Investor profile

Kleiner Perkins

Venture capital firm · Founded 1972 · Active in 2026

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170 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #18 · Global · 170 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026

Unicorns ↑ 26% 5y

149

Decacorns ↓ 7% 5y

Thoroughbreds ↑ 51% 5y

120

Featured in #18Power Law Investor Ranking · Global · 2026Top 0.1%

Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, USA, founded in 1972. The page below shows 170 Power Law outcomes from Kleiner Perkins's portfolio — 149 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 7 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Other B2B Software · Other · 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.

Portfolio analysis

The 170 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

USA152
China7
UK2
Sweden2
India2
Senegal1
Indonesia1
South Korea1
Germany1
Japan1

By sectorCount

Other B2B Software24
Other19
AI19
Biotech & Life Sciences18
eCommerce & Marketplaces17
Fintech15
Cybersecurity14
Health Tech & Medtech14
Transportation11
Marketing9
Edtech5
Robotics2

By stage enteredCount

Series B+101
Series A50
Seed7

01 · Portfolio market map

Kleiner Perkins's 170 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered

Outcome tier

Region

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170 of 170 Power Law outcomes

02 · Founder talent

Where Kleiner Perkins's founders come from — and where they study.

366 founders across the 170 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 States212

India42

United Kingdom12

Denmark10

Pakistan8

Turkey6

Canada5

China5

Australia4

Czech Republic3

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UniversityCount

Stanford University29

Massachusetts Institute of Technology20

Harvard University16

Berkeley12

Harvard Business School10

MIT Sloan School of Management8

University of Michigan8

Yale University6

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania5

Michigan Technological University5

+119 more →

Origin companyCount

Alphabet | Google36

Microsoft31

Apple12

Meta12

Amazon9

Yahoo!9

eBay4

Stripe4

Airbnb4

LinkedIn4

+94 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.

03 · Key people

Key people at Kleiner Perkins.

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Canva

Loom

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

04 · Compare with peers

How does Kleiner Perkins stack up?

Kleiner Perkins in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 34 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

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

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.

Sentiment on X

What X 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

In the news

Latest news about Kleiner Perkins

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