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30Welcoming Aatish Nayak to Kleiner Perkins
We’re excited to share that Aatish Nayak is joining Kleiner Perkins as a Partner. Our mission is to be the first call fo
5/19/2026
Applied Compute: Closing the Gap Between Frontier AI and Real-World Impact
Much of the conversation around enterprise AI has focused on the models themselves, how capable they are, how fast they&
5/14/2026
Mind Robotics: Building the AI-Native Robotics Platform for Manufacturing
Mind Robotics is building an AI-native industrial robotics platform to automate dexterous, reasoning-intensive manufactu
5/13/2026
Mind Robotics: Building the AI-Native Robotics Platform for Manufacturing
Manufacturing is one of the most complex and important parts of the physical economy. Yet even in the most advanced fact
5/13/2026
Roadrunner: The new revenue infrastructure
Enterprise software has an open secret: the tools sales teams use to close deals haven’t meaningfully changed in a
5/12/2026
Alkira built the network for multi-cloud. Now it becomes the network for the AI era.
Today, Alkira agreed to be acquired by Lumen Technologies to provide the network foundation for the AI era. In 2018, Ami
5/5/2026
Rogo: The AI Platform for Global Finance
Rogo is building the AI platform for global finance. Financial services demand speed, precision, and auditability. Rogo
4/29/2026
Rogo: The AI Platform for Global Finance
Finance runs on research, analysis, and judgment performed under relentless time pressure. Analysts spend days building
4/29/2026
Avoca: Bringing AI to the backbone of the real economy
Much of the recent conversation around AI has focused on knowledge work, whether it’s writing code, analyzing data
4/27/2026
EP 5 | Google DeepMind’s Vision for Agent-First Development
Everything you build around the model is already losing value. Varun Mohan and Kevin Hou know this better than most. On
4/17/2026
How Stord Is Redefining Speed, Cost & Trust in E-Commerce
Guest: Sean Henry, Co-Founder & CEO of Stord What does it take to build the logistics backbone for the next generation o
4/16/2026
Motive: The AI Engine Powering the Physical Economy
Ilya Fushman and Motive CEO Shoaib Makani talk about Motive’s latest funding round, and the company’s next c
4/7/2026
UTA Partners With USC, Vc Firm Kleiner Perkins For La-Based Tech Accelerator - IMDb
4/2/2026
With $3.5B in fresh capital, Kleiner Perkins is going all in on AI - MSN
4/2/2026
Kleiner Perkins leads $1.75B round for Saronic to rebuild US shipbuilding around autonomous vessels - Tech Funding News
4/1/2026
Saronic: Redefining Maritime Superiority
America’s industrial base has a long history of reinvention. When new technologies emerge, industries absorb them,
3/31/2026
Autonomous ship startup Saronic raises $1.75 billion in race to modernize U.S. military - CNBC
3/31/2026
Saronic Closes $1.75B Series D at $9.25B Valuation to Accelerate a New Era of Maritime Autonomy - PR Newswire
3/31/2026
VC firms rarely reinvent themselves. Kleiner Perkins did—and has a new $3.5 billion to show for it - AOL.com
3/27/2026
VC firms rarely reinvent themselves. Kleiner Perkins did—and has a new $3.5 billion to show for it - Fortune
3/27/2026
Granola: Putting Your Company’s Context to Work
Every company runs on conversations. The most important decisions, the richest customer insights, the real pulse of an o
3/25/2026
Kleiner Perkins: $3.5 Billion Raised For AI-Focused Venture And Growth Funds - Pulse 2.0
3/25/2026
Kleiner Perkins Secures $3.5B for AI and Growth Investments - News and Statistics - IndexBox
3/25/2026
Kleiner Perkins lauds ‘AI super cycle’ opportunity as it seals $3.5bn double fund close - AltAssets Private Equity News
3/25/2026
Fauna Robotics + Amazon: Bringing intelligent robots into every home
A huge congratulations to the entire Fauna Robotics team on their acquisition by Amazon. This small, but mighty team set
3/24/2026
Kleiner Perkins Raises $3.5B For AI-Focused Funds - Crunchbase News
3/24/2026
Our New Funds: KP22 and KP Select IV
We are thrilled to announce our twenty-second venture fund, KP22, a $1 billion fund to back early-stage companies, and $
3/24/2026
Kleiner Perkins raises $3.5 billion to invest in the AI boom- Bloomberg News - TradingView
3/24/2026
With $3.5B in fresh capital, Kleiner Perkins is going all in on AI - TechCrunch
3/24/2026
Kleiner Perkins Raises $3.5 Billion to Invest in the AI Boom - Bloomberg.com
3/24/2026
Investment Signals
20Aatish has made personal angel investments in early-stage applied AI companies including Simile, Nuvo, Pallet, Mercor, Nullify, SketchPro and stealth startups.
KP sees strong AI product leadership requiring deep technical fluency, customer focus, and commercial sense to turn frontier technology into trusted, everyday products.
Kleiner Perkins is investing in AI-native founders with deep vertical expertise across multiple domains, viewing AI as a transformational layer that changes how work gets done in industries.
Applied Compute demonstrates exceptional talent density with multiple world-class engineers recruited from elite talent pool, indicating strong execution capability.
Enterprise AI bottleneck is not model capability but infrastructure, integration tooling, and expertise to deploy frontier models reliably at scale with proprietary data.
Kleiner Perkins led Series B investment in Applied Compute, a platform enabling enterprises to deploy frontier AI models with proprietary data and infrastructure at mission-critical scale.
AI-native revenue infrastructure for enterprise is a major market opportunity, with CPQ as the entry wedge into quote-to-cash processes.
Enterprise CPQ systems haven't meaningfully evolved in a decade despite dynamic pricing models, representing a critical market opportunity.
Founders Fund leading Series A for Roadrunner, an AI-native revenue infrastructure platform for enterprise quote-to-cash processes.
Kleiner Perkins incubated and led seed round for Roadrunner, an AI-native CPQ platform addressing stagnant enterprise sales infrastructure.
Manufacturing automation is shifting from highly repeatable tasks to intelligence-driven, dexterous work enabled by foundation models and purpose-built hardware integration.
Advances in AI models, sensing, actuation, and hardware are converging to enable general-purpose robotics for complex, dexterous manufacturing tasks that were previously too difficult to automate.
Kleiner Perkins led a funding round for Mind Robotics, an AI-native robotics platform combining foundation models and hardware to automate dexterous manufacturing tasks, with Rivian as a key partner and first customer.
Manufacturing automation requires integrated solutions combining foundation models, custom hardware, and deployment infrastructure for scale.
Foundation models and AI-driven reasoning are enabling automation of complex, dexterous manufacturing tasks that were previously difficult to automate.
Kleiner Perkins led a funding round for Mind Robotics, an AI-native industrial robotics platform combining foundation models and hardware for manufacturing automation.
Enterprise customers need cloud-native networking solutions that simplify complexity without requiring legacy infrastructure expertise.
The network has become the critical path for AI infrastructure, requiring secure, reliable data movement and model training across clouds at scale.
Kleiner Perkins co-led Series A for Alkira in 2018, a multi-cloud networking platform that unified enterprise cloud infrastructure across providers.
Financial services require AI solutions that prioritize speed, precision, and auditability for workflows across banking and investment operations.