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 in over 900 ventures,including America Online,Amazon.com,Tandem Computers,Compaq,Electronic Arts,JD.com,Square,Genentech,Google,Netscape,Sun Microsystems,Nest,Palo Alto Networks,Synack,Snap,AppDynamics,and Twitter. By 2019 it had raised around $9 billion in 19 venture capital funds and four growth funds.
Eugene Kleiner was an Austrian-American engineer and venture capitalist. He is considered a pioneer of Silicon Valley. He was one of the original founders of Fairchild Semiconductor,part of the Traitorous Eight,and Kleiner Perkins,the Silicon Valley venture capital firm which later became Kleiner Perkins Caufield &Byers. The company was an early investor in more than 300 information technology and biotech firms,including Amazon.com,AOL,Brio Technology,Electronic Arts,Flextronics,Genentech,Google,Hybritech,Intuit,Lotus Development,LSI Logic,Macromedia,Netscape,Quantum,Segway,Sun Microsystems and Tandem Computers.
Brook Byers is a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield &Byers and the brother of Stanford University Professor Tom Byers and Atlanta,Georgia engineering entrepreneur Ken Byers.
L. John Doerr is an American investor and venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins in Menlo Park,California. In February 2009,Doerr was appointed a member of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide the President and his administration with advice and counsel in trying to fix America's economic downturn. In 2017,related to Forbes,he was recognized the 40th Richest in Tech. Forbes ranked Doerr as the 196th richest person in the world,with a net worth of US$ 9.8 billion as of April 12,2023. Doerr is the author of Measure What Matters, a book about goal-setting,and Speed &Scale:An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now.
Generation Investment Management LLP (Generation IM) is a financial services and investment management firm founded in 2004. It was co-founded by former US Vice President Al Gore and Goldman Sachs' Asset Management head David Blood,with a stated emphasis on sustainable investment options for their mutual funds and other investments.
Bertrand Serlet is a French software engineer and businessman;he worked first at the Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA) before leaving France for the United States in 1985. He was the Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Apple Inc.
William "Bing" Gordon is a video game executive and technology venture capitalist. He served ten years as Chief Creative Officer of video game publisher and developer Electronic Arts (EA) prior to his current partnership with Kleiner Perkins Caufield &Byers (KPCB). He was a founding director of Audible.com and has served on several high-profile Boards of Directors including Amazon,Ngmoco,Duolingo,and Zynga. He designed the video games Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri,Sid Meier's SimGolf and The Lord of the Rings:The Battle for Middle-earth.
Frank J. Caufield was a co-founder and named partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield &Byers,based in Menlo Park,California.
John Maeda is a Vice President of Design and Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft. He is an American technologist and designer whose work explores where business,design,and technology merge to make space for the "humanist technologist."
The iFund is a US$200 million capital fund. Developers may enter into equity deals for the creation of applications,services,and components for Apple Inc.'s iPhone,iPod Touch and iPad platform. It is being offered and managed by venture capital company Kleiner,Perkins,Caufield &Byers (KPCB).
Endgame provides a cyber operations platform supporting the detection,exploitation,and mitigation of cyber-threats. Endgame was started by executives from ISS.
The Blue Button is a system for patients to view online and download their own personal health records. Several Federal agencies,including the Departments of Defense,Health and Human Services,and Veterans Affairs,implemented this capability for their beneficiaries. In addition,Blue Button has pledges of support from numerous health plans and some vendors of personal health record vendors across the United States. Data from Blue Button-enabled sites can be used to create portable medical histories that facilitate dialog among health care providers,caregivers,and other trusted individuals or entities.
Graphiq is a semantic technology company that uses artificial intelligence to rapidly create interactive data-driven infographics. Its intent is similar to Wolfram Alpha which is designed to provide users with direct information on a variety of subjects rather than going through a search engine.
Raymond J. Lane is an American business executive and strategist specializing in technology and finance. Lane is best known for assisting corporations with technology strategy,organizational development,team building,and sales and growth management.
Mike Abbott is the Executive Vice President,Software for General Motors. He was formerly the vice president of Apple's Cloud Services team. He also previously worked as a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield &Byers,vice president of engineering at Twitter,team lead for Azure at Microsoft and senior vice president of apps and services at Palm.
Gumroad is an e-commerce platform that allows creators to sell products directly to their audience. The platform was founded by Sahil Lavingia in 2011 and is based in San Francisco,California. Gumroad enables creators to sell digital products,such as e-books,music,videos,software,and physical goods. The platform provides creators with tools to create custom landing pages,track sales,and process payments. Gumroad's primary focus is serving independent creators,such as writers,musicians,and designers,who want to sell their products without going through intermediaries.
Ellen Pao v. Kleiner Perkins Caufield &Byers LLC and DOES 1-20 is a lawsuit filed in 2012 in San Francisco County Superior Court under the law of California by executive Ellen Pao for gender discrimination against her employer,the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins. Overlapping with a number of studies condemning the representation of women in venture capital,the case was followed closely by reporters,advocacy groups and Silicon Valley executives. Given the tendency for similar cases to reach settlements out of court,coverage of Pao v. Kleiner Perkins described it as a landmark trial once it began in February 2015. On March 27,2015 the jury found in favor of Kleiner Perkins on all counts.
Optoro is a reverse logistics technology company that works with retailers and manufacturers to manage and then resell their returned and excess merchandise. These products,which range from consumer electronics to home goods to clothing,are automatically listed on online marketplaces,including Amazon,eBay,Buy.com,BestBuy. Optoro also liquidates goods in bulk through its other proprietary website.
Tally Technologies,Inc. is a San Francisco,California-based American financial services company founded by Jason Brown and Jasper Platz in 2015.
Lila Ibrahim is the Chief Operating Officer of DeepMind,co-founder and chair of Team4Tech,and a member of the UK AI Council. Her previous roles include Chief Operations Officer at Coursera,Senior Operating Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield &Byers,and Chief of Staff to Intel CEO and Chairman Craig Barrett.
