Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is a venture capital firm from Silicon Valley, with its base at Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California. Its site presents a long list of companies it has backed. It gives itself a role beyond funding, describing itself as a business builder that recruited executives and set up goal-tracking for portfolio firms.

Products and services

• Venture investment: early backing for technology companies, from search and online retail to browsers and databases.
• Executive recruiting help: introducing senior hires and advisers to founders.
• Management practices: for example, introducing objectives-and-key-results goal setting.
• Sector spread: portfolio themes shown include artificial intelligence, biotechnology, fintech and consumer software.

Who it serves

Founders of technology and life science companies. The site tells the stories of its investments in Google and Amazon, among others.

Key facts

• Based in: Menlo Park, California.
• Type: venture capital.