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Overview

Kleiner Perkins is a Menlo Park-based venture capital firm founded in 1972. It partners with technology founders from inception through IPO and beyond, with current funds supporting early-stage companies and selective growth investments. Its 2026 strategy emphasizes the AI super-cycle across infrastructure and applications, while continuing to invest across enterprise, consumer, healthcare, financial services and hardtech, including opportunities in professional services, autonomy, security, productivity and the physical economy. The firm uses a lean investment and portfolio operating model built around long-term founder relationships and hands-on company building.

Investment focus

Sectors
Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise, Consumer, Healthcare, Financial Services, Hardtech, Security, Autonomy, Professional Services, Productivity, Physical Economy
Stages
Seed, Early Stage, Growth Stage
Regions
Global

How they work with companies

Kleiner Perkins describes itself as a company-building partner and service organization. Its portfolio operating team provides hands-on support across technical and go-to-market talent, business development, marketing and engineering. The firm says its operating teams work on founder time and take a bespoke approach through multiple stages of growth; its company-building work also includes recruiting, go-to-market guidance and ongoing partner support.Read more

Kleiner Perkins describes itself as a company-building partner and service organization. Its portfolio operating team provides hands-on support across technical and go-to-market talent, business development, marketing and engineering. The firm says its operating teams work on founder time and take a bespoke approach through multiple stages of growth; its company-building work also includes recruiting, go-to-market guidance and ongoing partner support.

Key people

6 people
Mamoon HamidPartnerView bio

Mamoon Hamid backs founders building transformative technology companies. He joined Kleiner Perkins in 2017 to lead its next generation, after co-founding Social Capital and earlier becoming a partner at USVP. He began his career as an engineer at Xilinx and has invested across enterprise, AI, healthcare and other technology sectors.

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Ilya FushmanPartnerView bio

Ilya Fushman invests in early- and growth-stage companies using technology and novel business models to reshape industries. He joined Kleiner Perkins in 2018 after serving as a General Partner at Index Ventures and previously led Dropbox's product organization during its hypergrowth years.

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Josh CoynePartnerView bio

Josh Coyne invests in startups applying AI across software and hardware, with work spanning applied AI, productivity, fintech, data infrastructure and cybersecurity. He joined Kleiner Perkins in 2017 after Qatalyst Partners, where he advised on technology acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and financings.

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Leigh Marie BraswellPartnerView bio

Leigh Marie Braswell backs founders building next-generation infrastructure and AI applications. Before joining Kleiner Perkins in 2023, she invested at Founders Fund and earlier was an early engineer and the first product manager at Scale AI, where she worked on machine-learning data products.

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Aditya NaganathPartnerView bio

Aditya Naganath focuses on artificial intelligence, enterprise software applications, infrastructure and security. Before Kleiner Perkins, he was a product manager at Google and previously a technical lead at Palantir, with earlier software engineering roles at Twitter and Nextdoor.

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Aatish NayakPartnerView bio

Aatish Nayak joined Kleiner Perkins as a Partner in May 2026 and focuses on AI-native founders with deep vertical expertise. Previously he was the first product manager and VP of Product at Harvey, an early product leader at Scale AI, and worked at Shield AI on technology for robotic defense systems.

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Companies curated by Ovii

A selection of companies associated with Kleiner Perkins that Ovii curates for job seekers.

9 companies