Kleiner Perkins

Kleiner Perkins is a prominent American venture capital firm founded in 1972 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The firm specializes in early-stage, growth, and incubation investments across various industries, including healthcare, consumer products, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and life sciences. Kleiner Perkins focuses on partnering with innovative founders, supporting them from the inception of their ideas through to initial public offerings. The firm is known for its commitment to investing in a wide range of sectors, such as information technology, financial services, and cybersecurity, while maintaining a global investment approach that includes markets in North America, the Middle East, and Mainland China. As a Registered Investment Adviser, Kleiner Perkins aims to maximize the potential of the companies it invests in, fostering bold ideas that have the capacity to create significant impact across industries and continents.

Annie Case

Partner

Cindy Cheng

Partner

Cindy Cheng

Associate

Nadia Cochinwala

Investor

Josh Coyne

Partner

Joshua Coyne

Partner and Investor

John Doerr

Partner and Chairman

Juliet Flint

Partner

Ilya Fushman

Partner

John Gage

Partner

Mamoon Hamid

Partner and Investor

Wen Hsieh

Partner

Haomiao Huang

Investor

E. Floyd Kvamme

Partner

Floyd Kvamme

Partner Emeriti

Bucky Moore

Partner and Investor

Aditya Naganath

Principal

Lucas Oliveira

Investor

Lucas Oliveira

Investor

Tom Perkins

Partner and Co-Founder

Ev Randle

Partner

Everett Randle

Partner

Ted Schlein

General Partner

Beth Seidenberg

General Partner

James Tang

Partner and Vice President, China

Jimmy Wei

Venture Partner, China

Monica Desai

Principal

Nikki Zhang

Director, China

Jason Zhao

Partner, China

Past deals in Open Source

Optic

Seed Round in 2022
Optic monitors blockchains to reveal the origins of any NFT and how it’s been reimagined, remixed, or copied.

Coda

Series D in 2021
Coda Project, Inc. is a company based in Mountain View, California, that specializes in developing innovative document management solutions. Founded in 2014, Coda combines the functionalities of documents, spreadsheets, and applications into a single platform, allowing users to create versatile online documents that can serve as powerful applications. By providing a blank canvas with a familiar interface, Coda enables users to utilize unique building blocks, such as tables that function like databases and actionable buttons, to design customized solutions tailored to their needs. This adaptable platform fosters collaboration and captures institutional knowledge, helping teams work more efficiently and streamline their workflows by moving beyond traditional software limitations.

Athens Research

Seed Round in 2021
Athens Research operates a private and extensible knowledge graph designed for research and notetaking. It is developed as an open-source alternative to Roam Research, emphasizing community-driven contributions. The platform allows users to organize, connect, and access information efficiently, fostering collaboration and enhancing productivity in research activities. By providing a flexible and user-friendly environment, Athens Research supports individuals and teams in managing their knowledge more effectively.

Second Front

Funding Round in 2021
Second Front Systems, Inc. is a software development company based in Arlington, Virginia, with additional offices in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, California. Founded in 2014, the company specializes in helping government users discover and engage with venture capital-backed technologies and firms tailored for national security missions. Its flagship product, Atlas Fulcrum, is designed to identify, assess, and access innovative commercial technologies that can be leveraged for national security purposes. In addition to its software solutions, Second Front offers program management and system integration services to effectively deliver technology to warfighters. The company also operates the High Technology Council, which connects key market participants to facilitate the application of venture-backed technologies in government-funded national security initiatives. Furthermore, Second Front provides advisory services to technology firms aiming to penetrate the national security market, utilizing proof-of-concept pilots and various contracting options to address critical security needs.

Doppler

Seed Round in 2020
Doppler Technologies, Inc. is a company that specializes in secret management software. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Walnut, California, Doppler provides a platform that enables developers to securely store and manage sensitive information such as API keys, credentials, environment variables, and database URLs. The software enhances productivity by seamlessly integrating across various programming languages, technology stacks, and infrastructures, while also fortifying security measures for organizations. Additionally, Doppler's platform features a command-line interface that intelligently retrieves relevant secrets based on project directories, allowing for efficient management and synchronization of application configurations. This proactive approach helps developers and security teams address potential security concerns before they escalate.

Coda

Series C in 2020
Coda Project, Inc. is a company based in Mountain View, California, that specializes in developing innovative document management solutions. Founded in 2014, Coda combines the functionalities of documents, spreadsheets, and applications into a single platform, allowing users to create versatile online documents that can serve as powerful applications. By providing a blank canvas with a familiar interface, Coda enables users to utilize unique building blocks, such as tables that function like databases and actionable buttons, to design customized solutions tailored to their needs. This adaptable platform fosters collaboration and captures institutional knowledge, helping teams work more efficiently and streamline their workflows by moving beyond traditional software limitations.

Second Front

Seed Round in 2020
Second Front Systems, Inc. is a software development company based in Arlington, Virginia, with additional offices in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, California. Founded in 2014, the company specializes in helping government users discover and engage with venture capital-backed technologies and firms tailored for national security missions. Its flagship product, Atlas Fulcrum, is designed to identify, assess, and access innovative commercial technologies that can be leveraged for national security purposes. In addition to its software solutions, Second Front offers program management and system integration services to effectively deliver technology to warfighters. The company also operates the High Technology Council, which connects key market participants to facilitate the application of venture-backed technologies in government-funded national security initiatives. Furthermore, Second Front provides advisory services to technology firms aiming to penetrate the national security market, utilizing proof-of-concept pilots and various contracting options to address critical security needs.

Open Raven

Series A in 2020
Open Raven, Inc. develops open data protection platform that assesses and manages data risk for enterprises. Its platform maps data stores in clouds and corporate networks for identifying the data within. The company’s solution also provides visibility and control to prevent data breaches, as well as locates assets and highlights data stores to uncover data exposures, at risk data, and shadow accounts. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Synack

Series D in 2020
Synack, Inc. provides a crowdsourced security platform for penetration testing. It offers Synack that enables customer data integrity, privacy, and confidentiality. The company’s military-grade virtual private testing environment platform allows the global security community accessible to enterprises and engages global security researchers to test systems in virtual private testing environments, as well as provides secure manual security assessment. Synack, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Redwood City, California.

CodeSandbox

Seed Round in 2019
CodeSandbox BV, founded in 2017 and based in Enschede, the Netherlands, develops online editing tools designed to facilitate the creation and sharing of web applications. The platform allows developers to efficiently express and validate their ideas with code, eliminating the complexities associated with setting up development environments and project sharing. CodeSandbox is widely utilized, serving over 2 million developers monthly and enabling the creation of more than 10 million applications since its inception. It is particularly popular among open-source projects, including well-known frameworks like React, Vue, and Babel, and is used by various organizations, including Shopify, Atlassian, and Stripe.

Synack

Series C in 2017
Synack, Inc. provides a crowdsourced security platform for penetration testing. It offers Synack that enables customer data integrity, privacy, and confidentiality. The company’s military-grade virtual private testing environment platform allows the global security community accessible to enterprises and engages global security researchers to test systems in virtual private testing environments, as well as provides secure manual security assessment. Synack, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Redwood City, California.

CoreOS

Series B in 2016
CoreOS, Inc. specializes in developing open source projects for Linux containers and providing security software solutions. The company offers Tectonic, a comprehensive platform that enhances Kubernetes with enterprise features for efficient container orchestration. CoreOS also provides Quay, a private image registry for building, storing, and distributing containers, along with CoreOS, a security tool for managing Linux applications. Additionally, it features CoreUpdate, a tool designed for managing rolling updates of applications. CoreOS maintains several significant open source projects, including CoreOS Linux, etcd, and rkt, contributing to the infrastructure needs of modern distributed systems. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an office in New York City and a development hub in Berlin, CoreOS operates as a subsidiary of Red Hat, Inc.

CoreOS

Series A in 2015
CoreOS, Inc. specializes in developing open source projects for Linux containers and providing security software solutions. The company offers Tectonic, a comprehensive platform that enhances Kubernetes with enterprise features for efficient container orchestration. CoreOS also provides Quay, a private image registry for building, storing, and distributing containers, along with CoreOS, a security tool for managing Linux applications. Additionally, it features CoreUpdate, a tool designed for managing rolling updates of applications. CoreOS maintains several significant open source projects, including CoreOS Linux, etcd, and rkt, contributing to the infrastructure needs of modern distributed systems. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an office in New York City and a development hub in Berlin, CoreOS operates as a subsidiary of Red Hat, Inc.

Synack

Series B in 2015
Synack, Inc. provides a crowdsourced security platform for penetration testing. It offers Synack that enables customer data integrity, privacy, and confidentiality. The company’s military-grade virtual private testing environment platform allows the global security community accessible to enterprises and engages global security researchers to test systems in virtual private testing environments, as well as provides secure manual security assessment. Synack, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Coda

Series A in 2014
Coda Project, Inc. is a company based in Mountain View, California, that specializes in developing innovative document management solutions. Founded in 2014, Coda combines the functionalities of documents, spreadsheets, and applications into a single platform, allowing users to create versatile online documents that can serve as powerful applications. By providing a blank canvas with a familiar interface, Coda enables users to utilize unique building blocks, such as tables that function like databases and actionable buttons, to design customized solutions tailored to their needs. This adaptable platform fosters collaboration and captures institutional knowledge, helping teams work more efficiently and streamline their workflows by moving beyond traditional software limitations.

CoreOS

Series A in 2014
CoreOS, Inc. specializes in developing open source projects for Linux containers and providing security software solutions. The company offers Tectonic, a comprehensive platform that enhances Kubernetes with enterprise features for efficient container orchestration. CoreOS also provides Quay, a private image registry for building, storing, and distributing containers, along with CoreOS, a security tool for managing Linux applications. Additionally, it features CoreUpdate, a tool designed for managing rolling updates of applications. CoreOS maintains several significant open source projects, including CoreOS Linux, etcd, and rkt, contributing to the infrastructure needs of modern distributed systems. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an office in New York City and a development hub in Berlin, CoreOS operates as a subsidiary of Red Hat, Inc.

Synack

Series A in 2014
Synack, Inc. provides a crowdsourced security platform for penetration testing. It offers Synack that enables customer data integrity, privacy, and confidentiality. The company’s military-grade virtual private testing environment platform allows the global security community accessible to enterprises and engages global security researchers to test systems in virtual private testing environments, as well as provides secure manual security assessment. Synack, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Secret

Series A in 2014
Secret offers an online platform that enables users to share their personal secrets with other users anonymously. It owns and operates a mobile application that helps users to share and connect with friends. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Secret

Series A in 2014
Secret offers an online platform that enables users to share their personal secrets with other users anonymously. It owns and operates a mobile application that helps users to share and connect with friends. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

SoundCloud

Series D in 2014
SoundCloud is a social sound platform that enables users to create, upload, and share audio content, including music. Launched in 2008 by Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss, it serves as a hub for a diverse community of creators and listeners. The platform allows sound creators to instantly record and distribute their works while providing them with detailed statistics and feedback from the community. SoundCloud connects artists with their fans globally, facilitating the promotion and sharing of music through blogs, websites, and social networks. This open platform not only helps artists distribute their work but also enhances the music discovery experience for users.

Secret

Seed Round in 2013
Secret offers an online platform that enables users to share their personal secrets with other users anonymously. It owns and operates a mobile application that helps users to share and connect with friends. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Synack

Seed Round in 2013
Synack, Inc. provides a crowdsourced security platform for penetration testing. It offers Synack that enables customer data integrity, privacy, and confidentiality. The company’s military-grade virtual private testing environment platform allows the global security community accessible to enterprises and engages global security researchers to test systems in virtual private testing environments, as well as provides secure manual security assessment. Synack, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Redwood City, California.

OUYA

Series A in 2013
OUYA is a gaming console designed for television that emphasizes an open development environment, allowing any creator to publish games for the living room. Priced at $99, the console offers users the opportunity to try all games for free. It supports both downloading and streaming of entertainment content in 1080p HD quality. Founded by Julie Uhrman and designed by Yves Behar, OUYA operates on a custom interface built on an open operating system. The platform organizes games based on player engagement rather than revenue, highlighting enjoyable gaming experiences. The console's controller is designed for responsiveness, featuring precise buttons, triggers, analog sticks, and an integrated touchpad, appealing to console gaming enthusiasts.

SoundCloud

Series C in 2012
SoundCloud is a social sound platform that enables users to create, upload, and share audio content, including music. Launched in 2008 by Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss, it serves as a hub for a diverse community of creators and listeners. The platform allows sound creators to instantly record and distribute their works while providing them with detailed statistics and feedback from the community. SoundCloud connects artists with their fans globally, facilitating the promotion and sharing of music through blogs, websites, and social networks. This open platform not only helps artists distribute their work but also enhances the music discovery experience for users.

OSIsoft

Private Equity Round in 2011
OSIsoft, LLC specializes in providing an open enterprise infrastructure designed to connect sensor-based data, operations, and personnel, facilitating real-time insights for various industries. Its flagship product, the PI System, serves as the industry standard for managing real-time data and events, enabling organizations to analyze, collect, visualize, and historize enterprise data. This system supports a wide range of sectors including oil and gas, utilities, manufacturing, life sciences, and critical facilities, allowing users to enhance asset management, comply with regulations, and improve operational efficiency. Additionally, OSIsoft offers the PI Integrator, which integrates sensor-based data with advanced analytics and visualization tools. With installations in over 107 countries, the company maintains a global presence and has formed strategic alliances with notable firms such as Microsoft and SAP. Founded in 1980 and headquartered in San Leandro, California, OSIsoft operates as a subsidiary of Estudillo Holdings Corp.

Jive Software

Series C in 2010
Jive is the largest and fastest growing independent vendor in the Social Business Software market. Jive allows companies to engage employees, customers, and the social web. Just as social technologies have changed their personal lives, Social Business is changing how enterprises get work done. The company was founded in 2001, with its headquarters in Palo Alto, CA and offices in Portland, OR; Boulder, CO; Brentford, United Kingdom; and Frankfurt, Germany. Jive combines the power of community software, collaboration software, social networking software, and social media monitoring offerings into an integrated platform. The flagship product is [Jive Engage](http://www.jivesoftware.com/products). Previous products by Jive include [Clearspace](http://www.jivesoftware.com/beyond/clearspace), [Jive Forums](http://www.jivesoftware.com/beyond/forums), and the now open source [Openfire](http://www.igniterealtime.org) & [Spark](http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/spark/index.jsp). The company is focused on solutions to increase team and work productivity. Jive makes it easy for groups to brainstorm, share ideas and see what everyone is working on. The product includes team member blogs, wiki-docs for group editing and discussion tools. Recent versions include video, analytics, and social media monitoring. Jive also helps companies like Intel create highly-interactive online communities. Intel created [Open Port](http://communities.intel.com/openport/index.jspa) so their product and technology experts could communicate directly with the greater IT community. Other Jive customers include VMware, National Instruments, NetApp, SAP, Embarq, ManTech, Linden Lab and [many others](http://www.jivesoftware.com/customers). Jive is backed by [Sequoia Capital](/financial-organization/sequoia-capital) and [KPCB](/financial-organization/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers).

SpikeSource

Series C in 2008
SpikeSource is a company specializing in open source software certification, providing independent software vendors (ISVs) with essential resources to guarantee interoperability, scalability, and performance of their applications. The company offers a comprehensive platform that allows for the assembly, testing, packaging, certifying, and updating of open source, proprietary, and hybrid software solutions. Additionally, SpikeSource delivers on-demand services tailored for ISVs, independent developers, and IT departments. Their partnership with Intel enables them to manage the certification process for applications within the Intel Business Exchange, further enhancing their role in the open source ecosystem.

XenSource

Series C in 2006
XenSource, Inc. specializes in developing and marketing enterprise-grade virtualization solutions aimed at enhancing server utilization and reducing infrastructure complexity for data centers. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company offers several key products, including the open-source Xen hypervisor, which serves as a foundation for its virtualization technology. In addition to the hypervisor, XenSource provides Xen Optimiser, a software management solution for multi-server virtualization, and subscription-based support services for its products. By leveraging these technologies, XenSource enables organizations to optimize their cloud, server, and desktop virtual infrastructures, ultimately promoting server consolidation and improving overall data center capabilities. In October 2007, XenSource was acquired by Citrix Systems, Inc.

SpikeSource

Series B in 2006
SpikeSource is a company specializing in open source software certification, providing independent software vendors (ISVs) with essential resources to guarantee interoperability, scalability, and performance of their applications. The company offers a comprehensive platform that allows for the assembly, testing, packaging, certifying, and updating of open source, proprietary, and hybrid software solutions. Additionally, SpikeSource delivers on-demand services tailored for ISVs, independent developers, and IT departments. Their partnership with Intel enables them to manage the certification process for applications within the Intel Business Exchange, further enhancing their role in the open source ecosystem.

Fortify Software

Series D in 2005
Fortify's Software Security Assurance products and services protect companies from the threats posed by security flaws in business-critical software applications. Combining deep application security expertise with extensive software development experience, Fortify Software has defined the market with award-winning products that assure software security from development to production. Today, Fortify Software fortifies the software for the most demanding customer deployments, including the world's largest, most varied code bases.

XenSource

Series B in 2005
XenSource, Inc. specializes in developing and marketing enterprise-grade virtualization solutions aimed at enhancing server utilization and reducing infrastructure complexity for data centers. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company offers several key products, including the open-source Xen hypervisor, which serves as a foundation for its virtualization technology. In addition to the hypervisor, XenSource provides Xen Optimiser, a software management solution for multi-server virtualization, and subscription-based support services for its products. By leveraging these technologies, XenSource enables organizations to optimize their cloud, server, and desktop virtual infrastructures, ultimately promoting server consolidation and improving overall data center capabilities. In October 2007, XenSource was acquired by Citrix Systems, Inc.

SpikeSource

Series A in 2005
SpikeSource is a company specializing in open source software certification, providing independent software vendors (ISVs) with essential resources to guarantee interoperability, scalability, and performance of their applications. The company offers a comprehensive platform that allows for the assembly, testing, packaging, certifying, and updating of open source, proprietary, and hybrid software solutions. Additionally, SpikeSource delivers on-demand services tailored for ISVs, independent developers, and IT departments. Their partnership with Intel enables them to manage the certification process for applications within the Intel Business Exchange, further enhancing their role in the open source ecosystem.

XenSource

Series A in 2005
XenSource, Inc. specializes in developing and marketing enterprise-grade virtualization solutions aimed at enhancing server utilization and reducing infrastructure complexity for data centers. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company offers several key products, including the open-source Xen hypervisor, which serves as a foundation for its virtualization technology. In addition to the hypervisor, XenSource provides Xen Optimiser, a software management solution for multi-server virtualization, and subscription-based support services for its products. By leveraging these technologies, XenSource enables organizations to optimize their cloud, server, and desktop virtual infrastructures, ultimately promoting server consolidation and improving overall data center capabilities. In October 2007, XenSource was acquired by Citrix Systems, Inc.

Fortify Software

Series C in 2004
Fortify's Software Security Assurance products and services protect companies from the threats posed by security flaws in business-critical software applications. Combining deep application security expertise with extensive software development experience, Fortify Software has defined the market with award-winning products that assure software security from development to production. Today, Fortify Software fortifies the software for the most demanding customer deployments, including the world's largest, most varied code bases.

Linuxcare

Series C in 2000
Linuxcare is a company that specializes in providing professional, technical support, education, and product certification services for Linux and related open-source software technologies. Founded in 1998 and based in San Francisco, California, Linuxcare primarily targets large businesses, focusing its sales and marketing efforts on original equipment manufacturers, software vendors, Global 1000 companies, and internet infrastructure providers. The company supports 21 distributions of Linux and has established a customer base that includes notable names such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Motorola. Linuxcare aims to enhance customer services and facilitate the adoption of Linux solutions in various business environments.

Sun Microsystems

Seed Round in 1982
Sun Microsystems is a multinational company specializing in computer hardware, software, and information technology services. It is recognized for advocating open systems, particularly UNIX, and has made significant contributions to open source software. The company offers a diverse range of scalable servers powered by various microprocessors, including SPARC64, Sun UltraSPARC, AMD Opteron, and Intel Xeon. Its product lineup includes entry-level servers, blade systems, and high-performance computing servers designed for complex computing environments. In 2009, Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle Corporation, marking a significant transition in its corporate structure and focus.
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