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Al Gore is cofounder and chairman of Generation Investment Management and founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project. He is also a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and serves on Apple Inc.’s board.

Jesse is the General Counsel of Kleiner Perkins. He oversees all legal matters in connection with the firm and its portfolio companies.

Lindsey leads talent at Kleiner Perkins, supporting portfolio companies with recruiting, talent strategy, and community building. She advises early-stage founders on team building, leadership roles, org design, compensation benchmarking, and interview frameworks.

Kleiner Perkins has partnered with founders for five decades and invests in founders with ideas across industries and continents, partnering from inception to IPO and beyond.

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, Silicon Valley.

Modal raises $750 million in a Series D led by Accel, with Kleiner Perkins and existing investors participating, at a $15.75 billion valuation. The AI infrastructure provider says annualized revenue has more than tripled since May to over $1 billion, and its hosted-container service Sandboxes accounts for nearly a third of revenue. Modal plans to invest part of the funding in reinforcement-learning and post-training services.

Oct 2026 · SiliconANGLENews article

Kevin Mandia’s startup Armadin raises $255.5 million in a Series B at a valuation above $2.5 billion. Andreessen Horowitz and Accel lead the financing, alongside Bain Capital Ventures, Redpoint, 8VC, Ballistic Ventures, Google Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Kleiner Perkins, and Menlo Ventures. Armadin’s platform runs always-on agentic swarms that chain vulnerabilities to test enterprise defenses, offering an alternative to traditional penetration tests. Its $190 million Series A in March brings total funding to more than $445 million.

Oct 2026 · TechCrunchNews article

Armadin raises $255.5 million in a Series B at a valuation above $2.5 billion to expand its AI-driven cybersecurity platform. Founded by Kevin Mandia, the company uses sandboxed AI-agent swarms to map organizations’ systems, scan for vulnerabilities, link weaknesses into attack paths, and recommend fixes; Andreessen Horowitz and Accel co-lead the round. In one customer assessment, 26,000 agents scan more than 25,000 assets and identify 38 verified attack paths, and the funding supports research, AI training, and go-to-market programs.

Oct 2026 · SiliconAngleNews article

Crunchbase News reports that Kleiner Perkins raised $3.5 billion across new funds with a primary focus on artificial intelligence.

Mar 2026 · Crunchbase NewsNews article