Kleiner Perkins was founded in the 1970s by Tom Perkins and Eugene Kleiner|Mamoon Hamid,Partner,Kleiner Perkins 00:10:00
He joined Kleiner Perkins in 2017 after splitting away from Social Capital, a firm he founded alongside Chamath Palihapitiya and Ted Maidenberg. Hamid sits on the board of Figma, Rippling and Netskope, all of which raised new funding rounds at multi-billion-dollar valuations in 2021. He was also an early investor in Slack, which went public in 2019 before being sold to Salesforce for $27.7 billion in 2021.