Mamoon Hamid

Partner

Mamoon Hamid is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins. He has been an early investor in and served on the boards of some of the most innovative software companies of recent times including Slack, Figma, Box and Rippling. Prior to joining Kleiner Perkins, Mamoon was a co-founder of Social Capital. He started his venture career in 2005 at U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) where he eventually became Partner. Mamoon came to Silicon Valley in 1997 to join Xilinx, a Kleiner Perkins company, where he spent six years, initially as an engineer and later in product and marketing roles.

Mamoon was born in Pakistan and spent most of his life through high school in Frankfurt, Germany. He earned a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University. He also has an M.S. from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Investment focus areas

— Enterprise software

— Consumer technology

— Healthcare

— Fintech

Companies Backed

AI enabled embedded chips logo
AI enabled embedded chips
Since 2019
Elevating RISC-V to world class performance levels logo
Elevating RISC-V to world class performance levels
Since 2021
Multi-cloud networking logo
Multi-cloud networking
Since 2018
The AI operating system for healthcare logo
The AI operating system for healthcare
Since 2020
Vehicle software supplier logo
Vehicle software supplier
Since 2018
 logo
Platform for interactive content creation
Since 2024
AI-Powered Creative Studio logo
AI-Powered Creative Studio
Since 2023
The doc for everyone logo
The doc for everyone
Since 2020
Making design accessible to everyone logo
Making design accessible to everyone
Since 2017
Personalized fitness and wellness coaching logo
Personalized fitness and wellness coaching
Since 2018
Work AI for all logo
Work AI for all
Since 2019
Financial management for everyone logo
Financial management for everyone
Since 2022
The No. 1 way college students get hired logo
The No. 1 way college students get hired
Since 2016
Super-powering knowledge work logo
Super-powering knowledge work
Since 2023
Modern loyalty based card solutions logo
Modern loyalty based card solutions
Since 2021
The engagement OS logo
The engagement OS
Since 2013
Mental health solutions for companies logo
Mental health solutions for companies
Since 2019
Conversational AI for better employee experiences logo
Conversational AI for better employee experiences
Since 2019
Platform for developers to build highly performant websites, e-commerce stores, and apps logo
Platform for developers to build highly performant websites, e-commerce stores, and apps
Since 2018
Extending human healthspan logo
Extending human healthspan
Since 2021
AI-powered sales pipeline logo
AI-powered sales pipeline
Since 2024
Crypto for the Middle East logo
Crypto for the Middle East
Since 2021
Coherent optical communications logo
Coherent optical communications
Since 2021
The employee system of record logo
The employee system of record
Since 2019
Programmable IDE for developers to build internal software logo
Programmable IDE for developers to build internal software
Since 2021
Pakistan's app-based platform for retailers logo
Pakistan’s app-based platform for retailers
Since 2021
The well-being platform to beat employee burnout logo
The well-being platform to beat employee burnout
Since 2021
A better health and care experience logo
A better health and care experience
Since 2020
AI Driven Wifi logo
AI Driven Wifi
Alumni (Acquired by Juniper Networks)
Engineering productivity tools and analytics logo
Engineering productivity tools and analytics
Alumni (Acquired by Stripe)
Where work happens logo
Where work happens
Alumni (Acquired by Salesforce)
Cloud content management logo
Cloud content management
Prior (BOX)
Simplifying the complexities of healthcare logo
Simplifying the complexities of healthcare
Prior (CSLT)
Customer communication hub for teams logo
Customer communication hub for teams
Prior (Since 2016)
Applicant Tracking Software logo
Applicant Tracking Software
Prior (Since 2014)
Online tutoring logo
Online tutoring
Prior (Acquired by Chegg Seed)
All-in-one security platform logo
All-in-one security platform
Prior (Since 2012)
Single sign-on and access management logo
Single sign-on and access management
Prior (Acquired by One Identity)
Marketplace for electronics logo
Marketplace for electronics
Prior (Acquired by Siemens)
Small business financial solutions logo
Small business financial solutions
Prior (Acquired by H&R Block)
Enterprise social network logo
Enterprise social network
Prior (Acquired by Microsoft)

Q&A

I liked facts. So much so that I used to read encyclopedias and memorize the facts in them. One day in the mid 1980s I wished there would be a way to think of a fact and ask a computer to provide the answer, rather than flipping through hundreds of pages looking for the answer. I believed in the power of technology, but I didn’t expect the day to come so soon after I had that thought!nnI was also in a hurry. I skipped three years of school along the way and graduated college when I was 19. I have since learned to enjoy the journey rather than just focusing on the destination.

I grew up in a fairly traditional Pakistani home in Frankfurt, Germany. My father was a banker, and my mother gave up her career to raise four children. I grew up with three sisters—one older, two younger. I’m grateful for the years of being the sole brother made me the person who I am today. My views in life and work (especially in healthcare) are informed by my brilliant wife, who has forged new ground as a Physician and Entrepreneur. Together we’re trying to make our biggest daily investment a success — raising 4 children (3 girls and a boy).

I came to Silicon Valley as an engineer in 1997. It was in the middle of the first internet boom and I was getting exposed to all kinds of cool products and companies. I was buying books on Amazon and using Google to search the web. nnMany of the coolest products and impactful companies had VCs, and an in many cases Kleiner Perkins, behind them. As I studied the VCs behind these companies, many of the most successful ones turned out to be engineers turned venture investors, so I naively thought I could be one of them one day. I thought the job of investing in products and companies that could harness the power of technology for positive change in the world seemed like a good way to spend your working hours.

My role is to be the u0022blind-spotu0022 monitor, someone who helps at the earliest stages of a company, enabling founders to see things they don’t even know they are supposed to encounter. There is no job too small for me, once we’ve invested and made the pact to serve one of our companies.nnFounders don’t have time to waste, so I try to provide real-time feedback whether it is something big or small. Small things compounded get big quickly, so it’s important for startups to course correct in real-time.nn

I love the German notion that “we work so that we can live” (and not the other way around). So if we’re working already, why not work with great tools that get the job done and give us joy. This is a theme I’ve been a fan of for the past 15 years and led to investments in companies like Box, Yammer, Intercom, Slack, Figma, Glean and Coda.nnI also like to spend my time on investments that help us in our personal lives. Whether it is addressing our mental health with companies like Modern Health or Thrive Global or our physical health with companies like Future, there’s so much impact that technology enabled solutions can deliver for us to self-actualize.

Perspectives