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What does Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invest in?
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invests most often at Series B and Series A (49% of the rounds on record).
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers highlights
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1 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series B and Series A: 49% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 64 rounds, median $6.4M
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99 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Filed 3 private fund offerings with the SEC, the most recent in 2016-06From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Series AGrowth
- Based in
- Menlo Park, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first791 appearances
- 2026
1 round
- Oct
- 2019
1 round
- Aug
- 2018
12 rounds
- Dec
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- May
- May
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Mar
- Feb
- Jan
- 2017
16 rounds
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- May
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Mar
- Feb
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- 2016
17 rounds
- Dec
- Nov
- Nov
- Nov
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Aug
- Jun
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration19 named
AEAmol E. DeshpandeExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
BEBeth E. SeidenbergExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
BHBrook H. ByersManaging MemberiFiling they signed
CCChi-Hua ChienExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
EFEric FengExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
IFIlya FushmanExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
LJL. John H. DoerrExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
LFllya FushmanExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
MHMamoon HamidExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
MJMary John MeekerExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
MJMatthew J. MurphyExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
MAMichael AbbottExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
MRMood RowghaniExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
NKNoah KnaufExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
RJRandy John KomisarExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
RJRaymond J. LaneManaging MemberiFiling they signed
TETheodore E. SchleinExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
WJWen John HsiehExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
WJWilliam John GordonExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
We also hold 19 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed99 in all
CoreOSBought by Redhat$250MJan 2018
SimpliVityBought by Hp$650MMay 2017
Good TechnologyBought by BlackBerry$425MSept 2015
PathBought by Daum KakaoUndisclosedMay 2015
SegwayBought by NinebotUndisclosedApr 2015
Flexus BiosciencesBought by Bristol-Myers Squibb$1.3BFeb 2015
MyFitnessPalBought by Under Armour$475MFeb 2015
Foundation MedicineBought by RocheUndisclosedJan 2015
LevelBought by Capital OneUndisclosedJan 2015
Emu MessengerBought by GoogleUndisclosedAug 2014
LuvocracyBought by WalmartLabsUndisclosedJul 2014
The latest 20 here. An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.