Venture firm in listed AI tools
Kleiner Perkins
Kleiner Perkins has backed 18 companies behind 24 listings on Anchor Terminal.
Companies on Anchor Terminal
Brex LLC Investment, June 2019, led a round, through Kleiner Perkins Digital Growth Fund
Browserbase Seed, 2024, Series A, November 2024, Series B, June 2025, led a round
Source kleinerperkins.com/…
Cartesia Series A, March 2025, led a round
- Cartesia Ink B · Speech-to-text
- Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP B · Text-to-speech
- Cartesia Voice Cloning API + MCP C · Voice cloning & custom voices
Source cartesia.ai/blog/series-a
Cognition AI, Inc. Series E, September 2026
- Devin C · Agent harnesses
Source cognition.com/blog/series-e
fal (Features & Labels, Inc.) Series D, December 2025
- fal image models B · Image generation
- fal music models B · Music generation
- fal video models B · Video generation
Source blog.fal.ai/…
Fullstory, Inc. Series D, August 2021
Source fullstory.com/blog/…
Glean Technologies, Inc. Series D, February 2024, Series E, September 2024, Series F, June 2025, led a round
Source glean.com/press/…
Granola, Inc. Series C, March 2026
Source granola.ai/blog/series-c
Gusto, Inc. July 2018 round
Source techcrunch.com/2018/07/31/…
Inngest
Source inngest.com/about
Modal Series D, October 2026
Source modal.com/blog/…
Motive Technologies, Inc.
Source gomotive.com/en-gb/company/…
Parallel Web Systems Series A, November 2025, Series B, April 2026, led a round
Source parallel.ai/blog/series-a
PlanetScale Series C, November 2021, led a round
Source techcrunch.com/2021/11/16/…
People Center, Inc. dba Rippling Series A, Series B, Series D, led a round
Source rippling.com/blog/…
Together AI Series A, November 2023, Series A extension, March 2024, Series B, February 2025, led a round
Source together.ai/blog/series-a
Together Computer, Inc. Series A, November 2023, Series A extension, March 2024, Series B, February 2025, led a round
Source together.ai/blog/series-a
Vapi Series B, May 2026
Source vapi.ai/blog/series-b
Where they invest
Code execution sandboxes 2 Spend management & procurement 1 Browser automation 1 Speech-to-text 1 Text-to-speech 1 Voice cloning & custom voices 1 Agent harnesses 1 Image generation 1 Music generation 1 Video generation 1 Product analytics & experimentation 1 Company knowledge & data catalogues 1 Meeting capture & meeting infrastructure 1 Payroll infrastructure 1 Human approval & handoff 1 GPU & serverless compute 1 Workflow automation 1 Web search APIs 1 Databases & files 1 HR & employee operations 1 Fine-tuning 1 Model APIs & inference 1 Conversational voice agents 1
Founders they backed
- Henrique Dubugras Brex LLC
- Pedro Franceschi Brex LLC
- Paul Klein IV Browserbase
- Karan Goel Cartesia
- Albert Gu Cartesia
- Arjun Desai Cartesia
- Brandon Yang Cartesia
- Scott Wu Cognition AI, Inc.
- Steven Hao Cognition AI, Inc.
- Walden Yan Cognition AI, Inc.
- Burkay Gur fal (Features & Labels, Inc.)
- Gorkem Yurtseven fal (Features & Labels, Inc.)
- Arvind Jain Glean Technologies, Inc.
- T.R. Vishwanath Glean Technologies, Inc.
- Tony Gentilcore Glean Technologies, Inc.
- Josh Reeves Gusto, Inc.
- Edward Kim Gusto, Inc.
- Tomer London Gusto, Inc.
- Shoaib Makani Motive Technologies, Inc.
- Obaid Khan Motive Technologies, Inc.
- Parag Agrawal Parallel Web Systems
- Vipul Ved Prakash Together Computer, Inc.
- Ce Zhang Together Computer, Inc.
- Tri Dao Together Computer, Inc.
- Chris Ré Together Computer, Inc.
- Percy Liang Together Computer, Inc.
- Jordan Dearsley Vapi
- Nikhil Gupta Vapi
Questions
Which AI tools has Kleiner Perkins invested in?
Anchor Terminal lists Brex LLC, Browserbase, Cartesia, Cognition AI, Inc., fal (Features & Labels, Inc.), Fullstory, Inc., Glean Technologies, Inc., Granola, Inc., Gusto, Inc., Inngest, Modal, Motive Technologies, Inc., Parallel Web Systems, PlanetScale, People Center, Inc. dba Rippling, Together AI, Together Computer, Inc. and Vapi backed by Kleiner Perkins.
How are Kleiner Perkins's companies graded?
On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Brex (C, 60.7), Browserbase (BB, 72.3), Cartesia Ink (B, 68), Cartesia Sonic TTS API + MCP (B, 64), Cartesia Voice Cloning API + MCP (C, 59.7), Devin (C, 55.7), fal image models (B, 65.5), fal music models (B, 68.5), fal video models (B, 69.1), Fullstory (B, 62.6), Glean (B, 69.9), Granola (C, 61.6), Gusto (B, 63.3), Inngest (B, 66.1), Modal (B, 63.7), Modal Sandboxes (B, 66), Motive Agents (F, 24.5), Parallel Search and Task APIs (BB, 75.1), PlanetScale MCP Server (B, 66.6), Rippling (C, 60.9), Together Code Sandbox (D, 53.7), Together AI Fine-tuning (C, 54.8), Together AI Inference (B, 67.8) and Vapi API + MCP (B, 63.7).
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