Kleiner Perkins

Kleiner Perkins is a prominent American venture capital firm founded in 1972 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The firm specializes in early-stage, growth, and incubation investments across various industries, including healthcare, consumer products, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and life sciences. Kleiner Perkins focuses on partnering with innovative founders, supporting them from the inception of their ideas through to initial public offerings. The firm is known for its commitment to investing in a wide range of sectors, such as information technology, financial services, and cybersecurity, while maintaining a global investment approach that includes markets in North America, the Middle East, and Mainland China. As a Registered Investment Adviser, Kleiner Perkins aims to maximize the potential of the companies it invests in, fostering bold ideas that have the capacity to create significant impact across industries and continents.

Annie Case

Partner

Cindy Cheng

Partner

Cindy Cheng

Associate

Nadia Cochinwala

Investor

Josh Coyne

Partner

Joshua Coyne

Partner and Investor

John Doerr

Partner and Chairman

Juliet Flint

Partner

Ilya Fushman

Partner

John Gage

Partner

Mamoon Hamid

Partner and Investor

Wen Hsieh

Partner

Haomiao Huang

Investor

E. Floyd Kvamme

Partner

Floyd Kvamme

Partner Emeriti

Bucky Moore

Partner and Investor

Aditya Naganath

Principal

Lucas Oliveira

Investor

Lucas Oliveira

Investor

Tom Perkins

Partner and Co-Founder

Ev Randle

Partner

Everett Randle

Partner

Ted Schlein

General Partner

Beth Seidenberg

General Partner

James Tang

Partner and Vice President, China

Jimmy Wei

Venture Partner, China

Monica Desai

Principal

Nikki Zhang

Director, China

Jason Zhao

Partner, China

Past deals in Database

Allium

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Allium provides on-chain data infrastructure products ranging from managed blockchain databases to real-time alerting capabilities. The company was founded in 2021 and has offices based in New York, San Francisco and Singapore.

Prisma

Series B in 2022
At Prisma we are building the data layer for modern applications: By auto-generating a flexible, fast and scalable GraphQL data access layer, Prisma fulfills the promise of GraphQL as a universal query language, enabling you to access all of your databases in a single GraphQL query. Prisma was founded in 2016 and has offices in Berlin and San Francisco.

PlanetScale

Series C in 2021
PlanetScale, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in online database solutions, focusing on NewSQL database-as-a-service (DBaaS) based on the open-source project Vitess. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, PlanetScale provides a platform that enables businesses to operationalize Vitess for efficient data management and insights. Their offerings include a comprehensive DBaaS platform, cluster management software licenses, open source Vitess support, and training services. PlanetScaleDB, their core product, delivers features such as vendor lock avoidance, data locality, disaster recovery, MySQL compatibility, and scalable solutions for managing large database clusters. The company is recognized for its innovative approach, having developed Vitess, a MySQL sharding technology that supports major platforms like YouTube, Slack, and Square, thereby helping businesses enhance their infrastructure and scale effectively.

Materialize

Series C in 2021
Materialize Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a streaming SQL database designed to facilitate the handling of streaming data. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, it offers a platform that enables users to create materialized views over real-time data, thereby enhancing the development of internal tools, dashboards, and customer-facing applications. Materialize empowers developers to pose complex questions regarding their data and receive low-latency responses, even as the data evolves. The platform continuously updates query results as new information becomes available, simplifying the process of building intelligent applications with standard technology.

Materialize

Series B in 2020
Materialize Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a streaming SQL database designed to facilitate the handling of streaming data. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, it offers a platform that enables users to create materialized views over real-time data, thereby enhancing the development of internal tools, dashboards, and customer-facing applications. Materialize empowers developers to pose complex questions regarding their data and receive low-latency responses, even as the data evolves. The platform continuously updates query results as new information becomes available, simplifying the process of building intelligent applications with standard technology.

Prisma

Series A in 2020
At Prisma we are building the data layer for modern applications: By auto-generating a flexible, fast and scalable GraphQL data access layer, Prisma fulfills the promise of GraphQL as a universal query language, enabling you to access all of your databases in a single GraphQL query. Prisma was founded in 2016 and has offices in Berlin and San Francisco.

Prisma

Seed Round in 2018
At Prisma we are building the data layer for modern applications: By auto-generating a flexible, fast and scalable GraphQL data access layer, Prisma fulfills the promise of GraphQL as a universal query language, enabling you to access all of your databases in a single GraphQL query. Prisma was founded in 2016 and has offices in Berlin and San Francisco.

DataStax

Series E in 2014
DataStax, Inc. specializes in providing database software tailored for cloud applications, serving a diverse clientele that includes Fortune 100 companies globally. Its flagship product, DataStax Enterprise, enhances the capabilities of Apache Cassandra, offering fast performance and reliability for online applications. The company also features DataStax OpsCenter, a management and monitoring tool for database administrators, and K8ssandra, an open-source solution for deploying Cassandra on Kubernetes. Additionally, DataStax Astra offers a database-as-a-service platform that significantly accelerates deployment times, while DataStax Constellation streamlines the development and operation of modern applications. The company also provides training, support, and consulting services to ensure effective database management. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, DataStax maintains a global presence with offices in several countries, including the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Germany, Australia, and Ireland.

Vertica

Series B in 2007
Vertica Systems, Inc. specializes in data management solutions focused on storing and querying large databases. Its primary offerings include the Vertica Analytic Database, which facilitates data analysis, and Vertica for the Cloud, a cloud-based analytic database designed for efficient data management. Additionally, the company provides a hardware/software appliance that enables near-real-time and ad hoc queries. Vertica's products cater to a variety of business needs, including data warehousing, fraud detection, and compliance with industry regulations. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts, Vertica has established strategic partnerships with companies such as HP and Red Hat. The Vertica Startup Accelerator program supports early-stage companies by providing them access to the Vertica Advanced Analytics Platform, allowing them to develop solutions tailored to the challenges of big data. This initiative includes training, community support, and entry to the Vertica Marketplace, aiming to empower the next generation of entrepreneurs in harnessing data analytics for business growth.

Vertica

Series A in 2006
Vertica Systems, Inc. specializes in data management solutions focused on storing and querying large databases. Its primary offerings include the Vertica Analytic Database, which facilitates data analysis, and Vertica for the Cloud, a cloud-based analytic database designed for efficient data management. Additionally, the company provides a hardware/software appliance that enables near-real-time and ad hoc queries. Vertica's products cater to a variety of business needs, including data warehousing, fraud detection, and compliance with industry regulations. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts, Vertica has established strategic partnerships with companies such as HP and Red Hat. The Vertica Startup Accelerator program supports early-stage companies by providing them access to the Vertica Advanced Analytics Platform, allowing them to develop solutions tailored to the challenges of big data. This initiative includes training, community support, and entry to the Vertica Marketplace, aiming to empower the next generation of entrepreneurs in harnessing data analytics for business growth.

MetaMatrix

Series F in 2004
MetaMatrix is an U.S.-based technology company that created the first true Enterprise Information Integration (EII) software product.

Zambeel,Inc.

Series B in 2001
Zambeel, Inc. is building an enterprise-class storage system to address today’s high-growth data environments, where up to hundreds of terabytes of data need to be stored reliably, managed efficiently, and accessed through high-speed networks.

Angara Database Systems

Series C in 2000
Angara Database Systems is a provider of online marketing services for consumer-centric e-businesses.

Angara Database Systems

Series B in 2000
Angara Database Systems is a provider of online marketing services for consumer-centric e-businesses.

Zambeel,Inc.

Series A in 2000
Zambeel, Inc. is building an enterprise-class storage system to address today’s high-growth data environments, where up to hundreds of terabytes of data need to be stored reliably, managed efficiently, and accessed through high-speed networks.

Angara Database Systems

Series A in 1997
Angara Database Systems is a provider of online marketing services for consumer-centric e-businesses.

Sybase

Pre Seed Round in 1985
Sybase is a technology company with over two decades of experience in providing software solutions for managing and analyzing information in relational databases. The company specializes in enterprise and mobile infrastructure, as well as development and integration software, enabling organizations to create an Unwired Enterprise. Sybase's technology is utilized by various sectors, including commerce, finance, government, healthcare, and defense, where it supports the management of critical data. Through its innovative solutions, Sybase has established itself as a leader in the technology industry, helping customers and partners streamline their operations and improve data accessibility.
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