Kleiner Perkins

Venture capital firm
Menlo Park, CA

Strategy

Stages
SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
Sectors
EnterpriseConsumerFintechHardtechHealthcareAIClimate
Geographies
USAMenlo Park, CA
Check size
$1M-$100M

Funds

1
FundVintageSizeStrategyStageStatus
Fund XXII + Growth2026$3.5BEarly-stage and growth ventureEarly-stage + growth
closed
As of Mar 24, 2026TechCrunch

Portfolio

9 total

Recent Investment Activity

1

Sector / Stage Activity

By sector (portfolio)
AI infra
4 · 44%
Biotech
1 · 11%
Space
1 · 11%
AI / clinical search for physicians
1 · 11%
Fintech
1 · 11%
Defense
1 · 11%

Co-Investors

12

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  1. Parallel Raises $100M to Build Search for AI AgentsParallel raised a $100M Series B led by Sequoia, with Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins participating, to build a search engine designed specifically for AI agents rather than human browsers.
  2. K2 Space Raises $500M Series D at $6.8B ValuationK2 Space raised a $500 million Series D co-led by Kleiner Perkins and ICONIQ, valuing the large-satellite manufacturer at $6.8 billion as it targets building up to 100 large satellites a year for commercial and defense customers.
  3. K2 Space Raises $500M at $6.8B ValuationK2 Space raised a $500 million Series D at a $6.8 billion valuation, co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Iconiq, to scale production of large, high-power satellites for data-heavy communications and defense missions.
  4. Bezos Backs CuspAI's $450M Round to Hunt Chip MaterialsCuspAI raised a $450 million Series B at a $2.6 billion valuation, roughly five times its mark nine months ago, with Bezos Expeditions joining Kleiner Perkins and NEA as the Cambridge startup launches an AI Materials Foundry with Nvidia and Meta.
  5. Chai Discovery Raises $400M at $3.8B for AI Drug DesignLife-sciences AI startup Chai Discovery raised a $400 million Series C at a $3.8 billion valuation led by Index Ventures, Sequoia, Dimension and Kleiner Perkins, one of the largest rounds yet for AI-driven drug and molecule design.
  6. Stealthy AI-R&D Lab Mirendil Raises a $200M Seed From a16z and Kleiner PerkinsMirendil, a new and largely stealth frontier AI lab focused on building systems for AI research and development itself, raised a $200 million seed round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, with Nvidia among its backers. A nine-figure seed for a pre-product lab is one of the year's clearest signals that capital is racing to fund the next generation of foundation-model challengers.
  7. CuspAI Raises $400M at $2.6B -- Bezos and Kleiner Back AI Materials DiscoveryUK AI materials-discovery startup CuspAI raised $400M at a $2.6B valuation, with Jeff Bezos' Bezos Expeditions and Kleiner Perkins backing. The company uses generative AI to design new materials -- for carbon capture, batteries and beyond -- collapsing discovery cycles that used to take years.
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