Kleiner Perkins | Activity

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Alif Semiconductor (KP portfolio since 2019 Series A) is being acquired by Analog Devices. Alif builds AI-native microcontrollers for edge AI workloads.

Alif Semiconductor

Alif SemiconductorKleiner Perkins

kleinerperkins.comSEP 9, 2026

SEP 9, 2026

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Kleiner Perkins (Mamoon Hamid) announced investment in Etched, an AI inference chip company building purpose-built hardware for transformer models. Etched has working silicon, $1B+ in signed customer contracts, and Jane Street as first production customer.

Etched

Etched Kleiner Perkins

kleinerperkins.comAUG 18, 2026

AUG 18, 2026

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Kleiner Perkins (Lucas Oliveira) led K2 Space's Series D. K2 builds the largest, highest-power satellites, has $1B+ in contracts, launched Gravitas satellite, and was selected by SES for meoSphere constellation.

K2 Kleiner Perkins

kleinerperkins.comJUL 30, 2026

JUL 30, 2026

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Kleiner Perkins (Josh Coyne) co-led CuspAI's Series B. CuspAI is an AI platform for materials discovery, using AI agents to search for new materials with specific properties. Working with Kemira on PFAS removal.

CuspAI

CuspAI Kleiner Perkins

kleinerperkins.comJUL 20, 2026

JUL 20, 2026

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Kleiner Perkins (Josh Coyne) led TerraFirma's $115M Series A. TerraFirma brings AI and autonomous operation to construction, retrofitting excavators/dozers/loaders with self-driving layers. Already deployed building data centers, roads, substations.

Terra Firma

Terra Firma Kleiner Perkins

kleinerperkins.comJUL 15, 2026

JUL 15, 2026

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Kleiner Perkins (Aditya Naganath) announced investment in Sail Research, an inference platform purpose-built for long-horizon, asynchronous AI agents. Founded by Neil Movva and Samir Menon.

Sail Research

Sail Research Kleiner Perkins

kleinerperkins.comJUN 25, 2026

JUN 25, 2026

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Kleiner Perkins (Mamoon Hamid) backed Mirendil from day one. Mirendil is a frontier AI lab building an AI system that can automate AI R&D itself. Founders from Google DeepMind, Anthropic, xAI.

Mirendil

Mirendil Kleiner Perkins

kleinerperkins.comJUN 24, 2026

JUN 24, 2026

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Led Poetic's $50M Series A for enterprise process automation software.

Poetic

Poetic Kleiner Perkins

kleinerperkins.comJUN 10, 2026 prnewswire.com

JUN 10, 2026

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Partnered with Applied Compute for its Series B to deploy frontier AI in enterprise workloads.

Applied Compute

Applied Compute Kleiner Perkins

kleinerperkins.comMAY 14, 2026 appliedcompute.com

MAY 14, 2026

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Led Mind Robotics' latest financing to scale AI-native robotics for manufacturing.

Mind Robotics

Mind RoboticsKleiner Perkins

kleinerperkins.comMAY 13, 2026 businesswire.com

MAY 13, 2026

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Incubated Roadrunner and led its seed financing for AI-native revenue infrastructure.

Roadrunner

Roadrunner Kleiner Perkins

kleinerperkins.comMAY 12, 2026 globenewswire.com

MAY 12, 2026

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Portfolio company Alkira agreed to be acquired by Lumen Technologies for cloud-native networking infrastructure.

Alkira

Alkira Kleiner Perkins

kleinerperkins.comMAY 5, 2026 ir.lumen.com

MAY 5, 2026

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Kleiner Perkins (Mamoon Hamid, Nadia Cochinwala) led Rogo's Series D. Rogo is an AI platform for investment banking and private equity, used by 35,000+ bankers at Rothschild, Jefferies, Lazard, Moelis, Nomura.

Rogo

Rogo Kleiner Perkins

kleinerperkins.comAPR 29, 2026

APR 29, 2026

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Kleiner Perkins (Ilya Fushman, Lucas Oliveira) led Saronic's Series D. Saronic builds autonomous naval vessels, secured $392M US Navy contract, acquired Louisiana shipyard, unveiled 180-ft autonomous ship Marauder.

Saronic

Saronic Kleiner Perkins

kleinerperkins.comMAR 31, 2026

MAR 31, 2026

Kleiner Perkins Activity

Alif Semiconductor (KP portfolio since 2019 Series A) is being acquired by Analog Devices. Alif builds AI-native microcontrollers for edge AI workloads.

Kleiner Perkins (Mamoon Hamid) announced investment in Etched, an AI inference chip company building purpose-built hardware for transformer models. Etched has working silicon, $1B+ in signed customer contracts, and Jane Street as first production customer.

Kleiner Perkins (Lucas Oliveira) led K2 Space's Series D. K2 builds the largest, highest-power satellites, has $1B+ in contracts, launched Gravitas satellite, and was selected by SES for meoSphere constellation.

Kleiner Perkins (Josh Coyne) co-led CuspAI's Series B. CuspAI is an AI platform for materials discovery, using AI agents to search for new materials with specific properties. Working with Kemira on PFAS removal.

Kleiner Perkins (Josh Coyne) led TerraFirma's $115M Series A. TerraFirma brings AI and autonomous operation to construction, retrofitting excavators/dozers/loaders with self-driving layers. Already deployed building data centers, roads, substations.

Kleiner Perkins (Aditya Naganath) announced investment in Sail Research, an inference platform purpose-built for long-horizon, asynchronous AI agents. Founded by Neil Movva and Samir Menon.

Kleiner Perkins (Mamoon Hamid) backed Mirendil from day one. Mirendil is a frontier AI lab building an AI system that can automate AI R&D itself. Founders from Google DeepMind, Anthropic, xAI.

Led Poetic's $50M Series A for enterprise process automation software.

Partnered with Applied Compute for its Series B to deploy frontier AI in enterprise workloads.

Led Mind Robotics' latest financing to scale AI-native robotics for manufacturing.

Incubated Roadrunner and led its seed financing for AI-native revenue infrastructure.

Portfolio company Alkira agreed to be acquired by Lumen Technologies for cloud-native networking infrastructure.

Kleiner Perkins (Mamoon Hamid, Nadia Cochinwala) led Rogo's Series D. Rogo is an AI platform for investment banking and private equity, used by 35,000+ bankers at Rothschild, Jefferies, Lazard, Moelis, Nomura.

Kleiner Perkins (Ilya Fushman, Lucas Oliveira) led Saronic's Series D. Saronic builds autonomous naval vessels, secured $392M US Navy contract, acquired Louisiana shipyard, unveiled 180-ft autonomous ship Marauder.