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Kleiner Perkins

Venture capital firm · Founded 1972 · Active in 2026

Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, USA, founded in 1972. The page below shows 178 Power Law outcomes from Kleiner Perkins's portfolio — 152 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 6 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Other B2B Software · Biotech & Life Sciences · AI; top portfolio geographies are USA · China · UK. Kleiner Perkins ranks #18 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

178 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #18 · Global · 178 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 30% 5y
152
Decacorns ↓ 10% 5y
27
Thoroughbreds ↑ 39% 5y
119
01 · Exits

Sequoia’s biggest exits.

Sequoia portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

IPO · 1999
Entered SeedNow $5.2T
IPO · 2004
Entered Series ANow $4.6T
IPO · 1980
Now $4.5T
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $306B
$214B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $20.1B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series ANow $207B
$82.0B IPO · 2019
Now $153B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $103B
$95.0B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $69.1B
$93.9B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $58.4B
$24.0B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $73.3B
$39.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $67.6B
$32.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $67.5B
$41.5B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $64.4B
$60.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $28.0B
$55.5B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $55.5B
$52.8B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $49.6B
IPO · 2013
Now $45.0B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $39.4B
IPO · 2002
Entered SeedNow $39.1B
$32.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Seed
$12.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $29.5B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $28.6B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series ANow $28.2B
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 178 Kleiner Perkins Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA158
  2. China7
  3. UK4
  4. India2
  5. Sweden2
  6. Indonesia1
  7. South Korea1
  8. Senegal1
  9. Germany1
  10. Japan1
By sectorCount
  1. Other B2B Software24
  2. Biotech & Life Sciences21
  3. AI19
  4. Other18
  5. eCommerce & Marketplaces17
  6. Fintech16
  7. Cybersecurity14
  8. Health Tech & Medtech14
  9. Transportation12
  10. Marketing10
  11. Edtech6
  12. Robotics3
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+101
  2. Series A53
  3. Seed7
Estimated holdings

Kleiner Perkins’ biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Kleiner Perkins’ largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 29 companies where Kleiner Perkins is a named shareholder, worth about $8.4B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 HarveyLegal · Decacorn 8.5% $11.0B $935M
  2. 2 Applied IntuitionTransportation · Decacorn 6% $15.0B $900M
  3. 3 Farmers Business NetworkFood · Unicorn 14.5% $4.0B $580M
  4. 4 GleanEnterprise Software · Unicorn 7.5% $7.2B $540M
  5. 5 OpenEvidenceHealth · Decacorn 4% $12.0B $480M
  6. 6 STORDTransportation · Unicorn 14.5% $3.0B $435M
  7. 7 12% $3.5B $420M
  8. 8 10.3% $4.0B $412M
  9. 9 11% $3.3B $363M
  10. 10 18% $1.8B $324M
  11. 11 9% $3.5B $315M
  12. 12 15% $1.7B $259M

Showing the 12 largest of 29 disclosed direct holdings.

6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Kleiner Perkins’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Kleiner Perkins also appears inside investor groups in Mission Lane, Omio, Xendit, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

Kleiner Perkins’ biggest exits.

Kleiner Perkins portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

IPO · 2004
Entered Series ANow $4.6T
IPO · 1980
Now $4.5T
IPO · 1997
Entered Series ANow $2.9T
IPO · 2012
Now $1.6T
IPO · 2004
Entered Series B+Now $155B
$82.0B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $153B
$29.5B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $97.3B
$95.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $69.1B
$1.6B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $86.5B
IPO · 1997
Now $82.8B
$39.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $67.6B
IPO · 2013
Entered Series B+Now $45.0B
$41.9B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $4.2B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $39.4B
IPO · 1998
Entered Series B+Now $29.4B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $28.6B
$27.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $4.3B
$15.7B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $23.4B
$17.6B IPO · 2025
Entered Series B+Now $10.4B
$16.0B IPO · 2017
Entered Series B+Now $10.9B
Neurocrine Biosciences
IPO · 1996
Now $14.8B
$2.5B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $14.0B
IPO · 1999
Entered SeedNow $13.7B
IPO · 2011
Entered Series B+Now $12.7B

+58 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.

04 · Portfolio market map

Kleiner Perkins's 178 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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178 of 178 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Kleiner Perkins stack up?

Kleiner Perkins in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

373 founders across the 178 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States217
India45
United Kingdom12
Denmark10
Pakistan8
Turkey6
Russia5
Israel5
Canada5
China5
+16 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University29
Massachusetts Institute of Technology20
Berkeley11
University of Michigan10
Harvard Business School10
Harvard University10
MIT Sloan School of Management8
Yale University6
Michigan Technological University5
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania5
+120 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google42
Microsoft36
Apple14
Meta14
Amazon9
Yahoo!8
eBay4
Airbnb4
LinkedIn4
Nvidia4
+103 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Kleiner Perkins

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Kleiner Perkins on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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Latest news about Kleiner Perkins

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