Kindred Capital

Kleiner Perkins is a Menlo Park-based venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner and Tom Perkins, one of the oldest and most historically significant venture capital partnerships in Silicon Valley, with a fifty-year track record that includes some of the most consequential technology investments in the history of the industry. The firm manages approximately $3 billion in assets under management and invests from seed through Series B stages with initial checks from $5 million to $15 million, taking active board roles. Kleiner Perkins backed Google in 1999 alongside Sequoia Capital. Figma was backed at an early stage. Stripe is a portfolio company. Amazon received Kleiner Perkins investment in 1996. Beyond its original investments in Google, Figma, and Stripe, the broader portfolio spans Sun Microsystems, Genentech, Amazon, Twitter, Snap, DoorDash, Robinhood, and hundreds of additional technology and life science companies.