Kleiner Perkins

Kleiner Perkins
Formerly	Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB)
Company type	Private
Industry	Venture capital
Founded	1972 in California
Founders	Eugene Kleiner; Thomas Perkins; Frank J. Caufield; Brook Byers;
Headquarters	Menlo Park, California, U.S.
Products	Investments
Website	www.kleinerperkins.com

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^[1] in over 900 ventures,^[2]^[3] including America Online,^[4] Amazon.com,^[5] Tandem Computers, Compaq,^[6] Electronic Arts,^[4] JD.com, Square,^[7] Genentech,^[6] Google, Netscape, Sun Microsystems, Nest, Palo Alto Networks, Synack, Snap, AppDynamics, and Twitter.^[7] By 2019 it had raised around $9 billion in 19 venture capital funds^[8] and four growth funds.^[3]

Kleiner Perkins is headquartered in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley,^[9] with offices in San Francisco^[9] and Shanghai, China.^[10]

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^ "Future Raises $8.5M in Series A Funding Led by Kleiner Perkins to Digitize the Personal Training Experience": Kleiner Perkins, 5/23/2019
^ ^a ^b Kleiner Perkins Offices at KPCB.com Archived 22 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine
^ Headquarters, KPCB China, retrieved 2 May 2017