Company Name: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Company website: www.kleinerperkins.com/
CEO/CTO: John Doerr
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Year Found: Mar 1, 1972
Company Value /
Total Funding Amount: $5.2B
Business roles/desciption: Kleiner Perkins is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. They were early investors in many significant companies, including Amazon, AOL, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Google, Intuit, Macromedia, Netscape, Segway, and Sun Microsystems.
For five decades, Kleiner Perkins has partnered with some of the most ingenious founders in technology and life sciences, helping them make history with their bold ideas. Through twenty venture funds and four growth funds, we’ve invested $10 billion in hundreds of companies including pioneers such as Amazon, Genentech, and Google. Today, Kleiner Perkins continues to help founders and their bold ideas make history investing in companies like Desktop Metal, IronNet, Ring, Spotify, Slack, and Peloton.
The firm’s four founding partners were Eugene Kleiner, Tom Perkins, Frank J. Caufield, and Brook Byers.