Kleiner Perkins portfolio AI companies

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Ranked by current headcount across Kleiner Perkins-backed AI companies. Refreshed daily.

1
Foundation Medicine· Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Series B
- 1.8k employees
- Founded 2010
2
Veracyte, Inc.· South San Francisco, California, United States
- Post-IPO equity
- 691 employees
- Founded 2008
3
PacBio· Menlo Park, California, United States
- Post-IPO equity
- 588 employees
- Founded 2004
4
Zai Lab· Shanghai, China
- Post-IPO equity
- 527 employees
- Founded 2014
5
Vera Therapeutics, Inc.· Brisbane, California, United States
- Post-IPO equity
- 268 employees
- Founded 2016
6
OPTIC· San Francisco, California, United States
- Seed
- 265 employees
- Founded 2021
7
Rapid Micro Biosystems· Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
- Post-IPO debt
- 208 employees
- Founded 2006
8
Arsenal Biosciences, Inc.· South San Francisco, California, United States
- Series C
- 203 employees
- Founded 2019
9
RAPT Therapeutics
- Post-IPO equity
- 143 employees
- Founded 2015
10
Atara Biotherapeutics· Thousand Oaks, California, United States
- Post-IPO equity
- 129 employees
- Founded 2012
11
OriGene· Rockville, Maryland, United States
- Series unknown
- 124 employees
- Founded 1996
12
iZumi· South San Francisco, California, United States
- Series A
- 92 employees
- Founded 2007
13
Mascoma LLC· Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States
- Debt
- 75 employees
- Founded 2006
14
Eden Biologics· Zhubei City, Taiwan, Taiwan
- Post-IPO equity
- 60 employees
- Founded 2012
15
Arena· San Francisco, California, United States
- Series A
- 58 employees
- Founded 2025
16
Edeniq, Inc.· Visalia, California, United States
- Series unknown
- 50 employees
- Founded 2008
17
NewLimit· South San Francisco, California, United States
- Convertible note
- 50 employees
- Founded 2022
18
Neuron23· South San Francisco, California, United States
- Series D
- 27 employees
- Founded 2018
19
Agrivida, Inc.· Woburn, Massachusetts, United States
- Series unknown
- 25 employees
- Founded 2003
20
Tethys Bioscience, Inc.· Emeryville, California, United States
- Debt
- 19 employees
- Founded 2002
21
Ophthonix, Inc· Vista, California, United States
- Debt
- 18 employees
- Founded 2001
22
Lilliputian Systems Inc.
- Series unknown
- 12 employees
- Founded 2002
23
ZettaCore, Inc.· United States
- Series unknown
- 11 employees
- Founded 1999
24
Tmunity Therapeutics Incorporated· Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Series B
- 6 employees
- Founded 2009
25
MindPortal· Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- Seed
- 5 employees
- Founded 2019

Kleiner Perkins’s AI portfolio

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Kleiner Perkins’s AI bets tend to share a thesis. The engineers, ML researchers, and founders inside these companies are often building the same primitives — and they show up in AI talent pools across the next decade.

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