Formerly called
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Kleiner Perkins |
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Private | |
Industry | Venture capital, technology and life sciences |
Founded | 1972California | in
Founders | Eugene Kleiner, Tom Perkins, Frank J. Caufield, Brook Byers |
Headquarters | Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California, United States |
Number of locations
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Menlo Park, California San Francisco, California Shanghai, China |
Products |
Investments Venture capital funds |
Website | www |
Coordinates: 37°25′25″N 122°12′37″W / 37.4237°N 122.2103°W
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) is an American venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley. Specializing in investments in incubation, early stage and growth companies, since its founding in 1972 the firm has backed entrepreneurs in around 500 ventures, including AOL,Amazon.com,Compaq,Electronic Arts,Google, Netscape, Sun Microsystems, Nest, Snap, AppDynamics, and Twitter. Kleiner Perkins focuses its global investments in practice areas including technology and life sciences.The Wall Street Journal and other publications have called it one of the "largest and most established" venture capital firms and Dealbook named it "one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital providers." In addition to its Menlo Park headquarters, the company has offices in San Francisco and Shanghai, China.