Kleiner Perkins

Historic Sand Hill Road firm rebooted in 2019 as a focused early-stage partnership under Mamoon Hamid and Ilya Fushman.

Founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner and Tom Perkins, Kleiner Perkins backed Genentech, Amazon, Google and Netscape across its first decades. After a diffuse 2000s, the firm rebooted in 2019 around a small early-stage partnership led by Mamoon Hamid and Ilya Fushman, with recent marquee positions in Figma and Rippling.