland and Delaware) and sharing more than 25,000 invoices to date.
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The DNA of Helix’s Mission
We believe in a world where everyone can discover the profound benefits in their biological information, and that the powers we tap into through that information can help all of humanity lead better lives.
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Lender Better Mortgage Gets New Kleiner Perkins Funding Valuing Firm at $220 Million
Better Mortgage will expand a nascent program of offering homeowners a guaranteed interest rate within 20 minutes of filling out an online application, said Chief Executive Vishal Garg.
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VCs See Opportunity in Growing Fertility Market
Large venture-backed companies addressing fertility include Natera, Femasys, OvaScience and Progyny.
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Google, BMW and Lowe’s Invest in Metal 3D Printing Startup
Two years after it was created, Desktop Metal, a 3D metal printing startup based in Burlington, Mass., is gearing up to take its first product into mass production. To do so, it’s gathered up a giant pile of venture capital from a group of noteworthy strategic investors.
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Medicaid’s Data Gets an Internet-Era Makeover
Nuna, while working with the federal government, has built a cloud-computing database of the nation’s 74 million Medicaid patients and their treatment.
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The Industrial Awakening Continues: GE Digital Acquires ServiceMax
ServiceMax announced that it is in the process of being acquired by GE Digital. We believe companies like ServiceMax can help drive the growth of what we call the Industrial Awakening.
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Taking the Golden State Warriors to Greatness: Lessons for Entrepreneurs
Ted Schlein interviews Warriors owner and CEO Joe Lacob on building a winning team and how creation of the “Strength in Numbers” franchise holds lessons for entrepreneurs.
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All Your Questions About Startup Fundraising… Asked And Answered.
Podcast covering frequently asked questions about fundraising in today’s startup environment.
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The User’s Guide to Early-Stage Fundraising
Podcast about early-stage funding and how entrepreneurs can best navigate the waters of raising capital today.
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A Bright Future for Connected Vehicles
Telogis announced that they were acquired by Verizon!
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Is Business School The New Design School?
All top ten U.S. business schools have design clubs led by students – the fundamental profile of designers is beginning to shift.
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Taking the “dysfunction” out of cross-functional teams
Panel with leaders from various functions at top tech companies discussing best practices in cross-group teamwork and collaboration.
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2016 Internet Trends Report
KPCB’s Mary Meeker presents the 2016 Internet Trends report, covering today’s Internet growth.
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What Silicon Valley Can Do About Cyber Threats
Podcast about cyber threats impacting the private and public sectors and what Silicon Valley can do about it.
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The Lack of Women in Tech is More Than a Pipeline Problem
Podcast about how we can collectively work to improve women’s participation in the tech industry at each key stage of their careers.
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Are We Experiencing Transportation’s Instagram Moment?
Podcast about three trends – electrification, sharing, and autonomous drive – that are reshaping the future of transportation.
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Google Play Workshop with Ellie Powers
Ellie Powers, the lead product manager of Google Play, discusses how developers can succeed on Google Play.
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Mobile Apps: User Growth, Engagement, & Retention
Panel discussion on user acquisition, engagement, and retention for mobile apps.
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Is Food-Tech Headed Towards Its Uncanny Valley Moment?
As today’s agricultural industry evolves and adapts, we’re seeing massive strides taking place at the intersection of food and technology.
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Building the Foundation for Company Growth: Why Boards Matter
A podcast conversation with tech giants about the importance of building a strong board.
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A New Role as KPCB Chair
John Doerr shares his enthusiasm with our team about his new role as KPCB Chair.
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The Future of Wearable Technology is Bright, Here Are Some Reasons Why
A podcast discussion about how we think about investing in the future of wearable technology.
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It’s Not the Car, It’s the Code
The future isn’t the car. It’s the service, and the code is what enables and optimizes the service.
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Redefining the Hustle: From Prison to Entrepreneurship
A podcast conversation about how former prison inmates turn their experiences into the startup American dream.
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Design in Tech Report 2016
For all of us who use a computer or mobile device, great design is changing how we live and work. John Maeda’s report helps explain why.
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How Marketing and Communications Join Forces to Drive Growth
A panel discussion on local & global growth marketing and how to build unique communities across different markets.
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An Interview with Defense Secretary Ash Carter
Interview with Defense Secretary Ash Carter about the expansion of the counter-ISIS campaign into the cyber domain.
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An Interview with General Keith Alexander on Cybersecurity, Snowden, and IronNet
An interview with General Keith Alexander about cybersecurity, terrorism, and corporate security.
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Nest Co-Founder Matt Rogers On The Secrets To Nest’s Success
A podcast conversation about the secret force behind Nest: good leadership and product design.
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Cyber Hacking is the New Global Battlefield
An interview with cyber guru Kevin Mandia about the evolving landscape of cyber threats.
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Building The Right Sales Model
Panel discussion on building effective sales organizations.
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Decoding Diversity: Unconscious Bias at Work
Brian Welle, Director of People Analytics at Google, leads a discussion on unconscious bias.
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The Artful Science of Managing People and Setting Goals
Podcast about management and how goal setting is done more frequently and publicly in modern day organizations.
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Building Platform Love
Panel on how platform companies can best engage and listen to feedback from their developer communities.
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Anatomy of a Deal: Uber Exec Shares How They’ve Built a Global Business
Fireside chat about how Uber started as an underdog and emerged as a market leader.
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The Mutually Beneficial Relationship Between Washington D.C. and Silicon Valley
A podcast about the intersection of government and technology.
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Introducing the Career Network of the Future
Proud to announce our investment in Handshake, as they connect students, universities, & employers together into a nationwide career network
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Google: Building a Great Work Culture that Scales
Google’s SVP of People, Laszlo Bock, discusses how Google thinks about hiring, management, and culture.
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Marketing at the Early Stage
A panel with CMOs from Facebook, Slack, and Zynga on the importance of brand-building for early-stage startups.
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The Roadmap for Pitching a Venture Capital Firm
A podcast conversation about what tactics entrepreneurs can use to make their idea more attractive for venture funding.
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An Inside Look into the Democratization of Data
We’re excited to announce our investment in Looker, an analytics platform that makes it easy for everyone to find, explore and understand the data that drives their businesses.
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Lessons From Bill Campbell, Silicon Valley’s Secret Executive Coach
A discussion with Silicon Valley legend Bill Campbell about how he coaches tech company founders and executives to great success.
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Design in Tech: Evolving Challenges for Silicon Valley
Fifteen years ago, computers were primarily used by researchers and “nerdy” types. Today’s users, however, are considerably less nerdy.
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Solar and Beyond: Spruce Finance Will Create New Choices for the Consumer
Clean Power Finance and Kilowatt Financial have completed a merger, joining to become one company, Spruce Finance.
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Paving The Way For Women In Science And Tech
An honest discussion about the challenges facing women in STEM and practical ways to make education and the workforce more inclusive for women.