Thrive Global is helping the world’s leading enterprises and their people live and work with greater well-being. We’re proud to partner with them on their mission to end the stress and burnout epidemic and unlock human potential.

We're proud to partner with RudderStack on their journey to provide developers with the open, flexible tools they need to deliver value to the business with customer data.

Tajir is Pakistan’s largest tech-enabled retail network — a one stop shop for sellers to compare the prices of goods, purchase inventory, and enjoy the convenience of 24/7 ordering with next-day delivery.

Emile is raising the bar for the virtual learning experience ー more than 50,000 students have used Emile to supplement their high school learning experience already.

Settle has reimagined the CFO suite for brands, starting with integrated financing and bill pay solutions.

Announcing Kleiner Perkins Select ー a new $750M fund that extends our core investment strategy to focus on high inflection investments in enterprise, consumer, hardtech, fintech, and healthcare companies.

Hatch provides accessible, transparent and fair solutions that small businesses need to start out and grow. We’re excited to have been privy to Hatch’s formation in our offices and to support them from Seed to Series A.

Secureframe is building a compliance and security platform that automates the compliance certification process end-to-end. We're excited to partner with the team on on their mission to become the single source of truth for commercial compliance on the Internet.

Calixa is poised to play an important role in providing the system of action to the modern, data-driven software business.

We are poised for an explosive next chapter of crypto, with massive opportunities.

We’re excited to continue our journey and join Infinitus’ Series A. You’ll know they’ve succeeded when you never have to make another call for your healthcare.

Bucky Moore shares a synthesis of impactful ideas from conversations over the past year, and their influence on our go-forward thinking.

When we led their Series B, DoorDash was competing in a crowded space that was poorly serving its customers. What was different was the team, their technology, their commitment to their customers, and their drive to execute.

MedArrive is a new care management platform that enables healthcare providers and payors to extend services into the home. The company bridges the virtual care gap by combining physician-led telemedicine with hands-on care from a network of trusted EMS professionals.

Communication is fundamental to human beings. Yet it's rare that a company changes how we connect and work together, much less how we delight one another. (With emoji or otherwise). Slack has somehow managed to do just that. It's made work more fun for millions of people.

As more business data moves to streaming, we see Materialize’s ability to democratize access to it as the foundation upon which they will build the industry’s next major data platform.

Welcome is delivering breathtaking, high quality virtual events and experiences to keep us connected. We’re excited to lead Welcome’s Series A and partner with the team on their mission to provide access to those who wouldn’t otherwise have it.

apiiro is a systematic and comprehensive approach for engineering teams to ensure that what they build is as secure as possible. We're excited to co-lead their Series A.

The 2020 Kleiner Perkins People Report leverages the collective power of Founders and People Leaders to provide transparency and insight into what startups are doing around critical topics.

Announcing our investment in Coda. It’s clear that there is true value in Coda’s vision for the world — that if given the right set of building blocks, anyone can make a doc as powerful as an app.

Density is powering the future of how we measure and manage physical space, and there hasn't been a more critical moment in our history to get this right.

Announcing our Series A investment Dexterity. Modern industries will thrive with robot solutions that can adapt and change with us, and we’re excited to help Dexterity accelerate this new reality.

Announcing our $15m Series A in Open Raven. Open Raven is building the foundational data security platform for enterprises in the cloud-first world.

Alkira is empowering companies to connect and operate multi-cloud networks with the support they need, like integrated services, visibility and governance.

People are at the heart of great organizations. Pathlight is empowering individuals and teams perform at their best, and helping organizations harness the creativity of their people.

For the past year, we have partnered with the Interos team to bring transparency and intelligence to highly interconnected supply chains.

We're excited to announce our nineteenth venture fund, KP19! -- $700M to focus on early-stage investments. Our mission remains the same — to be the first call for founders who want to change the world and make history.

With modern technology and growing amounts of data, the future of credit reaches far beyond today's infrastructure. We're excited to pa...

Today, we're excited to welcome John Doerr and Founders Fund to the Modern Health journey as we announce the company's Series B.

We are grateful for Frank’s many contributions to our firm over the years. He will be sorely missed.

Bison Trails is the easiest way to run secure, premier infrastructure on multiple blockchains.

Brook Byers shares insights from 40 years of working with scientists, physicians, engineers and patients to create new products and build companies.

Moveworks is an AI platform that autonomously resolves IT support issues.

Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, the firm that helped to establish Sand Hill Road as a global venture capital hub over the past five decades, is going “Back to the Future" with a slate of new leaders and a stronger focus on what it does best.

Progyny helps people achieve the dream of parenthood with its fertility and family building benefits solutions.

Cryptocurrency data analytics startup Skew has raised $2 million in seed funding from several venture capital firms, including Silicon Valley icon Kleiner Perkins.

Ilya Fushman interviews award recipient — Slack CFO, Allen Shim

Anti-fraud startup Shape Security recently raised US$51 million in a funding round led by C5 Capital along with existing investors, including Focus...

With the ubiquity of mobile devices, modern software tools, and the connected nature of our world, it’s now possible to reinvent storytelling and empower talent from all walks of life to reach a global audience.

There was a time when Kleiner Perkins, an early investor in Google and Amazon, let its portfolio do the talking. But times have changed, and the well-known firm, with a fresh $600 million early-stage fund, is looking to open a "new chapter" aimed at going "back to the future."

Pattern Brands is leveraging the power of a brand to sell products.

DUST Identity is building a physical and digital platform for secure, low-cost, un-forgeable tracking of goods.

Artificial intelligence is a hot investment for venture capital firms. And as the use of the technology expands, some investors expect consumers to...

Every so often you find an idea that is so creative and differentiated that it captures your heart and mind. That's how we felt about Cameo...

We're thrilled to announce that we've raised Kleiner Perkins' 18th venture fund to focus on early stage investing.

Sixty-eight students will be spending their summer pursuing their passion for design, engineering and product management.

Brex, the credit card built for scaling business, today announced it closed a $100 million investment round.

Azarus, the first company to build a distributed, user-generated game challenge system has raised $1.8M in Seed funding.

Host Jason Calacanis sits down with Mamoon for the latest episode of ANGEL the Podcast.

The roster of U.S. cabinet-level departments has grown over the decades in response to one pressing need or another.

The platform that helps graduates manage student debt has raised $5.5M in Seed funding.

Modern Health, a mental well-being benefits platform for employers, today announced $9 million in Series A funding.

Future, the $5 a day personal coaching platform, today announced $8.5M in Series A funding.

The app becomes a hub for your healthy behavior.

The company's biggest aim is to prevent mental health crises before they start by providing services to everyone.

Mamoon Hamid sits down with Harry Stebbings to discuss venture capital and more.

CodeSandbox is an online code editor that allows you to create a new web application in a single click. We handle setting up the development environment, the tooling and the provisioning for you.

Beyond Meat offers a portfolio of revolutionary plant-based meats for consumers to experience while enjoying the nutritional benefits of eating plant-based foods.

We're thrilled to partner with the STORD team to reshape how goods move across the globe.

Stord, an Atlanta, Georgia-based provider of freight and warehousing services, today announced that it's raised $12.3 million in series A funding.

Handshake's platform is akin to LinkedIn, but focused on college kids and young grads across the country.

New enhancements include a new canonical application, JavaScript software developer kit (SDK) and open source library as well as visualizations.

Netlify is bringing new local testing and live stream preview capabilities to more than 12 million sites deployed on its platform.

Kinsa is an innovative start-up creating a real-time health map by leveraging its smart thermometers to get a sense of where people are experiencing the flu (using anonymous data).

Alteryx announced that it has acquired ClearStory Data, a privately held software company based in Menlo Park, Calif.

Businesses are built by people whose time should be spent on developing products and interacting with customers.

Manage your business's HR and IT— from payroll and benefits, to employee computers and software — all in one, easy-to-use platform. Hello, gateway to the enterprise app ecosystem.

The rapid proliferation of digital connections and services has led to an evolution in the way we interact and perform transactions online.

Earlier this week, Glossier hit unicorn status, reaching a valuation of $1.2 billion. valuation to $1 billion, according to a company release on Thursday.

When The Wing announced a series C round of funding back in December, backers included women from the leadership of Time's Up, such as Kerry Washington and former White House advisor Valerie Jarrett.

Epic Games dumped a bunch of news about the state of the Unreal Engine at its keynote talk at the Game Developers Conference today.

Today the brand launched a new look and marketing strategy to encourage more women (who either have or do not have health insurance) to think about Nurx when it comes to birth control.

At the American College of Cardiology this past weekend, chronic disease management platform Livongo reported on six-month results from its first major study of its hypertension management platform, which is already in use with many of its customers.

As schools continue to look for new ways to cut costs while at the same time reboot their curriculum to better tap new innovations and improved understandings of how children learn, e-learning startups are attracting attention, both from educators and the VCs that fund them to fuel growth.

The ability to rent his car to strangers for cash convinced Trevor Davis, a high-school teacher in Dallas, to buy a brand-new Honda Civic instead of a used car.

On February 27, 2019, John Doerr was honored by the NVCA with its Lifetime Achievement Award in venture capital. The Award honors those who have made significant contributions to foster innovation, advance technology and drive new company formation.

Airbnb says it plans to acquire HotelTonight, a service for travelers seeking last-minute hotel bookings, in a deal that will expand the lodging-rental company’s portfolio with traditional and boutique hotel listings.

After an explosion of altcoins and funding, technical constraints and regulatory angst have taken over the headlines. Still, the frenzy of the past two years set the stage for the next wave of adoption with a steady inflow of talent and new, uniquely compelling use cases of digital assets.

Ted Schlein, General Partner, Kleiner Perkins

Beyond Meat is venturing well beyond its popular plant-based burgers and chicken strips. On Tuesday, the meat substitute producer announced Beyond Beef, a new product meant to taste, feel, and smell just like ground beef.

CNBC's Deirdre Bosa reports on the security threat 5G could pose as more companies adopt the technology.

N3twork is introducing a platform for scaling third-party mobile games today in an effort to expand beyond its business of creating its own hit mobile titles.

Juniper plans to use the purchase to bolster its software-defined enterprise portfolio and multicloud offerings.

Farmers Business Network, a sort of Glassdoor for agriculture, is now selling its own seeds, too.

The tool will deliver what the company calls Health Nudges to help users better manage hypertension.

Ionic Security has raised $40 million in series E financing led by JPMorgan Chase, with participation from GV, Kleiner Perkins, Icon Ventures, Meritech Capital, TechOperators, Ten Eleven Ventures, Goldman Sachs, SunTrust Bank, and others.

Better.com, a home finance disrupter, today announced its closing of additional funding from Citigroup.

Delivery company DoorDash is announcing that it has raised $400 million in Series F financing.

Veem's browser-based service enables users to send funds to recipients using only their email address; Veem's platform automatically finds the most efficient route using a combination of traditional bank payment rails, blockchain and partnerships, earning revenue on currency conversions.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many emails can you replace with a video?

Late last month, the venture firm Kleiner Perkins began an official reboot, with a new, $600 million fund, as well as some new faces blazing the trail for the outfit going forward, including Mamoon Hamid and Ilya Fushman, investors who joined Kleiner from Social Capital and Index Ventures, respectively.

OdeMap: VC Poetry by Bing Gordon on the triumphs and challenges that every founder faces on their journey to make history.

With more industries and organizations recognizing design as a pillar of business, a battle is brewing among makers of design tools. And with a fresh $40 million in Series C funding, Figma is ready to fight.

Productboard, the San Francisco and Prague-based startup that offers product management software, has raised $10 million in further funding, adding to its Series A in July last year. The round is led by Index Ventures, and sees Index General Partner Jan Hammer joining the board.

Fertility drugs and treatments are expensive, but employers have increasingly begun to cover their cost.

Today, the Los Angeles-based subscription box company FabFitFun said it has landed a whopping $80 million in Series A funding led by Kleiner Perkins.

When Lauren Kassan began building The Wing with Audrey Gelman almost four years ago, she never would have imagined bringing her child into the same space as her work.

Figma, the design and prototyping tool that aims to offer a web-based alternative to similar tools from the likes of Adobe, is launching a few new features today that will make the service easier to use to collaborate across teams in large organizations.

ReCaptcha inventor Luis von Ahn introduced Duolingo in 2012, hoping to help users master a new language. In minutes a day, the app promised, you could learn English, Spanish, French, or German—no books required, no instructors. And all for free.

Duolingo, which built a big business on a free app, may file to go public in 2020. If and when it does, the startup will give Pittsburgh a huge homegrown success story.

Versatility, convenience and rapidity are the core advantages of DM systems

Arguably, diplomatic communications are a sovereign state’s most sensitive, protected information. However, threat actors target and breach even a heavily secured diplomatic correspondence network with alarming success to steal data and intellectual property—just as they target private businesses and organizations.

Robinhood is getting into more traditional consumer banking with the launch of a new checking and savings account.

Fintech company Plaid just hit a key Silicon Valley milestone: a multibillion dollar valuation.

Nurx aims to address the issue of so-called "contraceptive deserts" in the U.S.

Rana El-Kaliouby is CEO of Affectiva. As a computer scientist, she reveals how her constant drive to break new ground in technology has made her one of the leading minds in artificial intelligence.

Viva Republica, operator of the South Korean digital wallet Toss, has raised $80 million from investors including Kleiner Perkins to propel its expansion into new areas such as online stock trading.

Looker has been helping customers visualize and understand their data for seven years, and today it got a big reward, a $103 million Series E investment on a $1.6 billion valuation.

Plastiq has plans to open a Boston outpost in 2019, so that it can hire seasoned software developers.

Michelle Obama recently revealed that in her 30s, she underwent in vitro fertilization to conceive daughters Sasha and Malia.

The AI tools from Ayasdi revealed new, improved care pathways for pneumonia after analyzing thousands of patient records from the hospital and identifying the commonalities between those with the best outcomes.

Farmer's Business Network is teaming up with Lifestyle Health Plans to offer group health coverage for farmers.

Kleiner Perkins is thrilled to lead Plastiq’s $27 million Series C round of funding. Welcome, Plastiq, to the Kleiner Perkins family!

Boston, MA-based start-up firm DUST Identity has emerged from stealth with $2.3 million seed funding led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from New Science Ventures, Angular Ventures, and Castle Island Ventures. It was founded in 2018 by Ophir Gaathon (CEO), Jonathan Hodges (VP engineering) and Dirk Englund (board member).

When we started the Kleiner Perkins Fellows program six years ago to connect young, talented people with future opportunities in Silicon Valley, little did we know that it would become a 500 strong community of incredible engineers, designers, product managers, and founders.

Netlify announced the close of its $30m Series B financing led by Kleiner Perkins.

Audius wants to cut the middlemen out music streaming so artists get paid their fair share. Coming out of stealth today led by serial entrepreneur and DJ Ranidu Lankage, Audius is building a blockchain-based alternative to Spotify or SoundCloud.

Today, Labelbox is emerging from six months in stealth with a $3.9 million seed round led by Kleiner Perkins and joined by First Round and Google’s Gradient Ventures.

Tally, an automated debt-managing app, has raised $25 million in Series B funding with the goal of expanding its reach and finding new ways to alleviate consumers' financial anxiety.

In many ways, 1968 is famous for its tragedies: assassinations, conflicts and war. But 1968 also gave birth to something amazing: the era of fast, cheap, ubiquitous electronics. Because 50 years ago this week, two middle-aged engineers quit their jobs to start a new company called Intel.

Artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare startup Viz.ai has raised $21 million in a round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Alphabet’s venture capital arm GV.

Kapwing hopes to rapidly adapt to shifting memescape and its fragmented media formats, seizing on opportunities like creators needing to turn their long-form landscape videos vertical for Instagram’s recently launched IGTV.

Since its debut on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage in September 2016, demand for a service like productboard, which gives companies a holistic view of product development and encourages input from across an organization, has only gotten more acute.

Startup Nurx raises $36 million to give young women access in restrictive, remote areas of U.S.

Data-cruncher ArcSight dominated security operations centers—the digital war rooms of corporations—through the aughts. Splunk, a mighty rival, took the lead in the present decade. But which company will prevail in the years to come?

Based south of the San Francisco airport and backed by nearly $200 million in venture capital—from the likes of T. Rowe Price, Temasek, Kleiner Perkins and GV (Google’s VC arm), among others—FBN is trying to do nothing less than save America’s family farms while also building what its brash CEO, Amol Deshpande, hopes will become “the biggest agricultural business in the world.”

Flying cars. Cures for death. And now … space catapults. Bless you, California, for not letting reality get you down.

Rental property listing service Spotahome has raised $40 million in a funding round led by Silicon Valley-based Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

We use data to tell stories of business-related trends we focus on. We hope others take the ideas, build on them & make them better.

Over the course of their careers, Randy Komisar and Jantoon Reigersman continue to see startups crash and burn because they forget the timeless lessons of entrepreneurship.

In the early days of Microsoft, I felt pretty confident about my coding skills, but I had a lot to learn about project management. This became abundantly clear after an incident in 1978, when I told Intel—a really important customer—that we would deliver them a version of Microsoft BASIC in four weeks. They thought I was crazy to promise it that fast, and it turned out that they were right. We were two weeks late.

Alex Frommeyer comes from a family of dentists. Now, he has a start-up that sells dental insurance, but with a twist.

Prisma, a Berlin and San Francisco startup that is betting big on GraphQL — the data query language originally developed by Facebook to make it eas...

As software eats the world, the rise in products and services we are now accustomed to consuming digitally is impossible to overstate. Businesses a...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — BorderX Lab, Inc., a technology enabled, cross-border e-commerce company founded in 2014 by three former Google computer scientists, has raised $20m in a Series B financing round led by Kleiner Perkins . The company’s platform allows consumers around the world to discover and purchase authentic consumer goods and lifestyle products from leading Western brands.

Outside Silicon Valley, commentators obsess about robots, artificial intelligence, big data. Inside Silicon Valley, paradoxically, the tech tribe’s preoccupations often lie elsewhere: less with code than with people. Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg wrote two of the hottest books to come out of the Valley in the past half-decade — one is about women’s professional confidence and the other about coping with bereavement. The late Steve Jobs of Apple is the subject of endless fascination in Silicon Valley, not because he invented stuff but because his quirky New Age perfectionism somehow led him to greatness. Now John Doerr, the Valley’s most famous venture capitalist, has come out with a book that underscores this paradox. To anyone who fears that technology advances at the expense of humanity, it is salutary reading.

Former National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander’s startup, IronNet Cybersecurity Inc., has raised a sizable round of venture financing as it seeks to leverage its founder’s government experience to defend customers against sophisticated hackers.

Kleiner Perkins Chairman John Doerr announced his book, Measure What Matters, can be ordered through Amazon and other booksellers.

This week more than 40,000 security professionals will attend RSA in San Francisco to see the latest cyber technologies on display and discuss key issues. No topic will be higher on the agenda than the Russian-sponsored hack of the American 2016 election, with debate about why the country has done so little to respond and what measures should be taken to deter future attempts at subverting our democracy.

Earlier today, Amazon completed its purchase of Ring. While these two companies are distinctive in many ways, they could not be more closely aligned in their customer-focus and expansive long-term vision. Together, Amazon and Ring will create revolutionary products and experiences to make us safer, happier, and better connected.

UiPath has quickly become the leader in enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Their platform enables the rapid design and deployment of software robots that emulate and execute time-consuming, repetitive tasks that normally require the insight of a knowledge worker to complete.

Ilya Fushman, a former Dropbox executive most recently at Index Ventures, is joining Kleiner Perkins as a general partner and managing member, the firm said today.

Kleiner Perkins announced today the appointment of Ilya Fushman as a general partner and managing member on the leadership team at the firm.

Helix, a San Carlos startup that analyzes and stores customers’ genetic information online, has raised $200 million from venture capital and private equity funds, the company announced Thursday.

In $46 million Series C, new managing director joins startup as a board observer

UJET, a startup that makes software to improve customer support, said today that it’s raised a $25 million Series B led by GV (formerly known as Google Ventures). Other participants in the round include returning investors Kleiner Perkins and DCM Ventures and new backer Citi Ventures.

Kleiner Perkins and other venture capitalists are betting that the Photoshop maker’s chokehold over the design market could someday come to an end.

Kleiner Perkins and other venture capitalists are betting that the Photoshop maker’s chokehold over the design market could someday come to an end.

Often, a personal technology review has little to do with the tech itself. What makes a good product comes down to design or implementation, or simply whether a device does what it is intended to do.

The fastest-growing business app is relying on machine-learning tricks to fend off a deluge of messages—as well as competition from Facebook and Microsoft.

A company making “smart thermometers” that upload body temperatures to its website claims to be tracking this year’s flu season faster and in greater geographic detail than public health authorities can.

Stripe’s core values, says cofounder John Collison, have been key to the online payment powerhouse’s growth since he and his brother, Patrick, launched the company in 2011.

Ripcord, a company that aims to do away with the piles of paper enterprises keep around, has raised a $25 million round led by GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) to fuel its robotic-assisted paper digitization business.

Farmers Business Network has raised $110 million in new venture funding to support a business that may sound boring to some Silicon Valley technologists but which appears to have addressed a very real need: it’s a social network for farmers that invites them to share their data, pool their know-how, and bargain more effectively for better pricing from third parties.

The software had generated buzz through word of mouth in ERs across the country, after government officials in Washington, reeling from a budget deficit, threatened in 2011 to limit Medicaid reimbursement to three non-emergency visits per year.

Company works with major national health plans

High-profile donors from tech and Hollywood are funding a law group at Georgetown to fight for the Constitution, especially when it involves directly undermining President Trump’s policies.

Venture capital funding for FinTech companies has exploded in recent years, driving a wave of innovation across the sector. Entrepreneurs and investors alike are seeing unprecedented opportunities in areas such as payments, lending, insurance, remittances, banking and cryptocurrencies. In analysis prepared exclusively for Money20/20, Kleiner Perkins’ General Partner Noah Knauf reveals the trends driving funding for FinTech startups in 2018 and into the future.

Feather wants to take the pain out of owning furniture and today announced the close of a $3.5 million seed round for its furniture rental business. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Bain Capital Ventures co-led the round, with participation from several other investors, including Y Combinator (YC).

Experts say many people are using a growing stream of genetic data to help them make better health decisions.

Incorta, the startup that wants to speed up big data analytics by eliminating the need for data warehouses, has raised a $15 million Series B led by new investor Kleiner Perkins. Existing investors GV and Ron Wohl, former executive vice president of applications development at Oracle, also participated.

Ripcord, a startup that’s using robotics, machine vision, and artificial intelligence to create what it calls the “truly paperless workplace,” has raised $40 million in a series B round of funding led by Icon Ventures, with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Lux Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank

Tulip.io Inc., whose mobile software allows sales associates and retailers to engage more effectively with customers, has raised $40 million in a new round of venture-capital financing led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Desktop Metal has already earned a number of fans with its 3D printed metal technology — Lowe’s, Caterpillar and BMW were all among its earliest clients. As first noted by CNBC, the Massachusetts-based startup is also getting some healthy monetary support, adding $115 million of venture funds to its coffers this week.

In its first year Better mortgage made over $525 million in loans, which is the largest amount by a fintech company in its first year post launch. Backed with more than $45M from investors like Goldman Sachs, Pine Brook and Kleiner Perkins, the company is on a mission is to eliminate the inefficiencies of the mortgage industry.

Kleiner Perkins today announced that Mamoon Hamid will be joining the firm as a general partner and managing member.

CloudHealth is a Cloud Service Management platform that takes the frustration out of managing cloud deployments and puts the power back in the hands of business users (in particular, the CFO & CIO).

We are excited to stay involved in the OSIsoft ecosystem as partners with Element Analytics and hope to find ways to work with more partners of OSIsoft in the years to come.

Kleiner Perkins general partner Mary Meeker launched the 22nd edition of the Internet Trends Report at the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, on May 31, 2017. Dating back to 1995, when Mary was still an equity analyst at Morgan Stanley, the annual report compiles and analyzes data from a wide range of sources, providing insights on the state of the Internet Economy. The deck covers a broad array of topics, including global internet user trends, advertising and e-commerce, gaming, online media, digital health, and much, much more. This guide is intended to highlight some of the key topics of discussion in this year’s edition – and to help media navigate the report.

The Wing, an all-women social, co-working and networking club in New York, has closed an $8 million Series A round as it gets set to open new outposts in Brooklyn, Manhattan’s Soho, and Washington, D.C.

Since CEO Amol Deshpande and Baron sat down with the idea of a data network for farms in 2014, Farmers Business Network has built a network of 3,400 farms, spanning 12 million acres of farmland (roughly the size of Maryland and Delaware) and sharing more than 25,000 invoices to date.

We believe in a world where everyone can discover the profound benefits in their biological information, and that the powers we tap into through that information can help all of humanity lead better lives.

Better Mortgage will expand a nascent program of offering homeowners a guaranteed interest rate within 20 minutes of filling out an online application, said Chief Executive Vishal Garg.

Large venture-backed companies addressing fertility include Natera, Femasys, OvaScience and Progyny.

Two years after it was created, Desktop Metal, a 3D metal printing startup based in Burlington, Mass., is gearing up to take its first product into mass production. To do so, it’s gathered up a giant pile of venture capital from a group of noteworthy strategic investors.

Nuna, while working with the federal government, has built a cloud-computing database of the nation’s 74 million Medicaid patients and their treatment.

ServiceMax announced that it is in the process of being acquired by GE Digital. We believe companies like ServiceMax can help drive the growth of what we call the Industrial Awakening.

Ted Schlein interviews Warriors owner and CEO Joe Lacob on building a winning team and how creation of the “Strength in Numbers” franchise holds lessons for entrepreneurs.

Podcast covering frequently asked questions about fundraising in today’s startup environment.

Podcast about early-stage funding and how entrepreneurs can best navigate the waters of raising capital today.

Telogis announced that they were acquired by Verizon!

All top ten U.S. business schools have design clubs led by students – the fundamental profile of designers is beginning to shift.

Panel with leaders from various functions at top tech companies discussing best practices in cross-group teamwork and collaboration.

KPCB’s Mary Meeker presents the 2016 Internet Trends report, covering today’s Internet growth.

Podcast about cyber threats impacting the private and public sectors and what Silicon Valley can do about it.

Podcast about how we can collectively work to improve women’s participation in the tech industry at each key stage of their careers.

Podcast about three trends – electrification, sharing, and autonomous drive – that are reshaping the future of transportation.

Ellie Powers, the lead product manager of Google Play, discusses how developers can succeed on Google Play.

Panel discussion on user acquisition, engagement, and retention for mobile apps.

As today’s agricultural industry evolves and adapts, we’re seeing massive strides taking place at the intersection of food and technology.

A podcast conversation with tech giants about the importance of building a strong board.

John Doerr shares his enthusiasm with our team about his new role as KPCB Chair.

A podcast discussion about how we think about investing in the future of wearable technology.

The future isn’t the car. It’s the service, and the code is what enables and optimizes the service.

A podcast conversation about how former prison inmates turn their experiences into the startup American dream.

For all of us who use a computer or mobile device, great design is changing how we live and work. John Maeda’s report helps explain why.

A panel discussion on local & global growth marketing and how to build unique communities across different markets.

Interview with Defense Secretary Ash Carter about the expansion of the counter-ISIS campaign into the cyber domain.

An interview with General Keith Alexander about cybersecurity, terrorism, and corporate security.

A podcast conversation about the secret force behind Nest: good leadership and product design.

An interview with cyber guru Kevin Mandia about the evolving landscape of cyber threats.

Panel discussion on building effective sales organizations.

Brian Welle, Director of People Analytics at Google, leads a discussion on unconscious bias.

Podcast about management and how goal setting is done more frequently and publicly in modern day organizations.

Panel on how platform companies can best engage and listen to feedback from their developer communities.

Fireside chat about how Uber started as an underdog and emerged as a market leader.

A podcast about the intersection of government and technology.

Proud to announce our investment in Handshake, as they connect students, universities, & employers together into a nationwide career network

Google’s SVP of People, Laszlo Bock, discusses how Google thinks about hiring, management, and culture.

A panel with CMOs from Facebook, Slack, and Zynga on the importance of brand-building for early-stage startups.

A podcast conversation about what tactics entrepreneurs can use to make their idea more attractive for venture funding.

We’re excited to announce our investment in Looker, an analytics platform that makes it easy for everyone to find, explore and understand the data that drives their businesses.

A discussion with Silicon Valley legend Bill Campbell about how he coaches tech company founders and executives to great success.

Fifteen years ago, computers were primarily used by researchers and “nerdy” types. Today’s users, however, are considerably less nerdy.

Clean Power Finance and Kilowatt Financial have completed a merger, joining to become one company, Spruce Finance.

An honest discussion about the challenges facing women in STEM and practical ways to make education and the workforce more inclusive for women.

A podcast about design decisions in fitness products, and how consumer healthcare apps are “ethically” gamified to make chronic illnesses more manageable.

This morning, one of the Green Growth Fund’s portfolio companies, UpWind Solutions, was acquired by wind giant Vestas, the world’s largest manufacturer of wind turbines.

A podcast about the impact of artificial intelligence and its effect on society, job security, and the future of the human race.

A podcast conversation with Uber’s SVP of Business about how the company makes strategic business decisions in this evolving transportation economy.

KPCB general partners Randy Komisar and Ted Schlein discuss their views on unicorns, the status of the tech bubble and provide practical advice for entrepreneurs in the current environment.

A podcast about the value of blockchain technology to small businesses and how it will disrupt current financial systems.

A podcast conversation with Pinterest’s CEO and co-founder Ben Silbermann about why he built the company, how he handled growth, and why he offers generous equity to top talent.

Why we invested in Turo, a peer to peer marketplace for vehicle rentals.

A podcast conversation with cybersecurity guru Kevin Mandia about the current security outlook and the evolving landscape of cyber threats.

A podcast conversation about the impact that food technology can have on climate change, sustainability, and healthcare costs.

News about the latest additions to our team at KPCB with expertise in enterprise and consumer digital industries.

A podcast conversation welcoming a new general partner to Kleiner Perkins, Eric Feng, to discuss his decision to transition from an engineer and entrepreneur to Venture Capitalist.

Five years ago, I was thrilled to join Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as an investing partner after spending three years as CTO of a media technology company. Today, I am thrilled to join Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as an investing partner after spending three years as CTO of a media technology company. Wait, what?

During Laszlo Bock’s nine years as Google’s SVP of People Operations, the company has won more than 100 awards for its employment practices. Bock, who came to Google after stints at McKinsey and GE, recently collected his thoughts about management and culture into “Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead,” a New York Times best-seller. He expounded on some of his HR-related ideas in a conversation with Beth Seidenberg at KPCB’s recent CEO Workshop.

Most start-ups would be happy if they were responsible for one major industry disruption. But Netflix [https://www.netflix.com/], under the leadership of Reed Hastings [https://ir.netflix.com/management.cfm], can count already two to its name — how we watch movies and TV shows and how content is produced — and it’s not done yet. In a conversation with John Doerr [https://www.kpcb.com/partner/john-doerr] at our recent CEO Workshop, Hastings discussed some of the things that make for great companies — and great leaders.

In this episode of “Ventured,” KPCB General Partner Randy Komisar interviews Priv Bradoo, Founder and CEO of e-waste recycling company BlueOak, and Lila Ibrahim, Chief Business Officer of online course provider Coursera, about what it is like to run a social mission-driven startup in today’s funding environment. Halfway through the interview, the interviewees turn the tables on Randy and ask him what it is like to invest in companies like theirs. Both sides agree that although it may be more difficult to find the right financing tools for these types of companies, the fight is ultimately worth it for the founders, investors, and society at large.

We just wrapped up our 2015 KPCB Fellows Program and it was an incredible summer! Our Fellows hacked together mobile products to support girls and women worldwide at the CHIMEHACK hackathon, discussed the state of the Internet with Mary Meeker, sailed the San Francisco Bay and learned from top executives from companies like Uber, Flipboard and Coursera.

John Doerr interviews Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings, about some of the things that make for great companies — and great leaders.

A storm is brewing. Slowly, but steadily, the trickle of entrepreneurs working on a slew of technologies to make immersive worlds a reality coming through our doors at Edge is turning into a healthy stream. Week by week, they are getting smarter, more ambitious, and more importantly, building experiences we’ve never seen before, which were just plain impossible to build even 24 months ago.

Block chain technology is one of our core focus areas at KPCB Edge and an area we track closely. We’d like to talk about our learnings in the space and what we’re excited to see founders build.

Video games have always captured the minds and imaginations of multiple generations. I remember my first time playing (then cracking) Castle Wolfenstein, Alpine Encounter and Aztec – all a huge step up from the original game I played – Oregon Trail! These days I’ll find myself playing Minecraft pocket edition with my daughter and xbox one games which are amazing. What has been so intriguing about all of this is the way in which we learn and improve our game play is no different than it was years ago – we learn by watching others in the community.

We recently hosted a “Welcome to Silicon Valley” event for this summer’s KPCB Fellows [https://kpcbfellows.com/] during which Fellows alum Alex Moffit interviewed Hosain Rahman, CEO of Jawbone. In this video, Hosain shares what it was like to grow Jawbone over the past 16 years, how to embrace mistakes, and steps that entrepreneurs can take to enjoy the journey of building a company instead of getting bogged down by the inevitable failures.

Mobile devices have eclipsed desktops, laptops and other devices, becoming our primary method for engaging with the digital world. For the first time, smartphones in 2015 accounted for over half of all hours US adults spent viewing digital media. Not only have smartphones become central to our daily lives, they are our most intimate devices.

Ciara Peter leads product at BetterWorks, and is on a mission to make work processes more data-driven, engaging, insightful, and fun. Ciara has been recognized as a top inventor in the technology industry. She sat down with KPCB’s Chief Product Officer Bing Gordon for a Q&A on product management.

Every business that sells a product or service has to master the art of pricing. But, as you think about pricing your own product, remember that pricing is not a point; it’s a range. Between the lowest price at which you are willing to sell and the highest price at which the customer is willing to buy, what will determine the final figure?

Silicon Valley is increasingly focused on the gender diversity issues that affect technology businesses and venture capital firms. The data paint a disturbing picture. Women in leadership can barely be found. According to a recent Babson College study, only 15% of VC-backed companies have even a single woman serving in an executive role; fewer than 3% have a female CEO; and just 6% of venture capital firm partners are women.

In the wake of the e-commerce revolution, the consumer value system has shifted. Consumers want brands that support a “social good” and products manufactured in the US. But the great brands we grew up with have gotten lost in their cost structure, focusing on sales, real estate, and big marketing spends. In the latest “Voices of KPCB” episode, KPCB’s Randy Komisar and American Giant’s Bayard Winthrop discuss how today’s brands navigate this new environment.

Understanding how users interact with your product is essential to successful product development. It benefits not only design and production, but also marketing, selling and support. In the world of enterprise software, Software as a Service (SaaS) has become the default delivery method for new applications over the last decade. The SaaS market is huge and rapidly growing. It accounts for nearly $90B in revenue and nearly 20% of all enterprise applications.

At a recent event held at Uber, design partner John Maeda presented his “Design in Tech” report and convened designers to discuss the role of the creative class in Silicon Valley. The event featured two panels: KPCB partner Creighton Hicks spoke with Andrew Crow, Head of Design at Uber, and Catherine Courage, SVP of Customer Experience at Citrix, about being a designer at an enterprise company. And KPCB talent partner Jackie Xu discussed actionable tips on Silicon Valley career paths in design with Bob Baxley, Head of Product Design at Pinterest, and Sarah Oppelt, Head of Design at Zumper.

Think of the vehicle that will change urban transportation. If the image in your mind is not an electric bus, you’re thinking of the wrong vehicle. The electrification of the passenger vehicle has made headlines for good reason. Vehicles like the Tesla Model S and BMW i8 are beautiful and fast, and cars like the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf offer compelling value to commuters. But we’d be lucky if plug-in vehicles represent more than 5 percent of passenger vehicles sold in the United States over the next five years.

KPCB’s Mary Meeker presents the 2015 Internet Trends report, 20 years after the inaugural “The Internet Report” was first published in 1995.

From the beginning of the semiconductor industry a half-century ago, Moore’s Law has propelled Silicon Valley into the future. The impact of Gordon Moore’s observation that engineers learn how to double the number of transistors in an integrated circuit chip every 18 months without doubling the cost is astonishing. Today, however, with all of the computing power already at our fingertips, we’re discovering that ever-faster technology may matter far less than beautiful, intuitive, easy-to-use products and services. In short, we’re learning that design may matter more than Moore.

In the latest episode of the “Voices of KPCB” podcast, KPCB design partner John Maeda and talent partner Andy Chen speak to Elaine Zhoe and Viraj Bindra, on how they successfully navigated between engineering and design disciplines, which are seeing increasing overlap in the tech industry.

I loved my time in school but it wasn’t until I left graduate school at the University of Washington that my real education began (beyond having learned how to learn). Looking back at it, I’ve had a great career working on Microsoft’s early cloud-computing efforts, founding and then selling my own company, leading software development of webOS at Palm, then engineering at Twitter, and now, investing and advising young start-ups. In each and every experience, I made mistakes, fixed them, and made some more. I may have even notched a few wins along the way.

In a prior era, some considered it best practice to bring in “professional managers” to run the businesses started by creative and hard-working entrepreneurs once those business began to scale and appeared to need “adult supervision.” The term “upgrade management” is still occasionally heard among investors but never in front of founders.

At the age of 22, I had just graduated from college in the United Kingdom and I was beginning my career at a Fortune 50 company. I had everything that I could ever want: I was on a track toward leadership at the company, I had just bought a new car, I was earning money and my parents were proud. But surprise, I hated it.

For business leaders today, no task is more important than ensuring confidence and trust in the organizations they lead. The boardroom has woken up to the importance of security – and to the enormity of what it will take to protect company and consumer data from attacks.

In this edition of the “Voices of KPCB” podcast series, KPCB partner Creighton Hicks sits down with Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS, to discuss the computing and infrastructure behind the next generation of applications. They highlight the latest trends and techniques in the industry – including virtualization, containers, warehouse scale computing and security – and what to expect in the years to come.

Push the boundaries: join a board. I strongly recommend that all professionals get involved with work outside of their day job and, when they can, join a board – the right board – as a way to keep highly motivated at work. A few years into my career at KPCB–just when I was starting to really hit my stride (and probably my comfort zone)–my KP partner John Doerr came to me with a completely out-of-the-box request: Would I be willing to speak with Bono and Bobby Shriver about the “Product RED” initiative they recently launched in the U.K.?

John Doerr hosts a behind the scenes conversation with Laszlo Bock, SVP of People Operations at Google, on Work Rules!, which Doerr calls “the Best Business Book of the Year.”

Every day, we create 2.5 billion gigabytes of data. New developments in data storage, ranging from Hadoop to object-oriented approaches, have enabled us to store that data more efficiently, and advances in visualization technology turn the data into actionable business intelligence. Still, so much of the data is untouched, awaiting the development of new analytic methods that will generate the insights that business leaders need.

When I went to Silicon Valley at the end of 2013, I had that feeling that comes every so often in one’s life: of not being too early, and not being too late. I had listened to the co-founder of Airbnb, Joe Gebbia, as he visited the Rhode Island School of Design each year as an alumnus and later as a trustee, and he would tell me that Silicon Valley was amazing. Frankly, I didn’t believe him. I had spent twelve years of my life at the MIT Media Lab, ubiquitously known in the tech world for being “amazing,” and by the mid-2000s “the cloud” was getting boring for me. I wanted to be closer to creation — “the dirt” of the physical world.

In this edition of the “Voices of KPCB” podcast series, KPCB partners Creighton Hicks [https://www.kpcb.com/partner/creighton-hicks] and Wen Hsieh [https://www.kpcb.com/partner/wen-hsieh] talk to Peter Godman, CEO of Qumulo, about the new era of data storage we’re in. In fact, they agree that “data storage” is no longer what consumers and enterprises most urgently need – instead, we’ve moved on to an age in which data analytics and searchability are of paramount importance to the ever-expanding mass of big data.

Design has become a game changer in Silicon Valley. In his inaugural #DesignInTech Report, John Maeda highlights the rising importance of design in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

KPCB partner Mike Abbott [https://www.kpcb.com/partner/mike-abbott] recently hosted a panel discussion about the intersection of engineering and management in front of an audience of leaders of KPCB’s portfolio companies. The panelists included Mike Curtis [https://twitter.com/mikecurtis], VP of Engineering at Airbnb, Jeff Huber [https://twitter.com/jhuber], SVP at Google X, and Alex Roetter [https://twitter.com/aroetter], VP of Engineering at Twitter. This podcast captures the highlights of their conversation, which focused on the excitement but also the challenges of successfully managing engineering teams at a fast-growing company.

The greatest companies have clear vision. It’s the north star — the big, timeless idea that frames every key decision made by the company. The people we hired to build Twitter could have built cool apps or services anywhere. But what really got everyone excited was the impact they’d have on building ‘the global town square’. Staying up late to fix a critical bug is much easier when you realize you’re giving people a voice.

John Doerr lecture at UC Berkeley in a Q&A session where he discussed topics such as startups, healthcare, education, policy & politics, venture capital, the sharing economy, and jobs in emerging markets.

Interest in the Internet of Things has focused on the connected home, with attention to newly designed thermostats, lights, and security systems. Yet the connected home is just the first wave of a greater transition toward “smart, connected products” throughout the economy. The next wave, focusing on what is known as the Industrial Internet, may have an even more transformative effect on our lives.

We live in a world awash in media, from music to photos to home videos to TV to movies. We may download the media, or stream it, or create it ourselves. It’s a world of unparalleled choice, in our living room and on the go. But accessing and enjoying all of this media is not always easy. The amount of content keeps growing, stored in different formats and across devices. It’s difficult to remember where we’ve stored our media – and even if we do remember, often we have to take the time to move content from one device to another, especially when we share it with family and friends. We all want to access our content in a beautiful, elegant, intuitive way, at any time and on any screen.

In this edition of the Voices of KPCB [https://soundcloud.com/kleinerperkins] podcast series, KPCB partner Randy Komisar speaks to Brook Porter, partner in KPCB’s Green Growth Fund, and Amol Deshpande, CEO and founder of Farmers Business Network [https://www.farmersbusinessnetwork.com/], about innovations and advancements in agriculture. The three discuss new Ag Tech applications, approaches to big data, supply chain transparency, and other hot topics of interest to anyone looking to break into the space – or consumers who are interested in learning where their food comes from and what to expect in the future.

I had just finished my second year on the faculty at MIT, and one of my colleagues who had joined the academy at the time had just shared the fact that he was departing for industry. Naturally, I felt a bit like quitting too – as the second year of being a professor was proving harder than the first. And boy did my friend sound happy that he was leaving behind all the institutional politics he was just being indoctrinated into. It certainly sounded enticing, and when I told my mentor, Professor Whitman Richards, that I was thinking of leaving, he said something that stuck with me for years: “If you leave, the field that you represent leaves with you.”

Our latest “Voices of KPCB” podcast features a conversation between KPCB Partner John Doerr, SVP of People Operations at Google Laszlo Bock, and CEO and Co-Founder of BetterWorks Kris Duggan. They discuss how Millennials differ from previous generations of employees, how to optimize review processes for their needs, and what all of us – even those born before 1980 – can learn from their approach to work.

Everyone in tech acknowledges that we need more women working in our startups. Studies show that organizations are stronger when they are diverse. In the four years since our firm launched the KPCB Fellows program [https://kpcbfellows.com/] – which identifies the best college-age talent, pairs them with one of our portfolio companies, and connects them to our network – the two of us researched and carried out several approaches to increase the number of female engineers in the program. This year, we will welcome our largest percentage of female engineering Fellows, all while holding to the highest standards of excellence.

Behind every great CEO is a great board, and I’ve noticed that startup founders tend to put off the task of building strong boards. Consider successful tech companies like Amazon and Google that built their boards early on. They’re more an exception than the rule, however; more often than not, companies find that there are few, if any, consequences until they run into trouble.

Learn to code. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of software developers alone is expected to grow 22% between 2012 and 2022. And this doesn’t even include the extraordinary demand for design and product management skills that companies are searching for at career fairs and technical bootcamps.

Hear Mike and Albert Lee recount the beginnings of MyFitnessPal and their entrepreneurial journey, in conversation with John Doerr of KPCB. The two brothers bootstrapped the company to profitability over eight years before taking venture funding. MyFitnessPal has 75 million users who have collectively lost 200 million pounds. MyFitnessPal is now joining with Under Armour to create the largest digital health and fitness community in the world.

This past year, VC funding for digital health startups exceeded $4 billion – in this behind the scenes interview, John Doerr spoke with MyFitnessPal co-founders about their recent acquisition to Under Armour.

Several trends – the decline in the cost of data storage, the growth of the Internet of Things, and the rise of consumer-generated data – have converged to double the amount of data in the world every two years. Enterprises feel comfortable storing everything as the cost of doing so keeps falling. The Internet of Things will account for ten percent of all data by 2020 as more of our devices get connected. And the worldwide adoption of smartphones, the 10x growth in the App Store in the last five years, and the ability to produce high-quality images across devices means that it’s never been easier to store pictures, videos, music, and files. It’s an exciting time, as Big Data promises to transform how we live and work.

Randy Komisar is a venture capitalist, author, and entrepreneur. There are many people who would teach you how to calculate ROI and make a business model, skills and techniques for pitching and storytelling, and branding strategy and marketing methods. However, there is almost no one who would tell you what is a successful life. Randy Komisar shares his wisdom and philosophy with us.

At a recent KPCB event in Los Angeles, former Vice President and KPCB partner Al Gore interviewed film and television producer Brian Grazer on what it’s like to be a storyteller in the digital age. How has YouTube changed talent scouting? How does entertainment content spread across platforms? Al Gore and Brian Grazer tackle these and many more questions in a conversation about the new era of entertainment and media.

Six technologies are converging on the transportation industry, and investors have taken note.

KPCB Design Partner John Maeda [https://www.kpcb.com/partner/john-maeda] hosted a conversation on design, technology and leadership with four visionary leaders in the design industry at Ammunition’s offices in San Francisco. Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk, Erin McKean, Founder of Reverb/Wordnik, Robert Brunner, Founder of Ammunition, and Margaret Stewart, Director of Product Design at Facebook, participated in “baton relay panels” in which they took turns interviewing each other on the importance of design and how they see their role as designers.

Technology is playing a critical role as an enabler of a more personalized way of doing business — one that lets consumers connect with products as their father’s father once did at the local country store. The trend underscores one of the great paradoxes of the digital age: In an increasingly automated world of interconnected everything, consumers are craving new products that they can have an emotional connection with — items that are customized to their personalities and tastes. And consumers are beginning to look beyond markets driven by mass production and low cost for everything from clothes to cars.

Foundation Medicine, Inc. (NASDAQ:FMI) and Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that they will enter into a broad strategic collaboration to further advance Foundation Medicine’s market-leading position in molecular information and genomic analysis while providing Roche a unique opportunity to optimize the identification and development of novel treatment options for cancer patients.

When aspiring entrepreneurs envision their future companies, they tend to think about the products they will build. Not too much time is spent thinking about the fact that if the company grows, they will have to introduce a management layer into the organization. These changes introduce many new levels of complexity into company-building, so a recent KPCB Engineering Meetup gathered Mike Curtis, VP of Engineering at Airbnb, Jeff Huber, SVP at Google X, and Alex Roetter, VP of Engineering at Twitter, on a panel moderated by KPCB Partner Mike Abbott [https://www.kpcb.com/partner/mike-abbott] to share tips and tricks from those who have been through the process.

After just getting back from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, KPCB Partners Wen Hsieh [https://www.kpcb.com/partner/wen-hsieh] and Michael Linse [https://www.kpcb.com/partner/michael-linse] had some thoughts to share about their experiences. They discussed the process that Venture Capitalists go through when returning from a conference like this and trends they noticed in a variety of areas like automotive technology, wearables, and IoT. Wen even suggested that the conference should be renamed “Connected Everything Show,” emphasizing that connected devices was the theme of the year.

The resignation of Target’s CEO last May, after cyber attackers accessed the payment records of 40 million shoppers and Q4 profit declined 46 percent from the year before, was a watershed moment. Corporate officers and directors now had a concrete example of how cyber threats can hit the bottom line – and of how they will be held accountable.

Sam Lessin was Facebook’s VP of Product Management and was interviewed by Bing Gordon for KPCB’s ‘Product Management Stories’ series.

Shortly after I joined KPCB, I wrote a post about design in the new economy. Since then, I’ve immersed myself in the culture of Silicon Valley to experience first-hand how designers work and think in this region. My simple conclusion: Get involved with technology early, and get close to what Silicon Valley has to offer early. If you have the chance to intern at a high-tech company in this region for a summer job, I suggest you do so because you will learn what I have learned — that the speed and scale of technology development is so fast that you’ll want to start early or you’ll miss out on a lot.

In the latest edition of the “Voices of KPCB” podcast series, KPCB partner Beth Seidenberg speaks to Jason Oberfest, Co-Founder and CEO at Mango Health, and Shanit Gupta, Senior Director of Security and Site Reliability at Practice Fusion, about digital health startups. They discuss privacy and data security, working with partners in the healthcare ecosystem, data-sharing, and other hot topics of interest to anyone looking to break into the space – or patients who would like to know how their digital health data is actually handled.

In a panel discussion at a recent KPCB event in Los Angeles, Albert Cheng, EVP and CPO of Digital Media at Disney, Neil Young, CEO and Founder at N3TWORK, and Sam Rogoway, CEO and Founder at Victorious, talk about what’s in store for the entertainment industry in the future. Will second screens disrupt traditional viewing habits? Where will funding for new content come from in the age of new media? And what is the role of virtual reality? The panel is moderated by KPCB partner Mike Abbott and concludes with an impromptu poem written and performed by KPCB partner Bing Gordon.

At a recent KPCB event in Los Angeles, former Vice President and KPCB partner Al Gore interviewed film and television producer Brian Grazer on what it’s like to be a storyteller in the digital age. How has YouTube changed talent scouting? How does entertainment content spread across platforms? Al and Brian tackle these and many more questions in a conversation bookended by impromptu poems written and performed by KPCB partner Bing Gordon.

In the latest edition of the Voices of KPCB podcast series [https://soundcloud.com/kleinerperkins], KPCB partner Ted Schlein speaks to Adam Ghetti, founder, chairman, and CTO of Ionic Security, about the growing cybersecurity threat. How scared should we really be? Is the threat volume growing – or just the damage attacks can do? How serious was the recent JP Morgan breach? And which challenges lie ahead as we enter the era of the Internet of Things?

Big data keeps getting bigger. Last year, VC firms invested $3.6 billion – 75 percent of what they invested in the previous five years combined. The pace has continued this year, with several firms announcing new funding rounds in the tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars.

In the consumer Internet business, we hear lots of talk about retention hacking – the tricks you can use to keep your customers around. But I’ve often wondered whether this type of artificial virality is the right goal for startups to pursue. It reminds me of the pick-up artist who flirts with as many potential partners as possible without ever making anyone stick around for too long.

Highly publicized cyberattacks have put cybersecurity on C-suite and boardroom agendas, but this good news for entrepreneurs in the space also brings challenges. Ted Schlein, general partner at the venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and a veteran cybersecurity investor and practitioner, discussed the new industry landscape with Risk & Compliance Journal.

At KPCB’s recent 12-200 CEO Workshop, KPCB Partner Mike Abbott interviewed Laszlo Bock, SVP of People Operations at Google, and Don Mattrick, CEO of Zynga, on their advice for successful company building. Here are some of the insights they shared with the audience.

The time to prepare for your next corporate crisis is now. Amanda Duckworth, partner at the corporate communications firm Brunswick Group, emphasized that point at a session with KPCB portfolio company CEOs at KPCB’s recent 12-200 Workshop. “With a certain surefootedness, you can coordinate your actions to help, not hurt, the situation,” she said. “In other words, you really need some crisis IQ.”

From genome-based therapeutics and diagnostics to pulse-monitoring smart watches, health data is transforming medicine. But it is also alarming patients, who—aware of the recent cyber-attacks against Target, Home Depot, and JPMorgan that stole personal data from millions of people—are scared that their privacy will be invaded. Our health data is our most personal asset. Why, in the midst of all of this, should we continue to share it?

Every startup today should be thinking about its approach to security. This is especially true for companies with access to sensitive information about individual consumers. Sumit Agarwal, Co-Founder and VP of Product at Shape Security, addressed this issue at a recent KPCB 12-200 CEO Workshop. “If you’re like most of the people I talk to, security is a little bit like getting in better shape,” he said. “You know what you need to do – but that’s not going to happen, not this year.”

In this episode of “Voices of KPCB,” KPCB Partners Anjney Midha and Mike Abbott join RelateIQ’s VP of Product DJ Patil to discuss all things big data. Is there too much hype? What will be the hits of the future? And, most importantly, where will human touch and intuition find a place in all of this?

Eric Feng has many years of experience expanding a U.S. business in China – never an easy feat, especially for startup firms. Feng is now CTO of the Internet-based personal magazine service Flipboard. Earlier in his career, he worked in China as an entrepreneur, building a company that was later acquired by Hulu, where he became CTO.

In this podcast, KPCB Recruiting Partner Andy Chen speaks with Jose Cong, Head of Recruiting at Nest, and Stephanie Zhan, a 2014 KPCB Fellow at Nest (and former Google intern), about tech internships. They discuss the value of internships at startups versus at large companies and how to get the most out of the experience. They also address the heavily debated topic of dropping out of school to join a startup.

a year ago today, i began one of the most interesting stints of my career: i became part of the technology surge [https://www.hhs.gov/digitalstrategy/blog/2013/10/technology-surge-for-healthcare-gov.html] team brought in from the private sector to fix HealthCare.gov. my time in washington was an eye-opener because i saw firsthand the endemic problems that undermine the government’s IT efforts, and i also saw what we need to do to overcome those problems.

when students visit me in office hours at stanford, they often ask me what i think they should do over the summer. take an internship at a big company to learn how google or facebook gets things done? or join a startup and learn how to scale the next big thing? or take the ultimate plunge and start my own company?

As part of the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) Leadership Salon series, KPCB Partner Beth Seidenberg hosted a panel of leaders in the booming digital health field. Ray Bradford, Founder & CEO of Spruce Health, Jason Oberfest, Co-Founder and CEO of Mango Health, and Andrew Rosenthal, Group Manager for Platform and Wellness of Jawbone, discussed the genesis of their various products, the increased need for privacy and data security, as well as how digital health can help revolutionize how consumers interact with their medical providers.

Learning to race a sports car by the seat of your pants, finding the open receiver between the arms of giant pass rushers, swimming with whale sharks, climbing Everest without oxygen, taking your wizard owl from room to room, actually having a monster sleeping under your child’s bed, mining asteroids in orbit, warping the space time continuum, walking through your dream house before hiring a contractor, picking a college without buying a plane ticket, remembering the name of your boss’s spouse and your ex-boyfriend, learning by doing.

When it comes to corporate IT, revolution is in the air. The way companies buy, build, manage, optimize and secure information technology is changing dramatically. From cloud computing to big data analytics to ubiquitous mobile connectivity, corporate IT systems are getting faster, more efficient, cheaper to operate and easier to use. In the process, a new wave of tech companies has emerged to challenge established players.

In this edition of the Voices of KPCB podcast, KPCB partners Mike Abbott [https://www.kpcb.com/partner/mike-abbott] and Max Motschwiller speak to Jonathan Downey, the CEO of Airware. They discuss hot trends and topics in the commercial drone industry – including how regulators’ and the public’s views on drones are likely to evolve – as well as Mike Abbott’s thesis behind investing in Airware.

On Friday, the WSJ leaked news [https://online.wsj.com/articles/sk-telecom-agrees-to-acquire-shopkick-1411781933] that SK Telecom was acquiring shopkick, and it was confirmed over the weekend. I’m thrilled for Cyriac and the team, and believe this is the next exciting chapter in their effort to reimagine mobile shopping; specifically, the interaction between the mobile and the physical shopping world. shopkick is a special company to me and Kleiner Perkins. It’s what we call an “incubation,” where we bring in an entrepreneur and work closely with him or her over several months to develop a compelling business concept. It’s been a trademark of our firm over the years, starting from our earliest days. Genentech was started this way.

In this podcast, KPCB’s Mike Abbott, Wen Hsieh, and Rouz Jazayeri discuss the rapidly expanding Internet of Things (IoT), which has been predicted to include 50 billion devices by 2020. As early investors in IoT via Nest and Dropcam, Rouz, Mike, and Wen discuss how KPCB views the investment opportunity ahead for this sector.

John Maeda, a partner at KPCB and one of the leading designers in the world, gave the closing keynote at MHacks Fall 2014.

On September 9th, 2014, KPCB partners got together to discuss the major implications of the Apple Announcement for the technology industry. The iPhone 6, Apple Watch, and Apple Pay will collectively change the human experience forever. Emily Chang from Bloomberg TV interviewed design guru and KPCB partner John Maeda [https://www.kpcb.com/partner/john-maeda] to discuss why Apple is the best at making us feel something about technology. Meanwhile, in an exclusive podcast discussion, KPCB Investment partners Mike Abbott [https://www.kpcb.com/partner/mike-abbott], Matt Murphy [https://www.kpcb.com/partner/matt-murphy], and Anjney Midha [https://www.kpcb.com/partner/anjney-midha] weighed in on the software opportunities for developers and applications for consumers.

In the coming weeks, 55 million U.S. students in grades K-12 will go back to school. In their backpacks they will carry pens, No. 2 pencils, 3-ring binders and calculators. But most students will also carry something that their parents’ generation could never have imagined: a smartphone.

Digital health has a pretty erratic grade point average, or so says Dana Mead, a parter at venture firm Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers. He outlined and graded what he called the five most important elements of the digital health ecosystem at Qualcomm Life‘s Connect2014 conference this week in San Diego, and this is how he slices it…

In this edition of our KPCB podcast series, KPCB design partner John Maeda and KPCB Recruiting Partner Jackie Xu talk with Alex Cornell, freelance designer, co-founder, and creative director at Firespotter Labs. They dive into the question of whether it is better for designers in Silicon Valley to work independently or join start-ups – and whether there is a golden middle way that allows designers to reap the benefits of both paths.

In this podcast, KPCB Partner Anjney Midha chats with Jared Morgenstern, former PM at Facebook who launched the “like” button, to discuss how communication technology has evolved and will continue to change the way we connect and share with one another. Among other topics, they explore the shift from a culture of infrequent broadcasting to large audiences to a culture of frequent messaging within small groups. Morgenstern contends that we’ve created an “intimacy market” and analyses why we are migrating back to emotionally driven messaging.

Into this day, you all thundered and roared, The best founders and CRO’s that KPCB could afford. Coming to Stanford, you roared and you thundered, You lions sat quiet as lambs in the 12 to 200.

Into Stanford University, you have thundered and roared, The best founders and CEOs KPCB could afford. Into this epicenter of disruption, you roared and you thundered, So many alphas here today for the 12 to 200…

In this podcast, KPCB partners Mike Abbott, John Maeda, and Anjney Midha discuss the increasingly critical intersection between technology and design – and what it takes to be a strong leader in this new phase of the user experience. Among other topics, they evaluate the evolution of the two disciplines, what happens when engineers and designers fail to work effectively together, and whether or not open sourcing is an inevitable result of this collaboration.

The digital health revolution could not be arriving at a better time. The U.S. population is getting older, sicker, fatter and more sedentary. As the population ages, and the number of people with serious chronic conditions grows, the financial strains on the economy mount. These are mammoth issues, which defy easy solution.

Welcome to our world, all 76 of you in number. You have very high potential, and we couldn’t feel humbler. You are the top draft picks from university! So it’s obvious that Your resumes are better looking than your pics on Snapchat.

KPCB General Partner Ted Schlein recently hosted a panel of cybersecurity experts intent on reshaping the way the tech industry protects information. Panelists included Ionic Security Founder and CTO Adam Ghetti, Shape Security CEO Derek Smith, and AlienVault CEO Barmak Meftah.

On June 7th, KPCB Design Partner John Maeda hosted a conversation on design, craft, and technology with some of the design industry’s biggest luminaries at fuseproject’s offices in San Francisco. In front of a packed crowd, panelists participated in a game of “conversation ping pong” in which they took turns interviewing each other (and being interviewed by John Maeda) on the future of creativity as well as how they see design and venture capital evolving together.

As part of the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) Leadership Salon series, KPCB General Partner Ted Schlein recently hosted a panel of cybersecurity experts intent on reshaping the way the tech industry protects information. Panelists included Ionic Security Founder and CTO Adam Ghetti, Shape Security CEO Derek Smith, and AlienVault CEO Barmak Meftah.

Building a successful security software company is notoriously hard to get right over the long haul. Computer security is a fast-moving target. You still need anti-virus software, for instance, but it won’t necessarily keep you safe. The same is true for firewalls, and malware detection, and spam blockers, and various other security measures. For better or worse, there is never-ending opportunity here, as the good guys race to keep up with the bad guys.

KPCB’s Mary Meeker [https://www.kleinerperkins.com/people/mary-meeker] presents key Internet trends showing slowing Internet user growth but strong smartphone, tablet and mobile data traffic growth as well as rapid growth in mobile advertising.

As part of the KPCB Leadership Salon series, KPCB General Partner John Doerr led a panel of education technology innovators to discuss how technology has – and will continue to – fundamentally change the way we approach education both in the U.S. and abroad. Panelists included Daphne Koller, Founder at Coursera and professor at the Stanford School of Engineering; Brett Kopf, Co-Founder and CEO of Remind101; and Dan Rosensweig, President and CEO of Chegg.

Despite years of continuous discussion and a number of high profile female leaders, most Silicon Valley technology companies still lack widespread diversity. Women remain sparsely represented at venture capital firms, in corporate boardrooms and in executive suites – and they remain a distinct minority among rank-and-file programmers and engineers. Sadly, the situation simply is not improving. But there’s a way forward – and women in tech business can make it happen.

There are at least six fundamental truths that digital-health entrepreneurs will have to accept as necessary (but not sufficient) for finding success in this alluring but notoriously tricky business. Keep these truths in mind, and you will increase your chance of success…

KPCB Partner Anjney Midha (@AnjneyMidha [https://twitter.com/AnjneyMidha]) sits down with Catheryne Nicholson (@Catheryne_N [https://twitter.com/Catheryne_N]) and Matthieu Riou (@mriou [https://twitter.com/mriou]), founders of BlockCypher, to discuss crypto-currency and the future of the blockchain.

KP Partner Anjney Midha (@AnjneyMidha [https://twitter.com/AnjneyMidha]) sits down with Ryan Shea (@ryaneshea [https://twitter.com/ryaneshea]) and Muneeb Ali (@muneeb [https://twitter.com/muneeb]), founders of OneName.io (@OneNameio [https://twitter.com/onenameio]), to discuss decentralized identity and the future of the blockchain.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) Design Partner John Maeda and Quirky founder and CEO Ben Kaufman recently co-hosted a discussion with four business leaders operating at the intersection of design and technology. The participants gave a series of TED-like talks, each of which revealed a gift from the speakers to the audience. Gift-givers included Juliet de Baubigny, KPCB recruiting partner; Ayah Bdeir, founder and CEO of littleBits; Doreen Lorenzo, President of Quirky; and Tina Roth Eisenberg, founder of swissmiss and other side projects.

There are consistent patterns in how startup pitches are evaluated; aspiring entrepreneurs, pay attention.

As part of the KPCB Leadership Salon series, KPCB General Partner John Doerr [https://www.kpcb.com/partner/john-doerr] led a panel of education technology innovators to discuss how technology has – and will continue to – fundamentally change the way we approach education both in the U.S. and abroad. Panelists included Daphne Koller, Founder at Coursera and professor at the Stanford School of Engineering; Brett Kopf, Co-Founder and CEO of Remind101; and Dan Rosensweig, President and CEO of Chegg.

As part of the KPCB 12-200 Meet-Up series, KPCB’s Marketing and Communications Partner, Christina Lee led a panel to discuss the value of internal communications with Keith Burton, Partner at corporate communications firm Brunswick Group, Dani Dudeck, VP of Communications at Zynga, and Erin Hosilyk, Director of Communications at LinkedIn.

Twenty years ago, when I was a young coder/designer, my life boiled down to this haiku: “All I want to be / is someone that makes new things / and thinks about them.” At the time I felt really alienated by coders, who didn’t “get” design, and by designers, who didn’t “get” code. So I decided to focus on making things across both domains for the sake of doing so, without trying to intellectualize what I did or trying to fit in.

Since arriving in Silicon Valley six weeks ago, I’ve spent time with designers at Flipboard, Chegg, Nest, AboutLife, FindTheBest, MyFitnessPal, Square, Codecademy, Gumroad (all Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers portfolio companies) and about 20 others. I often feel that there are as many startups as there were students at…

Spurred by the Affordable Care Act [https://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/rights/], the American healthcare system in 2014 has entered a period of titanic change. The process will be messy and disruptive – it already is. While challenging for consumers of healthcare services, the shifting landscape provides tremendous opportunity for…

This poem by Bing Gordon was presented at DLD14.

Three and a half years ago I first heard the pitch for Nest in my office. Tony Fadell and I had been friends and cycling buddies for years. I deeply admired his invention of the iPod and his work on the iPhone and I was eager to hear what he was going to do next. The meeting surprised me. I knew Tony was …

Digital health professionals met in our KPCB San Francisco Office to talk about trends in health technology. Moderated by KPCB’s Beth Seidenberg, the panel of CEOs included Rock Health’s Halle Tecco, MyFitnessPal’s Mike Lee and Practice Fusion’s Ryan Howard. The night was filled with discussion on the future of health & wearables, development of mobile & social apps and the challenges of growing a digital startup.

I’m a big believer in the many opportunities afforded by going to a good college. My parents were, too – even though my father never finished high school and my mother’s old-fashioned father forbid her from going. But like many American immigrants, they both strongly believed that…

I’m often asked, “What’s another successful design-led company besides Apple?” And I have to pause—not because companies like Ferrari and IKEA aren’t great examples of design-led organizations but because I find myself wondering why Apple dominates popular conversation about design to the extent that it does. After reading Hartmut Esslinger’s “Keep It Simple” and Leander Kahney’s “Jony Ive,” however, it all made sense. What we love about Apple isn’t necessarily the…

“None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.” – Thomas Alva Edison ,1929

What we need is a new type of company—called an artisanal manufacturer—based on principles that promote economic prosperity, enliven local communities, and offer customers a rewarding experience based on quality and value.

We had a great night in our San Francisco Office with some of the Valley’s best marketing and communications professionals. The panel featured Twitter’s Gabriel Stricker, Pramana Collective’s Brandee Barker and LinkedIn’s Shannon Stubo, and moderated by KPCB’s Christina Lee talked about everything from building the most durable brands to harnessing the power social media. ‪#‎KP12to200‬

Oddly enough, one of the worst things that can happen to a young startup is to raise more cash than the business actually requires. It leads to sloppy management practices that can have lasting ill-effects on the corporate culture.

One of the hardest things for entrepreneurs to learn is that most of the time, the best thing they can do is get out of the way of the people actually doing the work. That’s the core tenant of what I called “Minimally Invasive Management,” which I’ve deconstructed in ten parts below.

One of the hardest things for entrepreneurs to learn is that most of the time, the best thing they can do is get out of the way of the people actually doing the work. That’s the core tenant of what I call “Minimally Invasive Management.”

Lessons Learned

Refining the Engineering Team

Recruiting Done Right

Building And Managing An Engineering Team

This poem by Bing Gordon was presented at Chicago Ideas Week.

Building successful businesses starts with having the right people at every level. But, sometimes you put the wrong people in the wrong roles.

There is an old tech industry adage that more engineers solve all problems. This is because historically engineers have been the Sherpas of innovation in Silicon Valley, carrying the weight of code, servers and ultimately Moore’s Law on their backs to deliver new products to customers at a rapid pace.

This poem by Bing Gordon was presented at the 2013 KPCB Fellows Welcome Reception.

For missionary entrepreneurs, the dream outcome is to build an “Internet treasure” — a brand that defines a generation, proves that we are better than our parents and becomes something we couldn’t live without.

KPCB’s Mary Meeker [https://www.kpcb.com/partner/mary-meeker] and Liang Wu take a close look at the impact of limits on high-skilled immigrants on the tech industry – and make the case for significant reforms.

Just as first-round football quarterbacks benefit from great coaches, budding entrepreneurs need mentors.

I had a surprising revelation after my first weekend with Google’s internet connected specs: Glass is perfect for parents. After all, who needs hands-free productivity more than a parent? Who has more need for a smart assistant? Who gets more joy from photos of surprising kid moments? Parents! And you could be next: if you have give up your self-respect for the pragmatism of a minivan (I confess I have), you are a prime candidate for Glass.

This poem by Bing Gordon was presented at VentureCrush 2013.

Today we’re unveiling our plan to fund entrepreneurs for a brand new platform – Glass. To do so, we’re forming the Glass Collective with long-time friends at Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures. The Collective is an initiative to invest together in startups creating new experiences on Glass.

This poem by Bing Gordon was presented at SXSW 2013.

KPCB’s Bing Gordon [https://kpcb.com/partner/bing-gordon] posits that Moore’s Law no longer drives the manifest destiny of gaming and salutes a new era that derives more power from social circles than from silicon.

It isn’t just athletes who fail to live up to their early potential — if you are a “high draft choice” in life, you have a responsibility to focus your gifts.

KPCB’s Mary Meeker [https://kpcb.com/partner/mary-meeker] shares her keen financial observations in this non-partisan report, which looks at the U.S. government — and its financials — as if it were a business.

This poem by Bing Gordon was presented at SXSW 2012.

KPCB’s Bing Gordon [https://kpcb.com/partner/bing-gordon] extracts lessons learned from the talented business leaders who propelled some of today’s most influential next-generation Web companies to success.

KPCB’s Matt Murphy [https://kpcb.com/partner/matt-murphy] and Mary Meeker [https://kpcb.com/partner/mary-meeker] offer their take on the social, economic and technological trends fueling unchecked growth and disruption in today’s mobile Internet market.

KPCB’s Mary Meeker [https://kpcb.com/partner/mary-meeker] shares her keen financial observations in this non-partisan report, which looks at the U.S. government — and its financials — as if it were a business.

KPCB’s Bing Gordon [https://kpcb.com/partner/bing-gordon] highlights the advantages of using game elements to liven up the online user experience in this light-hearted but seriously useful guide to successful gamification.

KPCB’s Mary Meeker [https://kpcb.com/people/mary-meeker] shares her keen financial observations in this non-partisan report, which looks at the U.S. government — and its financials — as if it were a business.